HERE IT COMES!

[Perry]

I just want to chime in here and wish everyone a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)

And... Happy SAWing in 2006! Probably soon we'll be getting SAWStudio 4 and that is going to kick start us all into a great 2006 year of production. I'm sure Bob is working passionately away at this for us all and I can hardly wait to see (and use) all the new features that he'll be adding to an already fantastic program.

My thanks to Bob amd Jeanne for all the great SAWStudio products and support in 2005 ....as well as all the years before that.

And thanks too to all the forum members for all the great contributions that have been posted.

Good luck to all and all the best for 2006! Ready or not.... Here it comes!!!! :eek: :)

Perry

[Naturally Digital]

I just want to chime in here and wish everyone a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) Ditto! Best wishes to everyone and thanks for another year!

[Mountain Media]

EXACTLY what Perry said!!

[bertie]

Happy New Year Friends :)

Bertie,

[Rabbit]

I just want to chime in here and wish everyone a very HAPPY NEW YEAR! :)

And... Happy SAWing in 2006! Probably soon we'll be getting SAWStudio 4 and that is going to kick start us all into a great 2006 year of production. I'm sure Bob is working passionately away at this for us all and I can hardly wait to see (and use) all the new features that he'll be adding to an already fantastic program.

My thanks to Bob amd Jeanne for all the great SAWStudio products and support in 2005 ....as well as all the years before that.

And thanks too to all the forum members for all the great contributions that have been posted.

Good luck to all and all the best for 2006! Ready or not.... Here it comes!!!! :eek: :)

Perry

Perry nailed it pretty well. Thanks for a great year of tips, ideas, support, etc. to all here in SAWland and especially to Bob and Jeanne for the excellent support and genuine (unparalleled in my experience) customer service they provide.

:)

[Leadfoot]

yes happy new year you guys! i'm doing sound for a band tonight(against my better judgement) but it should be fun. hope all goes well for everyone. thanks for a great year bob and company!

tony

[UpTilDawn]

Happy New Year All!

NO gig tonight for the first time in years! :)
Usually get snow, freezing rain, or both, which makes for horrendous driving conditions....... wouldn't you know it.... nothing of the sort this weekend. :rolleyes:

Fun to enjoy the New Year the way others do for a change!

DanT

[Bruce Callaway]

Happy New Year to all...

[Mark Stebbeds]

Happy New Year to all.

I'll be going to see The Drifters at the restaurant where Robert Blake wacked his wife. Early show, kicked out by 10:30 for second show. Probably asleep before the ball drops.

Mark

[Tim Miskimon]

Happy New Year to all.

I'll be going to see The Drifters at the restaurant where Robert Blake wacked his wife. Early show, kicked out by 10:30 for second show. Probably asleep before the ball drops.

Mark
The Drifters? Which one?
I've done sound for two Different Groups claiming to be the Drifters. They both where good but only one of them had a member who was in The original Drifters - Charlie Thomas I believe was his name.
Oh well hope you had a good time.
This is the first time in a good while that my band didn't play on New Years Eve so I did sound for a Baptist church service - pretty intense... ;)
Happy 2006 to all!

[Bill Park]

The Drifters? Which one?
I've done sound for two Different Groups claiming to be the Drifters. They both where good but only one of them had a member who was in The original Drifters - Charlie Thomas I believe was his name.
Oh well hope you had a good time.
This is the first time in a good while that my band didn't play on New Years Eve so I did sound for a Baptist church service - pretty intense... ;)
Happy 2006 to all! yeah, in the 80s there were three...

Bill

[John Hernandez]

A blessed and prosperous new year to all my fellow SAWsters! Thank you Bob for the awesome tools...can't wait to see what you have in store for us in 2006!

Sincerely,

[Mark Stebbeds]

The Drifters? Which one?


I don't know which one it was, but it sure sucked. On the other hand, they gave us noisemakers at our table, so we were able to play along.

The guy that invited us found a website that said something about "if it doesn't say "original Drifters, then it's not the real deal", but we went anyhow because we paid in advance. :)

I don't know who they were, but the old guys sang pretty darn good, and I was very impressed with their excellent pitch. It was WAY obvious that the band never saw the singers before they stepped on stage, and it was really sad when the band didn't know the tunes, or the changes. It was more of a nostalgia trip than a concert, with a lot of talking and asking the audience if they remembered old stuff.

The high note of the evening was Deacon Jones played fake B-3, whom I had met a few centuries ago with Freddie King. So I grabbed his attention after the set and reminisced, and then he guilted me into buying his book for $20.

At one point, one of the singers screwed up and said they were the Platters. I think they have a promoter guy that probably owns the names (Platters, Drifters, Coasters), and has them in Vegas at the Sahara several months out of the year, hopefully with a band that actually knows the tunes.

Oh well, we knew better, so we had a good time anyhow.

Happy New Year,

Mark

[MikeDee]

The Drifters? Which one?
I've done sound for two Different Groups claiming to be the Drifters. They both where good but only one of them had a member who was in The original Drifters - Charlie Thomas I believe was his name.
Oh well hope you had a good time.
This is the first time in a good while that my band didn't play on New Years Eve so I did sound for a Baptist church service - pretty intense... ;)
Happy 2006 to all!

Yes, Charlie Thomas ran one group...Doc Green the other. Having been on the circuit back then as 2nd tenor and keyboardist for the Belmonts, I knew both...very cool guys. I was a bit closer to Doc and his guys, since we traveled together every so often.

I haven't seen 'em in years. Good to know at least one is still going strong. :)

Oh, yea, I did a wedding New Year's Eve. (Yep, a wedding...not the first time, either...did one two NYEs ago.) I'm working to incorporate SAWStudio into the act...for sequencing, etc. I have a Q re: this...so I'll start a new thread.

Happy New Year, All! :)

Best Personal Regards,

[studio-c]

Happy New Year Friends :)

Bertie,

Hey Bertie!
I was just on a flight and they were playing a Pink Panther movie. Inspector Clousseau got on the phone, and I was going, "Oh wow, here it comes!!!" And he said the "serious consideration" line.

I stood up and shouted, "Yessss! You da man!!" and did my little end-zone dance. And was immediately shot with Tazers and tranquilizers by sky marshalls.

Actually not. But I did see your scene on the plane though. A happy moment in my life. :)

[Tim Miskimon]

I don't know which one it was, but it sure sucked. On the other hand, they gave us noisemakers at our table, so we were able to play along.

The guy that invited us found a website that said something about "if it doesn't say "original Drifters, then it's not the real deal", but we went anyhow because we paid in advance. :)

I don't know who they were, but the old guys sang pretty darn good, and I was very impressed with their excellent pitch. It was WAY obvious that the band never saw the singers before they stepped on stage, and it was really sad when the band didn't know the tunes, or the changes. It was more of a nostalgia trip than a concert, with a lot of talking and asking the audience if they remembered old stuff.

The high note of the evening was Deacon Jones played fake B-3, whom I had met a few centuries ago with Freddie King. So I grabbed his attention after the set and reminisced, and then he guilted me into buying his book for $20.

At one point, one of the singers screwed up and said they were the Platters. I think they have a promoter guy that probably owns the names (Platters, Drifters, Coasters), and has them in Vegas at the Sahara several months out of the year, hopefully with a band that actually knows the tunes.

Oh well, we knew better, so we had a good time anyhow.

Happy New Year,

Mark

A few years ago the promoter brought all three of them to Baltimore and I ran sound for them. None of them were ever in the original groups - most of them are dead - and the band was a group of musicians hand selected at random... :D
Much too young to ever really remember the songs... from what I was told - you are right - the management/promoter owns the names.
I dread the day when it happens to the names of Beatles/Stones...etc. - The wanna be tribute bands are bad enough. Just another rip-off to make money.
Oh well... :(

[studio-c]

- and the band was a group of musicians hand selected at random... :D

Maybe my response belongs in that Rickenbacker Bass thread, but the biggest horror story bait n switch was seeing Yes one time. Chris Squire was ill or something, and there was this session bass player in a turtleneck, sitting on a stool, reading two music stands worth of charts.
Of course the Yes audience containing so many musicians, there were probably 100 bass players (including my girlfriend) who could have played the stuff note for note. To hear this guy vamp on chord progressions and not play the actual lines was just heartbreaking. People would actually scream when a Chris Squire riff came up in a song and the guy would just play quarter notes on the root. :eek:

Plus he was playing a Fender P-Bass. :mad:

[Mark Stebbeds]

A few years ago the promoter brought all three of them to Baltimore and I ran sound for them. None of them were ever in the original groups - most of them are dead - and the band was a group of musicians hand selected at random... :D
Much too young to ever really remember the songs... from what I was told - you are right - the management/promoter owns the names.
I dread the day when it happens to the names of Beatles/Stones...etc. - The wanna be tribute bands are bad enough. Just another rip-off to make money.
Oh well... :(

I don't have a problem with the old guys trying to make a living. As I said they sang pretty darn good...the band just didn't know the songs and there was an unacceptable amount of bad moments.

I think it's disprespectful to the audience to not take that extra very short step and make sure the band at least has basic block charts, keys, etc.

There are many rock bands of the sixties, seventies and eighties (most missing some original members) touring the "nostalgia circuit" of casinos, indian casinos, county and state fairs. Most of them have the integrity to put forth a good show, budget permitting, but every now and then there are a few old farts that care only about getting the money and getting out of town and disprespect the music and the audience.

Mark

[Mark Stebbeds]

Plus he was playing a Fender P-Bass. :mad:

Good. ;)

[Dave Labrecque]

Hey Bertie!
I was just on a flight and they were playing a Pink Panther movie. Inspector Clousseau got on the phone, and I was going, "Oh wow, here it comes!!!" And he said the "serious consideration" line.

I stood up and shouted, "Yessss! You da man!!" and did my little end-zone dance. And was immediately shot with Tazers and tranquilizers by sky marshalls.

Actually not. But I did see your scene on the plane though. A happy moment in my life. :)

C -- So, you gonna let the other 400 of us in on what this is about? :confused:

[MMP]

Bertie's avatar, I assume.


MM

[Ian Alexander]

And the quote in his signature: "You should take this matter..."

[Dave Labrecque]

Duh. Thanks, Gents. :o

I guess I didn't look that far back in the thread, and I hadn't seen a post from Bertie in a while, so his avatar wasn't "top-of-mind" for me.

[Perry]

Duh. Thanks, Gents. :o

I guess I didn't look that far back in the thread, and I hadn't seen a post from Bertie in a while, so his avatar wasn't "top-of-mind" for me.

I was going to check out my "top-of-mind"... but got scared. :rolleyes:

FWIW, I didn't get it either. So Bertie is a Pink Panther fan.. ? And there's a quote... but.... oh... uhhh....

Well..... I'm sure some people on the plane wondered what the heck was going on! :)

Uhhh... never mind.... just passing through on my way to work. :D

Perry

[bcorkery]

I saw Iron Butterfly on a flatbed truck in the parking lot of Kobey's Swap Meet outside the I Pay One center (the San Diego Sports Arena at the time). I can't tell you if any were original, they sounded OK for the venue and for free.

No point I guess.

Happy New Year! All of you have been a great help and tons of entertainment!

[UpTilDawn]

I saw REO on a flatbed out in a farm field one summer..... I guess they used to play freebies a lot even though they had lots of fame already.

DanT

[Mountain Media]

I saw REO on a flatbed out in a farm field one summer..... I guess they used to play freebies a lot even though they had lots of fame already.

DanT

So did I - unfortunately, it was a REO truck tractor that was on the flatbed, not the band! ;)

[bcorkery]

I guess if you love to play, you can do it anywhere!

[studio-c]

C -- So, you gonna let the other 400 of us in on what this is about? :confused:
Sure. Check out Bertie's avatar. It's a picture of Inspector Clousseau on the phone saying "You should take this under serious consideration." I never got it either, but it's a video frame and a line from this old movie. When I saw the scene in the movie, he picks up the phone and I recognized it as Bertie's pic.

No big. I'm easily amused. Which is why I read OT posts around here... :)

[studio-c]

Good. ;)
Of course, Mark. Fender basses rock. It just seemed out of place for Yes. Especially with this jazz cat reading charts. Weird.

[studio-c]

I saw REO on a flatbed out in a farm field one summer..... I guess they used to play freebies a lot even though they had lots of fame already.

DanT
I saw Bjork on a flatbed truck in a music video once. Does that count?

[UpTilDawn]

I've played on a flatbed truck more than once... and when I was a kid, I played under one. :) ...


and one time, I baled hay from one.... the WORST job I think I've ever had. :p