Okay, remember I said our first gig was St. Patty's day? Well, we only had to play for 1.5 hours and the venue was looking for a Irish band....so we threw together a U2 tribute band just for the gig. Turns out, that's a sure fire way to play EVERY St. Patty's day! We just played last month too.

The U2 tribute kinda took off, we're called The Streets (because the Streets have no name, and neither do we)

Here's a promo vid our bass player put together, it features footage from last month and some from last year around October (you'll see folks in their Lederhosen for Oktoberfest) at a local place called the Tackle Box - another Country-ish bar. I went with my Rattle & Hum Edge costume, a vest and a cowboy hat, to fit in.

I know I know, I'm a dead ringer for the Edge, I get that all the time



If the viddy no workie, use this linkie

This was our 2nd gig, at a bar in Paradise, playing nothing but Country on their Jukebox....so, we busted out every "country" song we had, like American Girl by Tom Petty.

Funny thing about this gig, them cowboys liked the song Stupid Girl by Garbage and a few other surprises. They were much more accepting than I expected.



In case the video doesn't work, here's a link

'Ello all,

I had to quit playing live for a couple years....since the pandemic actually. One of my bands broke up just before all that started and then I had to relocate to help my Dad get along and that put me a bit too far for gigs with my other band. So that sucked.

Living with Dad, looking at all these guitars hanging on my wall.

Dad lives in Paradise, CA....it's a 10-minute drive downhill to Chico, CA. I lived in Chico for a few of my 'musically formative' years. There has always been a thriving music scene in the little town of Chico. It's a college town, so there are plenty of young bands around and plenty of places to play.

Just after the move, I went to see my old band play at a local bar. We started that band in 1989 and I quit a couple years later when my original band was taking off in '91. So, the guys hadn't changed much, except for the drummer who was a pretty well known guy back in the day, still is. I keep in touch with the original drummer, but he's in SoCal now.

Shortly after that show, the singer set up a jam at his place and I went over to get reacquainted with them and the material (some of which was the same stuff we used to play! AH!). A couple days later, I'm talking with the bass player and he's telling me about their guitar player suddenly flaking out - disappearing and ghosting him. I have no idea why, nor do I care. I saw an open door, I volunteered.

The drummer quit next, before I could even jam with him. He had so many other projects going on (he's popular, remember) and they were more fun to him than our Alt 90s band, which I understand. So, we got another drummer (that's a whole 'nother story) and booked a gig.

That gig was March 17th (St. Patty's Day) 2023....yes, over a year ago. I have been gigging about once a month since then, which is great. I just realized I didn't tell anyone on the Depot (oops). So, I'll use this thread to post some videos we made and some photos from our gigs.

I have a face for radio 

Sounds good Danny! Of course, I think rattling a can of rocks may sound good through that rig JK

I'm curious to hear your rack amp too, when you get that together. (not sure where I was during this whole thread, but hey, I just got caught up - haha)

Nice job, good video and great sounds!

Oh look, it's the invisible man on guitar 

This is probably more indicative of our live sound, same gal doing the filming. I never looked better than I do in this video

Y'know, it occurs to me I don't play clean much, it was hard to find another song - haha



Link if the video doesn't work

If that was recorded with the camera mic, then I need to find a camera like that!

That sounds awesome.

+1 

If that was recorded with the camera mic, then I need to find a camera like that!

That sounds awesome.