My 4th of July will outrock yours...

Freuds_Cat · July 06, 2009, 12:34:29 AM

I love BT. Our guitarist travelled over to the north coast of New South wales to see them play a few months ago. He rang me from the gig (Bastard!) and said here have a listen to what your missin'.

Pilgrim · July 06, 2009, 09:42:28 AM

The overall musicianship of that band is incredible. Their bass player, Tad Kinchla (his brother Chan Kinchla plays guitar) plays some kind of wacky 6-string with one of those strange extended upper horns. He did trade it for a more conventional 4-string for a few numbers.

gearHed289 · July 06, 2009, 03:05:37 PM

I played two fests - July 2, and 3. Had the 4th off (it rained anyway), and had my daughter's 7th b-day party on Sunday. And today I'm in pain.....

She took these pics Friday night.

Highlander · July 06, 2009, 03:20:26 PM

Nice shots... Is that a Bachbird I see lurking in the background...?

GonzoBass · July 06, 2009, 05:22:04 PM

I had an early 4th of July gig with The Wendell Ing Band
at the end of a parade here
and I took my son Nick along to help me roadie.

It was a multi-band bill
and our set got cut short after only four tunes due to time/weather
which kinda sucked
(especially after having to be there at 8:30 AM to set up)
but the good news was,
we took the party back to Wendell's house only a few blocks away
where he keeps a slightly out of tune upright piano on his front porch.

Quite a few musicians were there
so everyone set up
and we had a real casual, instrument/microphone swapping jam for the rest of the day.

The part that really rocked though?

I got to watch Nick play a few tunes
(including Blues Traveler's "Runaround" oddly enough)
using my main bass for his first real sit in
with some of the finest local musicians I know
and he not only held his own
but was actually pretty good!

I was proud as could be
and it was a real "lump in the throat" moment for me
to watch him play my Steinberger with these guys.

I just thought I'd share....

Rhythm N. Bliss · July 06, 2009, 06:14:24 PM

Rain in Hilo??!! That's a big surprise.

Not really. Got 400 inches of rain in 3 years living there.

Cool that your son Nick is following in your footsteps, Gonzo!!

My 4th weekend was very laid back. Got lotsa rest & watched a lotta movies on cable.
I braved the crowds to watch fireworks Sat. night & that was FUN!

gearHed289 · July 06, 2009, 07:18:25 PM

Quote from: Kenny Five-O on July 06, 2009, 03:20:26 PM
Nice shots... Is that a Bachbird I see lurking in the background...?

Indeed it is!

TBird1958 · July 06, 2009, 09:08:29 PM

Nice pics Tom!

It's makin' me miss my '73 4001 pretty bad!

Hornisse · July 06, 2009, 09:38:50 PM

Those are some nice pics! I don't have any action shots but here is one of my rig. The SD800 sounds great! I like it much more than the LMII which did not have enough power. (for me at least) My ancient Goliath cabinet seemed to really like it. The bass played and sounded great too. It was 104 when we got to Waco for load in and only cooled down to 90 by the time we left at 1:30 a.m.

TBird1958 · July 07, 2009, 10:12:03 AM

We've been busy this summer, here's a short vid from Seattle's Pride and some pics and video from the 4th of July at Seattle's Hwy. 99 Blues club

From Pride, I'm having a little fun with our singer.

And a little bit of "Ring of Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0mxHh2Ou2Q&feature=channel

From the 4th

A quick pic of "The Shanghai Pearl" one of Seattle's fave burlesque girls............

And The Hard Money Saints, their bassist was quite good and I reaaly enjoyed watching him play.

Here we're covering our only Beatles song...............One of several vidoes shot that night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy4X66-X8UI&feature=related