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Instant Karma loses it's practice place at the end of the month. The bass player had been renting and the owner decided to try to sell the place, so he's moving. To a place with not enough room to even store all the PA gear.
Only other choices at this point are work places where we would have to pack up everything and move it into the corners when not rehearsing.
Guess we can look at renting a rehearsal space, but as we are still a few months from gigging, that's money right out of our own pockets.

I feel you. When I closed SANSHOU FITNESS due to rotator cuff tears ( and other issues ) my wife and I built a shop on our home place.
It's all paid for now, and @ 30' x 40' we have plenty of space.
Well heated in the Texas summers and well cooled in the Texas winters it is still a great place to rehearse and keep our gear.
At one point I was leasing out a part of my Kwoon to a band for rehearsal space. I'd hear them giving each other the big pep talks about their "commitment to the band" until rent was due. Then those phucks would scatter like roaches.

This is exactly why :

walking into a new band
is always like havin' a one -night stand

sanshouheil wrote:... my wife and I built a shop on our home place.
It's all paid for now, and @ 30' x 40' we have plenty of space.

30x40 - nice! My whole house (7 rooms) is only a little bigger than that!
bandpractice at my house is not an option!

Hi GuitarMikeB! How are the rates there in MA for rental spaces? The rates here in Chicago for the smallest rooms start about $375 a month. An hourly rental room goes about $45 for a 2 hour block. Our room that I've had for almost 1 year is about $700 a month. It's like paying for an extra apartment.

jsantos wrote:Hi GuitarMikeB! How are the rates there in MA for rental spaces? The rates here in Chicago for the smallest rooms start about $375 a month. An hourly rental room goes about $45 for a 2 hour block. Our room that I've had for almost 1 year is about $700 a month. It's like paying for an extra apartment.

Sometime next Spring, I'm gonna take my mum on a train to Chicago... I will escort my Mom around...She has a large story to tell me, about her youth in Chicago, and she wants to be in the city first-hand to tell it to me... She yearns for this city... Grew up in this city (SHeridan Rd near Lake Mich)) and it's her last physical contact with happy memories from another era...
Her first Husband was a WWII pilot, witnessed the St Valentines day Massacre and went MIA over the Luzon Islands in the Pacific... She was a hot Model in her day, and refused to sign any contracts on the dotted couch... She once had dinner with Mobster Giaconni <sp> She herself, idolized Amelia Earhart and thus learned how to fly, as well as take apart and put back together an airplane engine. By all Accounts, she was a true Chicago girl. That trip is gonna be one very enriching dive into memory lane for her, and history lesson , first hand, for me... I'm very excited to do this...And it means the world to her...

PaperDog wrote:
Sometime next Spring, I'm gonna take my mum on a train to Chicago... I will escort my Mom around...She has a large story to tell me, about her youth in Chicago, and she wants to be in the city first-hand to tell it to me... She yearns for this city... Grew up in this city (SHeridan Rd near Lake Mich)) and it's her last physical contact with happy memories from another era...
Her first Husband was a WWII pilot, witnessed the St Valentines day Massacre and went MIA over the Luzon Islands in the Pacific... She was a hot Model in her day, and refused to sign any contracts on the dotted couch... She once had dinner with Mobster Giaconni <sp> She herself, idolized Amelia Earhart and thus learned how to fly, as well as take apart and put back together an airplane engine. By all Accounts, she was a true Chicago girl. That trip is gonna be one very enriching dive into memory lane for her, and history lesson , first hand, for me... I'm very excited to do this...And it means the world to her...

She sounds like an extraordinary woman. Sheridan road by the lake is still one of our most celebrated streets in the Northside. Let me know when you are in town and I can arrange for you to perform with us on stage.

GuitarMikeB wrote:

sanshouheil wrote:... my wife and I built a shop on our home place.
It's all paid for now, and @ 30' x 40' we have plenty of space.

30x40 - nice! My whole house (7 rooms) is only a little bigger than that!
bandpractice at my house is not an option!

Yes fortunately we live in what used to be a rural area. As a kid I rode horses hunted an swam in the stock tanks around where there are now million dollar homes.

I think that is why Movin Out by Aerosmith is one of my favorite songs.

Gotta move it out cause the city's movin in.

jsantos wrote:

PaperDog wrote:
Sometime next Spring, I'm gonna take my mum on a train to Chicago... I will escort my Mom around...She has a large story to tell me, about her youth in Chicago, and she wants to be in the city first-hand to tell it to me... She yearns for this city... Grew up in this city (SHeridan Rd near Lake Mich)) and it's her last physical contact with happy memories from another era...
Her first Husband was a WWII pilot, witnessed the St Valentines day Massacre and went MIA over the Luzon Islands in the Pacific... She was a hot Model in her day, and refused to sign any contracts on the dotted couch... She once had dinner with Mobster Giaconni <sp> She herself, idolized Amelia Earhart and thus learned how to fly, as well as take apart and put back together an airplane engine. By all Accounts, she was a true Chicago girl. That trip is gonna be one very enriching dive into memory lane for her, and history lesson , first hand, for me... I'm very excited to do this...And it means the world to her...

She sounds like an extraordinary woman. Sheridan road by the lake is still one of our most celebrated streets in the Northside. Let me know when you are in town and I can arrange for you to perform with us on stage.

Dude, I definately would love to! ... I'll have more detail later...This will prolly happen in May 2013...

PaperDog wrote:
Dude, I definately would love to! ... I'll have more detail later...This will prolly happen in May 2013...

Dude can we please do Mr Corn Roze and Mariposa?

jsantos wrote:

PaperDog wrote:
Dude, I definately would love to! ... I'll have more detail later...This will prolly happen in May 2013...

Dude can we please do Mr Corn Roze and Mariposa?

I suppose ..yes... But I got dibbs on the rythms

Dude can we please do Mr Corn Roze and Mariposa?

EXCELLENT choices! Love Mr. Corn Rose..........

please try to arrange for someone to videotape it so that we can all see it!!

I'm pretty spoiled, I have huge finished band rehearsal space that also includes a room for my man cave - 65" Toshiba home theater, leather couches and three different sound systems (one is just for vinyl LPs). Life is good.

jsantos wrote:Hi GuitarMikeB! How are the rates there in MA for rental spaces?

Haven't heard back from the one close place yet (about 15 miles from me), but not expecting it to be affordable at this point. Mass real estate prices are still high, even if the economy has dropped everything by 1/3.

Our other options are work places from 2 of the band members that would mean we have to pack everything up and slide it into corners after each practice.

How about a storage facility like this?

http://morganstorage.com/rehearsal/index.html