| Author | Message | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2576 Registered: 10-2002 |
After a two month 'rest' following the birth of our drummer's daughter, we'll be back on the bandstand this friday at the Brighton's Inn in Polmont. I guess only Georgie boy will be close enough to maybe pop in but you never know ;-) The show starts at 10pm. No gig pics so here's one of my wife and I with a 2 week old Stella langlands Shaw...  Graeme | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1872 Registered: 6-2002 |
I see you are trying to catch me up with the grey hairs in that beard but you are currently losing the race. hahaha. I hope Sella grows up safe and healthy. Jazyvee | ||
| serialnumber12
Senior Member Username: serialnumber12 Post Number: 680 Registered: 12-2004 |
damn......i wish i was a Baby again!!! | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2577 Registered: 10-2002 |
After holding Stella for a while, Sandra was wishing she was ours! After having three of our own I'm just glad we can hand her back ;-) Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1370 Registered: 6-2002 |
Congratulations to your drummer and his expanded family, she's a beautiful girl. Play well and make moving music on Friday. Mike | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2585 Registered: 10-2002 |
2 private gigs this weekend, a wedding on saturday and a corporate do on sunday. Even though they're well paid, I'd much rather be playing pubs and clubs where the band are the focal point - I always feel like I have to hold back when it's a private party. Graeme | ||
| wylie_j
New Username: wylie_j Post Number: 1 Registered: 8-2005 |
Hey Graeme/Jacko Congrats with the new baby girl make sure u take lots of pictures coz they grow up very fast from ur new d.o.g. friend downunder Wylie J. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2586 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hey Wylie. She's our drummer's girl, we just had to hold her for a while. My kids are pretty much all grown now - 17, 19 and 22. Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2593 Registered: 10-2002 |
Friday 16th we'll be back at PJ Molloy's in Dunfermline. This is a great rock venue - decent PA, stage, lights etc and it'll be great playing to an audience who've come to see the band, not the bride ;-) Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2600 Registered: 10-2002 |
Well, we've played several more weddings since the last update (with many more wedding bookings to come). The most unusual (and also the most recent) took place near Ayr where we were surprised when finishing the first set (with the rather apt 'pump it up') to be unexpectedly joined on the bandstand by the local pipe band led by the bride's father...  I think it's safe to say that they were much louder than us!! More weddings to come but we've not forgotten our roots so we'll be playing more pub gigs throughout the summer including a return trip to the Isle of Skye where we had a great weekend last august. One gig I'm looking forward to is my youngest daughter's 18th this june - it'll give me loads of opportunities to embarass her in front of her friends ;-) Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1407 Registered: 6-2002 |
Very Cool! That must have been fun. I love musical variety... "There's nothing quite as satisfying as embarrassing the offsprings..." (That could be a Monty Python line)  Mike | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2614 Registered: 10-2002 |
In amongst the weddings, we're also playing a few corporate events. These pics are from a Marketing society awards ceremony we played at Edinburgh's Corn exchange..   We played a single 90 minute set to close the night - this caused havoc with my developing Carpal Tunnel. graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2631 Registered: 10-2002 |
We played my youngest daughter Heather's 18th birthday party this past saturday. I got to play both my Signature deluxe and my fretless rogue....   Back to paying gigs in a week or so - 3rd July we'll be at Behind the Wall in Falkirk 9th July is a wedding near Glasgow 17th July is a wedding in Alloa 20th August behind the wall falkirk 27th & 28th August - the Portree Hotel, Isle of Skye. graeme | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 9407 Registered: 5-2002 |
Great pics! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 4473 Registered: 7-2004 |
Graeme: Lucky you! My 15 year old wouldn't be caught dead having my old fart band play our music from the "olden days" at one of his parties! He did recently tell me he had heard a couple of bands from my time that were better than the stuff I listen to, (Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Band, etc.), and the asked me if I'd ever heard of Metallica or AC/DC! I think I blew him away when I told him that Metallica used to practice in a garage in El Cerrito just a few houses down from where my band, "Norman Carburetor" used to practice. Bill, tgo | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1434 Registered: 6-2002 |
Alright Graeme! Nice pix. What songs do you play fretless on? Have a blast brother. I hope your carpal tunnel subsides and behaves itself. Mike | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 1997 Registered: 6-2002 |
Are those pink strings Jacko? | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2632 Registered: 10-2002 |
Mike. Here's all the fretless songs from our list of around 85 covers.. 1. Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones) 2. Red Morning Light (Kings of Leon) 3. Molly’s Chambers (Kings of Leon) 4. Hard to Handle (Otis Redding) 5. The Only One I Know (Charlatans) 6. You Stole the Sun (Manic St Preachers) 7. Vertigo (U2) 8. Seven Nation Army (White Stripes) 9. Times Like These (Foo Fighters) 10. Creep (Radiohead) 11. Golden Touch – (Razorlight) 12. Yellow (Coldplay) 13. Dakota (Stereophonics) 14. Hate to Say I Told You (Hives) 15. Be Yourself (Audioslave) 16. Living for the Weekend (Hard Fi) 17. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day) 18. rose (the feeling) 19. Gravity (Embrace) 20. You and Me (lifehouse 21. Heaven (bryan adams) 22. You're in my heart (rod stewart) 23. Don't want to miss a thing (aerosmith) Alot of these are wedding songs so for Heather's party we kept to the rockier numbers - Hives, Green day, stereophonics and so on. I love to swap to the fretless now and again as it feels nicer to play and it's a heck of alot lighter than the signature ;-) As for the CTS, I saw a specialist last night who is sending me to another hospital to have electrodes inserted which send a current down my arm to measure the current loss which tells them how bad it is. Hopefully a steroid injection may control it but if they decide it's bad enough they'll operate. The doctor did reassure me that I wouldn't lose any mobility in my fingers, even when my wrist was bandaged. I just have to wait and see. jazzy - They're DR red devils. I tried a set of D'addario chrome flatwounds recently but hated the feel once my fingers had warmed up in a gig so the DRs went back on. I have DR black beauties on the sig and peacock blues on the epic too. I should have posted this pic of the birthday girl with the band...  Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2635 Registered: 10-2002 |
Just a reminder on the offchance anyone's in Central Scotland at the weekend, 10pm till 2am we're at Behind the Wall in Falkirk. - last chance to catch us at a public gig until mid August. Graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2650 Registered: 10-2002 |
Although I'm always complaining that the wedding gigs just don't do it for me, every now and then we get one that really hits the spot and Saturday's gig at Gean House in Alloa did just that. Load in was easy, the bride and groom were falling over themselves to make sure we had everything we needed and for once, the dance floor was full from start to finish (about 3 hours of playing). The venue was a really nice stately home...  I could get used to this..  We're having a few weeks off now to cope with holidays. When we're back we have pub gigs, an outdoor festival and a trip to Skye to look forward to. Graeme | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 9459 Registered: 5-2002 |
Graeme, I think you uploaded the wrong picture; that first pic appears to be a hotel. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2651 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hotel, Conference centre and home to some clan or other Dave. The music room took up the area where the tall window is in the middle of the house. Stags heads and crossed swords everywhere. Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1455 Registered: 6-2002 |
Very nice! Cherish the memory, Graeme. My festival venue Saturday was an unpainted plywood stage with two 20 amp circuits for everything, only enough room on stage for one bands gear at a time, and one set of stairs. Each band had to wait for the previous to strike their gear before the next could set up. Mike | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2654 Registered: 10-2002 |
The groom has sent a couple of pictures from the audience's point of view...   Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1456 Registered: 6-2002 |
Now that's a party! Mike | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 4501 Registered: 7-2004 |
The bride and groom both wore a dress?! lol Bill,tgo | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2655 Registered: 10-2002 |
It's a strange country Bill :-) Going 'Commando' is also a requirement for the men at these do's; frightening if one of them decides to breakdance! Graeme | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1458 Registered: 6-2002 |
As Monty Python put it, that's part of the "Nae True" exhibit Mike | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2677 Registered: 10-2002 |
We have a few 'Fun' gigs coming up. Friday 20th at Behind the Wall, Falkirk from 10pm. Saturday 21st at Dysart gala form around 5.30. Friday and saturday 27th / 28th at the Portree Hotel, Portree, Isle of skye form around 9pm both nights. graeme | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2687 Registered: 10-2002 |
Just had a fantastic weekend. I've retubed my ampeg with JJ's and the tone is superb. Friday's gig went really well with the room bouncing right till 1.30am. Saturday afternoon was even better, we played around 1 1/2 hours non stop with the sun shining and everyone trying to crowd into the marquee to dance. My carpal tunnel problem didn't surface until late sunday afternoon after I'd been welding and grinding on my car for a couple of hours so I'm less worried about that than I have been. Seeing the specialist on thursday then it's off to Skye for a weekend of gigging.   Graeme | ||
| tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1221 Registered: 11-2004 |
Good stuff Graeme- glad to hear the hand/wrist is feeling better! That looks like a potentially boomy stage- glad you got everything dialed in the way you like it. | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2691 Registered: 10-2002 |
And one of the band wives actually took a half decent pic of me !!!....  Graeme | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 9546 Registered: 5-2002 |
Nice T-shirt!!! | ||
| dadabass2001
Senior Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 1488 Registered: 6-2002 |
Cool! Have a great weekend, Graeme. Mike | ||
| groovelines
Senior Member Username: groovelines Post Number: 615 Registered: 4-2003 |
Hey Graeme, Do you ever play up around Paisley? I have a hand full of cousins in the area. Mike | ||
| jet_powers
Senior Member Username: jet_powers Post Number: 507 Registered: 2-2003 |
I like all the fire extinguishers on stage. You guys must play so hot there is a danger of spontaneous combustion? JP | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 2700 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hey Mike. The only time we play anywhere near Glasgow these days is for weddings (Paisley is a suburb of glasgow for those who were wondering). However, I get across from time to time as my wife has family there. Graeme. | ||
| groovelines
Senior Member Username: groovelines Post Number: 616 Registered: 4-2003 |
Hmm, the wedding party is probably wouldn't be too fond of party crashers then? If you're ever going to be up that way I'll let 'em know. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 9564 Registered: 5-2002 |
Just tell 'em you're with the band. | ||
| groovelines
Senior Member Username: groovelines Post Number: 617 Registered: 4-2003 |
(If it gets me grubby hands on the MK, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) |
