Post by Kellman on Mar 17, 2008 11:50:57 GMT -5
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Well it was another first-time visit for us to SHOOTERS CLUB in FonDuLac. Not only had we not played Shooters before, but as far as i can remember......FonDuLac either. Well let me tell you something......we've really been missing out!!!! What fantastic place for live entertainment. The stage is very accomodating, and is placed in such a way that it doesn't interfere with the actual bar.....meaning that we can play as loud as we need without bothering bartenders...very important. The place is HUGE! And the staff is equally as awesome. John the manager treated us like royalty from start to finish! Those of you who visit us regularly here in the forums know how much we enjoy playing at COINS in Kenosha because Mark treats us sooooooo well, John and Mark must be brothers because it was just like playing Coins as far as treatment from the staff. The crowd was genuinely interested in what we were doing......again a credit to John for taking the time to educate everyone as to the format of the band......he had HUGE posters made and actually took the time and money to tell people we were a CLASSIC ROCK band and really built the show up.......so Salute John thanks so much for everything and we are really looking forward to a long partnership!
We debuted 3 new songs at Shooters...........2 sang by Carl and 1 by Paul. All real Classics too. We've added Stanglehold with a seque into Bullet in the blue sky then back into Stranglehold. this is something that we've been talking about doing for years but never got around to. It was our old "grumpy soundguy" Jeffs idea and it finally made it. Carl sings the S**T out of it too. We also added GOODBYE STRANGER which was one of Supertramps biggest hits ever. Now we have come under some critism from the crew on the choice because it is kind of moderate in tempo but man does it build up in intensity as it goes along. I think it is a great example of a "Classic" and again no-one else would even attempt it because vocally it is a challenge and Carl and Paul cover it remarkably! Finally and most controversial......we've added STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN........Zeppelin is probably the most influential Classic rock band ever and this song is the #1 Classic Rock song on all of the lists. It is very dangerous to cover such a covetted classic......but people PAUL LENT nails this. I predict it will be a song that people will know us for playing and it will be requested by those people. Please come on out and hear them for yourselves, or let us know what you think of the songs right here by responding..........lets hear it!!!
Til next time
Well it was another first-time visit for us to SHOOTERS CLUB in FonDuLac. Not only had we not played Shooters before, but as far as i can remember......FonDuLac either. Well let me tell you something......we've really been missing out!!!! What fantastic place for live entertainment. The stage is very accomodating, and is placed in such a way that it doesn't interfere with the actual bar.....meaning that we can play as loud as we need without bothering bartenders...very important. The place is HUGE! And the staff is equally as awesome. John the manager treated us like royalty from start to finish! Those of you who visit us regularly here in the forums know how much we enjoy playing at COINS in Kenosha because Mark treats us sooooooo well, John and Mark must be brothers because it was just like playing Coins as far as treatment from the staff. The crowd was genuinely interested in what we were doing......again a credit to John for taking the time to educate everyone as to the format of the band......he had HUGE posters made and actually took the time and money to tell people we were a CLASSIC ROCK band and really built the show up.......so Salute John thanks so much for everything and we are really looking forward to a long partnership!
We debuted 3 new songs at Shooters...........2 sang by Carl and 1 by Paul. All real Classics too. We've added Stanglehold with a seque into Bullet in the blue sky then back into Stranglehold. this is something that we've been talking about doing for years but never got around to. It was our old "grumpy soundguy" Jeffs idea and it finally made it. Carl sings the S**T out of it too. We also added GOODBYE STRANGER which was one of Supertramps biggest hits ever. Now we have come under some critism from the crew on the choice because it is kind of moderate in tempo but man does it build up in intensity as it goes along. I think it is a great example of a "Classic" and again no-one else would even attempt it because vocally it is a challenge and Carl and Paul cover it remarkably! Finally and most controversial......we've added STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN........Zeppelin is probably the most influential Classic rock band ever and this song is the #1 Classic Rock song on all of the lists. It is very dangerous to cover such a covetted classic......but people PAUL LENT nails this. I predict it will be a song that people will know us for playing and it will be requested by those people. Please come on out and hear them for yourselves, or let us know what you think of the songs right here by responding..........lets hear it!!!
Til next time