| Author | Message | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 281 Registered: 10-2003 |
Me at work, holding down the lows and mids with my steel drum gig... John  | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 493 Registered: 12-2002 |
what kinda music are you guys jamming? what ever it is it's got to be funky! | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 284 Registered: 10-2003 |
Reggae and Calypso, mostly. Sambas make their way into it as well, as does the occasional bebop, depending upon how we feel. Steel drums are a blast to accompany, and the gig is laid-back enough to give us all quite a bit of freedom to play it how we feel it. Sometimes, though, it's simply all I can do to keep up with the changes. ;) The steel drum players are incredible, and sometimes we use a conga player who sings instead of a set player. It doesn't seem to matter what we play, because steel drums *always* sound Carribean to the crowd! The best thing is that the least I've made with these folks has been $100 for a two-hour gig. Any longer than that and it's $100 per hour per person additional. It keeps me in goat feed... John | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2003 |
For these...  | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1693 Registered: 9-2002 |
Cool those goats. BTW: I read you're from Terr Haute in Indiana. It really strikes me how many Franch names are pupping up in US. Rory ....next time: pass the gig to me! I love playing standing and wearing a jacket while playing (I mostly do) ...mmmmmm ...oh ...huh ...now about that "playing" ...I'll learn to I promise!!! Really!!! Paul the bad one | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 286 Registered: 10-2003 |
Paul, It's amazing how quickly people here in the midwest USA forget that most of us are 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants. Everybody had to come from somewhere, right? One of these days I'll make it back to Belgium and share a beer or three with you and Bonnie, and we can chat about video post-production and Alembic basses... John | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1697 Registered: 9-2002 |
Yoooooooooohoooooooo! And one (1) american coming this way! Ok ...I'll reserve a bass too and a gig. Blues ...in C sharp??? PTBO | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 288 Registered: 10-2003 |
Paul, C sharp works for me! I can effectively destroy pretty much ANY key, especially if there are beer and pictures involved! John | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1699 Registered: 9-2002 |
Oh ...I am really GOOD at destroying keys! And if I add a bit of Brother Paul's the fake one's (tafkad) book "Odd meter" I can play it in such a way nobody knows what we are doing anymore halfway the tune!!! Kiddin ....well hehehehe kind off. Paul the bad one | ||
| davehouck
Senior Member Username: davehouck Post Number: 939 Registered: 5-2002 |
Paul; I don't see sharp at all but I can be flat as day old beer. | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1702 Registered: 9-2002 |
Hehehehehehe ...I have to remind that one! PTBO | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 291 Registered: 10-2003 |
My preference is to begin in A tonal and modulate to D molished... | ||
| hollis
Senior Member Username: hollis Post Number: 438 Registered: 11-2003 |
I'm usually just squeeking by in D minus. | ||
| bracheen
Senior Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 609 Registered: 11-2003 |
What's a "key"? Does that have anything to do with the squiggly thing at the beginning of a row? | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 292 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not sure, but if you're in the wrong one I hear it can cause quite a row with the rest of the band... | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 293 Registered: 10-2003 |
Not sure, but if you're in the wrong one I hear it can cause quite a row with the rest of the band... | ||
| hollis
Senior Member Username: hollis Post Number: 439 Registered: 11-2003 |
I think it's those "turny" things where the strings end.... Still don't know why they're there, but if you turn them the wrong way, the strings break. I stay away from 'em. | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1706 Registered: 9-2002 |
Nah ...it is that metal rthing you need to come into your house and that always seems to jump to the left before you put in into the hole of the door. It always happens after 20 or so Guinesses. Oh ...and it always seens to pop up in the pocket your were sure you already looked into. Hee -hee-hee ... A tonal D molished I just looooove this club! Paul the bad one | ||
| rklisme
Intermediate Member Username: rklisme Post Number: 127 Registered: 5-2004 |
Paul Next time I have a gig where I have to stand and wear a jacket I will call on you if it does not pay well! If you look real close you will see that I was only pretending to be reading the Real Book. I really can't see that far anymore and had forgot my reading glasses. The pains of old age, yikes! Rory the blind one | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1709 Registered: 9-2002 |
Well ...how did that joke go "Yuk ....sheet music" The spanish guy talking english with a thick accent saying that he doesn't like the music. You blind??? HA ....read this one: http://alembic.com/club/messages/449/8028.html A true story from the Paul the bad one archives!!!! You blind ....HA!!!!! PTBO | ||
| dean_m
Advanced Member Username: dean_m Post Number: 353 Registered: 7-2002 |
Sometimes I have to wear the old tux or suit and tie and sometimes I get to be just lil ol Dino.....HA  | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 297 Registered: 10-2003 |
Yet another fine example of humanity! Nice bass, too, by the way, Dino... | ||
| kenbass4
Intermediate Member Username: kenbass4 Post Number: 136 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hey all, This was from my band MPG's first gig in Hayward, California on Saturday. Erin-Oromion performed beatifully (if only I was that good) and caused the bass player in the other band to contract "Bass Envy"  | ||
| lbpesq
Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 93 Registered: 7-2004 |
Ken: Where did you play in Hayward? Next time give us all a head's up before the gig. Hayward ain't that far! By the way, is that an old Ibanez Bob Weir model on the right of the photo? Bill, tgo | ||
| kenbass4
Intermediate Member Username: kenbass4 Post Number: 137 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hey Bill! It was at Sherry's on Mission Blvd. Basically, we got about a weeks notice, and we were only given about 45 minutes to play, since we were playing ahead of the only band booked to play there. They did it as a favor to us, and we were treating it more as an audition for the club. We weren't even playing through our own gear (my rig is an SVT through an 8x10 and I double on keyboards that we didn't bring) The Ibanez guitar is the other band's singer's guitar, but I think you're right about it. If anyone lives near the Delta, we're playing at the Oakley YMCA on the 30th, start time is around noon. We'll have the full setup then, so you'll hear it properly. :-) Ken (TEO) | ||
| kenbass4
Intermediate Member Username: kenbass4 Post Number: 142 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hey again folks, Here's a few photos from the YMCA gig Saurday   | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1814 Registered: 9-2002 |
We played this weekend a private party! Lots and tons of fun ... I EVEN SANG!!! And about in tune ...kindoff!!!  Anyway ...I played bass!!!  | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 327 Registered: 10-2003 |
Paul, What song(s) did you sing? John | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1815 Registered: 9-2002 |
Oh ...uhuh... I didn't sang solo you know! It's the first time I got a mike in front of me on stage in a gig. We sang "Happy Birthday to you" of Steve Wonder (a capella - 1verse and chorus = first picture). I was also involved in "Addicted to love" (yeah...right). The girl who's birthdayparty we played also asked "Wake me up before you gogo" (Wham), "Greased Lightning" (John TRavolta) and "THe time of my life" from the film Dirty Dancing. ***sigh*** not our stuff but ...well ...I liked to play the basslines and ... well ...I sang ...kindoff ...together with our ladysinger. PTBO | ||
| 811952
Advanced Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 329 Registered: 10-2003 |
A band once gave me a mic just so they could turn me down... John |
