Weekend Wrapup

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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What did you guys do?

I had a house of sick people this weekend so we stayed home Friday night.

Yesterday I worked and then had our show: http://markweinguitarlessons.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2397

Today I had to go bring the gear back to the studio this morning and then we went furniture shopping for the new house (we are scheduled to close tomorrow) and I bought my first "grown up" furniture :embarrassed:

Now its time for meatloaf....eat0
 
Friday - had pizza - stayed home with the wife.

Saturday - Practiced and checked out different set up s with my guitar, OCD Driver and Emma Discombobulator - went to the shop and hung some shelves and moved a sink. Went out to dinner with the wife and three other couples.

Sunday - Finished moving the sink and reconnected all the pipes. Went to the indoor soccer league and coached our kids as they played passive and let the other team out aggressive them - lost 3-1.
 
Friday - worked, then quiet night at home.

Saturday - Errands, Father/daughter "field day" at my kids' school, rented "The Rocker" (pretty dang amusing) to watch with Mrs Aahzz.

Sunday - Grocery shopping, guitar shopping (yay new Strat!), dinner with my folks, quiet evening at home.
 
Friday, bought dog food, ate Chinese, came home and got the smoker ready for the weekend.

Saturday, smoked a chicken and a bunch of fish. Gigged Saturday night.

Sunday, smoked a pork butt, went to the bar to get our gear, slept a little, washed one of the cars.

That's it:thu:
 
Thursday night - Gig at Scorz

Friday night - Gig at Sal's Longshot Lounge

Saturday night - Gig at Sal's Longshot Lounge

Tonight - Nurse sore and stiff muscles and clean Jagermeister off my working guitars. Oh, and went to the grocery store and spent $287. So much for the gig money, yo. :(
 
Actually I'm going to repost my "gig report" from HC..modified from what I posted here...

My gig last night was part recital for my performance classes and part gig for my band....

It was a pretty good show...all of the classes played great and we had a really good show, too.

The place was so full when I got there that there wasn't anyplace to park :eek:

I thought I blew my voice out before we played talking to everyone over the loud music but I survived with my voice intact. The night was so hectic that I didn't have time to set up the video camera or take many pictures (and what pics I did take I had to use my phone for).

I saw Eminence_front and R-dub (from my forum) was in one of the bands. No Phil00315, though...hopefully he was having a much better belated birthday celebration had home

One of my buddies sent me thisof our set this morning:

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The crowd when the first class started

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Tom Harkenriders "Intro to Blues" class (The "Sandy Bottom Boys") - I couldn't take a picture of the first class with R-dub because I was singing and playing drums (and screwing up their songs). These guys mixed some rockabilly with their blues this time...

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The "Rusty Nails" were up third....in spite of an average age of about 50 the songs that they picked for their class included tunes from Audioslave, Stone Temple Pilots and Radiohead

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Jeff Garvins Class "Light Hedded" is one of our kids classes...they rocked the night as usual..I think they were playing "Stacys Mom" when I took this picture :)

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Our two sets were pretty fun. I played through my '66 Bassman for the first set and '71 Deluxe Reverb for the second set since I had them both setup for the students to play through. Our first set was mostly blues but I did end it by singing "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilara and doing a big arena rock solo at the end :grin:.

Our second set was a little more classic rock and since we didn't have to worry about keeping the dance floor moving we played whatever we wanted to. Songs from the set included "36-22-36" by Bobby Bland, a rocking version of "One Way Out", "Cissy Strut" by the Meters and ended with "Take your drunk ass home" by Big Al Carson.

I was so busy playing host ( these shows are both public relations for my studio and reunion for my person friends) that I didn't have time to eat any wings or pizza during our break (which is one of the most important parts of a gig at this place), but bar manager Saul was nice enough to get us a pizza after we finished the last set...

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All in all a great night...I just wish I had been able to get some video this time....
 
Friday: Mrs. P got pizza. Lino was supposed to come up to spend the night and record, but Mrs. P and I were both exhausted, so I cancelled and we just vegetated.

Saturday: Mrs. P went to a birthday lunch for one of her co-worker's spouse. Lino came up and went spent the day recording one of his old originals. After he left and Mrs. P got home, we watched a movie at home.

Sunday: Watched another movie at home, then ran the 10k in Charleston. After the race we went to a steakhouse and had a sauteed mushroom and peppercorn fillet. :love: When we got home, we showered, then I spent some time in the studio finishing up the song Lino and I had started.

I'll post the song later this morning.
 
Good weekend here.

Friday - Took the family to dinner, nowhere special but we seem to enjoy going somewhere quiet and talking about the week.

Saturday - Rode 25 miles in the morning and had a good workout at the gym. That night, my 12 year old daughter escorted me to the Father/Daughter dance and we had an absolute blast. We danced and laughed the whole time.

Sunday - another 25 miles in the morning. Bought a sprinkler pump. Washed the truck. Made some shrimp. Wife and daughter went somewhere and I got to play my guitar for a couple of hours.

I was trying out Guitar Solo on Mark's recommendation. The clean sounds are very, very good but I was having trouble finding a driven or crunchy sould I liked. I think I have discovered that the problem lies with my headphones. :mad: The arent even that old but they sound almost like a blown speaker with higher gain amp tones. Cleans are good though. Guess I am going to need to find another set. Otherwise, I like the Guitar Solo. I am using it with my TonePort and it works well. It is far easier to navigate than Gearbox. I always waste too much time on Gearbox looking through the million presets.
 
Johnny N. said:
The clean sounds are very, very good but I was having trouble finding a driven or crunchy sould I liked. I think I have discovered that the problem lies with my headphones. :mad: The arent even that old but they sound almost like a blown speaker with higher gain amp tones. Cleans are good though. Guess I am going to need to find another set. Otherwise, I like the Guitar Solo. I am using it with my TonePort and it works well. It is far easier to navigate than Gearbox. I always waste too much time on Gearbox looking through the million presets.
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Aha! biggrin
 
Friday - Assembled the desk I bought for our room (for my recording stuff). Loaded all my recording stuff on my laptop - hooked up my USB interface and thus started a 5 hour fight with te software to get it to work. It never did. :facepalm:

Saturday - Got up early and went to the Home & Garden Show downtown. Pick up a bunch of info for home improvements we want to do. Stopped on the way home at a newer taqueria I noticed in the hispanic district for a late lunch. Their salsas were excellent and they have some of the best (if not the best) steak tacos I have ever eaten. I fought with the recording software again for a couple hours and finally have something working.

Sunday - Went to some friends for lunch, then ran some errands. We lazed around for most of the evening...
 
Friday -- changed a lot of diapers

Saturday -- changed a lot of diapers

Sunday -- changed a lot of diapers, fed the baby a bottle while the Gritstress went to audition for America's Got Talent, and fiddled with my recording gear a bit. No product though. I couldn't write a song right now if my nuts depended on it. Gave up on music and made some delicious farfalle with tomatoes and peas for dinner. Tasty. :)
 
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