St. Paddy’s Day 2023 gig roundup

I would have played last night and would be playing tonight if I hadn’t tested positive for Covid on Thursday.

 

Thanks! The symptoms are really mild this time. I tested myself just to be sure (mainly because one of my bandmates is in a more at-risk age group) but was expecting the result to be negative.

 

Had a fun gig...
Weather was rough. Cold, overcast, and non-stop cold wind blowing at our backs.
But, a fun gig. Hard not to have fun when the crowd is there to party.

 

Played our first gig at a downtown Sebring, Fl bar that was a gas station. It was the third gig as a trio as our 5 member band had a breakup in January. The drummer and one of the guitarist from that band are the trio. Me and the guitarist have been doing a duo since August with programmed drums, so bringing in the drummer quickly made it a trio. We were outside with perfect weather. some other musicians came by to check us out along with the guy who books the local VFW where we are at next Friday. We did one duo gig at the VFW and they wanted us back but were booked about 5 months out. So the guy hasn't seen us as a trio. He wants to book us more and we will be getting more bookings at the former gas station, which is just 2 doors down from the office of the newspaper that I work for. Classic Rock, singing Sultans of Swing in this video capture.

 

Top of the morning everyone , hope your gigs paid you lots of green . If you saw anyone around 3 feet tall last night , hope you followed them home and took their pot of gold .......you have too !

 

congrats to all of you! looks like a lot of st. paddy's parties were (or will be) a success! all of them look like much fun!

 

We played The Heritage Lounge in Pickerington, last night! Small venue for a 5 piece, but we (and the sound/light tech made it happen; I went direct, as there was little room for my cabs... sounded great, too!)... placed was packed, too. Typical payday for a 3 hour gig, tips were okay (see small venue; couldn't find a decent spot for Mr. Beer)... great feedback from several patrons, so hopefully some new fans/followers!

Rock on, breauxs and sisters!

 

Didn't play, but went and watched a friend's new band last night, which was fun.

 

The bass players color is off, the hat doesn't match the bass, exactly.
He should be playing one of these -

 

The sub played for me last night . I hear he went home with some strange woman wearing a green dress , big hat and glasses ....and he got paid lots of green last night .

 

Hopefully, just once.

 

Gig report here: "Check In" here before and after your gigs, set 3 - everyone's drunk now!

For reasons mysterious to me, South Windsor CT celebrated last week. Couple pics if you don't want to click:

 

Even when I was still gigging, St. Patrick's Day was a gig I tried to avoid. I've never seen one that wasn't an "amateur night" and invariably, someone comes up on stage and occasionally causes havoc (pun intended for the band posted here by that name).

Back in our salad days, I was a raging drinker, determined to join the 27 club early. We did a SPD gig and I had decided earlier that week that whiskey was the reason I was such a mean drunk.

So, what is a young, Irish, wanna-be "rock star" with a massive drinking problem to do?

I drank green beer (with bitters) and tequila shots all night. While I'm sure I couldn't have been the only one drinking tequila, I'm just as sure there couldn't have been too many of us. I ate two worms, that night.

Apparently, it did not affect my performance (the owner booked us right then and there for the next SPD bash and the barmaid called me back, a couple of days later), but it cost us two very expensive instrument cables ($50 each) which got chopped in half, by the drummer's cymbal, a broken/chipped Zildjian 18" ride, and the speaker in the monitor the cymbal fell into off of the bounce.

All of this caused by a drunken idiot who "just wanted to check out the bass" while we were on break.

 

I meant no offense. My reference to "amateurs" was in regards to drinkers.