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Topic: Herb Steiner Quartet - Evangeline Cafe - Austin 11/13 |
Herb Steiner
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Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 5 Nov 2012 8:35 pm |
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From 7 to 9pm on Tuesday, November 13, your humble correspondent will be fronting a swinging aggregation featuring Billy Curtis on fiddle/sax, Charlie Irwin on bass, and Ron "no relation" Erwin on drums. The venue is the most excellent Louisiana Cajun restaurant and a flagship of S.Austin music rooms, The Evangeline Cafe.
Repertoire will be B.Wills, Sinatra, Ellington, Darin, R.Price, Mercer, C.Porter, H.Williams, Thompson, et al.
There might be a chanteuse or two, and perhaps some other pickers, sitting in for some numbers as well.
And the food, all Loozyanna cajun/creole specialties, is the best in town. Try the Oysters Contraband on the appetizer menue. To die for. 
The Evangeline Cafe is at 8106 Brodie Lane, Austin TX.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Billy Gilbert
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Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Nov 2012 5:07 pm Some Enchanted Evening
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Last night, Nov. 9th, I saw Herb Steiner play at a theater in Georgetown to a sold out crowd. The show features a Patsy Cline lookalike (and singalike) and a very good Country band. From my perch in the nose-bleed seats I had a bird's eye view of the top Of Herb's cowboy hat. Herb proved once and for all that a steel guitar can be played in the dark.  |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 13 Nov 2012 8:14 am
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Billy
Hey, thanks for making the long haul from SA up to Georgetown for the show! It's gotta be 150 miles one way. I wish I'd known you were there so I could come out front and hang with you for a short while after the show.
Playing on a blacked out stage is a problem, no lie. I had the show memorized by then so reading the book wasn't an issue, but accurately seeing the frets is a challenge. In stage lighting, the chrome fretboards on an Emmons are very nice looking, but for theatre work I prefer the white-line fretboards. So for that work I use a PP that has the white frets.
Hope to see you soon, my friend. 
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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Gene Jones
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Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 14 Nov 2012 9:04 am
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Playing in the dark and not being able to see your guitar sounds like a nightmare Herb.
I haven't experienced a completely darkened stage, but, I have worked a weekly television show where the producer didn't want to see any amplifiers on camera, so they were placed behind a stage curtain.
I can't imagine a worse situation, not being able to see your guitar, or not being able to hear it. 
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 14 Nov 2012 11:06 am
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Not a nightmare, Gene, more like a momentary need for concentration. I still have my ears working and it's not a pitch black situation, just a darkened stage. Again, white frets to the rescue.
The gig at the Evangeline went fantastic. I had a good, enthusiastic crowd and my worthy bandmates played their asses off. I look to be doing more quartet and quintet dates in the future. "Cocktail steel" might be a growing thing around here.
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My rig: Infinity and Telonics.
Son, we live in a world with walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with steel guitars. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? |
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