General Music Chat

We ended up getting four bids from listeners for us to perform a two hour gig some time in the future. The radio station gets the money ($300) and we get a half hour of airtime, good publicity for us. Now if we only had a new guitar player. We may have to rent one for the night. I'm auditioning some right now, hopefully one will work out. Lots of guitarists but few qualified. A channel catfish with aids? I heard of beastiality but "mounting" a few is really sick. ninety pounds? I believe the world record channel is about fifty pounds. You sure it wasn't a flathead or blue catfish? I can sort of see having sex with a flathead or blue but never a channel. Not much into eels. Later...

Yep it was a channel cat the only thing they could figger was that it got hit by a ferry boat!!

Sorry Bob I could not pass it up on a fishin thead i was hopeing that more would get hook's in there mouth's before i pulled it in..

And congrad's on you radio performence today way to go, sounds like your band is doing great things.You might be typing on a laptop on a bus before long.

Maybe the center for disease control should quarantine all ferry boats. They need to take blood samples from the ferry boats. Maybe there was some discreet sexual activity on the front of the ferry boat right before it crashed into the channel cat. What was the channel catfish doing near the surface? Catfish are predominantly bottom feeders. Maybe it was coming up to take a peak at the sexual activity? Maybe some guy had his schlong hanging in the water? This story gets weirder and weirder. If aids can spread to fish then we're all in big trouble. Maybe it's a terrorist plot. ANyway the radio deal is no big deal really. Just a good way for us to get some publicity on the air here in Kansas City. Also gives me a chance to promote us elsewhere around the country. I did it last year and probably wil do it each year for the foreseeable future. As far as me being on a bus somewhere that would be okay if someone gave me a huge contract. Don't see that happening anytime soon, but stranger things have happened. If Britney Spears is worth millions I should be worth billions. Later...

No comment on the fish thing, I have no clue.

As far as the radio play goes, that is cool, Fisherman Bob, that you are getting airplay. Hey, look, if Brittany can make it, so can you (As you said). If you guys have a major concert and tour bus let all of us know, and give us free tickets! (Very cheap... Just kidding).

Good luck with all future goals.

Sign, GuitarAnatomy.

Good GRREEEEEEF.Sound's like you used every one of you'r C.S.I. investagating skill's on the ol fish story. (as he takes the hook out of his mouth) lol.

Im happy for you and you band realy.If you get to come Springfield any time soon let me know yamerha@hotmail.com Blues is almost as big as that channel around here..

In my area the channel cats are more apt to be where ther is some current as upposed to laying on the bottom of deep waters. We freqently catch the on jigs but most people use minnows. If you can find an old stream bed or the original river channel in inpoundments you have a good chance of catching CC. The best tasting of the catfish in my opinion.
Not muddy flavored like a big ol blue.
I think its great you are accomplishing things in your musical endevors Bob. I will pray for your band. (do not be offended)

a new lead guitarist QUICK. The last one disappeared literally. No trace of him. Later...

I told ya' before bob, Ya' gotta go kidnap young Mike Gentry! (were tying to keep him playin' the blues). If he heard the radio broadcast, he probably would have gotten on the bus voluntarily.

back to fishen,

As far as good eatin' goes, you can't beat the little "redeye" catfish we have in the Poconos, and that's no fish story!

on guitar. He's very versatile, plays bass and harmonica. Played in a three man band called Five Man Trio (bandmembers switched off on different instruments). Looking forward to getting some good stuff together with him. Also will be adding a sax player to give us another dimension. We need to keep moving forward with this music business. There's all kinds of different fish in different regions of the country. One of my favorites here in Kansas is Redear Sunfish. They're not native to Kansas but stocked in the smaller reservoirs. They tend to grow a little bigger than bluegill. Apparently they're quite good to eat (as are bluegill). They inhabit deeper waters than other sunfish, are much more challenging to catch. We're actually trying to catch a state record. We know a couple of lakes that most likely have them. About three years ago I did catch a state record class redear but let it go. I had no idea what the state record for redear was at the time, but I'm quite sure that fish was bigger than the state record. I fully expect me or my fishing buddy to be nailing the state record soon. Another reservoir which has been closed the past four years for repairs is opening up next year. I'm quite sure there will be some large redear in that one as well. If I get the record I'll put a picture of it up on Bandmix for you to look at. In the meantime I expect to do some serious recording this year as well. Got a lot more originals. We'll be getting into the studio as soon as we have them tightened up with the new band members. Later...

Bob ,
Good news indeed on the guitar player problem! That band that played after you on the radio broadcast sounded pretty happening, so it looks like ya got some stiff competition. It also sounds like Kansas city has a good blues scene happening . The addition of a good sax player could give you guys an "edge".best of luck.

As mentioned before, my new trio may be augmenting to a four piece if the sax player works out. I'd still consider a guitar player, if somebody like Craig or Jimmy or Dax or Scarlet or Mikey or Jon or Crip or Guitargal or I.A. or Paul or Pete or Alan or any number of other good guitar players on this forum lived around here. Hell, I'd probably give G.A a shot at the gig if I ever heard him play. Come to think about it , it might be cool to have a good bagpipe player and maybe a Celtic harp player, it they wouldn't mind playin' with a cantankerous ol' fart!

Back to fishin',

Cin and I own 11 acres of wet land in the "back yard" and we have a number of streams and ponds. Apart from an occasional bass that gets dropped in a pond by a hawk or owl, I'm sorry to say we have no fish of legal size. We do have plenty of frogs, snapping turtles, aquatic snails, crayfish, salamanders, squirrels, mink bear and a whole lot of whitetail deer. The Pocono creek runs past less then a mile down the road, and its stocked with trout. The sad truth is that , these days around here, there's more liner isle space in the Wall-marts and K- marts selling fishing tackle than there is legal stream banks from which to fish!...later

John

Hell, I'd probably give G.A a shot at the gig if I ever heard him play.

*Scorched, was added at the end, is the "last guitarist on line."*

Neh, I am just kidding. Heck, I would audition if I lived where you did! Lol. I think I could get in, I am confident enough in my 2 years worth of playing to handle it I think, depending on what kind of songs I would have to play that is.

I just finished learning a very fast Metallica song (Solo and all). So if I am surviving some of that stuff I cannot imagine what you would throw at me would be any harder (Unless it was B.B. King stuff or Classical... Then I would hide).

Ol' Uncle Howlin, I would be glad to play with you anyday, and I do not care if you are a "cantankerous ol' fart," which you never seemed to me to be anyhow. Lol.

Peace out and good luck, GuitarAnatomy.

What kind of crap is that? Does the state stock it? If so I believe you have the right to fish the stream as long as you are within ten feet of the stream bank. I used to have arguments all the time with land owners in New Jersey. They tried to kick me off their land saying it was private property, to no avail. I had one idiot sick his dogs on me. BIG MISTAKE. You need to check the state regulations. If you have a valid fishing license with a trout stamp then there's no way anybody can kick you off the stream. At least that's the way it was in New Jersey. I'll be damned if I'm paying for trout and can't fish for them in a publicly stocked body of water. Those are legally MY fish, I OWN them. They are MINE. They have "fisherman bob" tattooed on their bellies. Later...

Here in Texas you must be on the water or "streambed" the private property on either side of public water is just that, private. was a time when most of the farmers and ranchers were cool. The idiots tearing up their stuff with fourwheelers motorcycles of leaving piles of trash pretty much screwed that up. When I was a teen we'd boat down river and camp anyplace it looked good. The ranchers if they knew we were there would come by to talk, if they got the feelin we respected their property and natural resourse we usually got an invite to come anytime. I'd not dare try that now. More likely to get arrested or shot. On the other side of that we also have millions of acres of public land. Much of it boardering bodies of water.

Hey Bob,
I just did a little fishin' myself, and look at what I caught outa' the YOU- TUBE Creek!

Fry it up slow and enjoy! (I know ya don't eat real fish, but you'll like this Freddie video, I first head this tune by Butterfield back in the 60's. I also have a good version by Skip James)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFsmn3I ... re=related

your ol' fishin' pal,
Howlin'

Thanks for sending that Howlin. We actually have that song in our repertoire. We do the Junior Wells version (I think he wrote it) which is almost exactly like the song Help Me by Sonny Boy Williamson II, which is essentially Green Onions with words. We actually put Yonder Wall and Help Me together and make it one song. Freddie King did a lot of cover tunes in his live shows. He always ad-libbed the words to a lot of the tunes. He's got a killer version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Lowdown In Lodi. Freddie King was a blues guitar god and if he didn't die so young I think he would have eventually been as big as B.B. King. Two of the big Kings (B.B., Freddie, and Albert) are related I think. Thanks again, pretty soon we'll be fishing. Two brand new small reservoirs will be opening up this Spring. We'll be bringing home a bunch of big redears and bluegill. Whenever a new reservoir opens up we go clean it out the first year. Lots of tasty fillets waiting for us. Later...