AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Will they ever shut up!

A few weeks ago I went to my friends show at a local coffee house, the typical unsupervised, no cover, set up your gear and play for your friends, fans, and who ever walks in the door. It was her first local show, after being gone for a few years, and all her old friends came. The next day she came by my house and I said, “nice gig, but it seems the worst thing a performer can do is invite old friends to a show, all they want to do is yak! yak! yak!.” She said “Oh well they haven’t seen each other for years. What are you going to do?”

Well someone in the audience finally stood up and said something like “If you have to talk at least keep it down”, maybe not quite so nice. A few weeks before we had the same thing happen to us. Last Sat. we had the yak! yak!, but nobody said, will you ever shut up! And they never did.

As the performer it’s bad form to attack the audience, but as a listener please step in when appropriate. Don’t drag them out into the parking lot, but you could remind them there are people that want to listen. Thank You!

I am a girl bass player in some blues bands here in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the favorite bands I play with is now called Chico Chism's Flamekeepers. Has anyone out there heard of Chico? He's pretty famous in that he was Howlin' Wolf's last drummer and toured around the world with him. Chico's pretty old now, but while he was still actively playing, I was his last bass player. Now we have the band and Chico gets up and plays and sings a couple songs each set. it's a blast.

Back before the DWI laws wiped out our fan base I had a country rock-a-billy band, The Rangers, and I had sound equipment, lighting …a van full, just to much stuff. Now I’m in an acoustic band with one mic for everyone and I still have to much stuff; Four guitars a banjo, ukulele, violin, mandolin, and the guitarrone, and lets not forget the stands for them all. Maybe I’m secure with clutter, not sure, can’t sort through the debris in my mind to figure it out. But I do know I want to add a 12-string guitar real bad, and let us not forget the stand.

Molten Java is a music venue coffee house in Bethel Connecticut and is the creation of my friend Wendy Cahill. We the band, My Dad’s Truck, started playing there when they first opened, helping Wendy get started, it being a pass the hat night we figured a few gigs and then move on. Well a few shows in and we realized we could do three long set and break in all our new material, free is free, and there always seemed to be great folks listening.
Two years later here is what helping a friend has become. Molten Java is the heart of our fan base, they know this is the gig where they will hear the new stuff and they come. Wendy is getting a rep for a fantastic music venue throughout the tri state area. And we are appreciative of a monthly show where the gallery is waiting for a good truck wreck, kinda’ like at the Indy 500.

I just went to the site and the Irish tunes aren’t up there yet. Sorry! However if you go to the web site and click on band info there is a link to Hail the Barrista. There are two Irish tunes in that collection. I’ll post again when they are up on the site. Again sorry for the confusion.

My Dad’s Truck will be playing a show the night before, Thursday, March 16, at Maggie McFly’s in Middlebury, and on St. Pats day at Maggie McFly’s in Southbury. Both shows are 6 to 10pm. For more info call 203-792-4825. To hear tunes from last year go to www.mydadstruck.com

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hey, I just wanted to let anyone in the new york area know about a couple of shows coming up for me. I'm playing a solo show at this great Irish bar on macdougal street this thursday called Slane @ 8PM.....102 Macdougal St. between Bleecker & 3rd....

Next Tuesday is my first show with this new project called The Dramas @ The Bitter End details @

www.myspace.com/danzweben

mimi
what's the political puppet scene in london?
o hi i'm Blue and i am the guy beside Uncle Scam, the star.

at http://unclescam.org

i'm trying to franchise
uncle scam's practice voting facility
to those with a bent toward political puppet actions.
interested in a life of street performance.
hit and run, small set puppet show for peace?

we supply the puppet
rolling cart
board with cutouts and cloth
pvc tubing and flag backdrop (in your countries/gods flag)
we'll even
sell you a how to by watching it done, script of the show.
cheaper than a mac donalds
atchablue
september and there are no more ways to put the show on