Any one going tonight and Saturday night to see Frank Gambale? I live about 300 miles away I was going to make it Saturday but I am directing that $$ to my first big Recording Studio session.
I am very disappointed that I will be missing these shows, I swear if I lived under 92 miles from there I would be going to both nights, 4 sets.
Please make these shows, and post some reviews. Otmaro Ruiz is going to be with him on Key's, may be they will give a taste of the new disk they are working on.
I am crazy disappointed about missing this, I just have too much life going on to make it happen.
Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 1504 Location: Methuen, MA
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject:
For anyone in the lower New York State area, this coming Friday night, at the Bearsville Theater (the Greater Woodstock area ), a concert by the band "3" to promote the rerelease of their latest awesome album by their new record company, and preceded by a solo acoustic performance by 3's lead singer and guitarist, Joey Eppard. Joey's show alone, is worth the price of admission and the trek...
I will be in Poughkeepsie the day before for the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner at my Mom's (God bless her- she's 91 years old!), but I'm not sure at this time if I'm staying past Thursday. If I am staying over, I'll definitely be at the show...
Anyway, again, it'll be a worthwhile show for whoever can be there. I highly recommend it!
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject:
Well here's one I just learned about, that West Coasters aren't going to want to miss: A Holiday Extravaganza at The Mint in Los Angeles, featuring Los Straitjackets and the World Famous Pantani Sisters. Whew. _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:
Oh yeah, and here's the important part: Friday night, December 16. (Boy do I ever have an itchy "Submit" finger tonight.) _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: Eric Johnson ON TOUR
I saw that Eric Johnson is touring in April with Joe Satriani at venues across the U.S. I've been wishing for a Bloom tour. Is Satriani all hard rock ? _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 1504 Location: Methuen, MA
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:02 am Post subject:
This may be of interest to our European members.
From the Allan Holdsworth website:
"Allan Holdsworth and Alan Pasqua are getting back together to play once again. They are doing a tour of Europe from Mid March to Mid April 2006 that will include Italy, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Belgium and Holland. It will be called The Allan Holdsworth / Alan Pasqua Group, featuring Chad Wackerman and Jimmy Haslip.
They plan to play some of the "oldies" from "The New Tony Williams Lifetime" days and some new material as well. Hopefully, a recording will follow.
Gigs are posted on the Live page. "
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Eric Johnson ON TOUR
roadwarriorfortheblues wrote:
I saw that Eric Johnson is touring in April with Joe Satriani at venues across the U.S. I've been wishing for a Bloom tour. Is Satriani all hard rock ?
Having worked with Joe and Stu Hamm for about 5 years in the early 90's, I am quite familiar with Joe's music.
I call it "Olympic rock". It is mostly guitar oriented instrumental music, although Joe does sing a few tunes, and does usually perform some acoustic tunes. Although very athletic-stunt oriented, he is probably one of the most melodic of all who do that kind of thing, which is why he has had such a long and successful carreer of instrumental oriented music.
He (and Stu also, on bass) are known mostly for performing feats of technical stringed instrument wizadry that astound and amaze and should not be humanly possible. Joe created the artform of modern guitar wanking, teaching followers such as Steve Vai who continued, familiarized, glammerized, and commercialized the genre to the general public. But Joe is the "genius" who started it all and often still pioneers and blazes the trail.
A Satriani concert (and especially one with someone like Eric Johnson on the bill) is like going to the Olympics. You go to see incredible feats of guitar virtuosity performed flawlessly, and believe me, Joe delivers. Night after night he performs live those sonic miracles you hear recorded on his albums, and virtually NEVER misses a lick!!!
By the same token, he is also very regimentized in his shows, very much the "control freak" of performances you might say, with a minimum of open ended jamming. He is known for his flawless, perfect execution and he does his best to deserve and retain that reputation.
Joe is one of the few artists I have seen and/or worked with who WILL bring the show to a screeching halt right smack in the middle of a song, if he is not happy with something, and then, after apologizing to the audience, will start the song over again from the beginning.
If there is a guest sitting in, the spot MUST be rehearsed at sound check. The actual guest spot is almost always at the encore, and (during my tenure) was almost always Jeff Beck's "Going Down".
Once the bugs have been worked out of the year's set list (usually about a week into any new tour) the set list is then 'written in blood' (actually, LOL, I used to make the physical set lists myself, very meticulously, out of cardboard and glow-in-the-dark tape.... there is even a large tour poster from around '91 or '92 which has an insert highlighting my setlist... ) and it does not change AT ALL for the entire length of the rest of the tour.
If you have never seen a Satch show, want to experience what amazing feats a real guitar virtuoso can perform perfectly night after night, than I WOULD recommend you grab a set of binoculars (as every guitar-god wanna-be in the first 6 rows will have) and go see Joe, at least one time, do his Olympic worthy tricks.
Beyond his perfectionist obession, Joe is a great person, and as long as his crew delivers the high level of show support he demands, he is extremely appreciative. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: re: Joe Satriani/Eric Johnson "Super Colossal"
Daved,
Thanks for the great write-up about what to expect from the show. I've never seen a Satch show and I don't own any of his music (yet). I've been to Joe's web site http://www.satriani.com/webcast/2006-03/ and listened to the new album, "Super Colossal," in its entirety. I loved the groove and I think it's a beautiful album. He's even posted a tour rehearsal video (what a great idea ! Hint, hint ).
My tix arrived in today's mail and it should be a great show. I'll be ready for the "sing along"
And I'll get to see Eric Johnson open the show as well ! Does it get much better than this ? _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Joined: 08 Aug 2003 Posts: 943 Location: Terra Firma, Ether Sea
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: Re: re: Joe Satriani/Eric Johnson "Super Colossal"
roadwarriorfortheblues wrote:
...listened to the new album, "Super Colossal," in its entirety. I loved the groove and I think it's a beautiful album...
...And I'll get to see Eric Johnson open the show as well ! Does it get much better than this ?
My favorite Joe album was Flying In A Blue Dream, (for which I have a gold record on my wall, courtesy of Joe ...check my avatar). It was the first album on which Joe vocalized, so many of his instrumentalist-purist fans grumbled about it saying he should keep his mouth shut... but I found it refreshing, emotionally different from what he had done before, very musical, and very entertaining.
His first vocal single came from that album... "I Believe", which is a beautiful song and did very well on the charts.
Oh, BTW, I guess my second favorite Joe album would have to be Time Machine (for which I was gratiously awarded another gold-album for my wall-o'-fame) because, besides my usual tech credit, I also received a photographer credit, as about 8 of the photos used in the enclosed booklet were tour shots I had taken on the road with Joe... including the "Nigel sandwich" picture.
Incidently, the one photo of me used in that booklet was taken at Coast Recording studios in San Francisco by John Cuniberti (Joe's producer for the majority of his early years) and was for a time, jokingly, going to be the cover photo of what later became the "Extremist" album which, at Joe's suggestion while being recorded, went under the working title of... "Dave"!
... seriously, I kid you not!!
Eric is an ideal "other attraction" on the bill. Besides my usual bass-teching for Stu Hamm, I was also stage manager on the first Satriani tour for which Eric opened (during his "Via Musicon" success).
I've always thought the two complimented each other by saying many of the same things, but expressing them with much different voices.
Joe & Eric hit it off from day one. Their musical heads seemed to work & process in much the same way. _________________ B C-ing U!
( }:-Daved
"This boy's diseased with rhythm!" -Bing Crosby (Road To Rio, '49)
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:47 am Post subject:
"Flying In A Blue Dream" was my introduction to Satch'. In one of those "you know you raised 'em right" moments, both my daughters were still in their teens, and both at home. I put on the title cut for them, and midway through a series of descending guitar arpeggios they both looked and me and simultaneously said, "Hey ... John Coltrane!" (Kids these days are so much smarter than their parents. I was in high school and bought the Byrds' "Eight Miles High," and when I read on the album jacket that one of the Byrds was playing mandolin riffs inspired by Coltrane, I was so jazz-illiterate that I figured he was some bluegrass picker I'd never heard of!)
Also, the cover photo on "Flying In A Blue Dream" is a gentle reminder to all of us around-50-ish guys that it's OK to lose your hair -- so long as you don't lose your groove.
roadwarrior: You're gonna' love the concert. _________________ - BlueRunner
I have just read this fred, and thought I would add a little more to it (btw, I have just said goodnight to a friend who popped in for the evening unexpectidly, to which we have just polished off 2 bottles of red + apple schnapps, so I appologise if I ramble on, or go off on a tangent, make spelling & gramurh mistakes, etc, etc)
If you play guitar (of any style or genre of music), then it will be an inspiration to see Satriani live, as I did a few years ago. Daved summed it all up (as usual) very nicely. Satch is a technical showman, but underneath this "wanking" (a very rude word on these shores ) exterior a very consumate musician.
Here's where I go off on a tangent ( I think)!! I believe Robben has been known to comment on guitarists of Satch's ilke, quoting that he is not into all this technique and flash wanking stuff at all. Right on Robben! However, I have to disagree when artits/musicians such as Satch (and EJ for that matter) are in the equation.
Daved mentioned the CD of Satch's "Flying in a.....". It was this title track together with Prince's (believe it or not!) "Purple Rain" track that switched me onto playing the guitar. The rest is history (obviously), and now I have aspired to the musical delights offered by no less than RF himself (btw I still love to listen to "I believe" and the last track "into the light", to this day, from Satch's "flying....." CD).
To cut a long story short (I hope for your sakes!), it was one night when I was a young electrical engineer repairing an automation line in a factory one evening (just myself and my old partner present) that I became entranced by what I heard on BBC radio 1 (good old Bob Harris) radio station. I blasted the factories radio out (multiple speakers) at near full volume so the peacfulness of the night was shattered. It was just at this moement when the first few bars of Satch's "Flying...." echoed out. I stooped what I was doing, lost my focus on the job in hand and continued to be entralled by the music I was hearing for the first time. A revalation to me as was Bloomfield/Miles/Coltrane (theseguys came to me later I may add) to Robben. Many thanks to Bob H, Satch and Robben (among other's) for keeping my passion alive.
Oh, RWFTB, you will love the show. Report back, when hopefully not under the influence of the falling down stuff.
Good night to you all, my RF board buddies!
DD
P.S my first guitar piece was not "house of the rising sun", "wild thing" or "stairway to heaven" but Satch's "mystical potato head groove thing" from "flying......". I know, that's kind of strange, but hey, I don't care!
Also note that any spelling mistakes made in the above dribble is due to the alcohol and not poor schooling. Another example of the destructive powers of this dreadful substance, and why not to drink & drive my friends! _________________ Music is the universal language; speak it with emotion, listen with a passion.
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 646 Location: City of Trees, USA
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:48 pm Post subject:
diatonicdude: Very cool. 'Tho a little ironic that probably while you were drinking Schnapps in the UK, I was home in the U.S. drinking Newcastle Brown Ale. (OK, so maybe it was 9 hours later for me -- but then, hey, "it's five o'clock SOMEWHERE in the world.") I first heard "Flying in a Blue Dream" on a radio station late at night while driving home from a business trip. Fortunately, while I was entranced, I also managed to keep the car on the road.
As for "wanking" v. "not-wanking": Guitar wanking is what teenagers do in the local Guitar Center store after school. With amps turned up to "11." Guitarists who do a lot of technical fireworks, but do it with skill, aren't the same, and there's room for all styles. One of the most amazing things I've ever heard was when I went to see Robben on recent John Mayall tour, and Robben, opener Eric Bibb, and Mayall guitarist Buddy Whittington each took solos on a group number near the end. Robben: Jazz-melodic sense; Eric: Traditional acoustic blues fingerpicking; Buddy: Wild technical tricks. It all fit, and it was all wonderful. _________________ - BlueRunner
Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 908 Location: Tampa Bay, FL
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:08 am Post subject: Beginner's luck ?
diatonicdude wrote:
P.S my first guitar piece was not "house of the rising sun", "wild thing" or "stairway to heaven" but Satch's "mystical potato head groove thing" from "flying......". I know, that's kind of strange, but hey, I don't care!
Joe Satriani says "Mystical Potato Head" is a song that needs daily practice if he's going to perform it onstage. How did you learn this song as a beginner player ?
DD, maybe this should be a new thread topic... I think I'm gonna have follow-up questions. _________________ Travelling by train of thought
Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:37 am Post subject: Re: Beginner's luck ?
roadwarriorfortheblues wrote:
diatonicdude wrote:
P.S my first guitar piece was not "house of the rising sun", "wild thing" or "stairway to heaven" but Satch's "mystical potato head groove thing" from "flying......". I know, that's kind of strange, but hey, I don't care!
Joe Satriani says "Mystical Potato Head" is a song that needs daily practice if he's going to perform it onstage. How did you learn this song as a beginner player ?
DD, maybe this should be a new thread topic... I think I'm gonna have follow-up questions.
Hi RWFTB,
now, don't get the wrong idea about all this. It is true, I did tacke this track as my first major song, but not in its entirety. I learn't the main riff, chorus riff, and one lead passage (not the beserk right hand bar around the fifth fret bit). I could/can still play what I learnt well, but it was, in retrospect, a silly piece to tackle first, but it did catch the ear (hopefully for the right reason!) of my mates and listeners. I guess once I brought the CD (after hearing "flying in.......") and I heard the second track ("mystical potato......") and thought is was really cool, and that I must learn it.
I have to state that Stairway to Heaven, etc, came next. My tastes in music have vastly matured/changed since then, hence the huge interest in Robben Ford's music; but I still love to hear those Satch tracks
cheers,
DD _________________ Music is the universal language; speak it with emotion, listen with a passion.
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), a concert by the band "3" to promote the rerelease of their latest awesome album by their new record company, and preceded by a solo acoustic performance by 3's lead singer and guitarist, Joey Eppard. Joey's show alone, is worth the price of admission and the trek...
Well here's one I just learned about, that West Coasters aren't going to want to miss: A Holiday Extravaganza at The Mint in Los Angeles, featuring Los Straitjackets and the World Famous Pantani Sisters. Whew.
) and it does not change AT ALL for the entire length of the rest of the tour.
