So, some of you guys know that I've been a musician in my life, a pretty good one at one time.
I've been having trouble getting my hands to work so good since my spine started going nuts on me, and I don't dare play to audiences anymore because I just don't trust my sh!thooks to not take a powder in the middle of a song--I'm kinda self-conscious that way. But I love music and performing and really want to keep my "fingers" in it...
So I've talked with Terrin and she's agreed to let me start hosting "house concerts". The place is big enough to qualify as a small venue, and we have nothing if not parking space out here, so I got in touch with a friend with whom I've performed before, (http://www.davidstoddardmusic.com/) and he's agreed to participate in my inaugural show in May, perhaps bringing this guy (http://www.ronnycox.com/) with him. I had no idea he was a musician, but he plays one hell of a bad guy on my kids favorite sci-fi tv show...
I won't be making any money in this endeavor, it doesn't work that way. But if a good time is had by all and the turnout is good, I'll be making some great contacts and a lot of new friends in the business (and the neighborhood).
And you guys will be invited... :icon_cool:
How awesome, would be great to be there. Congrats Eric, hope you pack em in.
Carl, I might need you to haul that travelin' B-B-Q up here for the festivities...
The MN fishing opener starts around the same time, hint, hint... :devil:
Well that just too cool. Jammin with the bad guy. :icon_biggrin:
Cool!! Let me know when you want to get the concert series started. David (my son) will want to come (can he bring his guitar?) and if you give me a day or two of warning, I'll bring Van Halen with me, too...... :icon_mrgreen:
H3lluva great idea.....it sounds like a lot of fun!!..unfortunately, my talent stops at playing the radio......
First show is tonight. We got rsvp's to the tune of around 30+. A real cross section of Americana too...We're shelling out some coin for the privilege, so it better be a good time.
...And speaking of time, the timing couldn't be worse: I have another arthritic spur in my neck bones, I get about an hour of sleep per night. Looks like surgery again. :eusa_wall:
Well have fun tonight, surgery sounds like no fun though.
I 'magine yu are in the middle of it all at this very moment, so I hope everything turns out better than you hoped!!!
So...How 'd it go?
Wow...
Just
Wow.
I don't know if 35-40 people ever had such a good time. Dave & Charlie played the whole show together, trading off songs and accompaning each other on every musical gadget imaginable, from acordian to kazoo and all implements in between. Great Smothers Brothers-style comedy between each song, they even had EVERYBODY singing along on a few. Worth every brain cell lost and gray hair gained.
We'll be doing it again. The musicians loved it as well, and are posting the place as a premier venue to the touring musical population. The guests have been blabbing and fawning over us for "what a great idea!", and it wasn't our idea--But word will get around and I have no doubt that our shows will wind up being outdoor events.
It did cost us a bit of coin. Food, beverages, postage, minutia that adds up, we're hurtin' to the tune of around $500.
If money makes memories, its well spent. It would have been fun to come, but there is no off days, at least consecutive ones unfortunately.
Charlie Roth stayed the night with us, he and I traded licks (guitar) til 3:00 am Sunday. This guy is so knowledged and so travelled it blows me away. He asked for some recordings of mine, he "might" want to cover one or more...I need to start recording...
I HIGHLY suggest that you guys pick up "Broken Ground", his latest CD. You can find it at Charlierothmusic.com. He played most of that album Sat. nite, and gave me a copy for being such a nice guy...Even signed it...Sorry Ron, no spandex or big hair to be seen the whole weekend. :eek5:
Wow, glad to hear everything turned out so well......no just need to figger out how to get some revenoo to cover dem expenses........
:eusa_whistle: What..... no synths a buzzin? I bet u guys played :eusa_boohoo: music
Anyway congrats on having a great time and even some possible leads to something.
is this your kinda music Fraz?
http://www.wimp.com/girlguitar/ (http://www.wimp.com/girlguitar/)
Hey, that was pretty good.
She was pretty good. Stetto, do you have any clips on you tube?
Sorry Roger, my "pro" video guy was one of the no-shows, and I don't have a video camera, believe it or not.
I did record the evening on a series of 1/8" master reference tapes. I'm going to be transferring to digital when I get a few hours free.
We're getting calls from a lot of no-shows who regret not coming. Apparently word is getting around what a great night we had. They don't want dropped from the list. :devil:
Roger, are you and the Missus anywhere near Kerrville?
Stetto, if I remember correctly, Roger is in Giddings, TX, about halfway between Houston and Austin. Kerrville is west of San Antonio. Their high school mascot is the Fighting Antlers.... :eek5:
Sounds like you had a great time. David (my younger son) would be salivating if he could sit in with you. He got an internship at the church over the summer to learn the ins and outs of audio engineering. They do a full blown musical every Sunday and David's been running the sound board for over a year.
Got any Steely Dan worked into your set yet? :icon_mrgreen:
Not real far. We take day trips there on occasion.
A lot of the talent who will play in our living room/back yard make annual appearances at the Kerrville Folk Festival. This year is from May 26 to June 12 at the Quiet Valley Ranch. If you've been there you may have even seen David or Charlie perform. They have a website, kerrville-music.com, but it isn't opening for me today.
I saw the doc yesterday. He put me on heroin hydromorphone, flexeril, and put me back on 1800 MG of gabapentin/day. Last night I spent defending the 'stead from a zombie attack, it was nice to forget about the spine for a few hours... :disturbed:
Were they purple zombies, or the harmless yellow ones???
Seriously, though..is this a re-occurence of the same back problem, or something different?
Same spine, one disc down. This one is worse, as with the first bout I was getting shooting pains. This time it's a constant, deep ache in the back of my right arm, all the way to the fingertips. There is no position that I could find that lends relief. I've wondered if this is not akin to the "ghost pain" of an amputee, because nothing eases it; not the morphine, not advil, not the gabapentin or even fistfulls of Advil. My right hand is more palsied than last time too. I can't hold a fork like humans do anymore, and my guitar playing is miserable.
But they want me to "go through channels", so I'll get an MRI sometime this week, go see my GP (he's the guy who moT posted his pic a few years back with a MASSIVE stag), who will send me back to the neurosurgeon, who will set up surgery, and I will be the stiffer for it. For some reason I can't wait...
Zombies were the yellow variety, reaching through doorways and windows and fence slats...I was shooting arms and hands off for the most part. But they were BIG ones. :eek5:
Man, if they can't can fix all this crap you're going through, you are going to be a real mess by time you reach 117 !
It's been a while, and I'm slapping myself :eusa_doh: for not mailing all of you an invitation...Ronny Cox is here THIS SATURDAY NIGHT. I've been rammin' around like one o' those silly toys that ram around and get nothin' done now for three weeks...
We're going to have "over" 50 people in the house for this. The weather is supposed to turn on Saturday, gad it's been a nice Fall. COME ON GLOBAL WARMING!!
I've been over to the winery we showcase twice now. Can't seem to hook up with ownership. Their marketing rep told me I'd get a break if I bought direct from them. One of the owners is a former pro jazz musician, go figure. It'd be nice if they'd pony up some bottles gratis, but hey, this is a sh!t economy, and a guy's gotta make a buck, ey?
I will post pics at some point....
...Unless there's a crack about a bumper...
What, are you blaming that on a cracked bumper now? :disturbed:
OK, you had your chance, Hayfeeder Boy...
Heh, well I should just be there live and then you can't blackmail me, but alas I'm still trying to get finished farming for the year before it sn.... the weather changes on Saturday.
Had to mention winter coming, dintcha...ON SATURDAY NO LESS...At least the winds are supposed to "ease" by then... :sadness:
Got a call from a friend who does work for the big outdoor country festival people in town--They are upset that this little pipsqueek in Hayseed's Ass ,MN can book a name like Ronny Cox...I thought about sending them an invitation...Naw... :devil:
We're just about packed right now, and I know of several invitees who are simply going to show up without calling first...damm 'em anyway... :eusa_clap:
OK, gotta go out to the truck and find that camera..................................... :icon_confused:
well let us'n on the outside know how it goes..pictures and videos work......
I'm thinking live webcast since you got nothing better to do. :icon_biggrin:
now that is a GREAT idea!!
Sorry guys, but if you want that kind of coverage you'd have to come here and do it anyway, eliminating the necessity...
Unforgettable evening. Ronny raced for the door evey time someone would come in. Don't think I've ever met such a sociable guy (well, not since Big Mike at the Gathering).
He adopted Kaitlyn. I don't know if description would serve...
...And what a show. What a talent. The man's been at this for 30+ years and I only heard of it now...I was embarrassed...
I have a new and intense pet peeve: No shows. People who call and excitedly guarantee that they'll be there, then no last minute call with apologies, simply no show. Close friends no less...We had 17 of them last night, and I've "learned" over the last few years that I don't care if your tender feelings are hurt. Terrin tells me to "try and contain" myself...Whatever.
So my new tag line when people RSVP is going to be "DON'T TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO HEAR...YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN YOU TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO HERE..."
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nice!!! Looks like it was a fun evening....
- I like the tie! -
I presume the young lady is the daughter formally known as Puddin'face ??
No, she reminds me periodically that it is still PuddinFace.
That looks like a good time, just from the looks on the faces.
It was unsettling, how smooth everything went and how much electricity there was in the room. After all, he's just a bit-player and occasional bad guy in the movies and sides as a folksinger, right? He glommed on to Puddin (and vice-versa) the minute he met her. I suppose it helps that he has a 10-year-old grand daughter. He even asked us to send him a copy of one of the pics of him and her.
It was a typical concert in one sense: They came, they played, they left. Yeah, a lot of handshaking and "gladtomeetcha's" and stuff like that, and Ronny held court in the kitchen for an hour before the show, telling a few stories and answering questions about movie star life, but WE got little time with the man. I really would have liked some on-on-one face time, maybe jammed a song or two...
He did let me play his one-of-a-kind hand made guitar. What a beauty!
it is awesome when you can rise above the everyday routine and responsibilities of daily life ('specially with your health burden..) and arrange an evening like that....which for a home venue would be a major, major concert!!
Give yourself a well deserved pat on the back (if you can reach it...... :eusa_think:)
...Back from a 6 day unintended hiatus from internet life...MiFis suck.
Yeah, the "evenings like that" are cherished, but out-of-pocket, so we' ll have to be fairly grinchy with the number of dates we can book. We did find out that a headcount was taken, we had 48 in the house, not including the help. We could have stuffed another 20 into the room.
I'm going to try and capitalize on more major-"star" attractions for next summer, and book the up-and-comers between, heck, we might become a preferred venue, if we don't declare bancruptsy first. :disturbed:
So A gig at the Stettodome is good for the resume of an up'n'comer ??
:eusa_angel:
Quote from: balsum fractus on October 21, 2011, 05:44:18 PM
So A gig at the Stettodome is good for the resume of an up'n'comer ??
:eusa_angel:
That's what we're attempting to nurture.
Went to the winery today to thank them for cutting us a deal on product--Wound up hangin' out for a couple hours. Great folks there!
so, what if you charged those 48 people $10 a head to cover refreshments?........
Spend it like its someone else's money! That's what I do, and look at us at Fubar hill. :eusa_doh: :disturbed:
Seriously though, you are buying memories, kind of hard to put a price on that.
Quote from: balsum fractus on October 21, 2011, 10:39:27 PM
so, what if you charged those 48 people $10 a head to cover refreshments?........
We would instanyaneously come under the jurisdiction of agencies, bureaus, regulations, subject to inspections and codes...The list continues. That is why we charge
nothing. The farther we are from the money, the harder it is for the government to shut us down or bilk us into bancruptsy (six of one, half doz--oh, you know).
I'm not complaining about the money we put into these shows, but so many people assume we're "in business", and we. are. not. Dunnuh wannuh be, too... 8)
yeah that thought had crossed my mind too .......