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Friday night open house

Big Poppa

Big Poppa

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Open House friday night...
Dearest Knuckleheads and Kids of the Kingdom,

We have settled on the entertainment on Friday night. Friday night will be at the San Luis Obispo Country Club. There will be a nice dinner and booze.

IT gives me great pleasure to introduce the suprie musical act for the Open house......



THE KNUCKLEHEADS!

yes thats right....its up to you kids to put together amongst your selves the band for Friday. I will have John Ferraro on hand John spent 20 years with Larry Carlton has toured and or recorded with Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt Biff Babys, Check our his website for a complete bio at www.johnferraro.net. Check the photos for and check out bp in a tux as johns best man.....It is gonna be small amps and club level volume and I will be wiedling the gong! Please post here what you want to play and see ifg someone wants to join you. I want the basic stuff planned.

Fire away baby
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Very interested in playing a Guitar/Bass duet "Sacred Strings".

BP -- Just to clarify...are you looking at putting together one guitar, one bass, and drums for the entire gig, or allowing one song each to a number of guitar and bass playing combinations?
 
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that is a very cool idea man i wish i was going you guys are going to have a blast
 
Okay, I'll play. I feel VERY nervous about this, but WTF.

You guitards! Biff! Whoever! I hereby declare my intentions to play "Little Sister". I will handle bass and vocals although I am known as a whizkid on the washboard, too. Who amongst you is man enough (man enough = fool) to join the wrinkled up old Bovinehost on this classic tune?

the be in my video

Jack
 
This is a dream/nightmare come true.

OK It should be no suprise that I lack the social skills necessary to be in a band. I would love to perform at this to do. My NorMal schtick is to play my pieces with a CD backing tracks that I either:
recorded myself
Found on the internet
obtained via Guitar mags

One guy in a bar tonight said "I thought you were just doing some sort of guitar karoke thing till I realized that there's no one around that could keep up with the stuff you're doing" It's just what I do.

I do have a couple of solo things that I could do, ie classical and such but I'm thinking you want this thing to rock!
So here is what I would like to do.
My thing. If there is a PA there (like for vocals) I can run the backing tracks through that (along with the piezo for my ax).
To limit it down to just a couple of songs I would love to do Steve Morse's Vista Grande (permission would have to be granted of course) or an original piece that Keith and Darrell have herd before and a piece that I did for GC Guitarmageddeon this year. I can set up, play and be gone in 12 minuets at most. If you want more I got that too.

Being dyslexic (sp) and ADD (OMG something shiny) it's tough for me to do something "simple". If I have to I will suck it up quit being such a baby and do some workhorse stuff for any bass player/ vocalist. Or I will be happy to watch from the sidelines and learn about teamwork.

Heck I'm just honored to get to come.
 
I nominate two knuckleheads to play Fri night:

Lucious and Lurker!

:D

Man, I'd like to play something, but in front of this group I think I'd cave!
 
Okay, so I'm still needing someone to play guitar.


My GOD, you guys make this so hard when it should be so effin EASY.

Guitarists! Listen to me - "Little Sister" in E. Who's in?

JW
 
jeff beck...
allman bros....
ccr.......
we need some material everyone typically knows.
& .......who sings......anybody ? i can do & sing whipping post.....it's a good jam tune....



mabey we could come up w a song list of say 40 tunes that are real commonly known among us......& use it to pick from friday night. that way we can be alot les confused . mabey make for a little less mayham ?????
i 'll start a suggestive list & post it to use as a STARTING point.....






Big Poppa said:
Open House friday night...
Dearest Knuckleheads and Kids of the Kingdom,

We have settled on the entertainment on Friday night. Friday night will be at the San Luis Obispo Country Club. There will be a nice dinner and booze.

IT gives me great pleasure to introduce the suprie musical act for the Open house......



THE KNUCKLEHEADS!

yes thats right....its up to you kids to put together amongst your selves the band for Friday. I will have John Ferraro on hand John spent 20 years with Larry Carlton has toured and or recorded with Rod Stewart, Linda Ronstadt Biff Babys, Check our his website for a complete bio at www.johnferraro.net. Check the photos for and check out bp in a tux as johns best man.....It is gonna be small amps and club level volume and I will be wiedling the gong! Please post here what you want to play and see ifg someone wants to join you. I want the basic stuff planned.

Fire away baby
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is there anyone besides me that thinks we may want to use someone as the coach ...or band leader....or open mic host or whatever yood call it. i think it would help the communication factor alot....& make things smoother. anyone agree or disagree ????
mabey the same on the bass side......

i volunteer for the guitarist... :eek:
 
Tommy, if you wanna do Whipping Post, I would be happy to second geetar the harmony alongside ya!

After I get an IV, I love doing a mean version of
Born to be Wild
The possibility of doing vocals increases proportionally with the IV flow

Or are we/BP lookin for 5-6 guys to play the whole show? If so, :eek:
 
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Oldtoe: "Hello. My name's Ben and I'm a bass player, and I try not to suck."

Group: "Hello, Ben."

Oldtoe: "These are some of the more well-known songs I have been known to play once or twice, but by no means necessarily represent my personal tastes; but we gotta start somewhere, right?"

Hard to Handle - The Black Crowes
Little Wing - Stevie Ray version
Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders (in case any wimmens is there to sing)
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
December - Collective Soul
Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, New World Man, etc. - Rush
Day Tripper, Oh Darling - Beatles
Heartfull of Soul - Yardbirds
China Grove - Doobie Brothers
Radar Love - Golden Earring

The list goes on...

I wanna play with somebody! Step up, boyos!
 
Well get up there with me and try, bro!















Also, I've always wanted to play "The Mayor of Simpleton" by XTC.

Just reaching here.
 
bovinehost said:
Okay, so I'm still needing someone to play guitar.


My GOD, you guys make this so hard when it should be so effin EASY.

Guitarists! Listen to me - "Little Sister" in E. Who's in?

JW
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Done! You can count on me.
 
This trip is getting better every single day. BP is not only inviting us but he's also trying us out, hell yeah, let's go for it then.

Ok, I'm not that sophisticated in playing my Morse, I get along on the thing fine I guess, but if anyone feels like doing some songs with me, well, I'm in.

Short list of things I can normally play by heart:
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
Alive - Pearl Jam
Bombtrack - Rage Against The Machine
Gimme all your lovin' - ZZ Top
Born to be wild - Steppenwolf (although we normally play it with a lot more punch and gain)
Stuck in the middle with you - Jeff Healy Band version
Colorful - The Verve Pipe (from the Rockstar motion picture soundtrack)
The Road - Tenacious D
Basket Case - Green Day

There is more, but those jump to mind right away.

Arin, if you want to do some punk songs, I don't know any Rancid songs, but maybe we can find some other punk songs that I'm more familiar with or otherwise, I'll get familiar with 'em by the open house. Do you happen to know the Toy Dolls?

So, I would love to get on stage and play some.

Cheers, Tom.
 
are you guys going to record this on video for the poor people who cant make it? I'd think I'd like to see it.....of course though, then you would need the webspace to post them..... :confused:
 
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