Pics from my July 15th gig (and THANK YOU for your help getting these posted, Kali)

[abq e streeter]

I'm in the blue shirt...

[mikeytherat]

1. Ah, a Les Paul bass. When all other basses aren't heavy enough, Les is more!

mikey_the_rat

[MilesColtrane]

9. My '77 Peavey T-40 (I think the "T" stood for "Tank") was pretty damned heavy.

I called it, The Spinecruncher.

[mikeytherat]

30. I liked the T-40 (yes, really, really heavy), similar to my G&L L-2000

though the G&L is not nearly as heavy.

Me and the G&L kickin' it live:


mikey_the_rat

[abq e streeter]

32. cool pic---where (and what style of music) are you playing?

I think I knew the answer to that at one point, but like many of us musician types, I have the memory /attention span of a cabbage...

[mikeytherat]

35. Pic was from an outdoor festival last summer. My band does funk, soul and R&B

We play up and down the eastern seaboard, mostly around Virginia/DC/NC. Here's a live video from a gig in D.C.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYpp1a7IVZk&feature=player_embedded

We called this one The Pressure Gig - we do a whole "setlet" (eight tunes) of Michael Jackson and The Man who produced it, Quincy Jones, was in the front row!

mikey_the_rat

[abq e streeter]

36. First rate stuff !

:thumbsup: I also thought I was remembering correctly....that it was you whose dear friend and lead vocalist had passed away. I extended my condolences then, and do again. Thanks for posting that video. Very very funky and soulful.

[abq e streeter]

33. That's why you gotta come back as a harmonica player in your next life

of course, that'll make you infinitely less employable which is why I picked up the sax too eventually.

[hippywife]

2. Howdy, my friend.

Good to see you! :hi:

[abq e streeter]

4. Howdy back at ya

I actually called you out sorta ( in a good way of course) last night in the "perfect song" thread after you had, like me, mentioned Thunder Road as a perfect one, (along with Born to be Wild etc).....:hi:


Fri Aug-06-10 02:04 AM
Response to Reply #129
130. Oops-4th vote...(Hippywife... knew you had exquisite musical taste--i.e you usually agree with me)

[hippywife]

6. LOL! I missed that.

But of course we both have impeccable taste in music. ;)

We do tend to like the same styles. :hi:

[Crystal Clarity]

8. You both have great taste

I love Springsteen and Thunder Road in particular. I purchased 'Born To Run' not long after it came out and everyone was a critic :eyes:... funny how they changed their tune about a decade later when Born In The USA came out. "Who me? I've always liked Springsteen"... lol!

Born To Be Wild is great too... I'm going to have to go back and check out that thread. I missed it somehow.:-)

[abq e streeter]

16. And back at ya, Crystal C.

Been a proud member of the E Street nation since I first heard Saint in the City on the radio in 1974, and knew immediately that whoever the guy who did that song was, this was "the one". I used to laugh at that backlash after all the hype at the time of Born to Run, and kept thinking, good, it'll just make it easier for those of us who "get it" to get tickets to his shows. Saw him for the first time weeks after BTR came out, and most recently a year ago. Unfortunately, I only have seen him 7 times (wish it was 70 or 700), since most of the past 38 years I've been living in NM and he NEVER plays here (once on a solo tour, but that's it) so seeing him after those times when I was in Chicago in the 70's has involved going to Denver (900 miles round trip) or Phoenix (1,000), which I still do when possible, as recently as the 2009 Denver show.

:hi:

[Crystal Clarity]

26. I've never seen him in concert :-(

But I'm glad you got to, even if it was only 7 times, and you had to travel so far to do it. Maybe someday... *sigh*

[abq e streeter]

27. You gotta-and father time is closin' in on those old boys (and girls)

although based on the show a year ago, they still "got it". I see you're in Maine--so getting down to Boston or someplace like that shouldn't be impossible (of course I don't know if you have health or money issues etc that have prevented you from seeing them). But as a fan, you owe it to yourself, if possible, to see them at least just once. Hopefully they've got at least one last tour left in em...And if not a big tour, I would think that there'd be smaller ones especially around the northeast.

Amazing version of Thunder Road I think (I must have)I posted on the "perfect songs " thread...From 1978, Passaic New Jersey, Black and white, but maybe best version of this I've ever seen on video/film....I have this show on a three record vinyl bootleg and it was amazing to see 30 years later that someone had filmed it and posted a lot of it on you tube. So got to finally see film of a concert I'd listened to countless times, 30 years later.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf61K6ZKu_4


And 31 years later, the last encore, Glory Days at that Denver show last year (I'm nmcityrocker in the "comments" section)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KkiuSkOgUY

Also, the DVD "London Calling-Live in Hyde Park" from a concert there last year, is worth it too. It's just astounding how good they still are at their ripe old ages.

[Crystal Clarity]

28. Great versions- both

And I saw your comments- :thumbsup:

Nothing is holding me back at this point in my life from seeing The Boss and you're right, I ought to go for it. No better time then the present. Between my daughter in Manhattan and a sister in NJ, I'm sure I could arrange something... :shrug: lol! I spent my childhood in NJ BTW, therefore alot of his lyrics speak to the culture I grew up in. But that's only one of the MANY reasons I like him... The E Street Band itself, his politics, him...

LOL, that reminds me, remember when Reagan's handler's tried to use one of his songs for their campaign? Springsteen was the first musician to ever publicly and vocally become pissed off (that I can recall). And justifiably- not because of the money but the principal.

Thanks for the links. You rock too! :-)

[abq e streeter]

29. Coincidentally, just got in, & read an interview with Bruce in MOJO Magazine

while I was having dinner, and he said the E Street Band is absolutely not done yet.

yeah, I remember all the BS with Reagan (was there ever anything concerning Reagan that WASN'T BS?) and that's when (and why) Bruce started speaking out more overtly instead of letting his music speak for itself.

[johnnie]

3. Is that Bobby Keys?

Cool!

[abq e streeter]

5. Saw your reply just before heading out to the ballgame ( I love triple A baseball)

and yeah, it is. And yeah , it really was pretty cool. (And I'm sure that "other " band he plays with pales in comparison to us...:rofl: )

[abq e streeter]

7. BTW, this was at the Inn of the Mountain Gods, outside Ruidoso, NM

state bar association convention...Bass player is the current Chief Justice of the NM Supreme Court (rotating position; he's Chief Justice this year; appointed by Bill Richardson a couple of years ago, and a good solid progressive as are all the band members) and the guy with his hands in the air in the top picture was the head of former Governor Johnson's Drug Policy Commission that recommended legalization.


Can't figure out why pics of this beautiful place are not posting; oh well........

[tigereye]

11. I love seeing bands full of pols and other professionals...

[tigereye]

10. ah, so that's what you look like! Hope it was a good gig!

horn player, eh? What kind of band? R and B?



:hi:

[abq e streeter]

13. Thanks-real good gig (paid well, and the band elevated itself musically somehow)

and playing and hanging out with Bobby was a blast. Re: "elevated itself"....that's a drawback sometimes with bands consisting of "pols and other professionals"...is that sometimes they've spent more time becoming successful at other things outside of music and didn't have time to become fully proficient at music too. That is the case with this band; I love these guys, but not all of em are pro-quality players. But as I said, somehow they pulled it off this night and I was proud to have been part of it, even beyond the incredible opportunity to once again play with Bobby, who is a friend of ours, and we flew him in from Nashville to do this with us. I'm a sax player, but in this band, along with most that I'm in, I also do a large amount of the lead vocals. Tonight, however, I'm backing up a blues guy from Chicago named Chainsaw Dupont, and am doing nothing but harmonica (which I play considerably better than I do sax actually; same with singing---I added sax and flute later on).
As far as style, it's heavy on the 60's rock and soul and some reggae too (Van Morrison, Stones, Wilson Pickett etc), and much of it is overplayed stuff that I'm seriously burned out on ,and I have been angling for a way to bail on the band without hurting their feelings; like I said, they're all friends, some are close friends and this band means more to them than to me and the lead guitar player ,who are pros, and do this for the money as well as for being good friends with the FIVE attorneys in the band (the guitar player is much more pro than me; he's incredible, and is considered to be one of the top blues and rock guitarists in the southwest...in fact I'm going to see him open for Richard Thompson in a week). Unfortunately the way to bail out I've been looking for has turned out to be a health issue, and I will only be doing part of the gig with Chainsaw tonight. Probably nothing serious, but enough that having the strength to do any more full gigs is iffy for the time being, and these guys are, at my suggestion, looking for a replacement for me, which is a relief, but I'm sure as hell glad I went out on a real high note if this was my final gig with them.
How's that for an overly long answer to a brief comment and question?

[tigereye]

22. ha ha ha! No, that was cool to hear!

Curious if you've played on any music recordings I have....

[abq e streeter]

24. I can pretty much guarantee a no to that

I'm strictly just a local yokel who happens to have, through a chain of coincidences,become friends with Bobby K. ,and I am humbled and honored that he likes the way I play . It's more possible that you may have recordings with people that are no more than acquaintances of mine or just people I've played gigs with once or twice, but that's probably about it. (Bo Diddley once; the drummer from Dylan's Street Legal album once; stuff like that...although Albert Collins' old tenor sax man, the late Sam Franklin, was a dear friend , and I couldn't even count how many times I'd played with him. Coincidentally, he was also a dear friend of DUer guitarman, though he and I have never met in person. ). If I was some big (or even medium) shot, I wouldn't have to try to stroke my own ego by posting pics of me onstage with someone famous.
There seem to be quite a few very talented musicians on DU; both as strictly musicians as well as people who actually do write and record their own music. beaverhausen, Unpossibles, and spiritual_gunfighter are just three DU names that come to mind of musicians who have done CD's of their own music (good stuff too; I've listened to at least a few songs of each of theirs; the first two have links on their profiles, and spiritual_ gunfighter's band Doleful Lions is on you tube. Also pepperbear has links to a couple of very nice songs of his in the entertainment forum in a july 12th or 13th post). There are many more that play or used to and just from exchanging replies or reading theirs, I can tell they are, or at least were ,pros...The aforementioned guitarman; Miles Coltrane is another guy who I suspect is REAL good based on him having played on occasion with a guy I played with in the 80's who was , even back then, in his 20's, a monstrously good sax player. bluesbassman, , who seems to have stopped posting but still is a DUer, is yet another, who, I suspect,is quite good...

[mix]

12. rock on my friend

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

14. Thanks ,mix...I hope I still can

Been having some health issues (including that night) and currently don't have the strength to do full gigs. Hopefully it'll get straightened out and I'll be back at it soon. Tonight, I'm backing up a blues guy from Chicago here in Albq (just playing harmonica tonight, maybe a little bit of sax), but due to that lack of strength, am only doing part of the night. But if I really am at the end of the line for being a professional (OK; semi-pro since I've always had to have at least part-time "real " jobs) musician, this gig (and backing up Chainsaw Dupont tonight) was a hell of a good way to go out. I wanted to post a pic of the Inn of the Mountain Gods too, and have here before, but for some reason have been unable to this time. No big deal though.

[mix]

15. hang in there

:hug:

[abq e streeter]

17. Thanks, and that's even the exact picture I was trying to post

[mix]

18. I love Ruidoso. It's like a little mountain kingdom. nt

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. "I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like...You should have heard me just around midnight ..."

Congrats on the gig!

:toast:

[abq e streeter]

20. Thanks---believe it or not, we DIDN'T learn that one for this gig

but we did do Honky Tonk Women, Sweet Virginia, Miss You, Can't You Hear Me Knockin'...(THAT was fuckin' COOL) and I sang em all. As I stated (or alluded to) in an earlier thread ( to which you contributed such fine and much appreciated insights ), I may not have done much with my life, but at least I can proudly say I sang Can't You Hear Me Knockin' with Bobby Keys standing next to me playing the sax.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

21. You keep writing new chapters, and that's the difference...

...between you and the "Glory Days" guy. Like you said in the other thread, we're all that guy from time to time...and there's nothing wrong with that as long as we don't go too long between chapters.

It's been w-a-y too long since I've done anything with music, and I've had no peace in sitting on the sidelines. And as I said previously, the way you get off the sidelines is to get off the sidelines. It's that simple.

I need to buy a new amp, but I have a "Nobell Sound Studio 1" Headphone Amp with built-in delay, chorus, and distortion that allows me to practice my Les Paul (as long as I'm careful to not blow out my eardrums).

You had a well-deserved sense of accomplishment in that gig with Bobby.

Me? I'd like to scout the local Gospel churches for a woman with industrial-strength lungs and perfect pitch. I'd like to learn Keef's "Gimme Shelter" licks to perfection. Then I'd like to take it to the stage and just blow the roof off...the kind of "Gimme Shelter" that, if I were on my deathbed, I could say "C'est la vie, I did it all"...

If I'm "thinking about it," I'm the Glory Days guy. If I'm woodshedding and learning the licks and attending the odd church service here and there, I'm fishin' and not wishin'...

:toast:

[Kali]

23. no problem!

cool to be associated with them if in a very indirect way. I have always been more of a groupie than any kind of musician even though I tried to learn to play guitar long ago. Having NO musical ability whatsoever leaves one only the choices of being a fan or a roadie.:rofl:

[abq e streeter]

25. That's OK..Groupies were the motivation to start doing this in the first place

Of course at my age, that kind of thing has faded into the distant past. :cry: although I suppose I have to be realistic about having gotten old , and:rofl:

[guitar man]

31. Cool pics!

Too bad it's mostly horn players in them! :P

:hide:

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

34. Hey-guitar man---actually, I agree with you, but these pics were focusing on B.K.

The lead guitar player in this band, as I mentioned in my reply to tigereye, is by far the best musician in it. And yes, that definitely includes me. His guitar playing kicks my ass on any instrument I play, and sings his ass off too. He does this band too just for the hell of it but, like me, they're good friends of his so he gets to jam and hang out in a musically zero-pressure situation...His other, main bands are infinitely more professional (again, explanation about this one in that same reply to tigereye). I'll dig up a couple of you tubes of him and post em here. I think as a fellow guitarista, you'll enjoy his playing:

Chris acoustic:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_uJAj5-FP8&feature=related

and electric, with me sitting in on harp (once I got the attention of the sound guy to notice there was gonna be a harp going through a vocal mic) last summer in Taos. BTW, have I already posted that before? Coincidentally, and I haven't posted this version before (just found it), but the same song, with my (and our) other famous sax player friend: The Albert Collins Band ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdqfLi1kn8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqppSs3WXDM


Gonna see Chris open for Richard Thompson on the 16th....Have never seen Thompson and am pretty psyched, and cool that Chris got that gig... (and seeing Los Lobos with John Hiatt on the 12th and that should just about knock out the concert budget for 2010 unless the E Street Band comes within 1,000 miles of here)

[guitar man]

37. damn he is good

Nice smooth tone, great phrasing.

nice harp playing too :D