Glory Days

I just found this pic again: Luther signin' my baja tele.

The dude was as cool as a cucumber. Sat in that barstool the whole night, through our set and into the first two songs of his set. His band was killing it in the second tune (they'd set up all his gear for him, btw), he gets up, walks slowly to the stage, picks up his strat... and f-cking whaled. I swear-to-god, he is in a whole other class of player.

I just noticed my oldest boy off the left side (right) of Johnson in the gray shirt too.

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I've opened up for a few biggish names, but I think opening for Blind Melon, even though it was way after Hoon died, was a full circle moment for me.
 
mikesr1963 said:
About 10 years ago during the summer I played at my brother's church several times in front of about 50 people. One of the men there like it and asked me to play for a local Christian men's group dinner meeting of about 20 people. One of the men there liked it and asked me to play for his church's home coming about 125 people. Someone there liked it and asked me to play for there Bible School graduation which was a full church of about 300 people. I guess that would be a highlight but it began to become more like a job. I enjoyed playing at my brother's church the rest, not that much.
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One of the biggest crowds I've ever played for was when I was in Saudi.

The music teacher of the school was an Indian dude and asked if I wanted to come and jam at his illegal church group (all religions other than Islam being illegal in the Kingdom of course :shrug: )

I didn't think much of it and thought it sounded like a fun way to stick it to the man but when I turned up it was a massive (almost 1000 people) that were part of this big underground protest movement from the Indian church (or whatever it was) and it wasn't a jam, he wanted me to play for them.

Instead of thinking that if I just pulled a few things out of my ass and sang in my dialect none of them would know what I was saying anyway I butchered a handful of songs that could be very tenuously called religious - there was a bon jovi number in there that involved the word preacher so it seemed good enough. :grin:

The PA was shocking and the hall was so big that what I sang bounced back at me from the monitors about 2 seconds later - not my finest performance but they all loved the white guy with the guitar, I got some excellent free food and the mutawa didn't raid the place which was a bonus :)
 
I remember when I was 18 I was in an original band. We had made a 3 song demo tape and had 500 copies released.
A small local music and arts paper had a weekly column called "The List" and they made a top 10 list of local bands according to album sales. We were #1 for 2 consecutive weeks. Over time we eventually sold all 500 copies
There was a local 18+ club called "The Car Palace" and we played a battle of the bands there. We didn't win, but I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people singing our songs as we were playing them....it was pretty surreal at 18 y/o
 
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