General Music Chat

We played at a couple of festivals where there were thousands of people in the area. Hard to say how many people actually stopped and listened. One of them was wall-to-wall people walking along sidewalks at a street fair. If you can ever get in those make sure you put a big banner up with your band's name, it's good name recognition....

I gotta ask...was there bitch slappin' involved?

yea ... of sorts. Ike was everything that you hear and more.

I'd always wanted to see her perform.. That must have been amazing!

Tina was the best thing on the tour ... she was amazing ... so much energy & a pro all the way.

It was like being in heaven and hell at the same time.

There was this obesity awareness show one time...
I suppose they would have been the biggest

There was this obesity awareness show one time...
I suppose they would have been the biggest

Basements and garages don't really draw large crowds.

I guess I should have mentioned being on television. I had the priviledge of working with a Maestro named Benito Trejo, Whom wrote, co-wrote, co-engineered, produced, played guitar, and is just a generally cool guy on the first nine songs on my profile. Due to the many hats he was wearing I had to play a lot of his parts on those recordings and he allowed me a lot of lattitude but still he is the man. He was and still is a very highly respected and under-rated musician in this area. Well due to our mutual respect for one another a little show here in Houston called Viva Houston featured Bernard and I guess in a way I rode his coat tails so to speak. Anyway we went to Channel 13 the Houston affiliate of ABC and performed on there at least 4 times. It was weird you know how it is as a musician you are so busy that you really don't have time to get to know your neighbors unless of coarse you are an old fart like me now and you have payed your dues. Anyhow I had moved into a new hood and this one time we were on TV Hell I had to work that day and didn't even get the chance to watch our performence that day, but the rest of Houston saw it. I came home from work that day and my neighbors had seen it and were freakin out that I lived next door to them. That was a very weird feeling. My point is that being on TV in the city of Houston you are performing for at least one million (pinky finger next to jaw) People LOL!

5000....I played with Lonnie Mack at a bluesfest outside. on the Mississippi river.

Jambalaya Festival in Gonzales LA mid 80's, not sure how many people were there but I sat in with a friend's band for about 30 minutes and I could see at least 2000 people from the stage.

Mardi Gras a couple of years later as a street musician, several thousand people walked by, I think we made $300-400 each that night. Usually no more than 20 or so at a time could hear us.

Austin also as a street musician several thousand people would walk by every night, had a great reputation and probably a hundred fans who would stop and listen regularly. Both the street gigs it would be just a few people at a time, and lots of times in Austin the police (very nice guys) would come over and ask us to shut down because too many people were wandering out into the street when we drew a big crowd. We would have over 50 people crowding us into our regular storefront and people milling in the street. That was unsafe so the police would nicely ask us to take a break. We always complied of course, and between us and the cops we usually managed to get it done calmly and without incident, even though the audience usually protested when they woukld ask us to take a break.

Also in austin we regularly packed a 6th street club until the manager screwed us on our money, 250-300 people at a time every night, and since we made $750 each the last few nights at a dollar a head, 750 people over the course of the night several times. Then the manager put one of her employees at the door and we had even more people packed into the place, she handed us $125 each...

350,000 Woodstock '94

110,000

350,000 Woodstock '94

WooHoo! We have a winner!

That's awesome brother!

Who did you play with?

My mom , my wife and my younger brother,does that count?
I still don't know if they liked it,now aint that sad?

My mom , my wife and my younger brother,does that count?

LOL


Strangely enough, I find it harder to perform in front of 3 people, than tens of thousands.

Craig , I love your profile picture,,,, everytime I see it.

350,000 Woodstock '94

WooHoo! We have a winner!

That's awesome brother!

Who did you play with?

Get this, Frank Messina and Spoken Motion. A Spoken Word artist, we got ten minutes or something like that, LOL!
Then Trent went on . . . Spoken who?