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"Check In" here before and after your gigs this weekend!

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Last Thursday: A 'concert in the park' type of gig in Kingston, NH. It was HOT and by the end I felt like I had been beat up in a brawl.
The drummer continued playing at the end of one song, prompting an extended and totally unplanned jam. It went great.

Tomorrow: Kingston Days Fair. We played this last year. A good amount of people milling about, in and out of the performance tent.
It's going to be really hot again, but it should be a blast.
 
#383
Im in So Cal.

Tonight, Friday, 08/03, Original Mikes Restaurant in Santa Ana, CA, 8:30pm.
Saturday, 08/04, Alhambra Summer Jubilee, street festival (main stage is featuring Teena Marie), we're on one of the other stages, 7pm. Alhambra, CA.
Sunday, 08/05, City of Colton Summer Concert, Colton, CA, 5:30pm

Carlo T
 
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Lazylion said:
Fri, w/country band: the last carnival of our summer season, in Winchester VA. Also the debut gig for my new (to me) Spector NS4 CRFM. It's tuned DGCF, we'll see how many flubs I make! LOL
Sat, w/originals band: Big party all day & night. We play first, 4:30 to 6. Then it's Miller Time!
So yeah, don't call me on Sunday! I'll be recuperating.
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The whole weekend went quite well! Friday's carnival was good, although dusty. The stage was downwind from the exit. Only a couple of boo-boos from the lower tuning. I discovered the one song that I need a low C# on - didn't have it! The Spector seemed to baffle the soundman, he said he couldn't turn me up enough to get a tone. We're gonna need to figure that out! Those EMGs are powerful!
Saturday's party was most excellent. "Only" five bands this year, including a great Led Zep tribute, a Crosby Stills Nash & Young set featuring a big choir on a couple of tunes, and an all-improv trio with fretless 10-string bass. All bands except the trio used my Rig of Doom (1x18, 4x10), and everyone loved it. The soundman (different guy) called the Spector "phenomenal"! I guess he figured out how to cope with it. Caught up with a lot of old friends, and was surprised by my cousin who flew in from Michigan.
Yesterday was my birthday, and I took myself out for presents at Best Buy, dinner and a movie. The young female cashier at Best Buy complimented my taste in music. Whoa, that doesn't happen to this old boy very often! :p The movie was "Live Free Or Die Hard", with Bruce Willis. Yipee-ki-yay!
 
#386
Not a gig, but an audition for a seoncd guitarist.

He says on the phone he's 35. We're 21 (hot female engaged singer) to 41. Audition is at 8.

So he calls me at 8 sying he's gonna be late. I say "alright, but we have someone else coming at 9:30 so you better get here." "I'll get there." he says. He shows up at 8:30. Mistake #1. He then takes a look at the singer and goes "Wow." Mistake #2. There's nicer ways to say it than that. He then walks by me and is reaking of alcohol. Mistake #3. He then says he didn't bring his amp and wants to plug directly into the PA, the PA that we only have 1 minitor for since this is practice and I and the other guitar player have amps. Mistake #4. He then brags about how good he can sing and wants to do backing parts. Doesn't have a mic so lead singer shares. While singing he spits on her. Mistake #5. He then tells us he was playing one of the songs in college in the early 80s. I'm 34, I was in college in the early - mid 90s. So he obviously lied about his age. Mistake #6. Tells us while he was there that he was already in a band he wasn't leaving, wanted extra work. Never told me this on the phone. Mistake #7. We quickly said, oh you're looking to play out more than we are, see ya.

Oh yeah, forgot mistake #8. Never returned my phone call when I realized we never exchanged song lists and he had no idea what he was playing.

Dumb a$$
 
#387
Last Friday, opened for Mooney Suzuki.

Woof. What a night. We played like ******** infant cattle.
If you were in the mood for seafood, and you happened to be at that show, we were blowing all the clams you could eat.

And I ladled out my share of the chowder, for sure.

What can you do. :rollno:

"Some days you gets the bahr, and somedays the bahr.... well...."

BTW - I was so cheesed about how poorly we played, and the second band was so loud, and I had to get up so early, I couldn't even stick around for the headliner. Oh, well.
 
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supermonkey said:
Woof. What a night. We played like ******** infant cattle.
If you were in the mood for seafood, and you happened to be at that show, we were blowing all the clams you could eat.
And I ladled out my share of the chowder, for sure.
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Been there a number of times, and I feel your pain.

So I hope you'll forgive me when I say your description made me LOL!
Better luck next time!

Coming up this weekend, a 2-nighter at our home away from home, Addy's in Manassahassee VA. Air conditioning, yay!
 
#390
Saturday: we have the money slot at the centennial celebration for the next town to where I live. The band lineup goes:

Native American
Latin
Country-Western
Us (old school jazz quintet)
Classic RaWk
Community big band jazz group

Our show is a 100 year retrospective of jazz, featuring one tune from each decade, more or less. They have the best sound system in the area contracted in, and the operator knows us very well, so it'll be fun. My EUB through EAW folded horn subs is always a hoot.:bassist:

Sunday: trio gig, at our main squeeze: www.maryhillwinery.com .
 
#392
My other musical half, as a pianist/keyboardist.. These are my gigs this weekend.

Last night played in a brand new upscale martini bar, playing funk, r&b, top 40 dance, jazz, etc...

Tonight I'm playing at Timpano's Chophouse with some smooth jazz group. Not sure what their name is. Just got the call yesterday. No GEAR! Playing on a baby grand.

Sunday, could I say this politically correct.. It's an all black club where we get to really jam and play funk, r&b, soul, motown, smooth jazz and REALLY get to have fun. My favorite gig.

Monday, part of the house band in a jazz jam session. Lots of fun and lots of pressure because all the cats come down to sit in.
 
#393
So my band played a kick ass show tonight. It was by far the best show we've done. Everything was tight and it was just great. The music was there and awesome, the stage presence was there, the crowd was into it. It was great. The show was kind of a huge cluster **** cause everybody had to load in at 2 p.m. and the show started at 3:30 p.m. There were 8 bands scheduled to play, 2 of them on tour but 1 dropped off. Well to start it off the promoter/manager wanted to collect everybodies money or left over tickets and he was finding out that a lot of bands didn't sell what they told him the night before they had. For instance one band told him they sold 55 tickets when they actually sold 10. So now the guy is changing the time slots for the bands and the bands that sold more, we played 5th, got a better slot.
So the show begins and we start rockin out. The crowd loved it. It was great and a great feeling to look out and see about 50-60 people just loving everything you're doing. But the best part came when after we played the management company for the 2 touring bands came up to us and told us that we were the best band that played there even better than the signed bands and they're interested in working with us. Hopefully they were just blowing smoke up our asses, but I guess we'll see. All in all this was our best show to date.
 
#394
WOW, what an excellent weekend of music! Just returning from a week of vacation and two gigs with my bluegrass string band.

First was the big one, playing at Flowmotion's Summer Meltdown Festival up in Darrington, WA. 30 of the top bands in the NorthWest playing for 5 days of camping on 40 acres next the river, with attendance at approx 5000 people. My bluegrass band opened the 2nd day (friday) at noon. About 20mins before we were to start our hour-long set, our mandolin player/frontman tripped and fell on a glass bottle he was carrying, slicing off the callus on his fretboard index finger!! Some superglue and gauze held it together for the show, but man was his mandolin covered in blood afterwards.

The next day (saturday) we headlined a small arts festival in Index, WA (another small mountain town), playing to about 150 townsfolk. We were supposed to play for about 3 hrs, but cut it down to two short 45min sets, so we could get back to the other festival 90mins away before the gates were closed for the night.

Now the highlight of the trip were the late night jam sessions from 2am-6am up in the Performers' Camp at the Summer Meltdown. We camped next to a circus troupe from Bellingham, who setup a little rogue stage away from the rest of the festival. Think "Moulin Rouge" on LSD! Acrobats, fire dancers, stilt-walkers, ect. I even got to jam with some of the hottest musicians in the NW, including Seattle's most in-demand drummer Kevin Sawka (amazing live breakbeat drummer who plays on the new Amon Tobin album), and Ari Joshua (equally amazing international jazz guitarist). And to top it off, Juano from Sky Cries Mary (the bassist who first inspired me to pick up the bass 16yrs ago) was dancing hard to my grooves, told me he loved my bass playing, and then rocked out my washtub and bass banjo that i had brought with me. (was kinda funny watching all the badass bass players at the festival struggle to figure out how to play the washtub.. hehehe) :bassist:

it's shows like those that make me glad to be a musician!
 
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#396
After an incredibly busy July, we took the first 2 weeks of August off (by choice). We came back last night with a gig at a new club for us, and the band was absolutely smokin'.........no rust to blow off here, just 4 guys that were ready to go after a couple weeks to clear our head. The crowd was into it all night, the bartenders and staff were dancin', singin', screamin' and going crazy all night long..........I'm pretty sure we'll be back soon!
 
#397
Last night's gig. No time to post before(work, family, band, hurricane preps just in case).

FINALLY got to test this in a decent-sized place with FOH support. The rack solves the wonderful :rollno: Line 6 issue of getting a DI to the house. The dry went to a sansamp RBI and then to one channel of a dbx 166. The "modeled" signal went to the other channel of the dbx 166 and then split(XLR-> FOH, 1/4" to amps).
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The opener's bass is in the pic.
The Greco sisters, RVL and Blackie, got used by Johnny Crab:
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NOTE:
Soundman was great to work with at this venue(didn't complain or tell me I couldn't send the wet signal, etc.) and has his own studio(http://www.vmgproductions.com/). He was also professional to the point of using an spl meter at the board.
 
#398
Playing tomorrow noon to 3, outdoors, at a motorcycle dealership in Falls Church VA. Weather man is calling for 99 degrees and high humidity. One heck of a way to lose weight. Should be fun!

IF we are in the shade.
 
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Lazylion said:
Playing tomorrow noon to 3, outdoors, at a motorcycle dealership in Falls Church VA. Weather man is calling for 99 degrees and high humidity.
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The weather man was absolutely right this time. It was miserably hot. We were in the shade, and we survived with the help of many gallons of water and Gatorade. Understandably, hardly anyone wanted to stand in the blazing sun to watch us. Couldn't blame them.
 
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