Played 3 shows in 3 days.../who's been playing out latley?
 

The first show sucked, the second show was great, and the third show was amazing...made $90 towards practice space rent.

Been working in more audience participation latley...

Anyone played/playing lately? I'd like to hear live gig recordings and pics of boardmembers' shows.

I play tomorow!

awesome chout.

i'm playing tonight.

my band had our record release party last saturday night and we played (even though the other two bands went WAY over time and cut our set in half). we still slayed. ( http://www.myspace.com/wildernesspangs )

i also played a solo saxophone/mixer/laptop set in a bar in mobile, alabama on mardi gras (this past tuesday).

i'm taking a break from gig-ing and focusing on playing saxophone and piano for school for a while, though.

CHOUT, two live tracks from that show you came to last month are on our freshly-minted and still very bare-bones myspace page. The whole set is available as well in much higher fidelity; if interested go ahead and PM me...

http://www.myspace.com/thunderboltpagodaband


And there is a live duo improv set I did with a friend in a solar-heated shanty on a frozen lake a couple of weeks ago streaming online as well. Paul Metzger played a set in there that is also streaming. Ours is "Petersen/Wivinus," with my friend Jesse on guitar and me on lapsteel. The electricity was also solar and made the amps buzz, but it was a good time. Sub-zero outside, and over 70 degrees F inside!
It was part of the annual Art Shanty project that some local artists do every year on the ice at Medicine Lake. Some very cool structures out there!

Streams here:
http://radiokice.blogspot.com/


Here is a picture of Mute Era playing in the same shanty that day (too bad their set isn't streaming too; they are my favorite band in town):




My substantially stripped-down rig for that day, with the beautiful shag carpet inside the shanty in all its glory:

that looks like a sexual noise machine.


ive not played or recorded in ages.

BAND for those interested.

wow, Savage Clone, i really like "Horizon on Fire."

:eek: kewl

I can't listen to sounds right now, but nice...I'd like to do an album trade with you when we get our cd done.

Medicine Lake huh? Never heard about anything cool like that there.

I dug Mute Era at that show...liked the song where he was building his vocal parts up during the song...and the first band I've seen using an EH Pog quite liberally...made me want one even more. They were a little more 'straight-forward' musically than I imagined...

Never thought you'd have anything to do with a myspace page...SELLOUT!!! How NON-Obscure of you!!!

i'd be more than happy to! one of our members is the music director at our radio station, so if you send me more than one copy, it would get some airplay.

let me know when y'alls is done.

playing tonight, usually i play about two gigs a month now, it's perfect, two rehearsals and two gigs per month are nice, end of april we've got two gigs in a row though, including one contest gig for emergenza, which is gonna be pretty stressy, but hey..

There should be a sticky thread for gigging too, like sharing experience, pics advice etc...

"Quick and dirty" is the operative phrase.

"Real" website soon enough!

First gig with new band this week actually. The rock 'n' roll and red wine will be flowing, I tell you.

I've did the typical thing I usually do, "You want a show", "Yeah, alright" and we don't really have that much time to practice and we just throw in a couple of rehearsals and then just play it anyway. I didn't want to do that with this band, a this mini festival thing came up. Oh well, that's rock 'n' roll I guess, ain't it.

Nice, have fun. Report back.

dudes and dudettes, we've lost virginity yesterday and it was rough and fuzzy and fucking mad.

the place was the worst pub in the world. the audience, besides our frightened friends, was merely comprising of cokeheads who started snorting as soon as we started the set.

we went into 12 songs during which i had a chance to grind my guitar against one of the above cokeheads who kept yelling the whole time, had the chance to witness a guy who started screaming that we weren't "fucking ganstas" and started a fight amongst cokeheads. as soon as we were done with the whole set we started packing and right out of the doors, about 40 cokers were still involved in the fight, which also included flying kicks against our cars parked outside the "venue" and a pair of tough guys trying to sleep in our trunks.

it's been fucking wild but we're glad we're still alive. and we have it all on video.

"i survived the first recs of the flesh gig" shirts will be printed asap.

me and matt setting up pedals:


playing:

you're gonna post video on youtube, right?

We've been playing a lot for us. We try to only play 3-4 shows a year, but have been getting way more offers than we're used to. Here's a couple shots from our recent gig at Arts Crux Portland:

you talking to meeeee?