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Brian Krashpad
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Gig Report: Amber & the Antidotes at Cypress & Grove Brewery, 5/29/26
Played with the cover band last night. I got talked into this band by my friend Lisa, an octogenarian lap steel player I've played with in a couple other bands (one was an Irish acoustic band, in which she played harp). She's a pretty amazing person. She went to a Crash Pad (my main band, that plays punk rock and roll originals) show this Spring, and someone asked her if she was my mom. So now sometimes I call her "Mom," haha.
Our first show doing two sets. But the lead singer talked between songs so much that we only got through 4/5 of the 25 songs we had ready, haha. It went really well, friends from another local band provided the PA and mixed for us, so that was one less thing for us to have to deal with on our own. Here's the two sets as planned, our last song was actually the Stones' Wild Horses:
Set 1
EXES & OHs
ANGEL FROM MONTGOMERY capo 1
BLUE BAYOU capo 9
DREAMING
THE STORY capo 2
WHAT’S UP capo 1
VOICES CARRY
WHITE RABBIT
POOR POOR PITIFUL ME capo 4
DON’T GET ME WRONG
ANGEL OF THE MORNING capo 1
I’M THE ONLY ONE
YOU’RE NO GOOD
IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY
Set 2
CLOSER TO FINE capo 2
BABY CAN I HOLD YOU
HOLD ON HOLD ON capo 1
ONLY THE LONELY capo 1
ROOM AT THE TOP
WILD HORSES
BRASS IN POCKET
LINGER
DRUNKEN ANGEL capo 1
GIMME ONE REASON
BECAUSE THE NIGHT
During the first set I played my Epiphone Les Paul Deluxe, except for one song that has a capo way up on the 9th fret (I switched to my Jagmaster, pre-capo'd, for that'un). The Deluxe did great! Held tune despite putting capo on and off, or moved to different frets, several times. And I loves me some mini's. Here's the guitar in question (taken a few years back), sorry about the size of these images:
Here's the Jagmaster, a beater Squier I bought for $125 (w/gigbag) at a pawn. It's a shortscale, and actually one of my faves:
Rig was my Fender Super Champ XD (15W 1x10 hybrid) as master, into a slaved Marshall Lead 20 (20W 1x10 SS), both speakers on (the SC XD has a line out that doesn't turn off the onboard speaker). Although it was a pretty big room, to keep things simpler I just used stage volume, not mic'd. A shot of the "best of both worlds" mini-stack, from a prior gig with a different band:
For the second set, I switched to my Gibson Les Paul Classic. Just for funsies. It always plays and sounds great, and last night was no exception:
Here's a couple shots of the actual show:
Finally, a snippet viddy of the end of a song, that Mrs. Krashpad recorded. The crowd was fecking great, you can hear the start of their reaction at the end of the song:
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Good times. I'm way over my head tryna play covers, but I like jumping in deep water. I'm way too lazy to get any better on my own, haha.
xo,
Krash
We’ve got 3 gigs lined up over the next 2 months. Two birthday parties and a block party. This will be our 3rd year at the block party. One of the BD parties is on the edge of the next lake over to the west. We went over to scope it out today after practice. Nice setup and view. We’ll be playing 2 sets starting at 6 PM on July 18th, sun at our backs. They expect about 150 people.
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Jethro Rocker
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We have a gig here at a bar June 20. Been awhile since we played in this city with 4 members living elsewhere. Small stage, gotta choose wisely.
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Brian Krashpad
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Pics?
Jethro Rocker
Ambassador of Live & Loud Action
I posted a bunch elsewhere but this is a good thread to do it. Will do
Jethro Rocker
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Jeez that looks fun!
Jethro Rocker
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What a fun show! Enjoyed ourselves immensely thus the audience does.
Love that Iceman.
Love that Iceman.
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Brian Krashpad
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Belated Gig Report: Sunday Funday Band Trifecta June 28
So on the above-referenced date the undersigned played in all three of my bands on the same day. For me, that's like a feckin world tour.
At 11:00 the side cover band had its regularly-scheduled Sunday midday practice.
Since the show was a matinee, my fellow bandmate Lisa (she's the one with the lapsteel above) and I wore what we were going to wear for the gig, and went straight from the rehearsal over to the club. And yes that's a Motley Crue laminate I'm wearing. Because 1) it's blue, and 2) it's totally absurd, and the other side band that Lisa and I are in is heavily absurdist.
Anyhow, the show is an ongoing last-Sunday-of-the-month series called "Hardback For A Day," named after the beloved currently otherwise defunct Hardback Cafe, our local punk rock mecca that lasted from the beginning of the '90s into the mid-Aughts. in three different locations around town. The Hardback owner/founder, Alan Bushnell, runs these shows as well. They're held at the flagship local gay bar University Club, which also dates from the '90s. A predecessor series, alike in everything but name, called Occupy Pancakes, had begun in a residential backyard, but was sometimes rained out (particularly in summer), and the UC kindly allowed them to move to their club instead. Since the UC would presumably have been closed on Sunday afternoons anyhow, it's a win-win, as day drinking is encouraged among the Hardback crowd. Not that they need any encouragement.
As you can see, Crash Pad got top billing, though the absurdist side band Bill Perry Orchestra actually played last. Probably because the BPO hadn't played in a couple years (Bill has had some health probs, and my other 2 bands have been taking priority of late), so there was some novelty there. Crash Pad played the penultimate spot, which is actually better, frankly, as the crowd tends to thin over the course of the afternoon and with so many acts.
Crash Pad's set was our first gig after my recent throat surgery (I had a nodule on a false vocal cord removed, which was caused by "overuse"), and frankly came probably a couple weeks earlier than it should have on that account, as the radiation therapy I endured 16 years ago has made that area slow to heal. But I croaked along as best I could, and subsequently seem none the worse for wear. On the upside my unmic'd 50W 2x12 Ampeg Reverberocket R212R sounded feckin' glorious. However, I should've put it up on the riser nearer the drummer, who could not hear it as a result of my lack of forethought. Lesson learned. Guitar was my 100th Anniversary LP Studio with stock '57 Classic and Classic +. My most recent guitar acquisition and already in my top tier. Love it. Even though I'm not really a blueburst guy, the looks are growing on me as well.
The BPO's closing set was fine, after we got through the abso trainwreck of an opening song. Bill just could not find where to come in vocally throughout the entire song. So he'd start a half-line off, step on solo spaces, etc. He's actually a painter/artist who dabbles in music rather than a traditional musician of any sort, so we are used to this happening on the regular, and covered the best we could. The upside of the BPO is that the songs are so weird to begin with, I'm not sure anybody but us knew this was happening. Rig was my Dano Hodad into my li'l Fender Super Champ XD (15W hybrid 1x10).
Didn't get any decent photos of BPO, but a well-meaning audience member (who should know better) took one of his photos and "AI'd" it:
Note how the "smart" computer changed my guitar's headstock to Fender.
Anyhow, as always sorry about the giant size of some photos; any questions gladly answered.
xo,
Krash