Gunns Ablaze
Heidi's wishes for those bored of her talk of politics to skip ahead to the next post, namely this one, might be a wee disappointed.
Things being as they are, I'll just report on the Mike Gunn and move on.
Practices are going rather well. Not to jinx it or anything. Suffice to say we sound better than ever and I that I find that pretty gratifying.
I enjoyed the Mike Gunn for many reasons. No, we weren't virtuosos as Heidi so poignantly recognized many years back, but what we did we did fairly well, and I for one enjoyed it.
A good band, to me, has a lot to do with chemistry, and not as much to do with technique or chops. I mean, technical proficiency is fine, but without chemistry, I tend to find that most bands are usually pretty boring.
Let's just say our chops have never suffered for being exhaustive. Having said that, we have always enjoyed a certain amount of chemistry on varying levels.
After all these years, it's pretty much exactly as it was when we walked away.
I wonder about the show itself, that night, what it will mean, what is at stake, and so on.
I hope it's fun not just for us, but for whoever else is there that night. It's really all for fun and I intend to keep it that way.
And as Curt once famously stated, after countless beers, and at least one and a half Jack in the Box Colossal burgers:
Go ask the lady who's riding the camel. Thank you very much. Good night.
Things being as they are, I'll just report on the Mike Gunn and move on.
Practices are going rather well. Not to jinx it or anything. Suffice to say we sound better than ever and I that I find that pretty gratifying.
I enjoyed the Mike Gunn for many reasons. No, we weren't virtuosos as Heidi so poignantly recognized many years back, but what we did we did fairly well, and I for one enjoyed it.
A good band, to me, has a lot to do with chemistry, and not as much to do with technique or chops. I mean, technical proficiency is fine, but without chemistry, I tend to find that most bands are usually pretty boring.
Let's just say our chops have never suffered for being exhaustive. Having said that, we have always enjoyed a certain amount of chemistry on varying levels.
After all these years, it's pretty much exactly as it was when we walked away.
I wonder about the show itself, that night, what it will mean, what is at stake, and so on.
I hope it's fun not just for us, but for whoever else is there that night. It's really all for fun and I intend to keep it that way.
And as Curt once famously stated, after countless beers, and at least one and a half Jack in the Box Colossal burgers:
Go ask the lady who's riding the camel. Thank you very much. Good night.
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Is someone (pretty please) gonna be recording and videotaping this shindig, for those of us unlucky enough not to be in attendance?
Joe will probably record from the board. Hopefully some folks will videotape it as well.
i don't think anything is really at stake at the actual performance.
what was at stake was whether or not you'd be willing to call yourselves a band. you don't need an audience and you needn't give two shits about anybody's reaction.
words can keep coming back to haunt... i think it was actually meant as a cryptic compliment a long time ago. agreed, there are many more technically gifted musicians but their music is crap. it's facil for critics to write about virtuosic skills, but what happens to that kind of evaluation system when another band deftly blows another band out of the water with sheer intention?
conor, you need to get yourself a plane ticket.
and no dancing!
Wow, that show is in little more than a month. Am I the only hardcore old-skool fan flying in?
I'm curious as to whether or not you guys plan on doing another cover version of Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game", with Scott singing, and Cramer on drums...I believe that also happened at the NO DANCING show.
What was the No Dancing show? I can't believe I don't remember it. Maybe that was when I was in Colorado? I think I missed some good gigs while I wasted my time there.
You do know, don't you, that, "things being as they are," it may be kind of difficult for some of us to have fun? But I'll give it a go, because there is no way I'm gonna miss it.
john,
with all the talk about a mike gunn show, this question occured to me: what ever became of mike gunn, the person?
Brian,I spoke with his sister by email a few months back. He is in Austin, raising his daughter, and living in a house his mother owns, or something to that effect.
I haven't spoken with him since he got into the Mike Gunn show at the Ritz for free by waving his drivers license at the doorman.
She gave me his phone number, but I balked at the last minute.
Supposedly he is doing fine.
kyle...i've often wondered how to get the word out about the impending Mike Gunn show to folx outside Houston. other than this blog, i don't know of any other...err...global vehicle for getting the word out.
come to think of it, there REALLY needs to be a poster just for the sunday night show since it's so different than the other two nights of the festival. think i'll mention it to the promoter.
when are you getting here again? i've asked a thousand times but THIS time i'm gonna put it on my calendar. fun tymez ahead!
yeah, I did a search on the band, the date and the venue that I thought it'd be at, and found nothing. of course that was a couple of weeks ago, but still, I don't know where it's at, and, there's a festival?
the mike gunn will be performing with the mirrors, the linus pauling quartet and other really talented local psyche-y acts at rudyards, sunday, december 16 as part of the texas gone garage festival that starts that friday.
there's a link to it on rudyards.com website. tickets on sale now.
Thanks!
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