Set up live gigs with each other, announce gigs you're playing around the country or whatever, talk about how the show went, post links to recordings, etc.
rdurand wrote:Not to get ahead of ourselves here. But any idea how long of a set we should be planning for?
I figure it might different at different venues depending on teh number of performers.
Thanks.
It depends on the number of performaers and amount of time in the venue, but think about a 20 minute set.
Ken
Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Berkeley Social Scene - Tiny Robots - Seamus Collective - Semolina Pilchards - Cutie Pies - Explino! - Bravo Bros. - 2 from 14 - and more!
i would just like to remind everyone that Ken eats kittens - blue lang
i'm thinking about making the seattle one. if it's low volume, though, it's not worth bringing the kit. maybe i'll have myself and another acoustic guitar and some bongos and shakers. mmm.
i'll try and make it happen. your money wasted in seattle!!!
rabid, could you be sure and grab a cowbell, a guiro, and a tambourine for me, please?
I am serious.
"It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard
Gots no tambourine, though. (Not my favorite instrument--shut up, Albatross--and thus not in the collection o' toys.) Freudian Slip brought her own for Santa Cruz. Sorry.
Well, crap, I don't have a band. But I have the desire, and the will, and the time, to play the LA and Berkeley shows.
Without a band, though, it wouldn't be worth it to everyone else to take up the stage time.
So, consider me hereby offering to show up, and assist, and drink, and watch, and sing along (when appropriate), and if someone wanted a uke in there somewhere, well...who would I be to say no?
Besides, someone's got to help you big shots unload the van.
Sam the drummer from Zipline and myself (a guitarist/bass player) are around for such purposes as a frontman like you needing a rhythm section. I'm pretty sure you could get back-up, especially since I dig your music.
Glennny
Phillipso, Older Brothers, Semolina Pilchards, Zipline , Thank Glennny for the Frisbee, The Odoriferous Valley, The Worldly Self Assurance, Berkeley Social Scene, Very Gentle Knives, Daddy Bop Swing Set, GUNS, The Kraken Lives, Cavedwellers
Thank you for bringing that up, Glennny, and for the compliment. I'm PMing you about this now.
[for those coordinating: if this flies, that'll put me in LA/San Luis Obispo/Berkeley shows, doing a short set of 3-4 brief songs. do I have to stick to songfight entries, or can I play other stuff?]
some guys are pretty adamant that you should only play songs written for songfight. they are fascists. nevertheless i couldn't think of much weaker shit than going up there and playing three covers and a couple original not-songfight songs. that's not the point of the show. most of what you play should be your own, and most of your own material should be songfight. that's what i'd suggest.
"It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard
Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Berkeley Social Scene - Tiny Robots - Seamus Collective - Semolina Pilchards - Cutie Pies - Explino! - Bravo Bros. - 2 from 14 - and more!
i would just like to remind everyone that Ken eats kittens - blue lang
nevertheless i couldn't think of much weaker shit than going up there and playing three covers and a couple original not-songfight songs.
Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated. I was considering three songfight originals and one non-songfight original, but an unrelated conversation with Glennny has me considering four songfight originals, one of which just needs some expansion (it's too short as-is.)
And yeah, playing covers of non-songfight stuff and no songfight stuff whatsoever would be weak indeed.
Between the club and the Hand Puppet's gear, we should be set up to
handle most acts, with the exception of keyboards. If someone is able
to provide suitable key/synths etc. we should have our bases covered.
Steve Hand Puppet
Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Berkeley Social Scene - Tiny Robots - Seamus Collective - Semolina Pilchards - Cutie Pies - Explino! - Bravo Bros. - 2 from 14 - and more!
i would just like to remind everyone that Ken eats kittens - blue lang
To portland and seattle I will bring:
two guitars (1 epiphone electric, one ibanez electro acoustic), one marshall amp, one digital piano, various pedals and toys, and if requested, a sidstation and/or a shitty electric violin.
Octothorpe Sockpuppet and I visited the Mr. Spot's Chai House open mic night last night, the future host of the Seattle leg of the tour.
If last night is any indication, that the place is going to be absolutely packed on a Friday. The seating is limited but cozy, they serve food and, well, chai. And you can buy incense if you need some. Or beer. And there's a cute redheaded waitress with a really well done henna tattoo on her left arm.
But the point is we're going to rock a packed house so tell people you know are coming to arrive fairly early (cute waitress said ~5pm otherwise you lose out).
