Report on your gig last night (New Year's eve)

Tony Orth · Post by **Tony Orth** » 2 Jan 2002 10:34 am

Had a great gig at the American Legion in Mt. Carmel, Ill. Packed the house. Played about half country and half rock and roll.
Lot's of applause, which is always appreciated. The free meal and $200 was nice too.

Steel Rockin' in Indiana

Tony

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 2 Jan 2002 11:32 am

It was a very small room, with 30 or 40 people. Nobody knew the words to Auld Lang Syne, but that was okay. I thought we played well (and so did the audience), but some of the band members were disappointed.

It was my first night using an E-Bow on stage. That was fun.

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Al Gershen · Post by **Al Gershen** » 2 Jan 2002 12:17 pm

Hi SGF:

The band I'm in, the "Rogue River Connection," played its gig at the venue where we play every Saturday evening for a seniors dance. This is the City of Rogue River Community Center.

We had a croud of between 50 and 60 persons and our individual take was about $65.00.

One unusual thing that happened to me that evening was that one of the audience persons walked over to me and announced that he had a "1953" acoustic Fender 12 string guitar called the Shenandoah.

I told him that I didn't believe Fender built any acoustic guitars (12 string or whatever) during the early 1950s. He was very convinced that his guitar was extremely rare.

He said he had it in his car but I couldn't convince him to bring it into our stage area for me to look at.

I did some checking on the Newsgroup: alt.guitar and found that Fender did build a Shenandoah 12 string guitar from around 1965 to 1971.

So this fellow probably has such a guitar but he's quite wrong in its dating.

One of my New Years Resolutions will be to politely inform this person (he left me his name and telephone number) that his guitar isn't as rare as he thinks (a dealer in Canada has one currently for sale in the $600 range).

Regards,
Al Gershen
Grants Pass, OR
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Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 2 Jan 2002 4:08 pm

I'd been assuming that I'd be doing the Cody Bryant gig down at Viva Fresh in Burbank where I've been playing 2 to 4 nights a week.But a week before New Years,Cody told me that he had a better paying gig for New Years as a sideman in somebody else's band.Ditto for Jimmy Harris,our singing bass player AND the drummer.I was looking forward to staying home that night anyway.Then - with one days notice,Cody called me and said if I could throw together a band,I could have the Viva Fresh New Years gig.I began calling around and started to realize how many good pickers were not working that night.I was able to get Harry Orlove(the guitar player on the "Murph" CD)on guitar and vocals,Steve Duncan from The Desert Rose Band on drums and a great singing bass player named Patty Shannon plus yours truly on steel.It added up to a pretty happening ensemble and we just played standards and read charts out of each others books all night - and sounded like we'd been playing together for years.The club's calender listed "no music" for that night but we had well over half a house anyway.Hell - even my wife showed up. -MJ-

Jerry Gleason · Post by **Jerry Gleason** » 2 Jan 2002 5:03 pm

I played an outdoor gig at our city's "First Night" celebration. We had a nice crowd, maybe 2500 or so. One of those festival gigs where you only have ten minutes to get your stuff on the stage, get a quick sound check, and go. We were the last band before midnight and the fireworks.

I knew there wouldn't be much tune-up time, so I left my steel set up out in the garage for a couple of hours, so I could tune it and adjust it cold before I headed downtown for the gig. The weather wasn't too awful, just cold and very foggy, so everything quickly became wet from the mist. I was suffering from a bad cold, too, but strangely, I felt much better after playing out in the cold air for a couple of hours.

Happy 2002!

ray qualls · Post by **ray qualls** » 3 Jan 2002 8:57 am

Played at a V.F.W. in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
Had the pleasure of having Phil Koontz on steel, Steve Ritchie on drums, Larry King on bass and me on "lead" Guitar. One of the best times of my life as these guys were just great and also fine gentlemen. Everyone had a good time and the weather was cold but clear. Just a special "thank you" to these guys for helping an old coot like me out and making it a great night! Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

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Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 4 Jan 2002 3:50 am

Hey Ray,
Tell Phil I said "hey".