Re: Interesting/sobering gig last night

One big venue that is available in my area is wine country gigs. There are
surely over a hundred wineries with-in a 30 mile radius and they do pay very
well. Unfortunately my reunited band thinks we are going to get winery gigs
or opening act gigs playing "We gotta get out of this place" and "Season of
the Witch". Our Classic rock/Grateful Dead style was very popular back in
the day but the winery crowds want jazz and light pop. Typical acts are"
Boz Scaggs, Dave Koz, Anne Murray, Chris Botti, Kenny Loggins, James Taylor
etc. etc. The only real rock act they've had in recent memory was Santana
but do you think the list for potential opening bands was small???
I am enjoying playing together again with the bad drugs and bad attitudes
gone but I am looking at it more as a stepping stone to get my chops back on
etc. I don't see us doing more than a party here or there.
Oh speaking of that, our first gig will be in May. A fund raiser for some
4H kids that are going to some kind of big national invitational shindig.
Wait till they hear our War Pigs/Paranoid set LMAO. Actually we have been
working on a bunch of Eagles tunes so we'll be ok. But we have been
resurrecting much of our old stuff: Doors, Black Sabbath, Beatles,
Steppenwolf, Allman Bros., Lynard Skynard etc. etc. Only because our
rehearsal time is limited by life so we are playing what ever we can
remember just so we have stuff to play.

SotR


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