saturn Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Stanstock began a few years ago as some guy named Stan organizing a big reunion of the great local bands from the 1970s, '80s and '90s. It's turned in to a big, two day festival with all proceeds going to cancer and veterans charities. The keyboard player in my old, and current band is older than me and been playing the area since the 1960s. He's been doing Stanstock with some of his mates from back-in-the-day since it started. This year their guitarist can't attend so he asked me to fill in. I was honored. We are he opening act on Day 1 and are going to do one set. I have our first rehearsal today. Some of the musicians are or were very big around these parts. Face Dancer was awesome. Also Great Train Robbery, Rob Fahey and Carey Zeigler are great. I'm thinking the Mystery Band might turn out to be Crack The Sky..... I'm hoping none of those guys are there yet when we play or I'll be super nervous. http://stanstock.org/ This song will certain be played and get a huge reaction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Must be that time of year Jay, we've got Mazstock next weekend (thankfully not this weekend as the venue would be surrounded by floodwater...) It's been going a long time too and also named after a local, a woman named Marilyn: https://www.facebook.com/mazstockfestival/ Have a good show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Great stuff, the pair of you. Here's hoping you have a blast and raise lots of funds at the same time! Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted June 5, 2016 Author Share Posted June 5, 2016 Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. It should be a good time, and it's for a good cause. The way I understand it, I only have to bring my guitars and whatever pedals I use. The drums, amps an PA is all provided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookieman15061 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Ahh Crack The Sky. The pride of Weirton WV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Best of luck! Playing a small, rural charity gig this coming Saturday in Hampshire.... For the 3rd year running, proud and very happy to do it. Open day at the BOAZ farm project for people with learning disabilities. http://www.boazproject.co.uk/ They LOVE to sing 'Mustang Sally'!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 Well, the big even is this Saturday. Had our last rehearsal tonight. The band I'm playing with is called Turn Blue and we are first up. As I suspected, Crack The Sky is the band that was billed as Mystery Band. I'm nervous as hell thinking I might be playing in front of some of the best local musicians, and ones I've been fans of for years. From what I understand, the stage amps are shared with all the performers. Looks like I'll be playing through some type of Marshal stack. Our set list will be Pride and Joy (warm-up) I Feel Fine Feelin' Alright Natural Thing (Doobie Brothers) Tennessee Whiskey ( Chris Stapleton) Long Time Gone (CSN) Breakdown ( Tom Petty me on vocals ) Dark Eyed Cajun Woman (Doobie Brothers) Spooky (ARS) Black Magic Woman Breakdown Dead Ahead (Boz Scaggs) Wish me luck (yeah I'm fishing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Luck! rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Luck! rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Scales Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 The song names in your set list read like a bit of an emotional roller-coaster - hopefully not prophetic hope it all goes great for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 The song names in your set list read like a bit of an emotional roller-coaster - hopefully not prophetic hope it all goes great for you Thanks. They came up with the set list. I'm just filling in on guitar, so I'm playing whatever they want. Some of the songs I'd never even heard before. We dropped a few others that I also had never heard, like "Look at You Look At Me" by Dave Mason and "Empty Pages" by Traffic. Remember, this band used to play back in the early 1970s, when I was just a few years old. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Farnsbarns Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Wow. That's very cool. Enjoy it and knock em dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 You won't need luck; you know how to play and the audience will be up for a good time so just have an absolute blast. It'll be a great day! Enjoy!................... [thumbup] Pip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G Mac Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Have a great gig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Well, it was a great gig! Thanks everyone... It was really rushed and chaotic setting up and then getting off to make way for the following band. But, I think we did a great set. The crowd was really enthusiastic. It was an experience I won' forget. I haven't seen the figures yet, but I know a lot of money way raised. The Marshal I used was I think a JCM? and it was SWEET! Maybe "sweet" isn't the best word to describe it. In all the chaos, I only snapped one (bad) photo. My wife took some pics on her phone, but with the lighting it all came out just as shadows. I know there were others there taking photos and video, so I hope to be able to get hold of some of that at some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Posted September 12, 2016 Share Posted September 12, 2016 GLad you had a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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