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    The "Just got in from a gig" thread.....

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    Had a great gig tonight with the full band. It was a beautiful night on the Columbia Lakeside.  The load in/out was a PITA but the crowd was awesome and we sounded really good. 

    Since my wife actually got some footage of us (me) for once and since that other thread went away, I'll post a clip here. If I had known my voice was so prominent , I would have been more self conscious. I'm no singer.  From where I stood, my vocal was more buried in the mix.  

     

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    RIP Jimmy Buffet

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    Yeah. I saw this in a group text this morning. Steve and I play a lot of Buffett songs at our acoustic gigs. He did a solo gig at a neighborhood party tonight and  the entire first set was dedicated to Jimmy.  I had a band gig tonight and of course we did 2 of his songs in tribute. Didn't know until this thread what the cause was. 

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    Punk Rock

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    6 hours ago, merciful-evans said:

    Punk indulged the talentless. It's supposed raison d'etre was negativity. It epitomised the maxim that 'its easier the destroy than create '. 

    Artists that were not punk at the time seemed to ride its wave, probably driven by marketing. eg: Elvis Costello. Punk? Really?

    I had a small place in my head for the Clash & X. Maybe a couple more. 

    I saw a rock doc recently with Rick Wakeman interviewing Roger Chapman saying that in the uk, when punk arrived, everything else was removed from the shelf, but in europe everything else still mattered and remained on the shelf (Chapman's career continued in Germany after Family & Streetwalkers). 

    Always driven by the next big thing, I think that was done by the music press here: 'Punk has arrived & everything else is now irrelevant'. Punk was more than a waste of time. It was destructive. 

    I remember reading an interview sometime in the 90s  with Johnny Rotten. (I've never seen anything with him where he is not a complete ******bag) He was talking about the early punk days and said how they hated bands like Steely Dan. I remember thinking "yeah  bands that could actually play their instruments and understand music theory". 

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    The "Just got in from a gig" thread.....

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    Got in about 11;30 from band gig tonight at a bar on the bay in East Baltimore. Beautiful venue and great crowd. Lots of dancers, young and older. Even had some ladies come up and play tambourines with us.  

    I was having an issue in the first set with my amp getting a booming feedback when I used high gain. Even if I muted the strings, it would still this weird, low pitched feedback  After talking to our bass player/sound guy, he said he had some of my mic'd guitar amp coming through my monitor and he could take that out if I wanted. I said yes please. I can hear my amp directly, I don't need it in monitor. That solved the problem, and 2nd and 3rd sets were fine. 

    BTW. What happened to the Pinned thread of our rehearsal/gig footage?

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    Punk Rock

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    On 8/8/2023 at 11:48 PM, saturn said:

     

    There used to be this unsanctioned punk club in Baltimore, I think it was called The Loft. It was in an abandoned warehouse or rowhouse somewhere in the city. I went once with this group of friends. They thought the place was awesome and went often. I thought it was a bunch of dorks with spiked hair and spiked wristbands all bashing into each other as hard core/punk music blasted. They called it slam dancing and now I guess it's called moshing. Supposedly a young Dave Grohl used to come from DC and hang there. If you liked hard core, this place was about as authentic as it came. It was dirty, smelly,  loud and I don't even think it was licensed or anything. I don't even know who, if anyone was in charge of the place.    

    After posting this, I got curious and asked my friend, who I also work for. He was one of my old friends who used to go to this place regularly. I guess it wasn't quite as I remembered it. Apparently it was an actual legitimate venue. I found this old news clip about the place from around 1986.

     

    Punk Rock

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    The only punk rock I knew, was either the poppier stuff that might have gotten some airplay on the radio, or hearing it from some friends I had. I was more of a  metal guy back then.

    One of my friend groups was into what they called "hard core" and I would either hear the songs or hear them talking about bands like Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Corrosion Of Conformity, Butthole Surfers, and some others I can't remember.  I could listen to it when around them, but it was nothing I would buy myself and I wasn't into the fashion or anti fashion or whatever you call it. 

    There used to be this unsanctioned punk club in Baltimore, I think it was called The Loft. It was in an abandoned warehouse or rowhouse somewhere in the city. I went once with this group of friends. They thought the place was awesome and went often. I thought it was a bunch of dorks with spiked hair and spiked wristbands all bashing into each other as hard core/punk music blasted. They called it slam dancing and now I guess it's called moshing. Supposedly a young Dave Grohl used to come from DC and hang there. If you liked hard core, this place was about as authentic as it came. It was dirty, smelly,  loud and I don't even think it was licensed or anything. I don't even know who, if anyone was in charge of the place.    

    Where were you raised.

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    1 minute ago, CROWB8 said:

    So when and where did you get bit by the music bug?

    Well, as early as I can remember I always loved listening to music and songs. But it was in the 9th Grade when I got an electric guitar, a no-name LP copy. Started taking some lessons and from then I have always played guitar. I learned pretty quickly, but I was never one of those guys who practiced hours a day. 

    It wasn't until about 1994 when I was a young adult with a wife and 2 kids that I started a weekly jam with some work mates and my buddy, mentioned previously who I now work for, and the jams led to a band which led to other bands and so on to this day.     

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    Where were you raised.

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    I was raised in a city/town just south of Baltimore and a little north of Annapolis called Glen Burnie. We were the butt of many jokes by people who didn't live there. I have great memories and still keep in touch with quite a few people I grew up and went to school with. It's a mixed area, and I was lucky to have only gotten into mild trouble and didn't die young like some others did.  I actually work for one of my oldest friends from GB in his machine shop behind the house he grew up in and it's within walking distance from my old house. 

    There was a brief time in 1992 when I lived in Wilmington DE and worked in Philadelphia. 

    My wife and I bought a house in Pasadena MD in 1993 and are still there.  It's about 20 minutes from work and my old neighborhood. 

    The "Just got in from a gig" thread.....

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    OK. It's been almost 2 months since this thread has had action.

    Just got back from a gig at a MD winery called Basignani. A beautiful area north of Baltimore called Sparks.  We play there about 2 times every year. We almost thought it was going to be canceled due to bad storms, but weather cleared up. Since we had to wait for storm to pass, we were late setting up and started about 30 minutes late. The humidity was unbearable during set-up. I was drenched in sweat before we played a note. Then the temp dropped and we had a breeze and the humidity declined as we played. But by the time we were breaking down there was no breeze and it was more muggy than ever. 🥵 

    But it was a sold out night despite the weather. People pay $10 to get in, and can bring their own chairs or blankets to sit on and their own food, or buy hand made brick oven pizzas there. They sell bottles of wine and people drink them right on the grass or in under pavilion which is off to the side.  Lots of people dancing on the grass right in front of us.

    It was an awesome night!  My band is called Sagamore Band, so I will have some Sagamore Rye before retiring for the night. [cool]

    I hate The Beetles

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    Stupid things. I have to scoop dozens out of my pool every day. Then they fly into my storm door and fall down in the little ledge. it's  only 1/2 deep but they're too stupid to find their way out and die a slow agonizing death unless I blow they out. Then my cat is running and bumping into things like crazy at night and I realize she's chasing another damn beetle than managed to get in while a door was open for 3 seconds! I don't even try to kill them, but it seems they have a death wish. How did these dumb things survive all this time? 

    I love that band from England of the same name with a slightly different spelling though.  [cool]

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    Just Used Sweetwater's Used Gear Site to Sell

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    Well, recently after buying my Morely Multi FX pedal I wanted to get rid of some stomp boxes. I didn't feel like listing and shipping, so I took them to GC. I had 2 wahs, Mojo Mojo OD, a small chorus and Dyna Comp. Got enough to purchase a nice mic stand and still $40 cash. I think it was worth it rather than making slightly more selling on eBay or Reverb.

    Guitar Cables

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    6 hours ago, IanHenry said:

    At a gig last night I had a guitar cable fail on me, I've been using Fender ones which are "guaranteed for life" (does anyone ever actually return them when they fail?) but this is the second  one that's failed recently.

    Can anyone suggest a good guitar mid-priced guitar cable that can be relied upon?

    I don't want to go silly price wise because of course they often "disappear".

     

     

    I don't usually pay too much attention to the brand. I have Fender, Planet Waves, no-name...whatever. Can't remember ever having one fail on me. I think the last few I've purchased were Planet Waves. I bought a used Monster about 10 years ago and always used that one as first in line from my guitar. Didn't notice anything better or worse about it, but since I paid a little extra I treated it a little special. Until I left it behind at a gig last year. [crying]

    So anyway. I would go with Planet Waves if I were to buy new ones now. 

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