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On My Way To A "Bad" Gig.

#41
bassybill said:
Heck, LA as you describe it sounds like here.
(I've actually visited LA three times and have experienced driving in the horrendous traffic on each occasion. The difference between there and here is your traffic jams are six or eight lanes wide and ours are just three or four. :D)
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heres a snapshot of the Sepulveda Pass (the route i had to take) on a normal day with no accidents.

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Now imagine this roadway with 3 accident scenes spaced 2 miles apart.

Scary, huh?
 
#44
bassybill said:
Heck, LA as you describe it sounds like here. It took me two and a half hours the other morning to drive 24 miles from outside Birmingham (that's Birmingham, England, population about 2m - not Birmingham, AL) on the West side to an area in the East part of the city. Stop-and-start for almost the entire journey. And I had to get through this little beauty right smack bang in the middle of the rush hour...

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(I've actually visited LA three times and have experienced driving in the horrendous traffic on each occasion. The difference between there and here is your traffic jams are six or eight lanes wide and ours are just three or four. :D)
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No wonder you've got traffic problems. Ya'll are on the wrong side of the road! And if you can see concrete, it ain't traffic! :)
 
#46
Sepulveda Pass (the route i had to take)
Holy Chip!



Done my share of country over the years.
My fav was the 'new' country when I got hired to tour
in the early 90s.
BL said he needed a bassist,
I said, "Ya sure man? I'm one of the loudest rock bassists in town"
He said "Yup, that's EXACTLY what I need."
At the time all the nationals were hiring rockers to back 'em up.
Went out and bought my boots the next day.
 
#51
wideload said:
No wonder you've got traffic problems. Ya'll are on the wrong side of the road! And if you can see concrete, it ain't traffic! :)
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:D

I think that pic of our spaghetti junction (more formally, the Gravelly Hill interchange) must have been taken at a very quiet time. A quick Google image search for M6 traffic jam turned up many pics of what it's more usually like (i.e. stationary pretty much).

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I spend that much time close to the spot in the pic that I should change my middle name to M6. It's one of the worst traffic blackspots in the UK.

That Sepulveda Pass pic is just crazy, though. The sheer volume of traffic made a big impression on me when I visited LA, even though I only actually got badly held up once (heading east on the Ventura Freeway into the city). We got stuck for maybe 90 minutes on and off and then everything just started moving again.

Anyway, glad to hear the gig worked out well for you in the end.
 
#52
lfmn16 said:
If you think country music is all I - V then you don't know how to play country music.
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This is true..

I really dont know how to play country... Thankfully,,, sticking to root - V carried me thru the night with no major mishaps..


Im sure their regular bass plyr has some chops.

but i was just keepin my head down and trying not to make a scene...

It seemed to work...

Hey, Nobody beat me up in the parking structure after the gig.n :p
 

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