General Music Chat

Aww... Hell no!!!!

I think I should move this to the "I'm p*ssed thread"!!!!


Just got an email from the WIFE of our new drummer, not even the drummer himself!!!! He hasn't been returning my calls for a few days, and the wife finally got fed up with him and wrote me an email.

Seems our band schedule is going to conflict with the drummer's church schedule on Saturday's (He's seventh day adventist). I happen to have studied about lots of religions, and I JUST KNEW this was going to be a problem, but the drummer assured me it wouldn't be. When he turned down a management job to keep room open for the band's schedule, that made me believe him, so I lobbied for him to get the job.

Follow that gut instinct!!! Damn!!!

So, we have 3 days notice till our next gig.

Luckily I had asked our old drummer not to leave the band, but stay on as a back-up drummer. He's seen the success we have been having since his accident, and it appears he is itching to get back in the saddle, so to speak.

So, he will be playing with us this Saturday luckily, and who knows, maybe God will open the door to keeping him here. The problem is, that he lives almost in Tennessee, and drives 5 hour round trip to get here for gigs and practices, but so far, we have very few mid-week gigs.

One bonus for the old drummer, which I had not had time to tell the new drummer yet, luckily. Is that Michael Allman, son of the famous and iconic Greg Allman (Allman Brothers) is going to be Southern Mischief's special guest this Saturday!!!! WooHoo!!!

http://www.myspace.com/michaelallmanband

We made friends with this guy through MySpace, and of course slipped in "Maybe we'll be fortunate enough to share a stage with you one of these days!"

And he replied...

"My band Hard Labor Creek, is not doing any gigs until our CD is finished, but I wouldn't mind sitting in as a guest on one of your shows sometime!"

So, of course, we sent him our next 3 shows and asked him which one he wanted to do, and which songs he wanted us to get ready for him!

He's supposed to send us an email with some song selections, although of course, he said that ANY Allman Brothers tunes would be fine. LOL

Guess he knows those by heart, growing up with Greg Allman, huh?

So, while it is not Greg Allman, I think this is a GREAT thing for the Mischief to be a part of. We are not just backing Michael up, but the venue will find out that he is "OUR" special guest!!!

I feel like that boosts our credibility up a little notch.

So far he is on board, and I hope he keeps the date, and if so, I will most certainly post some pics of this event!

Blessings and curses boys. Blessings and curses.

Try to honor the man upstairs and the curses more often than not, turn right back into blessings!!!

Holy Macaroni! His son?? .. I'm so jealous now :O
But you deserve it, guys. You keep Southern rock alive =D
\m/

A door closes, a door opens, only WE dont understand.

Holy Macaroni! His son?? .. I'm so jealous now :O
But you deserve it, guys. You keep Southern rock alive =D
\m/

Thanks. We're excited. Hopefully it all works out.

I was wondering which son this was... it's not the son with Cher, but damn, according to Wikipedia, Greg Allman has been married at least 7 times. Woah!

Wikipedia does mention Michael though...

"He also had one child before his first marriage, with Mary Lynn Sutton (now married with the last name Austin), Michael Sean Allman. Michael now lives in the Atlanta area and has a band named Hard Labor Creek. Michael has 2 sons, Brandon Michael & Christopher Lenoir"

Hey brother! I finally checked out your stuff through your site and then on myspace and then was going to ask to be added to the friends list, but I guess I'm not cool enough. VERY, VERY, VERY great work on song writing and even though I'm not a big fan of Southern Rock, you guys made me change my mind. Sorry to hear about the drummer issue, but I've always believed that God has always had his reasons for prayers unanswered (I was born and raised a Methodist) yet everything seems to make sense in the be all end all.

You guys have such a colorful and experienced past that I myself believe that there's almost nothing that you couldn't overcome as musicians. So be it true and let it be...

Good luck with all of your upcoming gigs and the ones in the future as well and let what I like to call "The Big Guy In The Sky" guide you along the way. Believe...

VERY, VERY, VERY great work on song writing and even though I'm not a big fan of Southern Rock, you guys made me change my mind.

Wow. I'm speechless. Thanks for ALL of what you said.

Sent you a friend request on MySpace.

Yeah, our little "fingering" pointer is tricky sometimes. LOL

The girl's seem to like that pointer though... don't know why?

All I listened to was Fall Down man that's awsome. Also love to see southern rock with a black Drummer. Kinda takes me back to the Allman Brothers. You guys are unbelievable and are better than most on the radio.

Just read more and saw about the Drummer. Man sorry. I know 2 good drummers but neither has a Kit. Could let them use mine for a while though. Let me know. I'm in your area. Us Holy rollers will play 7 days a week.

All I listened to was Fall Down man that's awsome. Also love to see southern rock with a black Drummer. Kinda takes me back to the Allman Brothers. You guys are unbelievable and are better than most on the radio.

Just read more and saw about the Drummer. Man sorry. I know 2 good drummers but neither has a Kit. Could let them use mine for a while though. Let me know. I'm in your area. Us Holy rollers will play 7 days a week.

Hey thanks brother! Much appreciated. Our original drummer is gonna play this weekend and he is supposed to cal tonight about that and the other gigs on our calendar, so we may have things covered. Hell, he may come back full time for awhile. We'll see. He is a top notch drummer.

Powder Springs... hmm

You should catch our gig at "The Local" in Marietta area. I haven't played it yet, but other bands have been telling us it is one of the best venues in Atlanta and surrounding areas now. They gutted the building and it's supposed to have state of the art sound and stage and lighting. Should be a kick-ass show. Two other good bands that night too! It's listed on our MySpace calendar. Hope to see you there, if you are not playing that night!

Well,

Looks like Michael Allman is coming tomorrow (today LOL)

He emailed me one of his original songs, and we're gonna do two Allman Brother covers for him as well! His song is nice and bluesy. I liked it!

Sadly, the band left practice before he sent me a playable version, but I emailed them the unmixed version he sent from the studio, and they can listen on the way to get the equipment tomorrow, maybe we'll have time to go over it a few times before we pack up for the gig. It won't be the first time we learned a song or two just an hour or so before a gig, and played it the same night. LOL

I'll post pics and stuff.

He seems like a really cool dude.

Hopefully all goes well.

Let you know tomorrow night! LOL

Believe...

Ok, this is really getting interesting.

You ended this great comment about us, which talked alot about God's purposes, and ended it with a single word: BELIEVE!


I don't think I realized that at first.

The guy who books us, was telling us his wife's business is struggling so bad, that he may have to step down as our Booking Agent. I told him that things would get better for ALL OF US in the band, and he and his wife included. I said that I could feel it. I told him God had a purpose in this band, and ended it with "BELIEVE!"


Minutes after I sent that to him, our recording engineer, a platinum producing engineer with a Gospel group at #6 on Billboard right now, sent me an email that said God's blessing was on the way, and it was one of those circular messages you are supposed to send to 8 other people or whatever. I HATE THOSE THINGS!!! I LOATHE THEM!!!!

But I read it because he is my engineer and he had sent it. It ended with a single word in caps: "BELIEVE"

Because I had just sent a message of encouragement to my booking agent only minutes before, with that same word at the end.... I took it as a sign, so I re-sent MY FIRST and probably LAST circular email, to 8 people. My wife was one of them.

My wife later told me that she had gotten chills when she read my email, because right below it, her dad had sent her an email talking about God's grace, and blessings, and it also had in caps, that single word: "BELIEVE!". It was not the same message as either of the other two, but again, had special emphasis on that word.

Now tonight, I just realized that your encouraging message to us, did as well.

WOW!!!!

I'm believing!!! I'm believing ALOT!!!!

Thanks for getting it brother. The way I see it is that there's only one thing in this world that no one can take away from us and that's HOPE. Once you've got that one down, then all that's left is believing in yourselves and believing in that what you've hoped for will pull through in the final plan. As I said before; you guys are sooooo skilled and blessed that I truly believe that there's nothing that you can't overcome even if it got in your way. Now that you got it brother take it and run with it and don't ever look back and forget about regrets because they could only pull you down and you're supposed to RISE.

Good luck tonight and have fun with it most importatnly. I'll be with you guys in spirit for sure I promise. I'm heading to my bass player buddy's studio and I'm praying that he'll get it for a change or I'll just record the bass tracks again like I've been doing all along. I still have HOPE that someday I'll meet the right people to fill the empty voids in my project. Unfortunately I need everyone but me. Like he said I already scared away 9 drummers, 4 singers, 5 bass players, and 3 rhythm players. Maybe it is all my fault, maybe it's karma, maybe it's "the big guy in the sky's" plan, but in the end I'll always have HOPE and I'll always BELIEVE that the events that have occured were all for a greater purpose...

Rock on brothers...ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!

P.S.- I missed the friend add, but I'll try it again because you guys are so freakin cool!!!

You better play Whipping Post .. either way, I hope you'll be able to get some groupie to film you, guys..
Awesome stuff!

Haven't gotten the pictures back yet, or seen the video yet, but I posted a few audios of Southern Mischief with Michael Allman as our special guest.

Posted all of "Melissa" and just a clip of "Mule Named Whiskey" cause that is his own song which isn't out yet. (sorry... just switched the Mule song out for "My Tremolo") Melissa's still up.

He had fun with the band, and actually hung out with us the whole night afterwards. We took him to a club that we had played last week, and he drank his ass off, and was cutting up with us all night. He wants to sing with us when we record "American Soldier" and says he doesn't want any money for it. Yeah right. I don't think so. He kept talking about us all night, and at one point may as well have asked us to be his new band. I think the band he's with right now is mostly for his studio work.

btw...

The guy who was headlining the club we went to after our gig was over, was Len Snow, who had come down from Nashville to play last night. Len has been on Billboard before, and is known a little in Nashville. It just so happens that we opened for Len Snow in Birmingham last year. And when we got off the stage at that show, Len had cornered me right away, and was all serious saying "Hey Craig, we need to talk about these songs of yours! These are some great songs, can you stay till after my set so we can talk about them? I've got some ideas!"

Yeah. Ideas like "You need to let ME (LEN) record some of these songs!"

I don't know if some of the band ever gets heady ideas from hearing this stuff, but what I always notice, is that these guys trying to make it big on their own, and get a little close to it, whether from having a famous last name or being on Billboard once, or whatever... these guys see Southern Mischief and hear us play, and suddenly have designs on how OUR songs, or OUR band, is gonna help THEM make it.

I think we'll keep our songs for ourselves.

We had to use our own PA, which is sh*tty, but we didn't do too badly backing him up, considering we had only run through his songs a few times, just hours before the gig to try and learn them. His song went roughly, cause he forgot the words and arrangement to his own song, hey it happens, but here we are trying to follow HIM. LOL

But the crowd seemed to like it all.

That's all that matters.

And it was another experience to add to the list. We had fun.

Craig.. I just listened to the songs.. And I gotta tell you. I don't know man. I personally didn't care for his voice all that much. I know the guy has the Allman name behind him, but that doesn't mean a whole lot to me. You know, the whole Dweezel Zappa, Sean Lennon thing, Jon Davis' brother was the singer for Adema.. I just never was really impressed with people who've had to use the name of their talented brothers, dads, cousins.. I mean, I did happen to like Bob Dylan's kid (the singer for The Wallflowers, can't really remember his name right now).

It's cool that he sat in with you guys, and it'll only help get your name out there that much more. It might be pretty cool to have him sitting in on a recording. But if I were you I wouldn't even think about having him as your lead singer. In my opinion YOUR VOICE IS MUCH BETTER..

You have a tone to your voice that he just doesn't have. He'd be a good backup singer for you though..

Sounds like you had a lot of fun.. I had fun last night, I went and saw some good old fashioned car racing.. Sometimes you just can't beat a night at the track.

Thanks Shredd!

Yeah, we look on it as a fun time and a step closer to the real thing. Next time it will be "dad" (Greg Allman) playing with us. LOL


I didn't tell you guys yet about the nasty phone message our booking agent got last night, because Michael got temporarily left alone at the bar we took him to, and he thought we had ditched him without a ride back to his truck.

The end of the message says something like...

I don't want any of these mother f*cking pictures posted on MySpace!

He was talking about ones that might show him getting rowdy at the club and groping all over the women that came around him.

Like they're gonna end up in The Enquirer or something. LOL