The weekend Thread

[Tig***]

Kids in band wanted to take a silly pic before church, so as usual I obliged:

LOL! I love it!

Fri and Sat - endless rain, so mostly hung out at home and ate at Chuy's

Sunday - bought a new 15 gallon shop vac.
Cleaned house until the Super Bowl.

[Eric***]

For the longest time there've been 3 people on the church "prayer list" under "cancer:" me (even though I haven't had any for over a year, and actual treatment stopped about a year ago), and two ladies, Stephanie and Diane. Stephanie is the mom of a girl who's my son's age (14, as well as a second younger daughter), she's probably in her 40's. She and her husband owned a funky little music store/package store/venue that they had to close about a year ago due to her illness. The other gal, Diane, was younger still, married with 2 boys about 4 and 6 I'd guess. She'd been very sick for a long time and died last week, I think she got pneumonia.

I didn't know her well because she was seldom well enough to come to church, although I did at least get to meet her last Christmas because we went caroling to her house. But most every Sunday her name was mentioned next to or near mine during prayers, Diane, Stephanie, Brian. She had previously asked the band if they would play at her memorial service, so of course we are. Only two songs, but this will be a bit tough. Glad I don't have to sing or do anything solo.

Yikes. That's rough. I guess we can count ourselves as blessed that you made it through okay. Good luck with the service.

[Brian Krashpad]

Yikes. That's rough. I guess we can count ourselves as blessed that you made it through okay. Good luck with the service.

Thanks Eric.

Just got back. We ended up only doing two songs, and only one was in the actual service, the other was pre-service. Apparently she'd left a list of like 25 hymns and 4 contemporary songs.

At any rate, it was a good service and our two songs came out fine. Although I had a little trouble keeping it together during the actual service song, so far as I could tell none of the vocalists did, during either song, and the probs I was having during the second song didn't really manifest themselves audibly.

Just a little hard to read a lead sheet when you're tearing up.

[Brian Krashpad]

Wednesday morning I played a memorial service at church, Thursday night I had a practice with my old college party band, Band of Fools, to prep for a house party in March sometime, today I have church band rehearsal, Sunday morning I have the usual 11 a.m. service, and Sunday evening I have Crash Pad rehearsal for an upcoming Leap Year Day gig.

[R_of_G]

Had an interesting weekend guitar-wise. For the first time, I sold one of my guitars. My neighbor is going to be doing some gigging in the near future. He has some concerns about using his expensive American Fender Strat in local bars he's not too familiar with so he was looking to buy an inexpensive Strat for these gigs. He enjoyed playing mine and we ended up brokering a deal that puts me 2/3 of the way to buying myself a Tele. And, if I ever want to play the Strat again, it only moved two houses down the street.

[Brian Krashpad]

Had an interesting weekend guitar-wise. For the first time, I sold one of my guitars. My neighbor is going to be doing some gigging in the near future. He has some concerns about using his expensive American Fender Strat in local bars he's not too familiar with so he was looking to buy an inexpensive Strat for these gigs. He enjoyed playing mine and we ended up brokering a deal that puts me 2/3 of the way to buying myself a Tele. And, if I ever want to play the Strat again, it only moved two houses down the street.

Win-win!

Banjo'd on one song in the 11 o'clock service Sunday. I expect there'll be plenty in neck braces today, from the number of rapidly turning heads (we play up in the choir loft in the back of the church) I heard there were, once the song started. I call it "Lutheran whiplash."

Heh heh.

Freakin GREAT Crash Pad practice last night. Aside from our other guitarist Mitchell inadvertently stealing my hoodie (he left his) and a broken E string on the Gretsch Special Jet, it would be difficult for it to have gone any better. PLUS, our "patron" Tim from TB2 Records brought the mockup of the cover for the new album and it looks GREAT. We should have CD versions of the album for our Leap Year Day show at BackStage 2/29, with the vinyl to follow.

[Eric***]

R_of_G, with a tele and a semi-hollow, you would only need a Jazzmaster to be in hipster indie-rock heaven. That said, teles are pretty sweet.

My weekend was boring. Spent some time playing on ye olde telecastere and trying to figure out which direction I would take practice next. I kind of decided I need to work on relaxing more when I play, because otherwise I'm never really going to make much headway on my technique. Watched some basketball and went to a party on Saturday. Drank too much wine. Went to church on Sunday, wished they would call me about playing the bass already since I've already auditioned and 'passed.' Ah well.

Come Tuesday, my wife and I might go walk around the city and make fun of people who are out on dates.

[R_of_G]

R_of_G, with a tele and a semi-hollow, you would only need a Jazzmaster to be in hipster indie-rock heaven. That said, teles are pretty sweet.

If I had the money, I'd have a Jazzmaster as well. Actually, after the Tele, my next instrument purchase will probably be a bass. It's about time I had my own.

[Brian Krashpad]

If I had the money, I'd have a Jazzmaster as well. Actually, after the Tele, my next instrument purchase will probably be a bass. It's about time I had my own.

I've never played a Jazzmaster. Would like to. A couple months back I did see and hear one though, but it was up onstage, far away.

[R_of_G]

I've never played a Jazzmaster. Would like to. A couple months back I did see and hear one though, but it was up onstage, far away.

I want one mostly to play surf rock, not that you can't play it on many other models, but nothing sounds as good for that style than a Jazzmaster.

[Brian Krashpad]

I want one mostly to play surf rock, not that you can't play it on many other models, but nothing sounds as good for that style than a Jazzmaster.

Or a Mosrite Ventures model.

Btw, the gal pictured was playing heavy chuggachugga grunge/riotgrrl type music on hers.

I heard they're good for indie rock too.

[R_of_G]

EC is definitely another reason I want one. Well, he and Tom Verlaine, and Nels Cline, and Thurston Moore, etc...

That Mosrite Ventures guitar would be sweet.

Of course, if I were looking for a Mosrite, it'd probably be this one...

[Brian Krashpad]

EC is definitely another reason I want one. Well, he and Tom Verlaine, and Nels Cline, and Thurston Moore, etc...

That Mosrite Ventures guitar would be sweet.

Of course, if I were looking for a Mosrite, it'd probably be this one...

You're preachin' to the choir, amigo!

For now the closest I've got is at least vaguely the same shape:

[R_of_G]

You're preachin' to the choir, amigo!

For now the closest I've got is at least vaguely the same shape:

Oh, I know it. I figured if nobody else appreciated Johnny's guitar, you surely would.

Your axe looks sweet all black. If Crash Pad ever gets down to the Tampa/St. Pete area again, let me know. I'm sure I'd have a great time at one of your gigs.

[deeaa*]

EC is definitely another reason I want one. Well, he and Tom Verlaine, and Nels Cline, and Thurston Moore, etc...

That Mosrite Ventures guitar would be sweet.

Of course, if I were looking for a Mosrite, it'd probably be this one...

I love that Mosrite...it was my inspiration when I designed the shape for my Davette:

[R_of_G]

Very nice Dee.

[deeaa*]

Thanks R of G! Now getting back to weekends...

Went out to a nearby slope to sled a little with the boys. The bigger one is 6 now so he can help the wee one (2) and I need not accompany every slide no more :-)





After that we went swimming. Indoors, that is.

[Brian Krashpad]

I always shiver at Dee's posts. Brr. But I do love sledding.

Friday: went to dinner and watched a couple sets by these guys:



Saturday: did laundry and watched the Gators DESTROY Arkansas in their own house, where they hadn't lost in forever.

Sunday: played a fairly disastrous set in church. Pre-service mellow song went well, then for some reason the first service song had a mix that was all weird despite that we'd done a sound check. Apparently the prissy senior pastor had a hissyfit, as if we'd really intended to sound like that? (I should mention we play in a building particularly unsuited to live modern music, and without proper monitors, despite that we do have a pipe organ that probably costs more than Casa Krashpad.) So the bandleader gets all freaked, and as there's no way to troubleshoot mid-service, decides to scrap original plan for final song, and go downstairs (we play up in a choir loft, part of the problem) up front and do the song acoustically. So it was him on piano and me on 12-string, plus singers. Which went well enough... except for the mics not being on.

Sunday night: went to this and saw a lot of my friends on the local scene and listened to bands and took pics and got info for my next magazine column and chatted up some peeps for the next Crash Pad show and didn't spend a dime:

http://scene.gainesville.com/article...-and-for-music

[R_of_G]

Dee - Looks like your boys had a great time. Though we're raising her in Florida, I intend to do enough traveling that my daughter gets to experience the fun aspects of winter weather.

Brian - Your posts always remind me how much cooler Gainesville's music scene is than Tampa's.