Pic of me and the band at the Beer and Cigarette Festival.

Jeesh. Y'all are pretty uptown if you don't need the chicken wire to protect against stuff getting thrown at you!


Best low brow bar story I've got was a small town bar in the neighboring county. I was there with the guitar player (who always took me to the nicest places!) We walked in dragging an amp and carrying a guitar case just in time to hear the bartender screeching "No, Cooder, ya can't have another fucking beer. You threw the last one at me and I shut you off."



It was a very long night.


Laura

Settles the natives right down.

That's a great story. Never actually met anyone named "Cooder". 'Round here we get "Chino Bob" or "Snake Eyes" and such.

I remember seeing it and laughing my ass off. We have lots of musicians on my side of the family. I remember when my 14 yo daughter wanted to start her own band. I had no problems and was glad she was doing something like that.

They got good enough that she booked a few gigs, but was afraid I would nix it because most of them were in bars-and the group was very underage. I think she was shocked when I told her I was very proud of her and that I didn't know a real musician that didn't cut their chops playing in bars. Just be in the world don't be of the world (we have Cherokee ancestry and alcohol is a real problem). She did just fine and we always had a parent there to make sure the kids were ok. Her music teacher was so excited but my daughter couldn't understand why. I told her that she and her friends were now 'real musicians' (baby of course). You made the leap from lessons to performing, and not every kernel of corn pops-but you guys have. It is fun to raise musicians-the world needs more of them.

Yeah, we are a music oriented family.

Is your daughter still playing/performing? I think it's great the support you gave her.

we're on a mission from God.

She just graduated from Cal Art's with a degree in Sound Engineering and Math. She has excellent recs from a School that is an acknowledged think tank for the industry. She is out looking and has offers and better yet, connections. Cal Arts has been very good to us. They charge California tuition rates and I make Texas Teacher's Salary again married to a musician. After her first year and very hard work, they really stepped up. The things she does is cutting edge computer. In fact, when she went out for freshman orientation, all the guys (and it was guys) in her class were real computer nerds. She asked her mentor if she was really right for the program. Imagine an Indian accent
"You will be one of my best students."
"But all these guys have more computer skills than I."
"I can teach you the computer skills in 9 months, it will take me 4 years to make them musicians."

She said she knew then that she was at the right school. Cal Arts was founded by Roy and Walt Disney. Some of their graduates went on to form Pixar, Sponge Bob, Tim Burton....just to name a few.

She performs when she has time. She and her BF have a music room in their house. Everything from keyboard, bass guitar, oboe, tablas and sitar.

No beer or cigarettes.


Nice hat, though and damned fine bass. You need a piano player.

Thanks. The P-Bass is my primary, but I just rebuilt a Jazz Bass that I'm really enjoying, and I think the P may some competition now.

Still like Ampeg heads, but all my cabs are David Eden these days (smaller and lighter, me getting older).

mikey_the_rat

A Classic 15" bottom and 2x10 underneath.

Eden makes some excellent equipment. One of these days...

and an Ampeg Portaflex PF-500. I really dig the PF-500 - great tone and matches well with my Eden cabs (I've got two 2x10s and two single 12s I mix and match, depending on the venue).

mikey_the_rat

I have an old '73 silverface SVT and an 8x10 cabinet. If I turn it up...I can make windows break and plaster crumble, LOL!

Wished I would've kept it, but the weight was killing me so I went to the ProIII and smaller cabs. 95lbs on the head alone! Whew!

All the best venues have chicken wire.

Bet you are great anyway. Hey, I support the arts-Hubby is a musician!

Thanks for supporting the arts - we musicians need all the help we can get.

I never have to worry about another woman....his first love is music. And I can deal with that.

I knew he loved me when he let me hand carry the instruments. And like a true musician's wife, I once badly tripped. He ran over to pick me up and my first words to him were....the sitar is ok, it didn't even touch the ground.

That's a great story.

from Ali Akbar Khan, and he had two sitars. I was 16, and in the San Francisco bay area visiting him and a cousin. When I was about to fly back to Massachusetts he asked if I would carry one sitar (with no case), on the plane (this was before the carry on baggage was restricted to what would fit under the seat). The flight attendants were dumbfounded when they saw me boarding the plane, gingerly holding the sitar out in front of me like a long baby with a full diaper. They tried to gently wedge it into a closet, but finally gave up and offered it, not me, a seat in first class!

and we have had all kinds of grief. We have had cello players walk past us carrying their instruments aboard while having to argue with check-in that our instrument deserved the same consideration (even more because a sitar is made from hollowed cured gourds). We have had asshats at homeland security cut open and ruin our fiberglass case when the lock was set to open and we had written instructions on the side. But the best was the time that a hole yes a big assed hole the size of softball was poked into the base. We were to play in Europe and none of our contacts had a sitar to spare. Hubby duct tape the whole. It is a credit to his skill that it sounded passable and he gave a good concert.

My brother was the frontman for a speed metal band in the late 80's though. Terrible waste of his voice truth be told, but he enjoyed it so it's all good.

You're the guy wearing the hat!!
I just know...



Great picture...


peace~

Thanks.

That's an excellent shot of some serious performing.

This thread is useless without music.

We mainly just play as a hobby, and don't have any plans to put out albums so going into the studio to record is not really worth the expense. Video camera recordings at gigs have notoriously bad sound capture, but I'll work on recording something at practice and put it up.