Weekend Wrapup

[Mark Wein]

Friday night I had a gig - Phil513 was there and took some pics (captions are his):

Shot of the band . . .

Tyler taking lead vocals. He did quite a few songs, and did a great job.

Just what this thread needs. MOAR COWBELL! Dr. Gary set aside the keyboards for a song.

A shot of Martin on his killer 5 string Warmoth.

The Weinman himself, rocking out.

Another shot of Tyler on vocals

A shot of Martin and Gary.

And another shot of the band.

I used my Bassman/1x12 rig and the Suhr. I was very happy with my sounds. I'm finding myself not using the direct drive at all anymore and using the BB Preamp and StonBernder Fuzz for most of my dirt. The RC Booster stays on giving me a little "extra" for all sounds at a low volume.

We broke out some of the new classic rock songs that we are putting together but still played mostly our older blues, fusion and classic rock stuff. After the stressful week that I had the gig was a massive release and I had a great time playing...

Saturday I worked and then we went to a Christmas party with Mrs W's co-workers. It was fairly fun. They had Rock Band set up and I was coerced into singing a few songs before we left...

Sunday we've mostly been hanging out and having some family time. We walked around the Block at Orange for a bit and had lunch but nothing too exciting.....

 

[telecaster911]

This was a 2 gig weekend with 2 different bands for me

Friday night was with my blues band. It was freezing cold out, but we ended up with about 60 people in there. Lots of fun. The gig was good, still ironing a few things out, but no train wrecks

Saturday night was with my rock band Shovelhead. This show went extremely well. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had this much fun playing with these guys. I don't know if it is the outlet that the other band affords or just the fact that we had a guy run sound for us that night instead of me running it from the stage.

and I have a couple of clips... no good video, but the clips are ok.

Intro and the first solo are me through just the H&K duotone, no additional pedal dirt added. Second solo is the guy with the explorer through his Marshall...

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and a clip of the blues band...



Sunday, packed the car to leave for Florida on Friday. Sat in the hot tub to sooth the old back after 2 nights of playing. Made stuffed mushrooms to take to our bldg Christmas lunch. Re touched up my blues recording fest entry.

 

[mystixboi1]

pretty low key weekend(but it was welcomed)...

friday - stayed in and watched a movie with the financee

saturday - stayed at home while Broadview Security reinstalled my security system... still not 100%.... my fiancee bought me a Blue Ray player... watched Up in the Air... pretty good movie

sunday - hung out with future in-laws... now watching the Eagles/Giants game... great start so far!!!

 

[Mark Wein]

saturday - stayed at home while Broadview Security reinstalled my security system... still not 100%!!

wired or wireless? we stopped having problems as soon as we had everything hardwired.

 

[mystixboi1]

wired or wireless? we stopped having problems as soon as we had everything hardwired.

wireless... i'm thinking that we're going to have to go wired... but since it's going through my cable, they want me to change my router... never had a problem before, but for some reason this is going to "fix" the problem

 

[Tiltsta]

I spent Thursday and Friday in Hawaii and Friday night and all day Saturday getting home. Today I slept off some serious jet lag.

 

[alexslashaxel88]

Friday - Got off work @ noon and went had sushi for lunch with my GF. She did some Christmas shopping and I played a Martin that made me hate every acoustic I picked up @ Sam Ash. Then went a X-mas party/dinner with some old co-workers where it was fairly awkard. I sat next to my GF and across from me sat two other girls I worked with, one of which I tried to hook up with when we worked together and next to her sat a girl who was trying to hook up with me @ the same time that my current was hooking up with me. Went out for a drink afterwards and then came home and crashed.

Saturday - Went to a comic book show in the morning then to an Islamic Chinese restaurant for lunch. Came home and made some chocolate covered candy thing then stayed in for the night and watch Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. It was pouring rain so I was enjoying myself.

Sunday - Went to the Rose Bowl Swapp meet then had lunch in Pasadena. Now I am watching Jersey Shore and loving it.

 

[Johnny N.]

Normal weekend with the exception of having to drive 2.5 hours each way for a single soccer game. For some reason, there is a team in my daughter's travel soccer league on the other side of the state. Great weather and no traffic so it wasnt as bad as it could have been. Our team won.

Best of all, my daughter scored her first goal since playing with this group. She has only played rec ball until now and many of these kids have been at this level for years. She generally gets assists since she normally plays outside and crosses the ball great. This time she was the recipient of a cross and popped one in. I am very proud and happy for her.

 

[Kerouac]

Friday - Went out for Dinner with my dad and step-mum, but before that we saw Star Wars Live!

Sat - Did some Xmas shopping with mum and sister, then Katie and I grabbed dinner at Friday's. Came home and started working on an original for the coverfest. Got about half of the guitars done in 3 hours. Ran out to get some breakfast and came home to find the power was out. Driver plowed right into a light pole about three minutes from my flat... didn't come back on until about 7 a.m.

Sun - Went to Sam Ash... narrowly avoided leaving with two items... grabbed the pics I needed and ran. Went to Costco for candy for my students, grabbed pizza on the way home, and now I'm finally getting around to watching the1st Season of Dexter while I make my student gift bags.

 

[charlesb]

Friday night worked for a bit and then had coffee with a friend.

Saturday night popped down for a beer with a friend

Tonight I just laid low.

 

[Phil513]

Friday, Mark's concert as he mentioned.

Saturday, not a whole lot.

Sunday, my Mom and Dad took me out and bought me a fantastic new bed for Christmas, some may remember i have been sleeping on the floor since my old worn out bed was killing my back. Im unbelievably happy.

And i watched this.

 

[charlesb]

I loved watching the Cowgirls lose.

 

[Phil513]

I loved watching the Cowgirls lose.

Perfect game. My team won, Dallas lost.

 

[charlesb]

Anytime the Eagles beat Dallas I walk around with a smile

 

[Mark Wein]

wireless... i'm thinking that we're going to have to go wired... but since it's going through my cable, they want me to change my router... never had a problem before, but for some reason this is going to "fix" the problem

With my limited experience the wireless systems are really cheaply made. I have paid hundreds of dollars in fines for false alarms with the Orange PD that immediately stopped once I had them hardwire my system....

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

i don't remember what we did on Friday. must not have been all that great.

Saturday: went to see "A Serious Man". didn't think it was funny at all. not even in that clever Coen Brothers way. i guess i just didn't get it.

Sunday: saw Matisyahu with the Dub Trio. Matisyahu wasn't bad, but its a total schtick. i was much more impressed with the Dub Trio, who later formed the rhythm section of the Matisyahu band. the Dub Trio sounds like the Mermen meets Ministry. very cool.

 

[Prages]

Pretty low-key weekend for me. Friday night we played Wii for quite a while before going to bed.

Saturday morning was spent playing Wii and watching TV. Then on Saturday night we went to a party at a co-worker's house.

Sunday we watched a movie, did some chores around the house, then did a 5k. We both set PRs on this race. After the race we came home, got cleaned up, had dinner, then I spent some time recording a song while Mrs. P worked on her lesson plans for next semester.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

more Dub Trio

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

hey, that's what i did on friday. i went out drinking with my friends in Brooklyn. they were drinking shots of Old Crow with pickle brine shots and PBR.

 

[Mark Wein]

hey, that's what i did on friday. i went out drinking with my friends in Brooklyn. they were drinking shots of Old Crow with pickle brine shots and PBR.

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