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Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:19 pm**

We just landed the opening slot for national touring bands Trillium Vein and Heart-Set Self-Destruct on March 23, which is also my daughter's 30th birthday. The venue is a really nice place, top notch stage and PA system. I am stoked!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:23 pm**

Sounds great Jimmy!

Rock the House!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:23 pm**

Thanks John. I played at this place a few years ago (not with The Farleys) and was really impressed with it, very nice compared to some of the joints we usually play lol.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:58 pm**

Thats awsome Jimmy! How did the show go the other night?

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:15 pm**

Jeff, we had a minor snow storm that night (ain't that always the case?) but we had a damned fine turn out, got paid and everything lol! The next couple of shows are going to CRAZY! When's your next gig?

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:23 pm**

Love those AAA gigs. Keep rockin' Jimmy!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:27 pm**

LMAO, AAA gigs!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:42 pm**

Jimmy our next show is February 4th at Crazy Frogs! I am hoping My 2cd oldest and his wife come out as his 30th Birthday is the night before. It will be one HELL of a party! :lol:

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:46 pm**

The weather here in H-town has been unseasonably warm. Last week we actually hit 80! I was wearing shorts and flipflops! :shock:

Our AAA gigs here are when it floods. I was just watching a youtube video of cars smashing into one another in a snowstorm.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:48 pm**

jimmydanger wrote:LMAO, AAA gigs!

You know...
AAA Great room, great crowd, great paycheck
AA Good room, great crowd, good paycheck
A Good room, fun crowd, good paycheck
B Fair room, fun crowd, good paycheck
C Dive Bar, fun crowd, some paycheck
D Dead bar, a few skanks hitting on the drummer, play for tips.
F Dead bar, angry drunks, pay to play

There are variations on this of course but you get the idea.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:01 pm**

Got it. I think Jeff and I are thinking of AAA gig as 'had to call AAA to get a jump/get towed out the ditch' etc.

We've actually had a pretty good winter so far, only shoveled once.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:30 pm**

jimmydanger wrote:Got it. I think Jeff and I are thinking of AAA gig as 'had to call AAA to get a jump/get towed out the ditch' etc.

We've actually had a pretty good winter so far, only shoveled once.

Oh! Our "towed out of a ditch" moments usually happen AFTER the gig :oops:

One time we played up in the mountains and at 2am it was pea soup foggy. The bass player took a wrong turn at the highway and made it home about noon the next day. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:08 pm**

TheJohnny7Band wrote:
jimmydanger wrote:LMAO, AAA gigs!

You know...
AAA Great room, great crowd, great paycheck
AA Good room, great crowd, good paycheck
A Good room, fun crowd, good paycheck
B Fair room, fun crowd, good paycheck
C Dive Bar, fun crowd, some paycheck
D Dead bar, a few skanks hitting on the drummer, play for tips.
F Dead bar, angry drunks, pay to play

There are variations on this of course but you get the idea.

Congrats, JimmyDanger, Crush it.

Most of our gigs were between B-C.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:26 pm**

I'm not going to lie, most of ours are 'C' but we always have fun!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:32 pm**

I've seen more "C" than anything else.
(smells like teen spirit)

But you have more fun in THOSE places because you just don't care as much and you tend to "let 'er hang out..and it sounds like it as well.

If you're lucky maybe they have strippers, too? lol

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