http://andrymi.com/community/ Andrymi, a collection of music nerds Tag: Austin en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:22:19 +0000 http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-633 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:32:41 +0000 Breakfastime 633@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Well, we ain't been fired yet! Things slowed down there for a couple of weeks, starting to pick up again. This week we had a good crowd of walk-ins, Lyle Lovett played across the street and his show ended around 11...right as we got started.<br /> It was a pretty wild night...celebrities and everything!</p> <p>Plus, we picked up a short notice spot at a new club (for us anyhow) and played there last night.</p> <p>And then we play again at another new (for us) place south of town on Thursday night...whew!</p> <p>So my evil plan of having a regular weekly gig is starting to pay off...people are walking in off the street, bands are inviting us onto their bills, people are giving us contacts, and we have a standing offer from a pretty well known guy to produce a demo for us.</p> <p>Strangely, as this thing (Ramifications) starts to grow legs...some of my other gigs aren't fairing so well...but that's another story/thread. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/weird-weird-stuff#post-471 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:17:33 +0000 Steelbones 471@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>That's so cool man.</p> <p>I believe "Dang!" would be the correct phrase here.</p> <p>Kinda restores my faith in human nature, and the universe as a whole.</p> <p>Brilliant! </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/weird-weird-stuff#post-470 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:45:34 +0000 HonkyTonkSamurai 470@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>yeah i read your myspace bulletin bout it</p> <p>i talked to him and added him, his stuff is cool </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/weird-weird-stuff#post-469 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:46:03 +0000 Breakfastime 469@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Oh yeah-and he's in my top friends at Myspace-Tommy Rovello.</p> <p>I'm STILL stunned by this turn of events. Just crazy, crazy stuff. What are the odds?<br /> The only thing that would've made it weirder is if I'd been playing that lefty Strat!<br /> But ever since Bo Diddley autographed it, it's been retired from stage use. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/weird-weird-stuff#post-468 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:00:20 +0000 henry 468@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Damn that's a cool story BT :D</p> <p>I'm thinking you most probably exchanged phone numbers so you can jam with the guy again? </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/weird-weird-stuff#post-467 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:43:22 +0000 Breakfastime 467@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>So, last night towards the end of our gig, a guy comes into the bar and sits down, watching the band. You can always spot a musician in the crowd, and there he was, watching us play, you could tell that inside his head, he was jamming along with us.</p> <p>Well, we get finished, and he comes up and starts talking to our drummer Scoz. Then he turns to Natalie "hey Natalie, do you remember me? ...from the One Knight?" She's like "Oh my God-Tommy!" and they hug and start talking old times. This isn't unusual, she's been on the Austin scene for a long time, and people are always coming up to her with "do you remember me?" so i don't think much of it. Just another old-timer who used to jam with Stevie and everybody...normal stuff around here.</p> <p>So about this time, Scoz comes back in with bad news: flat tire, no spare. Natalie's SUV is packed to the gills, we're twenty miles from home...so our new friend Tom comes to the rescue. "Throw your stuff in my truck, let's go!" "Dude, you are a lifesaver!"<br /> "Hey-any friend of Natalie's is a friend of mine!"</p> <p>One of the things i like about playing with Natalie is that her crowd is very old-school Austin-not like the more recent (last 20 years...ouch) scene, the old hippy types really do help each other out.</p> <p>So, we're driving home (20 miles out of Tom's way...what a guy!) and he's telling us his life story-he played at the One Knight, a seminal Austin blues club that gave birth to Texas legends like the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Van Wilks, Stevie back before he became SRV, etc...this is cool, but again, not unusual. You meet guys like this a lot around these parts.</p> <p>We stop to get gas, and standing there...I ask him his last name..."Rovello" Hmmm...whay does that seem so strangely familiar?...hmmm...</p> <p>two minutes later, we're driving along, and I have to ask...</p> <p>"did you used to have a band called the Vettes?" </p> <p>"YES! how did you know that?" </p> <p>"Because I was your roadie when I was in high school"</p> <p>No freaking way. This is the guy who pretty much got me started in the rock and roll thing, 30 years ago! My lefty Sonic Blue Strat? I got it from Tom! Most of the blues licks I know? Got 'em from Tom! Most of my understanding about guitars, amps, and how all that stuff works? Tom's fault again.<br /> This guy pretty much made me what I am (whatever THAT is)</p> <p>So, we hung out at Scoz' house late into the night, drinking whiskey and picking guitars, jamming on old Vettes and Who tunes, me showing Tom licks that i stole by watching him play all those years ago...crazy, crazy stuff.</p> <p>Whenever I'm telling you guys (or anybody) about the 'older musicians' I learned from as a kid-I'm talking about Tom! And you know what? I'm almost good enough to jam with the guy finally! </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-400 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:31:48 +0000 henry 400@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Sounds like you guys are really rockin' !</p> <p>The radio thing will be broadcast live I take it? Very cool. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-397 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:46:41 +0000 Breakfastime 397@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Well it's been a hectic couple days and the next couple look to be the same....played Monday night...actually, rehearsed and then went and played- both on Monday night.<br /> Tomorrow and Friday we're gonna have marathon rehearsals here at my house, then we play a radio benefit on Saturday ( <a href="http://www.kaos959.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kaos959.com/</a> )and then on Monday night we start our residency at Headhunters.</p> <p>..so that's where I've been the last couple of days. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-335 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:39:41 +0000 henry 335@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Cool, dude. Hopefully one of those projects really kicks off!</p> <p>I'd love to hear some of that Soukous stuff if you have links. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-333 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:31:18 +0000 Breakfastime 333@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Hopefully!</p> <p>Things are certainly picking up again around here, between The Ramifications, Natalie Zoe, and the still-unnamed soukous band. The soukous thing just got a kick in the ass last weekend when we auditioned a new singer-we've known this guy for a while, he's a West African guy, drummer and dancer (traditional African dance)and when we finally got back in touch with him and tried him out, the whole thing suddenly came together FINALLY.</p> <p>So that's good-although it doesn't leave me much/any time to do 'my' thing (whatever that is)-I'm just happy to be working a bunch again. </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-319 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:20:46 +0000 steinn 319@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Who knows, maybe monday night football watchers buy cd's =) </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-318 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:06:28 +0000 henry 318@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>That's cool!</p> <p>Something tells me you'll see beer bellies, body paint, and ruckus. :) </p> http://andrymi.com/community/topic/well-we-landed-our-weekly-gig#post-317 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:56:50 +0000 Breakfastime 317@http://andrymi.com/community/ <p>Starting Sept 24, The Ramifications have every Monday night at a cool little spot called Headhunters here in Austin.</p> <p><a href="http://www.headhuntersclub.com/flash/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.headhuntersclub.com/flash/index.php</a></p> <p>It's a nice little room, a small crowd fills it up pretty quickly. Our gig is to "hold 'em" after Monday Night Football...which is some kind of American sporting event I guess. We start at 10:30...and the gig goes indefinitely-right now, we're booked through October...if it doesn't work out, we can drop it after that if we want.</p> <p>So it's not exactly the spot I was looking for, which was ideally an earlier time slot later in the week...what we got is a late time slot, early in the week. I have NO idea what sort of crowd will be hanging out watching Monday Night Football (guess we'll find out)but it does satisfy one crucial need: a place to rehearse for free/possible pay, once a week. That plus hopefully we can start building a crowd from here.</p> <p>This way we still have the weekends open for travel gigs, and my 'day job' gigs which usually happen earlier in the evening won't collide with the later time slot. So it's a pretty good deal. </p>