The Heat Is On

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 30 Jul 2006 1:19 am

We played an outdoor gig today. It was 90+ degrees and 90% humidity. By the time we were through I felt like I had worked 12 hours hard manual labor. It's days like these that remind me I'm not a youngster anymore. I kept well hydrated with water and sports drinks but I still just felt like one more song was going to do me in all day.

I know it's been extreme warm weather accross the nation the last few weeks. How many of you like me, can't take the heat?

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Vern Wall · Post by **Vern Wall** » 30 Jul 2006 2:38 am

Are you in Ohio? I went to Ohio several times thirty years ago and couldn't take the 90 degree temps there, though I had no problem at all with 110 degrees here in Arizona. That's because Arizona runs about 10% humidity and Ohio runs about 90%.

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 30 Jul 2006 3:37 am

The heat doesn`t bother me to much, but get the new strings ready

Hook

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Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 30 Jul 2006 4:03 am

Jim, I played the Peach Festival in Knott's Island, North Carolina yesterday (Saturday) at 11:00 AM. Luckily we only had to play for one hour but it seemed like 2 or three, I thought that set would never end. When I was packing up my stuff I thought I was going to pass out. It was in the 90's with a bunch of humidity. We have to play there today at 11:00 AM again and the humidity and heat will be on I'm sure but it's only for one hour again so I'll probably live through it. It seems like the older I get the harder the heat is on me. Strange, in winter time I'm griping about the cold and in Summer it's the heat, I guess us old goats need something to bitch about, don't we?........JH in Va.

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John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 30 Jul 2006 4:51 am

We had our share of high 20's and low 30's stuff lately, but next week it's in the low 20's (70's for you Americans). Couldn't stand the eastern humidity again.

Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 30 Jul 2006 5:17 am

Here in Texas we know what heat is all about. Ten days ago we were at 109 degrees here in our community and it was miserable. We have humidity to go along with the heat which makes it worse. Days like that make me appreciate an inside job. Sure glad I am not a roofer.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 30 Jul 2006 9:17 am

While living in Mineral Wells, Texas, during an extended period of 110+ temperatures and no rain, our first daughter was born as a direct result of the weather. We had no air-conditioning in our rented apartment or our car, so my wife in her eighth month of pregnancy was suffering from the heat.

One day a slow moving rain cloud came through town, so I put her in the car and we drove in that raincloud for miles down the highway. It was a wonderful relief from the heat!

However, that bumpy ride caused my wife to go into premature labor and our first daughter was born that night.

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Mickey McGee · Post by **Mickey McGee** » 2 Aug 2006 2:02 am

Try Phoenix,AZ its real hot here from May to Oct.

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c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 2 Aug 2006 3:04 am

Born and raised to age 17 in South Bend In and Granite City IL, all my army career was in cold climates Wash, Kansas, Ky , Japan , Korea, Northern CA, in Monterey Ca on the 4th of July it was 52 degrees;I put the wife and kids in the 52 Ford,and drove a few miles inland to Salinas where it was 105 degrees. We came to Tx and got out of all those frozen tundra places. God Blessed Texas. CC

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 2 Aug 2006 4:18 am

The extreme heat, and the extent to which it covers the nation, brings to mind an episode of the Twilight Zone where that was the case. There were only 3 actors (actually two actresses and one actor that I remember) in the episode. The sun was going into overtime and everyone was frying and going for the "big dirt nap" (as Burgess Meredith called it).
Sci-Fi oughta replay that episode.

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 2 Aug 2006 4:31 am

Did a DOD tour a few years ago. Went to Persian Gulf. Got off the plane at 7PM, the temp was 126 F!! We played 5 shows outdoors in the evening, each time it was over 120 degrees. The temp was 146 during the day! JP

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 2 Aug 2006 4:56 am

Yeah, that's the general concensus about heat in the southwest as opposed to heat in the northeast or southeast - "it's hot, alright, but it's a dry heat".
OK. I guess that makes it a bit more tolerable.

Then I moved to Bainbridge Island, WA and lived there for a few years. I commented one day to a friend, that it rains [drizzles, really] quite a bit here in the northwest.

He agreed, and added, "yeah, but it's a dry rain".

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 2 Aug 2006 5:02 am

<SMALL>The temp was 146 during the day!</SMALL>

The hottest recorded temperature in the world was recorded in Libya, Africa on Sept. 13, 1922, and it was 136 Degrees Fahrenheit.

You should get a hold of the folks at "Guinness Book of World Records" because where you were beat the all time world recorded record by 10 degrees.

I did a 4 of July gig in Lake Havasu, AZ and it was 128 degrees. I did a gig last year in Nelson NV, on the Colorado River and it was 125 degrees, but cooled down to 120 by the last set.
I only live 70 miles south of Death Valley and it's always around 120+ here in the summer. Today it's only expected to hit 98 degrees, we having a cold front coming in. It's feels like fall.

Mark Edwards · Post by **Mark Edwards** » 2 Aug 2006 5:06 am

Jimbo - I experienced a heat stroke when I was in the Marine Corps back in the early 80's. Now I have a heck of a time when the heat is on and I'm out in it. I played a gig just this summer, and thought how dang hot it was, not to mention it didn't make the gig all that nice, since then I went to Wallyworld and picked up a small portable fan, and it goes wherever I go now, but when it's 95+ outside it's still hot, but the fan does help I highly suggest one if you don't already have one.

Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 2 Aug 2006 7:20 am

We don't do all that many outdoor gigs here in NYC, but even with air conditioning it can get steamy in some of the venues, believe me. I don't know how people who gig in New Orleans or Houston do it, you guys must have to buy your strings by the case. I also have been thinking of that Twilight Zone episode, in the end, doesn't the protagonist wake from a fever dream to find the world is actually freezing, and everybody is heading for the equator?

There have been periods of intense climate change throughout the earth's history, periods where there were no ice caps at all for example in the Jurassic, others where a great deal of the world's land mass was sheathed in ice, all long before every housewife and marketing guy had a Navigator driving 50 miles each way to work from their starter castles. But I digress, and try to drive a little less. Most of my driving is to gigs and sessions anyway!

Jim Peters · Post by **Jim Peters** » 2 Aug 2006 8:41 am

A.B., Guess I'm wrong on the numbers. This was in Bahrain in the late 90's, humidity 96%. I would have given my last dollar for a can of FasFret. JP

pdl20 · Post by **pdl20** » 2 Aug 2006 9:20 am

HEAT,it was so hot here in Benton,Ar the other day a neighbor had a field of pop corn planted and next to it a heard of cows,that pop corn started poppin and the cows thought it was snow and huddled in a corner of the field and froze to death

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 9 Aug 2006 8:20 pm

After saying it for better than 25 years, I sound like a broken record, but . . .

If you have to be hot, this is the place to be hot!

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 9 Aug 2006 10:51 pm

On a serious note about heat.... You guys had better watch our for your pickups. I played a gig in Palm Springs CA several years ago in 114 degree heat. My C-6 neck started sounding funny. Checked the DC resistance later and found I had 5000 ohms left out of the original 20,000. Apparently the coating on the wire melted allowing the pickup to short out. Cost more to rewind the pickup than the gig payed. Ohhh Boy do I love SHO-BIZ or what??