Band news - things are picking up

[jwmartin]

I posted on another thread about my cover band playing a private party at the end of this month. We have now booked our 1st official bar gig. Our singer/guitarist and our drummer's birthdays are both at the end of July and out singer/guitarist has been saying he wants to have his 50th birthday party be our band and a friend of his band playing. He got in touch with a pretty nice bar that is part of a bowling alley here and got us booked for July 28. We have to provider our own PA, but we have that covered. They invited us in this Wednesday night to practice and make sure our PA is enough to cover the room. They said they are dead on Wednesday nights, so we can practice all we want. They asked what our band's name was so they could start promoting and we said we'd have to get back to them cause we didn't know yet. We all threw some ideas out and settled on "Dead Man's Hand". There are a lot of bands using that, but none in our area that I can find.

Edit: "not" is not the same word as "now"

[cnev]

Let the good times roll!!

[rparker]

Awesome update! Glad it's going onward and forward.

[Tommy Guns]

Cool JW!!!! Have a GREAT practice & gig!!!

[jwmartin]

Here's our 2 set lists currently. We have quite a few on our backlog that we will hopefully get ready before our July gig. This is all we'll play for our June 30 party. A few of them, we blend directly into the next song like The Letter/Breakup Song, Hands To Yourself/Little Less Talk, Born to be Wild/Bad Case of Loving You and What I Like About You/ROCK in the USA. I'm singing Sultans of Swing and this will be my public debut singing lead on anything.

Set 1
The Letter - The Box Tops
Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company
Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
The One I Love - R.E.M.
Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Some Beach - Blake Shelton
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
Pickin Wildflowers - Keith Anderson
Jumping Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones
You May Be Right - Billy Joel

Set 2
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Little Less Talk - Toby Keith
867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
What I Like About You - The Romantics
R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To 60's Rock) - John Mellencamp
Boot Scootin Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
Little Sister - Dwight Yoakam
Theme From Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan/Guns N Roses
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Bad Case of Loving You - Robert Palmer
Cocaine - Eric Clapton

[Laz]

That looks really good. Of course, if we ever play a double-bill, we'll have to "negotiate".

[TRGuitar]

That sounds great Jeff! I like your set list.

[Nuno]

Enjoy!

[jwmartin]

Last night's practice went pretty well. We were a little rusty after not practicing for 3 weeks, but got back in the groove after a few songs. A few friends came out to hear us and a guy from the band that is playing there this weekend was setting up his gear. A few people wandered in over the night and we got some applause from strangers. We made sure to announce that this was a practice so they didn't think we were terrible since we had to restart a couple of songs and were talking to each other between songs. Our next few practices are dedicated to getting these songs down tight and setting the order and flowing between each song. We'll run practice like a show.