Songfight! Boston August 12-13 (I Know My Rights)

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:52 am

Caravan Ray wrote:
TheHipCola wrote:CR,

I hope you are wrong too...we did have a miscarriage a year ago, and I of course had told everyone under the sun...you'd think I'd learn!

Oh well...nature is nature, what will be will be...I'm exuberantly confident I guess!

I still plan to be there either way!

Cheers!
I'm sure everything will go well - I just meant that once baby arrives, a lot of you plans may go out the window!

good luck

Thanks! Well, I'm sure you are right...but due to the infrequency and distinctly low-medium probability of these events happening close to me here in Canada, I'm committed to going no matter what!

now watch me eat these words....

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:59 pm

I so want to go to this and there may just be nothing to stop in this world from going to this thing unless the evil and ruthless moontoe is coming, cuz then I'm sitting out. Hopefully it'll be a redcar kinda night. THC?! Leafy?!

;p

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:06 pm

Heya, I'm new to this songfight situation but just wanna say I live right in downtown Boston and play in two bands here (one: guitar,vox; the other: bass,vox). I'm down with this if it happens, would love to meet some of you folks and play a few tunes, solo acoustic, with bands or whatever. I might even be able to get an NYC songfighter or two to come up for that weekend...
Forgot to mention, I'll be playing some bass and singing harmonies at the Middle East upstairs on Friday March 4th, with the Jon Gorey band, as part of the Emergenza fest.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:50 pm

boltoph wrote:
1. Heya, I'm new to this songfight situation but just wanna say I live right in downtown Boston and play in two bands here.

2. I'm down with this if it happens, would love to meet some of you folks and play a few tunes, solo acoustic, with bands or whatever.

1. Cool, nice to have you on board and welcome to songfight!

2. Just to let you know, this is less 'if' and more 'when' at this point. We've done this type of thing as a community for 4 years now and this will be the fifth. Again, welcome to songfight and we welcome you to join with us.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:29 pm

sooo.... unless I've missed something, we still don't have a date yet.... which I hope is either a) untrue and I've just missed something or
b) yet to be determined.

I may not be speaking for many here, but the sooner a date is picked, the sooner redcar can confirm it's debut performance/meeting/impending reunion tour. As in, working in the fishing industry, the summer is the crazyiest time, so I gotta advance book... other commitments, yada yada... not to mention save up some dough!!

Anyhoo...powers that be...do you got a date yet or what?

mico saudad · Post by **mico saudad** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:26 pm

hear hear

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:32 pm

Sooner a date sooner I can force my dad to buy me some plane tickets

Or drive me up. And find somewhere to stay, of course.

Post by jb » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:55 pm

I vote July or August.

jb

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:09 pm

I'd prefer August, but I'll try my damnedest to make time for this whenever it happens. I'm only two hours out of town, so I really don't have any excuse.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:20 pm

August 12-14.

Unofficially, because I don't have it all finalized yet, but that seems to be the best time for everyone, so that is what I'm going to try and do. I've been a little busy recently, for which you can all blame the people who make Rome: Total War, but I should be able to die-cast that date soonly.

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:27 pm

are the red sox home that weekend?

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:30 pm

jack shite wrote:are the red sox home that weekend?

Yah, that was basically the only criterion I used to pick the four possible dates. Can't remember who they're playing though and am too lazy to look it up.

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:32 pm

let me just say unequivocally that BEN ROCKS

but Front rocks more

ok. just checked. red sox vs. white sox august 12-14. $23 bleacher seats.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:21 am

bzl wrote:August 12-14.

Unofficially, because I don't have it all finalized yet, but that seems to be the best time for everyone, so that is what I'm going to try and do. I've been a little busy recently, for which you can all blame the people who make Rome: Total War, but I should be able to die-cast that date soonly.

....that would work, theoretically, just gotta check when my parents are due to show up in their RV....

I imagine there must be some "jam wharehouses" in Boston....it'd be great to rent a jam room for a hugeo random personnel jam... just like the bunch of real musicians we are... of course, it'd blow if you all did that and I wasn't there though...

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:29 am

I know it's kinda early to be thinking about plane tickets for August, but I just booked the redeye non-stop flight to Boston on Jet Blue Airways to visit my Dad next weekend, and it was wicked cheap.

Since Jet Blue flights don't appear on Orbitz or Travelocity, you'd have to go directly to their site to check out their info: http://www.jetblue.com/
Hope this info helps!!

These are Jet Blue non-stop flights to Boston as of today:

Long Beach, CA -> Boston, MA around $275 round trip
Oakland, CA around $260 round trip
Denver, CO around $190 round trip (yay for me!)
Ft. Lauderdale, FL around $170 round trip
Ft. Meyers, FL around $170 round trip
Tampa, FL around $150 round trip
Las Vegas, NV around $250 - $300 round trip

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:35 am

henrietta, i love how you refer to it as WICKED cheap. you must have lived in new england

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:41 am

way to not serve Seattle -> Boston or Boise -> anywhere or Spokane -> anywhere, JetBlue.

anywho, what are we calling it? I submit:

SONGFIGHT LIVE! Boston: Yanks and Cranks
SONGFIGHT LIVE! Boston: Clammy and Uncomfortable

or something with beans or chowder mentioned. I don't know.

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:45 am

Songfight Boston! Baked Beans and Pipe Dreams

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:04 pm

Yup! I grew up about an hour south of Boston, and I had the thickest accent around too... that is, until I moved to Colorado for school and got laughed at as soon as I asked "Whey-ahs the wat-ah bubb-lah?" the first week of class. It was like my ears suddenly opened up and I became aware that there was no letter "AHH". (Also, that no one knew what a water bubbler was, even if I had said it the "right" way.)

("l m n o p q ahh s t u v...")

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:31 pm

Now that we have the dates somewhat settled, can I suggest that we again have a 2 night format?

Ken

Jefff · Post by **Jefff** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:14 pm

Seriously. It's gotta be.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 4:18 pm

mkilly wrote:way to not serve Seattle -> Boston or Boise -> anywhere or Spokane -> anywhere, JetBlue.

anywho, what are we calling it? I submit:

SONGFIGHT LIVE! Boston: Yanks and Cranks
SONGFIGHT LIVE! Boston: Clammy and Uncomfortable

or something with beans or chowder mentioned. I don't know.

Jet Blue's hub is NY so be lucky they even fly to Beantown.

Yeah, SONGFIGHT LIVE! Boston: We make it with cream