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lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 384
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 12:03 pm:   Edit Post

Hey everyone -

My band "Stonetrout" (think Grateful Dead meets Bonnie Raitt) will be playing at the Saturday night party - April 2nd - on the last night of the annual NORML National Conference. NORML is the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The conference is at the Cathedral Hill Hotel in San Francisco on Van Ness at Geary, across from "Tommy's Joynt". Info can be found at the NORML web site: www.norml.org.

The Saturday night party is a benefit ($50 for 2 drinks, food and 2 bands). It will be in the Grand Ballroom of the hotel (not really that grand, just a big hotel hall room) and will feature us and the Danny Brant Band (great blues rock) a top notch P.A. and even a light show! The 60's lives! Come on down and check it out if you are in the area. Big Fun!

Bill, tgo
davehouck
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Post Number: 1555
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 4:24 pm:   Edit Post

So how many people are they expecting?
lbpesq
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Post Number: 386
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 4:58 pm:   Edit Post

Probably around 300-500. (But there's room for more).

Bill,tgo
davehouck
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Post Number: 1556
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Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 5:43 am:   Edit Post

Sounds like fun. Hopefully the crowd won't be too straight-laced!
lbpesq
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Post Number: 387
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 6:46 pm:   Edit Post

Dave:

I don't think that will be a problem. (LOL)

Bill, tgo
richbass939
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Username: richbass939

Post Number: 199
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 7:02 pm:   Edit Post

So I guess the crowd'll be all fired up and the band'll be smokin'?
Rich
lbpesq
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Post Number: 388
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 9:49 pm:   Edit Post

They'll be rolling in the aisles!

Bill, tgo
richbass939
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Post Number: 201
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 5:26 am:   Edit Post

If the media are there they might even put something in the papers.
Rich
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 389
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:28 am:   Edit Post

Rich:

If you make it there, be sure to come over and say high.

Bill, tgo
richbass939
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Post Number: 202
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:59 am:   Edit Post

Will do, B tgo,
Sounds like there will be a big crowd. Hope the singer has a good set of pipes.
Rich
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 39
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 9:19 am:   Edit Post

I hope they're supplying munchies, too.

So you have any band memebers that play the water pipe?

Brad
lbpesq
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Post Number: 390
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 11:56 am:   Edit Post

Food & drinks supplied. No one in the band plays water pipe onstage, but the drummer can make a big "bong" sound!

Bill, tgo
richbass939
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Post Number: 204
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 4:12 pm:   Edit Post

For dinner are they serving corned beef hash, or pot roast maybe?
Do you guys play any Doobie Brothers songs?
Rich
davehouck
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Post Number: 1561
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 5:21 pm:   Edit Post

Hah!! I didn't think of that; songs appropriate to the occasion. Is "Don't Bogart Me" on the set list?!!
richbass939
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Post Number: 205
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 5:59 pm:   Edit Post

If you forget to bring matches you can just ask your neighbor for a Bud Light.
Rich
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 41
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, April 01, 2005 - 2:39 pm:   Edit Post

These puns are absolutely smokin'!

Gotta love a joint like the Alembic Club.

Brad
dadabass2001
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Username: dadabass2001

Post Number: 351
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, April 01, 2005 - 5:28 pm:   Edit Post

*Cough, cough*

I'm sorry guys, I choked on that last one


Mike
dadabass2001
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Post Number: 355
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 5:12 am:   Edit Post

So Bill, tgo

How did the gig go? Did you guys do "Illegal Smile" or other appropriate tuneage? Do you remember Saturday night? Enquiring minds want to know...

Mike
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 396
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2005 - 11:01 am:   Edit Post

While I have performed John Prine's wonderful "Illegal Smile" as a solo for more than 25 years, we don't do it as a band. We did, however, open with "Comin' into Los Angeleeeeeze, bringin' in a couple of keys, don't touch my bags if you please, Mr. customs man, mannnnnn"

The party was fantastic. Great sound, a great psychedelic light show, dare I say ... FAR OUT!!!!
I'll try to get a picture or two up in the next few days.

There was, unfortunately, one downer. As some may remember, a few months back I bought an SF-2 off of e-bay. The first time I brought it to reheasal, my bass player tried it, fell in love, and wouldn't give it back. So I bought another off of e-bay (the broken Nicki Sixx SF-2), brought it up to Santa Rosa, had it fixed, traded it to my bass player for a check, and got mine back. I was looking forward to this gig as my first time playing out with the SF-2 in the effects loop of my Boogie. I brought my gear over to the hotel Friday morning as my wife and I stayed at the hotel through the weekend attending the conference (I moderated a couple of panels). The rest of the band showed up Saturday night.

Upon arrival, my bass player asked the ancient philosophical question: "If an SF-2 falls off a pile of stuff on a loading dock and hits the cement floor 10 feet below, will it still make noise?" We plugged it in and found that the answer is "no". The result?

My bass player sounded great at the gig,

I am still waiting to play out with my SF-2 in my system, and

I will be getting off the Hearn Ave. exit on 101 the next time I drive through Santa Rosa to once again bring the Nicki Sixx SF-2 to Alembic for repairs.

Oh well, one of these days I'll actually get to use my SF-2. Maybe it's the gods ensuring that my SF-2 has its public debut along with my in vitro custom Further.

Bill, tgo

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