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...Furthermore, ucjoe, AM-radio talkshow fans represent everything that is bad about America, and mark my words, this will get a LOT worse before it gets any better. I mean, if we support that garbage, what's next? That Apprentice guy in the White House? America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani going to the d...

There is no way I'd ever play the Creepy Crawl, for these reasons: 1) The basement is knee-deep in ****. It sounds like a typical dive, and there's practically one of those spaced out every mile or so on every back road in the US... and one every two blocks in high-crime cities. 2) The management ar...

The only erosion of liberty you're worried about is getting high?Fucking sad.Place head firmly back in ass and carry on. :roll: Most of the rest of the "erosion of liberty" is only in your pickled brain. If the talkshow hosts wouldn't keep hammering the imaginary "injustices" at...

Unions are the last defense against all the aforementioned bad stuff. It's not possible that unions are political "puppet masters." Politics is sponsored by the people the unions fight: corporate concern. The idea that unions are so powerful that they control the government that corporatio...

As far as "the scene": I moved here Labor Day of 1988. In Altoona and surrounding area, you could see at least two different bands any night of the week, and perhaps 10 on a Saturday night. You also had 20 channels on cable, or a good book. Now, you can see 4 bands on a good Saturday night...

I'm paranoid lately that I don't look up from the fretboard enough, but dobro isn't like fretted instruments... If I play a G note on the low E string of an acoustic guitar, my finger can hit the string anywhere between the frets, and still sound the G note. On dobro, if your steel is off a sixteent...

I was just thinking about the changes technology has meant, even in our listening habits in regard to albums vs. single songs. When listening to an 8-track, if you didn't like a certain song, you mostly had to change tracks completely, missing the rest of the music on that "track," or just...

The band I play in, Mama Corn, was asked to play the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Oak Hill NY (in the Catskills, near Albany) several months ago, and last Thursday, we did it. First of all, I was astounded to even be asked to do it... when Jeremy (our banjo-player) said to keep the 3rd weekend in ...

I cheated on nearly every girlfriend I had, it's true. I wasn't ever what you'd call a good-looking guy, and never had money, but once I found out I could pick up girls simply by being in a band, it was like heroin for me. I don't have many outrageous stories where that's concerned, I was a quantity...

Joe Bonamassa Seriously, I introduce people to him all the time. I thought he'd be known all over the globe... especially to the guitar players around here... Coming to PBS TV Network Joe Bonamassa: An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera House http://video.unctv.org/video/2365013460 I saw it on WQ...

I work at a local music store. I don't have a union, because I don't need one. My bosses are all friends of mine, for real. I actually like them. If I needed more money, I'd ask for it, but right now I'm more into a fluid work schedule. Plus, I've been to GC, and my co-workers really do care more ab...

This is sort of my first thought at this, too. There are some valid points in there, for sure... you really ARE there to sell beer, but if a bar-owner expected that sort of sales work out of me, I'd do it, but it would cost him alot more money. I always stage-announce a short sales-pitch for drinks,...

Stick to the freebies, then. You get what you pay for.

I had LOTS of guitars, and back in the day, I would occasionally buy one with a dive-bomb trem... which I seldom kept for more than a month or so. They're like 12-string acoustics, in that when you sit with it for the first time, you think,"this will be a big part of my sound," but my ear ...

Like I said, I'm not associated with it on that aspect. Sorry, I thought the first sentence was pretty clear. I had almost zero contact with the people who run the contest until after all songs were entered, then sent to me and other judges, and in fact, not much contact until the actual performanc...

Like I said, I'm not associated with it on that aspect. Even when I judged, I wasn't given any info about the writer or the song, I judged it specifically from an exact scorecard, and a CD with song titles and nothing else. (Which seemed pretty fair to me) I'm sure there's a fee, but I doubt they ma...

Attention songwriters, if you have an original song that pertains to Pennsylvania, there's a contest you should know about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BtouBHlU5CI The entry fee is $50, which sounds like alot, but it tends to weed out the folks who aren't as serious a...

I have a mutual acquaintance with her... it seems she had always had some serious mental issues, and never turned down whatever drug she was offered. She sort of represented everything bad about country music to me... came to Nashtown as a karaoke queen, and because she was very attractive, they gav...

These young folks are pretty good, people. Dylan's dad is Ed Miller, from Thin Ice/Bashful/Scream, so he's got the pedigree, and I've heard the music, it's mighty tasty!
Maybe you bluesers know of some shows they can play...

all i am saying is if i was as good as all of you i would want more than to just be content to play dive bars and what ever else i could find. I always thought the idea was to go national, shouldn't that be the goal ???? No. You thought wrong. I would turn down any attempts at a major-label recordi...

Reverbnation, Soundclick, and Youtube. Before Facebook got popular, I gave out hundreds of CD's of live board mixes (You can get away with it more in a bluegrass band, because there are no drums or amps skewing the levels, everybody's closer to the same volume... I don't recommend it for your band, ...

I've heard of this, but couldn't find anything online about it, either. I know the Silvertone amp-in-case is slowly coming into it's own... the guitars (Danelectro-made) have been sought after since the early-90's, but people didn't feel the same about the amps. Only over the last few years have peo...

I'm not saying that the amp is the problem, necessarily, but maybe you could try playing through an all-tube amp, and see if that strikes you. I used to think maybe a preamp tube in front of a SS power section was the obvious way to go, that way you get the saturation and smoothness of the tube with...

I have noticed a distinct lack of Optimus stickers in the back windows of Dodge Neons you can hear coming 4 blocks away. I never had a Kraco sticker in my window, either. LOL

Pro-sound rule: While it's sometimes helpful to label roadcases that look alike, as to what they contain, don't put the word "MICROPHONES" on the outside of your mic box. Most mics don't have a serial number, are useable by everyone in music (no matter what genre) and are very easy to fenc...