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I'll let it be known that I have a new band coming together.

We shall be know as Incognito.  Classic rock oriented playlist but there will be a range of genres mixed in.  Pretty much we want to be able to present 3 distinct styles of show, dance oriented, heavier listen and rock out and finally older crowd classic rock fun.  Then we will be able to play any of the 3 style shows or mix them together depending on the venue and crowd.

Eventually this will require about a 150 song playlist which can grow and have songs rotate in and out.  Ultimately we want over 200 songs in the bag to draw from.

We lucked into a great practice space which is above a ladder company fire house and has constant heat and air conditioning, no neighbors close enough for noise complaints and lots of room.  It costs us a paltry 100 bucks a month.

As things progress I'll post updates.]]>
I'll let it be known that I have a new band coming together.

We shall be know as Incognito.  Classic rock oriented playlist but there will be a range of genres mixed in.  Pretty much we want to be able to present 3 distinct styles of show, dance oriented, heavier listen and rock out and finally older crowd classic rock fun.  Then we will be able to play any of the 3 style shows or mix them together depending on the venue and crowd.

Eventually this will require about a 150 song playlist which can grow and have songs rotate in and out.  Ultimately we want over 200 songs in the bag to draw from.

We lucked into a great practice space which is above a ladder company fire house and has constant heat and air conditioning, no neighbors close enough for noise complaints and lots of room.  It costs us a paltry 100 bucks a month.

As things progress I'll post updates.]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5148.html Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:50:43 -0400 Twitchin Kitten]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5148.html
It was an epic show. Matt saved the day because none of the other bands had their own backline equipment and then top it off, one of the other bands had a family emergency and had to back out.

Thanks to our friend filling in on drums and singing a little during the first break, he got an invite for the BIG show up in Mahwah in September! He can't back out now, we have it right here on video!

3 songs. Cheers, dancing and he is so happy over this!

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It was an epic show. Matt saved the day because none of the other bands had their own backline equipment and then top it off, one of the other bands had a family emergency and had to back out.

Thanks to our friend filling in on drums and singing a little during the first break, he got an invite for the BIG show up in Mahwah in September! He can't back out now, we have it right here on video!

3 songs. Cheers, dancing and he is so happy over this!

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Tomorrow is a combo car and music event on the Battleship NJ. Band is playing ON the fantail of the ship, my car and 50 others are ON DISPLAY on the pier by the ship and we'll have dancers doing Grease and a bar. 5 year anniversary party for STANG magazine.


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Tomorrow is a combo car and music event on the Battleship NJ. Band is playing ON the fantail of the ship, my car and 50 others are ON DISPLAY on the pier by the ship and we'll have dancers doing Grease and a bar. 5 year anniversary party for STANG magazine.


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So  I had the project in the works that was slated to become Rock Dogs.  Well at the practice before Christmas John (guitarist) suddenly stops, packs his stuff up and states "This ain't working!"   As the rest of us (minus the keyboard player who couldn't be there that day) were hanging out jaws to the floor, I managed to ask "What do you mean John?"  He then goes into a tirade saying that "you guys" want to do all these songs that Tommy (keys) and I don't know,  me and Tom were trying to get back what we had before (we guessed he meant his last band), "you guys" shoot down all the songs we (he and Tom) want to do (which is blatantly untrue) and just keeps shaking his head as he walks out the door.

Now Shawn (other guitar) Tomcat (drummer) and I are left standing there confused as hell!  After 2 or 3 minutes I look at them and ask "Do you 2 want to try something together then?"

Shawn says yeah but we need a place to practice and Tomcat agrees.  We all agree that this was a blindside and an assload of drama that we neither want or need.

Later on (after New Year's Day) I make the official announcement that it's over (didn't want to fuck up the holidays).  Amazingly John and Tommy thought it would just blow over and we would reorganize the way THEY wanted to.  Yeah right.

So after that I was searching for practice space and another guitarist as was Shawn and Tomcat. 

In a twist of fate, my buddy Lenny tells me that he's had the shits with his band because of some backbiting bullshit and discourtesy going on.  He said that both he and the singer/rhythm guitarist Anna were both thinking about walking.  I ask if they would be interested in teaming up with Shawn, Cat and I and he said they would be interested.

Fast forward a couple more weeks..............
I still can't find a practice space and in this time Lenny and Anna's bass player quits.  They find out that HE was the shit stirrer causing all the problems.
I offer to jam with them to help out till they can hire a new bassist.

I jam and it turns out that I know 90% of their playlist and did well with 5% more.  What's even better is that I was tighter than the bass player who was with them for over 2 years.

They only get one response to their ad and they guy (after trying out) would take 6 - 8 months to get up to speed so Lenny asks me if I'd take the spot.

I had really wanted to put something together as a new project but......with Endless Plague we can be gigging by April at a previously booked fundraiser.  Ok.......I'm now the new bass player.

We have practiced 3 times and I have 97% of the list down and we are pretty damn tight on it.  I honestly wouldn't be ashamed to play a gig the way we have it together right now.  We're already better than many of the local bands that are booking jobs.

Talk about lots of change in just a few weeks time!]]>
So  I had the project in the works that was slated to become Rock Dogs.  Well at the practice before Christmas John (guitarist) suddenly stops, packs his stuff up and states "This ain't working!"   As the rest of us (minus the keyboard player who couldn't be there that day) were hanging out jaws to the floor, I managed to ask "What do you mean John?"  He then goes into a tirade saying that "you guys" want to do all these songs that Tommy (keys) and I don't know,  me and Tom were trying to get back what we had before (we guessed he meant his last band), "you guys" shoot down all the songs we (he and Tom) want to do (which is blatantly untrue) and just keeps shaking his head as he walks out the door.

Now Shawn (other guitar) Tomcat (drummer) and I are left standing there confused as hell!  After 2 or 3 minutes I look at them and ask "Do you 2 want to try something together then?"

Shawn says yeah but we need a place to practice and Tomcat agrees.  We all agree that this was a blindside and an assload of drama that we neither want or need.

Later on (after New Year's Day) I make the official announcement that it's over (didn't want to fuck up the holidays).  Amazingly John and Tommy thought it would just blow over and we would reorganize the way THEY wanted to.  Yeah right.

So after that I was searching for practice space and another guitarist as was Shawn and Tomcat. 

In a twist of fate, my buddy Lenny tells me that he's had the shits with his band because of some backbiting bullshit and discourtesy going on.  He said that both he and the singer/rhythm guitarist Anna were both thinking about walking.  I ask if they would be interested in teaming up with Shawn, Cat and I and he said they would be interested.

Fast forward a couple more weeks..............
I still can't find a practice space and in this time Lenny and Anna's bass player quits.  They find out that HE was the shit stirrer causing all the problems.
I offer to jam with them to help out till they can hire a new bassist.

I jam and it turns out that I know 90% of their playlist and did well with 5% more.  What's even better is that I was tighter than the bass player who was with them for over 2 years.

They only get one response to their ad and they guy (after trying out) would take 6 - 8 months to get up to speed so Lenny asks me if I'd take the spot.

I had really wanted to put something together as a new project but......with Endless Plague we can be gigging by April at a previously booked fundraiser.  Ok.......I'm now the new bass player.

We have practiced 3 times and I have 97% of the list down and we are pretty damn tight on it.  I honestly wouldn't be ashamed to play a gig the way we have it together right now.  We're already better than many of the local bands that are booking jobs.

Talk about lots of change in just a few weeks time!]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5046.html Thu, 15 Nov 2018 23:23:04 -0500 Twitchin Kitten]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5046.html
Clicking the pics will make the images larger. I am shopping around for a plugin that makes them bigger upon clicking. Finding something that is responsive AND looks good both on mobile and desktop devices is a challenge.

They killed Pipeline my fave surf tune! That song gets me going. Stevie Ray Vaughn does the best version I've ever seen.

If you look up the bio on his guitarist, you'd be quite impressed. We just kept wondering why Keith is playing with a bunch of 'hacks' and his response was, "because it's fun".

Shifty & The Gears sound & vision

Keith's Bio]]>
Clicking the pics will make the images larger. I am shopping around for a plugin that makes them bigger upon clicking. Finding something that is responsive AND looks good both on mobile and desktop devices is a challenge.

They killed Pipeline my fave surf tune! That song gets me going. Stevie Ray Vaughn does the best version I've ever seen.

If you look up the bio on his guitarist, you'd be quite impressed. We just kept wondering why Keith is playing with a bunch of 'hacks' and his response was, "because it's fun".

Shifty & The Gears sound & vision

Keith's Bio]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5039.html Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:56:51 -0400 LKTraz]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5039.html Now, one of the guitarists has decided to go incommunicado indicating that he isn't interested anymore but for some reason doesn't want to just come out with it.  But....that's a part of growing pains and nothing I haven't dealt with before.  Just have to try and find someone else who IS interested and will fit in and stick with it.

All of that aside, we are considering a name for the band and so far the one that stands out is Rock Dawgs.  The reason for the alternate spelling is that I researched it with the correct spelling and there's already a band with a website and FB page using that name.  Now granted they are in Sydney Australia but......why invite confusion?

We are going to be playing covers ranging from mid/late 60's, 70's, 80's classic rock.....a few newer rock tunes and some southern fried songs.  We will be including Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Tommy Tutone, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who and the usual mix of artists for these genres.

So, do ya think that Rock Dawgs on a marquee or event poster would convey that sort of band image?
The big reason I'm asking is that it seems that nowadays folks tend to judge a band initially by their name as far as the genre they are likely to play.  Pretty much a name like Satan's Bloodbath or Destructive Entity screams death metal.  The Highlighters or Easy Does It say light or easy listening.  Whiskey River would indicate country. 

Based on this (and the fact that folks are all ADD and won't actually READ the rest of the signs to find out what they play) is Rock Dawgs sufficient to convey our genre, or at least ambiguous enough to NOT convey a false impression?]]> Now, one of the guitarists has decided to go incommunicado indicating that he isn't interested anymore but for some reason doesn't want to just come out with it.  But....that's a part of growing pains and nothing I haven't dealt with before.  Just have to try and find someone else who IS interested and will fit in and stick with it.

All of that aside, we are considering a name for the band and so far the one that stands out is Rock Dawgs.  The reason for the alternate spelling is that I researched it with the correct spelling and there's already a band with a website and FB page using that name.  Now granted they are in Sydney Australia but......why invite confusion?

We are going to be playing covers ranging from mid/late 60's, 70's, 80's classic rock.....a few newer rock tunes and some southern fried songs.  We will be including Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Tommy Tutone, Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Blackfoot, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who and the usual mix of artists for these genres.

So, do ya think that Rock Dawgs on a marquee or event poster would convey that sort of band image?
The big reason I'm asking is that it seems that nowadays folks tend to judge a band initially by their name as far as the genre they are likely to play.  Pretty much a name like Satan's Bloodbath or Destructive Entity screams death metal.  The Highlighters or Easy Does It say light or easy listening.  Whiskey River would indicate country. 

Based on this (and the fact that folks are all ADD and won't actually READ the rest of the signs to find out what they play) is Rock Dawgs sufficient to convey our genre, or at least ambiguous enough to NOT convey a false impression?]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5012.html Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:37:52 -0400 Twitchin Kitten]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-5012.html
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These things have literally NO bass / low end sound in them. They're thin and sound like AM radio out of a single speaker.

The good part is Apple delivers them overnight. They're going back tomorrow as I'll be up in the area of the store.

what a gyp]]>
These things have literally NO bass / low end sound in them. They're thin and sound like AM radio out of a single speaker.

The good part is Apple delivers them overnight. They're going back tomorrow as I'll be up in the area of the store.

what a gyp]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-4799.html Fri, 06 Jan 2017 17:04:10 -0500 Twitchin Kitten]]> https://twitchinkitten.com/thread-4799.html
Roxy & Dukes Roadhouse


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