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Author Topic: DrumGun's festival gigs this week...  (Read 913 times)
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« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2003, 07:06 AM »

Yup, I get to have my ass handed to me by the opening drummer in front of 40,000 people.  NICE!!!

I can almost guarantee you've heard Tonic.  They suffer from bad publicity, but have had 4 top-ten hits and a few others in the top 40 since '97, the biggest of which was "If you Could Only See", which was spun almost 2,000,000 times from 97 to 98.  They've had a bunch since then, but like I said, no one can really put the face with the name. You probably heard it and said, "I like this new Collective Soul song". I gave their CDs to my mom and she said "crap, I know all of these songs.  Their publicist sucks."

go mom.

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« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2003, 07:08 AM »

LOLROF.   Wait a minute.  I've seen you up close and I'd say you look more like the guy who does the arresting.   Cool

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I've arrested a few 100 people in my career and let me tell you, Mr. A looks like a hitman Wink  

Seriously, I'm trying to figure out a way to lock him up just because I'm jealous of his weekend rockstar status Grin
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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2003, 07:22 AM »

I'm planning on being at MM, so if any of you are going to be there, we can all meet up to see King's X, and check out TONIC afterwards...

who's with me?
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« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2003, 07:36 AM »

Yup, I get to have my ass handed to me by the opening drummer in front of 40,000 people.  NICE!!!

Nah, you'll hold your own just fine!

The worst case of this I ever saw was back in the 80's there was a double-billed tour hitting the clubs featuring Ronnie Montrose and Allan Holdsworth, each with their own backing bands. They took turns headlining, and the night I saw them, Holdsworth was the opener.

I went to the show with Pat Travers, who took me backtage to meet Montrose and his band. I got to meet Montrose's drummer - who was your basic garden-variety pro rock drummer. Good player, but nothing special. Very nice guy, too, and very humble. I understood why he was so humble when I saw who was playing in Holdsworth's band: Vinnie Colaiuta was the opening drummer!

Montrose's drummer was DYING. He pointed up at Vinnie and said, "Every other night, I've got to follow THIS guy. What the hell am I supposed to do?"

I've had to open for Louie Bellson, and for Steve Gadd - that was bad enough. But I can't IMAGINE having a cat like that opening for ME. (Not that I'm real worried about that ever happening...  Roll Eyes)

Anyway, Gaskill plays great, but so do you. And I wonder if Gaskill can play while puking* like you can?

Knock 'em dead!

* (Drumgun has migraines, and a puke bucket is an integral part of his kit)
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