Hmnn, you might enjoy this from that band I worked for, East Ash, but was more friends with. They should have made it big, but by the time they created their sound on their own was a bit too much like U2. Seems like it was 2-3 lifetimes ago for me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHyngR_LTWY
Oh hell yeah.
I would have totally booked these guys at my crappy dive! Just my style for back then. Different than the predominant sound on the left coast at the time.
So many great bands from back pre internet days are so forgotten now. Glad this got uploaded!
A few of the guys I worked with ended up making it biggish, but my favorites all imploded far too soon.
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.
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