Was good timbes fer sure. I found a way to cram 40hrs hospital job into 3.5 days, so went out of state running sound on weekends. Was blessed that all "my" bands wrote their own songs and was a wide variety of alternative genres on our Faye Records label. Got to open for Firehose, Meatpuppets, Flaming Lips, Poi Dog, X, Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo(many times), etc. Wish I could go back again because was busy trying to get it right that hard to remember it all.
Fucking unsung hero!
Good sound guys were and probably still are so crucial and so underappreciated!
That is partly how I met my wife. She was a bartender and also did sound sometimes at a way better dive than mine where I went to steal talent. Well, giving bands another place to play and paying them to do so is not really stealing, I guess.
Her last most epic show was one we teamed up on for the whiskey in hollywood. Boy that seemed cool at the time. The money was okay, too. It was a great show. Odd how it pretty much ended both our careers in that business as it were. Everyone knows that hollywood fucks you. Now.
You were part of putting a show on at the Whiskey-a-go-go? http://f22bbs.com/img/smilies/respeck.gif
Only thing I did was on a fluke when College Music Journal invited us to NYC for 100 band 5-day showcase. Got to run 'board for 20 mins in a rundown CBGBs a cupl years before it died. Fortunately our drummer's mom lived in nearby NJ town for safe lodging or no way cud have afforded it. The 800 mile drive in crispy Chevy van was rough, but guess it was all worth it.
Fuck, that is probably actually a little bit cooler.
But yeah, I got to see some old friends play 9n that surprisingly little stage at the whiskey from the upstairs balcony, half drunk on shitty cheap beer. And the missus's bands were new friends I also loved so that was awesome.
It was the second part off a 2 part benefit concert at Al's bar, and the there at the whiskey, and that is enough to pretty much be doxxing us... Except that was pre real internet. AOL clearly doesn't count.
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