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Topic: Be careful not to date yourself. |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Oct 2009 9:52 pm |
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| When was the last time YOU played a fun-filled street dance? You know, on the flat bed truck. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 6 Oct 2009 11:04 pm
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Ray,
I did just that last month in some small town in Texas.
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 6 Oct 2009 11:20 pm
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About a year ago, in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. It's a fun experience!
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 12:12 am
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Have done that a few times over the years,but it's been awhile.They are FUN if the weather is right. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 2:44 am
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"Be careful not to date yourself."
well at least you only have to pay for a movie and dinner for one... 
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Randy Reeves
From:
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 3:38 am
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June Dairy Days in a sleepy Wisconsin town.
right on main street on a flat bed that bounced when the bass player, me, got into the song.
that was about four years ago.
the next year we played the gazebo. that time I played lap steel and bass.
it was a vintage gazebo. I remember spiders in the rafters and brat smoke from all the grills.
summer in Wisconsin to be sure. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 6:55 am
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I have a similiar question.
Have you ever played on a float in a parade?
It's a lot of fun.
You only need to play one number, the audience keeps changing.  |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 8:34 am Ah yes, the parade float.......................
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| I did this at about age 15......... the wagon was pulled by a couple of horses. We had some kind of battery thingie that gave us some LO-Power for our amps. Like you say, it was fun! But then, it started to rain and my Montgomery Ward cowboy hat shrunk so much I could barely remove it from the top of my head-bone. This was in Gresham, Oregon.... |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 8:38 am
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Ray,
I did my parade gig on a farm wagon, also, but it was pulled by a pickup truck.
There was a small generator on the wagon that supplied the juice. |
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Kevin Mincke
From:
Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 8:54 am
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This is a street dance we do every year for the Randolph/Hampton MN fire dept. It is their annual fund raiser and they serve over 2500 chicken dinners the old fashioned way. They have a line of roasters with red hot charcoal and continue to flip the large grates of chix. Once it hits the end of the line its done & they empty it into a BIG holding bin where it is served. This is always a great ime. As you can see the day (evening) was just beginning!
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 10:12 am
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| tony, i don't even bother with the dinner or movie anymore...so technically i guess it's not really a 'date'... |
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Steve Branscom
From:
Pacific NW
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 5:25 pm
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"Be careful not to date yourself"
What happens if you get in an arguement? Whose side do you take? "I'm right, and so am I!"
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 Oct 2009 6:18 pm
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| I played with a group on a float, just a few years ago, 1951. |
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Paul Honeycutt
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2009 10:55 am
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I haven't played one in years. The last one was a private party connected with the Great American Brew Fest at a ranch outside of town. I think someone who was Budweiser exec. owned it. (Fort Collins, the Napa Valley of beer!) It rained and we had to hastily throw tarps over our gear. Once it stopped we went right back to it.
As far as a parade float goes, the last one was a St. Patrick's Day parade and it was 27 degrees. Playing acoustic guitar, I couldn't feel my fingers on the strings. At least they didn't stick.
Flatbeds and parade floats. Those are the real gigs. |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 12 Oct 2009 11:46 am
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These kind of gigs are still commonplace in this part of the country in September and October when the towns have their Fall festivals. We're doing one in about three weeks.
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 13 Oct 2009 5:13 am
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| Well it wasnt a flatbed truck, but more of an annual open air pavillion type deal. A week long deal at NIOSA (Night In Old San Antonio) last spring. |
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