Well, this may take me while to figure out (assuming i ever do). I mean, i just tried to edit something on my myspace music page and was completely lost. Why do they make everything so cluttered and difficult. And by they, I mean everyone that has anything to do with building web pages. Craigslist, now THAT is a web page I can agree with!
At any rate, welcome to my blog. In this forum I'm going to cover all my thoughts on music. The shows I've seen, the albums i'm pouring over, the shows i'm playing, the drums i'm building or buying or both. Conversations I've had with people about music, etc., etc. So lets just get right to it.
Last night (Tuesday, November 16th 2010) I got home from work, had half of a frozen pizza and chilled with my wife for a bit before heading down to the Ash Street Saloon. It's funny, because I've played this venue several times and never really thought much of it, but it's a great venue. I like that the bar is separated from the venue just enough to escape but not so far that you can't tell whats going on. I realized about half way there that i'd forgotten my ear plugs and was relieved when I remembered I could just hang out in the bar if it was too loud.
***This venue would be amazing to play or see a show if it were just F'ing packed. For example, this New Years Eve they'll be hosting Pierced Arrows. They should make a push to get more touring bands in when Berbati's is gone.***
I went to see a girl/woman by the name Ivy Ross. I played a gig last week at The Waterheater w/Fast Rattler and her band (Pillow Fight?) headlined. They were really good but the sound was a bit sub-par so I wanted to check them out in a more 'normal' venue. She had this tremendously positive and charismatic stage presence, the band was really good, and the songs were super fun!
When I arrived @Ash Street however, I saw that it was solo-acoustic night. To be honest, I was a little bummed. I ended up missing the first part of Ivy's set due to an old friend/touring buddy calling me out of the blue (which was great! : ) When I came back to the room she had apparently taught everyone there how to sing and was encouraging sing-a-longs and on-stage dancing by anyone who wanted to. Brilliant!
I think there were probably 10 or so people there but, they all stayed. They were all engaged and she would probably do really well in front of a thousand people.
The trick is how to get in front of a thousand people. ?
-adm
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I've played Ash Street a bunch of times, and usually it feels deserted in there. But you're right about it being cool if there are a lot of people there...played there once with Scotland Barr for MFNW, place was packed, great energy. I think their problem is that they don't specialize in any genres, so it's always a crapshoot as to what kind of music there will be on a given night...so there's no built in crowd.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Adam and Bryan--Ash Street has the potential to be such a cool place. Except there's always that old drunk guy shouting incomprehensible phrases at the stage: "MY SECRETARY... i says to her... HA HA...smile smile smile, JOHNNY CASH."
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