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sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4510
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 8:46 am: |  |
Here is a pic of my coffee house gig on 9/26/15 . I was playing 73-32 here.
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4511
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 9:01 am: | |
Here are some views of my 9/27/15 Festival Gig. It was a very worthwhile benefit for the Hayward Ca. Public School Music Education System. I was playing 81-1940 here " Stereo". I am playing in the band " Easy Wind" The lead Guitarist plays an Alembic Further as well .
Wolf |
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck
Post Number: 11940
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 8:34 pm: | |
Nice pics! |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4518
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 28, 2015 - 8:40 pm: | |
Thanks Dave ! |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4541
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2015 - 1:13 pm: | |
Hello Friends here is the poster art for our next " EASY WIND" Gig.
Our web site ; www.easywind.us |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4552
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, October 19, 2015 - 9:28 am: | |
A rehearsal in a venue with high ceilings. It is the "Central Stage" in Richmond , Ca. It is good sounding room .
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sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4565
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 4:50 pm: | |
Here is our NEW Banner for our"Easy Wind "Website upgrade project
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sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4566
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 5:39 pm: | |
My band " EASY WIND" will be playing at " CENTRAL STAGE".
Tomorrow night 10/30/15 . Doors open at 8PM .
Central Stage
5221 Central Ave
Richmond, CA 94804
Here is our new WEBSITE ;
http://www.epicdimensions.com/Easy_Wind.shtml
www.easywind.us remains up as a media page
Come one come all ______
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4583
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, November 09, 2015 - 11:38 am: | |
Here is a vid from my last gig on 10/30/15.
I am playing my Series I Standard Point / medium scale # 81-1940 . I have named this bass Hrista after the Norse Valkyrie . Related to Old Norse Hrista (meaning "shake, quake") and therefore meaning "the quaking one".
I Love Her_____!
Here is Tennessee Jed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHjDqc310_0
Sonic Regards ___
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4603
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 10:30 pm: | |
Here is the Youtube vid to my Gig with " Easy Wind" at a private party that we played at for the " Alameda Yacht Club" . It was an intimate setting. I am playing my Series I Standard Point # 81-1940 again. The lead players Alembic Further and my Series I Bass shine bright in this vid. We are getting better at our segues from tune to tune. I think that we are making progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_tuUDYGFc
Wolf |
rv_bass
Junior
Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 17
Registered: 8-2014
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 3:48 am: | |
Sounds nice, Wolf, your bass sounds very solid, nice tone! |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4604
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 7:57 am: | |
Rob, Thanks!
When we showed up for the gig, we all immediately realized how important dynamics would be in their party room. They liked us and promised to get us back for another event. The bass that I am playing does indeed have a distinctive voice all of her own. I think I named her well !
Wolf |
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck
Post Number: 11989
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 8:20 am: | |
"I think that we are making progress." Agreed; this is the best recording yet. |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4605
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 8:47 am: | |
Dave, Thanks! It is indeed a long recording with our various segues.
We are adding more material each week and trying to improve what we are already playing. The extended " Eyes of the World" jam with the added changes and the riff is also fun but not in this recording. I will post that when we perform that changed version at a gig. Here is an example of that from a Dead show from 11/11/73 @ " The Winterland Arena" I like this show, I actually think I was at this one . I was 17 years old at the time just hanging out and listening, and thinking WOW !
https://archive.org/details/gd73-11-11.sbd.schlissel.14105.sbeok.shnf
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4680
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 4:40 pm: | |
" Easy Wind" will have some gigs in early 2016 and we are currently scheduling our performance calendar . We will post them on our website and I will mention them here as well . We are also compiling our own original material and adding and working on expanding our collective musical influences into our sound . We are making weekly expansions and refinements.
Wolf |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member
Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 748
Registered: 6-2014
| | Posted on Monday, December 28, 2015 - 3:58 am: | |
Wolf, regarding the Alameda Yacht Club gig... that's some mighty fine music you guys played - Well Done! I forwarded the link to some guys I've been gigging with I think might enjoy it too.
P/S, is that "Woody" on lead guitar? |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4681
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, December 28, 2015 - 6:36 am: | |
Gregory ,
Thanks so much for taking a look at our Vids and thanks for the compliment. The lead guitarist is Ken Younger and the Alembic Further that he is playing is his own and not " Woody", owned by "lbpesq /Bill,tgo".
Wolf
(Message edited by sonicus on December 28, 2015) |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member
Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 749
Registered: 6-2014
| | Posted on Monday, December 28, 2015 - 7:34 am: | |
Ah. The medallion threw me off. Well the guitar sounds fantastic in his hands... that intro to the first tune has been in my ear all morning here in the office. =)
You're so right about the (importance of) segue between tunes. Sometimes the most accomplished performer(s) is/are hindered by inability to entertain... it's a different skill set altogether. The band I'm currently in suffers from exactly that condition - the music is fine, even darn good some days. I am actively trying to improve as a frontman, talking *to* the audience rather than just introducing the next tune. It's not natural to me... much harder than playing bass for sure.
You guys sound great! |
peoplechipper
Senior Member
Username: peoplechipper
Post Number: 650
Registered: 2-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 8:52 pm: | |
Funny how some who'd never seem to be frontpeople, are; I am one...when I started my band I didn't even want to be singer and once I started singing (or angry bellowing in my case) it all came rather easily; I've had people who know me say that I'm totally different onstage, and they are not wrong...I wish I knew where it came from as I might be a far better social person if I did; it's probably having a stage and an instrument 'round my neck, and trying to replicate that in public ain't gonna work...oh well...Tony |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4700
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 04, 2016 - 6:25 pm: | |
EASY WIND Plays Again ! GIG ANNOUNCEMENT !
A VALENTINES 60s' PEACE & LOVE DANCE PARTY and POTLUCK!!! with EASY WIND on Saturday , February 13 2016
@
Art House Gallery & Cultural Center
2905 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley CA 94705
510-472-3170
Psychedelic Light Show by Liquid Sircus Delights( LSD VISUALS) Far Out!
Door is 6PM Show is 7-10PM
It's Potluck so Bring Stuff to Eat and Drink...
Bring your Dancing Shoes to Rock and Roll
ALL AGES & WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
$10-$20 Donation. (or as much as possible) PLEASE SUPPORT THE ARTS!
( I transfered this information from the venues facebook page)
I am looking forward to this gig ! There will more gig announcements as soon as I have such connfirmation
Sonic Regards & A Happy New Year !
Wolf
(Message edited by sonicus on January 04, 2016) |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4701
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 04, 2016 - 8:25 pm: | |
Here is the facebook link to my Easy Wind Valentines Party gig .
Please share and repost . This is really a nice venue that does quite a bit of local Art Promotion , a very worthy cause in my opinion .
Thanks ,
Wolf
https://www.facebook.com/events/1653311268252253/ |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4748
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Friday, February 12, 2016 - 9:52 am: | |
Hi friends ! __ GIG UPDATE !
I have a GIG with " Easy Wind " tomorrow 2/13/16 as posted above in my posts 4700 & 4701. It looks like we are going to have a good turnout ! There will be food there too. A light show as well !
We are going to play three sets filled with " Early Grateful Dead" material. _____Think 1968 !
We look forward to presenting " Cryptical Envelopment > The Other One /The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion /Viola Lee Blues/ and much other " Early Dead" material.
I hope too see there .
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4752
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 15, 2016 - 11:40 am: | |
Here is a pic of the stage with us and the light show. The gig went well . There may be a Youtube vid posted of it as well in a few days or so .
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rv_bass
New
Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 10
Registered: 8-2014
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 8:18 am: | |
Very cool, Wolf, looks like you guys are having some fun!
Rob |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4753
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 8:49 am: | |
Thanks Rob, Yes , we actually had a decent turnout of folks considering there were other local events occurring simultaneously.
We have more gigs coming up ! I will post them here soon .
Wolf |
edwardofhuncote
Senior Member
Username: edwardofhuncote
Post Number: 840
Registered: 6-2014
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 3:30 am: | |
Cool gig Wolf. I see a smiling cat in the background. =)
Is that your single pickup Distillate, or #32? |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4754
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 7:25 am: | |
Hi Gregory,
The stage area is rather shallow there and I was directly in front of a scaled down rig , so I opted for the single pickup Distillate this time. A simple approach this time for this gig .
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4764
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 5:55 pm: | |
Hello Friends,
Here is a video of a tune called "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" . It is from my gig last week with my band " Easy Wind".
The light show is blazing behind us !
From my 2/13/16 Gig @ The Art House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0tq3hjnk0w
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4765
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 6:17 pm: | |
An early " Viola Lee Blues"
About a 1966 version perhaps.
From my gig with " Easy Wind" 2/13/16 @ The Art House
The light show is really cool in this one !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zikkihx86EU
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4766
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, February 20, 2016 - 7:38 pm: | |
From the same gig , here is ;
Easy Wind @ The Art House 2/13/16
The Dead Heads really liked this one ;
CRYPTICAL ENVELOPMENT > THE OTHER ONE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry1prl6cyPQ
Wolf |
rv_bass
Junior
Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 18
Registered: 8-2014
| | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 5:06 am: | |
Awesome, Wolf, sounds great! |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4767
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 8:42 am: | |
Rob, thanks for checking it out !
Wolf |
rv_bass
Junior
Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 19
Registered: 8-2014
| | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 10:45 am: | |
Wolf,
I love that stuff. When they played Cream Puff War, Born Cross-eyed, and What's Become of the Baby in Santa Clara on 6/27/2015 I was in heaven! Apparently they got a nod from those observing from afar with the rainbow as well.
Come and join the part every day! 
Rob |
rv_bass
Junior
Username: rv_bass
Post Number: 20
Registered: 8-2014
| | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 10:46 am: | |
Wolf,
I love that stuff. When they played Cream Puff War, Born Cross-eyed, and What's Become of the Baby in Santa Clara on 6/27/2015 I was in heaven! Apparently they got a nod from those observing from afar with the rainbow as well.
Come and join the party every day!
Rob |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4768
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2016 - 11:10 am: | |
Rob, Thanks !
For that last gig the owner of the venue requested a 1968 theme in part for his " Valentines Day Party" . He is a photo journalist/ published photographer from that era who is now in his 70's .
We had fun picking a set of Grateful Dead and other cover material from that era. I really love the " Dead" from the early years as well .
Wolf |
davehouck
Moderator
Username: davehouck
Post Number: 12059
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 - 2:55 pm: | |
Great videos; and the '68 theme for a Valentines party is a cool idea. |
edwin
Senior Member
Username: edwin
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 - 3:04 pm: | |
2/14/68, my 7th birthday, would be a fun show to cover!
https://archive.org/details/gd68-02-14.sbd.kaplan.15640.sbeok.shnf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4770
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 - 3:17 pm: | |
Thanks Dave! It was fun . We are already working on tunes in "Easy Wind" for the next gig at " The Bistro" in Hayward , CA. on 4/2/16. I might have other gigs with other folks in-between that I will post as well .
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4771
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 - 3:33 pm: | |
Hi Edwin , thanks for that link . I will give it a listen !
Wolf
P.S. Happy belated birthday my brother , we are one month apart.
My # 60 will be on 3/14/16 . Strangely , Mr. Philip Lesh has his birthday on 3/15 , along with trumpet master Mr. Harry James! Both guys are influences on my approach to music . it must be a fish thing , LOL ! |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4796
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, February 29, 2016 - 2:44 pm: | |
We are getting more videos edited and posted from the last gig with " EASY WIND " @
" The Art House on 2/13/16"
Here is a 1967 version of " New , New Minglewood Blues"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvFRa97hfPU
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4799
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2016 - 6:43 pm: | |
Here is "That's What Love Will Make You Do" JGB Style. We do a surprise segue into a previouly requested tune.
Easy Wind @ " The Art House" 2/13/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp16-Iaz50c
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4806
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2016 - 11:09 am: | |
Here is from what I have been told from folks that were there , a decent "Playing In The Band".
We venture well into " Tempo Rubato" and then kill the engine and induce " a "Tail Spin Nose Dive stall" ,straight down and for just a moment we experience weightlessness and then I pull back on the Yoke/Control Column and recover our altitude and restart the engine and then proceed back home for a safe landing. ... ... ....
From 2/13/16 Easy Wind@ The Art House ; Playing In the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueI5xdYDKV0
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4807
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, March 06, 2016 - 11:09 am: | |
Here is from what I have been told from folks that were there , a decent "Playing In The Band".
We venture well into " Tempo Rubato" and then kill the engine and induce " a "Tail Spin Nose Dive stall" ,straight down and for just a moment we experience weightlessness and then I pull back on the Yoke/Control Column and recover our altitude and restart the engine and then proceed back home for a safe landing. ... ... ....
From 2/13/16 Easy Wind@ The Art House ; Playing In the Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueI5xdYDKV0
Wolf |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4830
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 11:33 pm: | |
My Band " Easy Wind" has a Gig on Saturday, April 2nd at
The Bistro
1001 B Street
Hayward, CA. 94541
9 PM ___ NO cover charge !
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sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4858
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Friday, April 01, 2016 - 7:45 pm: | |
Hello Friends ,
Tomorrow night , my band " Easy Wind" will be playing at " The Bistro" in Hayward , CA. as posted above.
We had a great rehearsal last night with our keyboard player Michael playing his portable two tiered Hammond B-3 organ . he will be playing that our gig as well . he really knows how to make that instrument shine !
We will be doing several old Dead tunes from the Early Years.
" Cryptical Envelopment> The Other One " seems to keep getting better. We will also play " Let It Grow " , Viola lee Blues , New New Minglewood Blues and lots of others . We play from 9PM to Midnight . It is a free show with NO cover charge !
There will be more gigs coming up INCLUDING our booked performance at the Shakedown Street Festival 2016 on Sunday, September 18th in Berkeley , California .
I hope to see some of you there and tomorrow as well .
Wolf |
stephenr
Advanced Member
Username: stephenr
Post Number: 208
Registered: 9-2014
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 - 10:38 am: | |
Hey Wolf
Hope your gig went well. My wife and I were planning to come by until our plumbing backed up around 9PM that night. We ended up stuck at home waiting for Roto Rooter. It was almost midnight by the time they had finished snaking out the sewer line. |
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus
Post Number: 4864
Registered: 5-2009
| | Posted on Monday, April 04, 2016 - 11:31 am: | |
Stephen , It is nice to hear from you .
I know how those plumbing emergencies are . Been there done that !
Our gig went really well . " Cryptical Envelopment> The Other One " was fun as well as all the other older Dead tunes that we do . We also did the EXTENDED " Eyes of the World " with jam ! The extended jam after my Emaj7 bass solo ;
G#m / Emaj7 / G#m /Emaj7 / D#m / D#diminished / Emaj7 / Dm / D#riff / Dm / D#riff / Dm / D#riff /Dm ending
All changes are in 8 bar phrases except D# riff 4 bars and the Dm ending 2 bars .
We also did "Let It Grow" and took that one "out side" and jammed on it as well .
It all went over well and was fun and made the listeners happy , and that is important to me .
Wolf |
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