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Nice acoustic playing Link (listening to Rhoads now)
and now again we have 3. finally got the guys to just agree we are not going to bother with a lead player. I'm going to do solos on mandolin and I put harmonica in today as the lead player cancelled last minute (he was trying to call me this week all drunk to complain we didn't play enough blues and rick told him he didn't have my number... him and his wife knew what would happen if a drunk called me to complain lol)
we just get so much more accomplished with the 3 of us... mind you I have invited a female vocalist/acoustic guitar player out. her and I sang together in a country/folk/rock band before. she is amazing. then I can play my mando more and feel confident about doing leads. the mandobird with overdrive sounds like a guitar anyway hehe
we've got almost 2 sets tight. 1.5 and .5 still working on. so we are coming along... soon we start working on the originals to fill the night. now that we have gotten to know what each is going to do, things come faster.
and now again we have 3. finally got the guys to just agree we are not going to bother with a lead player. I'm going to do solos on mandolin and I put harmonica in today as the lead player cancelled last minute (he was trying to call me this week all drunk to complain we didn't play enough blues and rick told him he didn't have my number... him and his wife knew what would happen if a drunk called me to complain lol)
we just get so much more accomplished with the 3 of us... mind you I have invited a female vocalist/acoustic guitar player out. her and I sang together in a country/folk/rock band before. she is amazing. then I can play my mando more and feel confident about doing leads. the mandobird with overdrive sounds like a guitar anyway hehe
we've got almost 2 sets tight. 1.5 and .5 still working on. so we are coming along... soon we start working on the originals to fill the night. now that we have gotten to know what each is going to do, things come faster.
Same thing happened to me...exactly...ha ha ha
Ain't life funny?
Reminds of the story about...what's his name....you know, the guy who drove a car and lived in a house.....he had a dog...what's his name....
Just wait until you get to that point. It gets even more interesting.
I get that sometimes allready lmao...
I can see having volume levels low enough now to use my acoustic mandolin. oh ya, our bass player Rob bought a new bass. one of those epiphones that looks like Paul M's. very nice and quite light. sounds good too. he's buying an amp like mine for himself. that fender really kicks. I still like playing bass, it's a very misunderstood instrument. people think bah 4 strings...
then show em some alain carron
I can see having volume levels low enough now to use my acoustic mandolin. oh ya, our bass player Rob bought a new bass. one of those epiphones that looks like Paul M's. very nice and quite light. sounds good too. he's buying an amp like mine for himself. that fender really kicks. I still like playing bass, it's a very misunderstood instrument. people think bah 4 strings...
then show em some alain carron
I love playing bass.
I'm happy in my work as a musician.
I get that most people don't get what I do but it's enough for me that fellow musicians do.
In a trio situation most people have some sort of clue that something important is going on from my side of the stage without me having to slap and pop while dancing a jig.
I get by. It's my favorite thing to do in life.
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If you have good harmony, "Seven Bridges Road" by the Eagles is a good song to show it off. It also lends itself well to mandolin picking.
I love anything Eagles... we had a thread on mandolin cafe' that asked if you could play for any band, what would it be... mine was the Eagles.
I'd love to stand next to Joe Walsh on a concert stage, too. I'd be crazy building my chops beforehand, though!
My favorite gig I ever played was when we opened for Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Primus
Talk about a bassists' dream.....
Talk about a bassists' dream.....
So who's gigging and where? I'd like to hear about the places you guys are playing.
Jonesing for the guitars my ex-husband "relieved" me of. I had a nice little collection - my Peavey amp, my bass, my gibson melodymaker, and my solid aluminum guitar - can't remember who made it all disappeared out of my house one day after I was divorced. My ex apparently still had the key to the house.
Years ago I had a Gibson Stereo. I was at a festival outdoors yesterday, and I could almost swear this is the same guitar.
Can anyone identify it?
These guys, the Flat Cats, were a lot of fun to watch. I grabbed a couple of videos with my phone and put them on YouTube -- here's one.
Years ago I had a Gibson Stereo. I was at a festival outdoors yesterday, and I could almost swear this is the same guitar.
Can anyone identify it?
These guys, the Flat Cats, were a lot of fun to watch. I grabbed a couple of videos with my phone and put them on YouTube -- here's one.
Our drummer is out for shoulder surgery. No gigs till october at the earliest. I have turned down 3 paying gigs in the last month 
no gigs for me until October too... doing a 'solo bass' show and still putting a set together. I've got some sessions to do in August for one of my first guitarists / high school bud (he usually does all his own tracks, but has asked me to put bass on a few this time around).
Here is an acoustic take of a song from his last release
sandybeach: I'm not up on all the trim levels from Gibson, but that looks like an ES-335 to me.
Here is an acoustic take of a song from his last release
sandybeach: I'm not up on all the trim levels from Gibson, but that looks like an ES-335 to me.
Jonesing for the guitars my ex-husband "relieved" me of. I had a nice little collection - my Peavey amp, my bass, my gibson melodymaker, and my solid aluminum guitar - can't remember who made it all disappeared out of my house one day after I was divorced. My ex apparently still had the key to the house.
Years ago I had a Gibson Stereo. I was at a festival outdoors yesterday, and I could almost swear this is the same guitar.
Can anyone identify it?
Looks like an ES335 to me, too, SandyBeach. Touching story about the guitar theft. If they were yours, don't you have legal recourse to get them back? That would eat away at me for sure. I'd have to get face to face over someone I knew entering my home and leaving with my guitars. There are a few things I'll fight over and that's one of them
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I'm still comfortable with the every Sunday morning 9:00 gig at church. We do about 4 songs that start the service and come back after the sermon for one more. We jam the last one as everyone leaves the building. That usually turns into a heavier extension of the last song and we get to morph into a free form blues-rock style. We rehearse on Monday nights for about 2 hours and I'm done for the week.
After gigging for most of the 60s, 70s, and 80s I'm content with what I'm doing right now. I have friends who play the light club circuit doing sets at places like Wild Wings Cafe and various places that serve meals, drinks, and also have a band a couple of nights a week. The worst part of that once you get some age on you is not having roadies! I used to pick up a speaker column and throw it over my shoulder and walk it to the trailer. Then we bought 3 foot wide tuned, triple stacked PA speakers. Then the hand trucks had to come out! No more of that for me.
The traditional club circuit I'll leave for the younger crowd.
After gigging for most of the 60s, 70s, and 80s I'm content with what I'm doing right now. I have friends who play the light club circuit doing sets at places like Wild Wings Cafe and various places that serve meals, drinks, and also have a band a couple of nights a week. The worst part of that once you get some age on you is not having roadies! I used to pick up a speaker column and throw it over my shoulder and walk it to the trailer. Then we bought 3 foot wide tuned, triple stacked PA speakers. Then the hand trucks had to come out! No more of that for me.
The traditional club circuit I'll leave for the younger crowd.
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Looks like an ES335 to me, too, SandyBeach. Touching story about the guitar theft. If they were yours, don't you have legal recourse to get them back? That would eat away at me for sure. I'd have to get face to face over someone I knew entering my home and leaving with my guitars. There are a few things I'll fight over and that's one of them
Legal recourse? I couldn't find him to serve him papers for the divorce -- I got divorce by publication. When the detectives found my ex in 1987, and went to serve him with the papers, he would quit whatever job he had.
I don't know if it's different these days, but I'd love to get the back child support he never paid for 15 years for two kids.
I think the guitar was an ES345, if I remember right -- same as 335?
The ES335 is similar. There are only about 5 or 6 major Gibson electric designs in popular use, anyway. They are wildly popular guitars, but mostly you see Les Pauls, SG's, ES335/345/355, and some Firebirds and Explorers. With Fender it's Stratocaster and Telecaster mostly.
BTW, it's much easier to find people these days using the internet. Everyone has some sort of connection through Facebook, Twitter, email address, or some kind of forum. It's surprising what a simple Google search can turn up. SS numbers are hard to hide behind, too.
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Worth a try again, I guess. Last time I did an internet search was a couple of years ago. His address was listed as our address from 25 years ago! Maybe he changed his name. I do call social security once in awhile. Maybe I should hire someone?
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