General Music Chat

so, i'm heading out west on a little 10 day tour w a new group i'm working with.
(a cpl mos ago i had some tunes from this group w banjo, gtr/mando, bass up on my page)

i know grant is out there in el paso and there are few other texans on here....not sure how close or far any of you are, but if you're in the area and aren't doing anything tues May 7...come by The Taos Inn and we can hoist a beer or three.

grant, are you familiar w this place...anything you can tell me about it?

still trying to fill in a few dates. here's the itinerary so far:

April 26 Atwood, KS House Concert
April 27 Boulder, CO Laughing Goat
​May 2 Prescott, AZ Raven Cafe
May 3 Phoenix, AZ Fiddler's Dream
May 4 Silver City, NM Buckhorn Saloon
May 7 El Paso, TX Taos Inn
May 9 Nederland, CO Pioneer Inn

so, i'm heading out west on a little 10 day tour w a new group i'm working with.
(a cpl mos ago i had some tunes from this group w banjo, gtr/mando, bass up on my page)

i know grant is out there in el paso and there are few other texans on here....not sure how close or far any of you are, but if you're in the area and aren't doing anything tues May 7...come by The Taos Inn and we can hoist a beer or three.

grant, are you familiar w this place...anything you can tell me about it?

still trying to fill in a few dates. here's the itinerary so far:

April 26 Atwood, KS House Concert
April 27 Boulder, CO Laughing Goat
​May 2 Prescott, AZ Raven Cafe
May 3 Phoenix, AZ Fiddler's Dream
May 4 Silver City, NM Buckhorn Saloon
May 7 El Paso, TX Taos Inn
May 9 Nederland, CO Pioneer Inn

No Houston show?

Maybe next time? Congrats on your whirlwind tour there Brother!

freakin ell, Nederland is where Jeff Beck or Elton John used to record?

so, i'm heading out west on a little 10 day tour w a new group i'm working with.
(a cpl mos ago i had some tunes from this group w banjo, gtr/mando, bass up on my page)

i know grant is out there in el paso and there are few other texans on here....not sure how close or far any of you are, but if you're in the area and aren't doing anything tues May 7...come by The Taos Inn and we can hoist a beer or three.

grant, are you familiar w this place...anything you can tell me about it?

still trying to fill in a few dates. here's the itinerary so far:

April 26 Atwood, KS House Concert
April 27 Boulder, CO Laughing Goat
​May 2 Prescott, AZ Raven Cafe
May 3 Phoenix, AZ Fiddler's Dream
May 4 Silver City, NM Buckhorn Saloon
May 7 El Paso, TX Taos Inn
May 9 Nederland, CO Pioneer Inn

Mark, The only Taos Inn I can tell you about isn't in El Paso, Its actually in Taos, New Mexico, (about 5-6 hours North of El Paso). Its a very celebrated lodging location. Not a fleabag by any means. It has a lot of historical value. You'll likely be rubbing elbows with folks From Santa Fe, who are usually very well -to-do (Artist community, etc).

Silver City is actually much closer, (About 2.5 hours). Its a very sleepy , tiny town.

To my knowledge, there is no Taos Inn in El Paso.

Congrats on the tour, have a great time!

The first programming language I used professionally over 22 years ago was called BBx made by a company called Basis (www.basis.com). Their headquarters used to be in Taos, NM but apparently they've moved to Albuquerque.

thanks for the well wishes guys.

grant, i looked up the hotel and right you are....new mexico it is. weird that it's listed on the band leader's site as El Paso. they're coming by for a prct this afternoon and i'll get to the bottom of this.

his name is mark raborn. killer banjo player. he can play bluegrass but he's more into the modern bela fleck style of "jazzgrass" and writes some cool tunes. you can check some of them out on his site:

http://markraborn2.wix.com/markraborn#!cd/c1yi7

i'm not sure what he's billing us as. we first got together for a meet and greet/ drink some beer/ and run thru some tunes to see what's to see back in november. felt good. about a month later we got together again and then didn't hook back up til last week after the gtrst/mando-ist and i were invited to play the tour.

i have some tunes up on soundclick from our first get-together. nothing too slick. just a cpl of mics up in the room and we're just running thru some tunes to see what works. talking/discussing tunes and pretty loose w plenty of slop...but it'll give you an idea of the kind of stuff we'll be playing.

tunes here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... ID=1274796

cool stuff! Love it


Drove through many of those places since leaving home Jan 4. Tonight, after the gig in Odessa, I'm finally going home from the "West Coast Crazy Tour".

Watch out for New Mexico cops. Speed traps are everywhere after midnight.
And be clean because the Feds have checkpoints that will not be avoided in NM

Harumph! Sooooo......where are the bass solos?!?!?!?!! I had to wait until six songs in before a bass solo!

Well, El Paso is far too long a ride for me but if you guys ever make it to Southwest MA....I'M THERE!

cool stuff! Love it

thanks. and thanks for checking it out.

Watch out for New Mexico cops. Speed traps are everywhere after midnight.
And be clean because the Feds have checkpoints that will not be avoided in NM

no worries, we all have good personal hygiene. that IS what you meant by being "clean", right?????

peg, you book us a gig (or a few) in your neck of the woods and we're there. but wait until the weather is warmer....you people get waaaaaay too much snow!