Ya'll come, ya hear!
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - No. 8
Golden Gate Park, free. 3rd -5th October.
5 stages, all sorta music. Many peoples...
Schedule, below.
Friday's line-up includes:
Star Stage
10.30 Ruby Jane
11.30 MC Hammer
Banjo Stage
14.30 Sharon Little
15.35 Jerry Douglas Band
17.15 Robert Plant & Alison Krause, with T. Bone Burnett
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"Indeed, not!!"
which stage are you working?
One step above: "Two Tin Cans and a String!"
Longtime Alaskan Low-Fi Guy - E=MC² ±3db
Just saw some of last year's, on PBS. Great acts, but they only showed about 2/3 of each song.
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Load-in/load-out Banjo and Rooster; crewing Rooster.Originally Posted by SMKSoundPro
Darn!
You'll miss MC Hammer on the STAR stage.
"can't touch this; Hammer time!"
Just saw HSB on PBS tonight. Man, it looks like a lot of fun work!!!
Good luck and keep us posted.
Scotty & Lisa.
One step above: "Two Tin Cans and a String!"
Longtime Alaskan Low-Fi Guy - E=MC² ±3db
Asleep at the Wheel and The Waybacks! The former I've always wanted to see in person and the latter I just missed locally a couple of weeks ago (I was out of town) but I've seen them three times. Highly recommended. Hopefully their set will be long enough for them to do their mandolin/guitar/fiddle version of the Dead's Dark Star. The last time I saw them they added Danny Barnes' banjo to the mix. Great group. Warren Hood and James Nash are superb musicians. And I'm really not a bluegrass fan. To paraphrase James Nash, The Waybacks got their first #1 slot on the Billboard Bluegrass chart by issuing an album with no bluegrass on it (Loaded).
Yeah, probably miss Jerry Douglas, Robert Plant & Alison Krause, too. System load-in takes a pretty full day per stage. Stage is set, but the lighting trusses are enormous and hang about 4-ft off stage to get the lights mounted (anyone know what the pennies are for...?). We can't hang until that gets done and is raised. At Rooster we hang about 10 V-DOSC per side, and ground stack 4 SB218's per side. It takes a while to get the hardware sorted out and installed so the hang is just right - optimum throw over the field. And, we take it slow - saftey first. Then we have to stage the stage - get everything into position and wired. Lots to do...
You just made me realize I've links to both.
My band opened for ASATW way back in the late 1970's at the Golden Inn, outside Santa Fe NM - long since burned to the foundation. And, I've worked with James a number of times as engineer for smaller ensembles. I knew the Waybacks in their first iteration - quite a few members were friends. Even played some harp at a local General Store gig - but that goes back about 10-yrs, I'd guess.
Hell, I need me a rockin' chair...
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