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Post by strat-0 on Aug 9, 2004 20:06:00 GMT -5
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 29, 2004 14:39:06 GMT -5
Wow, the gig went great last night! We had a good crowd and were very well received! We'll be back in there again. We weren't too sure what they'd go for in there, so we started them out with some pretty tame acoustic stuff. We gradually ratchetted up to the harder stuff and had them eating out of our hands. Whippin' Post got 'em on their feet!   |
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Post by stratman19 on Aug 29, 2004 15:43:52 GMT -5
Wow, that's great Strat! Glad to hear it went so well, and very happy you guys are gigging again. Rock on!
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 30, 2004 17:19:53 GMT -5
Thanks, Stratman! I don't know what it is with these pictures - they were up last night just fine, and I used Photodump... Maybe I'll try something else.
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 30, 2004 17:23:40 GMT -5
Here is what I get when I paste the url into the address bar: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.photodump.com Port 80 |
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Post by RocDoc on Aug 30, 2004 19:02:34 GMT -5
I guess nearly all these web-hosting sites have some downtimes...PhotoDump's been good to me tho...
Glad you had a good gig there, Strat!
Possible to post a set list, just to see what you're playing?
DNA, right?
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Post by stratman19 on Aug 30, 2004 19:41:30 GMT -5
Strat, I've also used Photobucket with great success. Doc's got a great idea too...how 'bout that set list!  |
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Post by strat-0 on Aug 30, 2004 22:50:39 GMT -5
Well, that's a request I can fill!
Set List
One
1) Seven Bridges Road
2) Teach Your Children
3) I am a Man of Constant Sorrow
4) Fox on the Run
5) Chase Your Fears Away *
6) Gotta Be Free *
7) Dixieland Delight
8) Desperado
9) Memphis
10) Runaway
11) Sweet Jane
Two
1) Tell Me Why
2) The Kids are Alright
3) Hourglass *
4) Who’ll Stop the Rain
5) Gold Dust Woman (Gimme One Reason?)
6) Melissa
7) I Feel Lucky
8) An Marie
9) Daydreams *
10) Walkin’ the Dog
11) Hideaway
12) Change Me
13) Stormy Monday / Mighty Tight Woman
Three
1) Summertime Blues
2) Love Games
3) Whippin’ Post
4) Miss Cindy *
5) Soul Sacrifice
6) Sleeper *
7) Johnny B. Goode
8) Dreams
* Originals
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Post by Meursault on Sept 4, 2004 15:56:43 GMT -5
How the hell did DLR get his voice to squeal so high?
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Post by Meursault on Sept 12, 2004 20:30:32 GMT -5
Might call the new band Firecat USA.
Also - tuesday am kinda doing a joke open mic with some guys, gonna perform a couple on the spot originals, and a long version of kick out the jams which builds up to me learning to walk and doin some MC5 lead singer moves.
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Post by stratman19 on Sept 12, 2004 21:48:46 GMT -5
Shaner, as an "old" Michiganian, I think the MC5 kicked ass. They were anarchists, but they smoked. Lotsa luck to you man.
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JACkory
Struggling Artist
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Post by JACkory on Sept 28, 2004 8:44:37 GMT -5
Posted this on my blog, but I wanted to get some feedback from you lot, so if anyone's out there...
I guess I've been with the Mad Laugh for almost a month now. Not quite, but almost. And up till now my enthusiasm about being a part of the band has been adrenaline-fueled and constant. My excitement over playing with these guys has been the impetus for the time, energy, effort and money that I've invested in the band. My respect for the songs themselves has made it easy to learn their material, and I've been under the impression that I was free to "make them my own", insomuch as mixing my playing style into the overall sound of the band.
So I was somewhat taken aback at rehearsal yesterday when our vocalist suggested I was "playing too many notes" in one of the songs. Apparently the groove I was feeling in the song and laying down was too "bouncy" for his tastes (and the drummer took his position as well, despite the fact that I generally take my cues from the drum line and thought I was locking in pretty solid with him).
Okay...I can take constructive criticism, and it's not as if I had a hand in writing the song. If the groove I was laying down doesn't appeal to the person who wrote the song, then who am I to suggest that perhaps the song NEEDED a more interesting groove? I mean, I have always made a point to check myself for "overplaying", which I admit is a serious problem for most bassists. And I don't think I was overplaying in this instance, the guy just didn't like the feel of the song the way I was walking the bass lines in the final section.
And hey, that's okay. 100% agree that it's his right to have the song played stylistically as close to the way he hears it in his head as possible. So the whole "too many notes" comment would probably have been processed and acted upon without any hard feelings (after all, Mozart's critics had the same problem with his music...ha ha...).
But he couldn't leave it at that.
Next thing I know he's telling me that he insists that I play the song EXACTLY like the bass player I'm replacing played it.
That's where he pissed me off.
First of all, let it be known that the reason their original bass player quit the band was because he could not get along with the vocalist, so it's somewhat ironic that our singer is instructing me to mimic him. Part of me thinks, "well if you were so fond of his specific bass playing technique perhaps you should have gone that extra mile to nurture the relationship you had with him so he might have remained in the band".
But that's not the issue. That's not what bothers me. The thing that irks me is that I thought it was understood when I joined this group that my playing style would add a new dimension to the material. I, for one, was looking forward to seeing just how people would react to the new dynamic, and from all I'd heard from those who have commented, it seemed as if they liked it.
Now I'm being instructed to play songs exactly the way the previous bass player played them, and I gotta admit that it rubs me very wrong. This particular song is not one that they have given me a recording of, and it's not as if I have had any kind of opportunity to really listen to what the previous bass player was doing with it... Maybe that's what irks me so much, not so much that he expects me to co-opt another player's style but that he demands that I play exactly like the last guy even though I don't really have the template for what he did with it in my head. I was just doing with the song what my own sensibilities and taste would have done with it had it been brand new to me.
Yeah, that may be the main reason it gets under my skin like it does, but I gotta say, I find it insulting to be told to play like someone else. I'd rather be told that my style isn't right for the band and be asked to leave than to be expected to conform to another musician's form. That's just insulting, as far as I'm concerned.
So we'll just have to see where this all leads.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Sept 28, 2004 10:04:28 GMT -5
That's singers for you. Tsk.
I wouldn't take it to heart on just this one instance though JACk, 'cos maybe this song is just precious to him or something, and he just didn't stop to think you'd not heard the bassline as he'd envisaged it. I know what it's like both to have to play what you consider an inferior bassline because the songwriter demands it, and also to have to try and get someone to play a part 'right' on a song you've written yerself, and unless you let the odd offish moment slide then things can sour for no good reason.
But yeah, I wouldn't take it if it becomes a frequent thing. At that point you'd have to either accept you're jobbing like a session bassist, or leave the band I guess.
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And on a different note, I've just got me hands on Dolly's mandolin (no really, I don't mean that euphemistically) that her parents had been keeping in their attic for years. Anyone know the tuning for the 8 strings? Or how to play one?
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 28, 2004 14:53:30 GMT -5
Oh god, you need to get ahold of some David Grisman, Peter Rowan or Sam Bush(of the late lamented NewGrass Revival) recordings, if simply to hear the stratosphere that can be achieved with that weird instrument....other than that, how to tune it? Shee-it no idea...
Chris Thile from Nickel Creek...mutha-effing jazz players all of those.
This ain't your Momma's 'country'....FAR from it.
I certainly hope you hear some of these guys' recordings and find a way to get your ears around what they do....I've mentioned it here(and at the old RS) that hearing Grisman's 'Quintet '76' album totally turned how I listened to music on its ear.
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Geez JAC, you'd have thunk they could have found a bit more of a roundabout idea to point you towards what they want for that tune....diplomats, they certainly ain't...
I hope they recognize what they're doing to you.
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Post by strat-0 on Sept 29, 2004 11:03:49 GMT -5
Jllm - I've got some diagrams, chord charts, etc. for mandolin already scanned. If I can get the file size down I'll email them to you.
Back with more tonight - gotta run.
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