With Report
We had two gigs yesterday. Street fair at the county seat, and then a night gig at the local club.
We have been playing with probably one of the best guitarists I've ever run across. He used to spend endless hours watching Brent Mason tapes in slomo so that he could figure out what he was doing. If you don't know who Brent Mason is, look up the Valley Arts demos on youtube. Suffice he's the 12 time CMA guitarist of the year. Anyway, this guy J is also a pain in the ass to work with. Total spoiled athlete syndrome. He played with us longer than anyone else, but in the end he was just more trouble than he was worth. He showed up late today because he didn't know where we were playing even as we talked repeatedly about this fair by city name. He went to the wrong town. We took him to Nashville and he went down with $2 in his pocket. It would have been one thing if he'd have told us he couldn't carry his weight on that one, but he just sprung it on us when we got there.
Lil sister won the karaoke at the fair and so we get to open for Craig Morgan at the big county fair in July.
My wife wound up talking to another of the few very good STL country guitarists who was playing with the later band who is our most direct competition. His mates were all very nervous as he quit them once before. So that was funny. We were not even trying to recruit him. Face is sun/windburned and my legs are fried. We had to do our own PA for the fair and I just have so many spine issues that its a major pain to lug that stuff around and set it up. The night show was at the place where the guy has the Eden Metro plus Ampeg 1 x 18 and I just used that. Its a house.
We have been playing with probably one of the best guitarists I've ever run across. He used to spend endless hours watching Brent Mason tapes in slomo so that he could figure out what he was doing. If you don't know who Brent Mason is, look up the Valley Arts demos on youtube. Suffice he's the 12 time CMA guitarist of the year. Anyway, this guy J is also a pain in the ass to work with. Total spoiled athlete syndrome. He played with us longer than anyone else, but in the end he was just more trouble than he was worth. He showed up late today because he didn't know where we were playing even as we talked repeatedly about this fair by city name. He went to the wrong town. We took him to Nashville and he went down with $2 in his pocket. It would have been one thing if he'd have told us he couldn't carry his weight on that one, but he just sprung it on us when we got there.
Lil sister won the karaoke at the fair and so we get to open for Craig Morgan at the big county fair in July.
My wife wound up talking to another of the few very good STL country guitarists who was playing with the later band who is our most direct competition. His mates were all very nervous as he quit them once before. So that was funny. We were not even trying to recruit him. Face is sun/windburned and my legs are fried. We had to do our own PA for the fair and I just have so many spine issues that its a major pain to lug that stuff around and set it up. The night show was at the place where the guy has the Eden Metro plus Ampeg 1 x 18 and I just used that. Its a house.