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Topic: Is your playing hot when its 100 degrees |
George Plemons
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Corsicana, Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Jul 2011 10:35 pm |
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| You haven't lived until you have played a gig in central Texas outside and the temperature at 7 oclock is 100 degrees when you start..your fingers are limber and head is swimming and and and and and you can't think of anything except to say to yourself, "what the ...was I thinking?" |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 2:05 am
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No different here in Florida. We've done several jobs at Silver Springs Park (Ocala). The front of the stage pavillion faces south. Try playing a noon time start concert with the sun beating down directly on you.
With the front (stage) facing south, it's great for the outdoor audience but hell for the performers and instruments. |
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Joe Smith
From:
Charlotte, NC, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 7:25 am
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Oh yeah, been there, done that.
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 8:57 am
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| Yep! Having a little river of salty sweat roll into your eye just as you start a ride on a song is so much fun. You squeeze that eye shut, and then you look like Popeye playing the steel guitar! |
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Steve English
From:
Baja, Arizona
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 10:21 am
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 10:28 am
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Beats the hell out of playing on a flatbed truck and it's nine degrees. Been there done that,[ONE TIME]NEVER,NEVER, NEVER AGAIN. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 11:54 am
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| it gets up over 100 here in sacramento regularly. if you're outside the bar itself can get too hot to touch. and you try to have as little contact as possible with the steel guitar and strings. |
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JamesMCross
From:
Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 1:15 pm
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I played an outdoor gig last night in Katy, on the deck outside of a bbq joint. We started at 5:30 - the sun was directly in our face for two hours, but we did get a few random minutes of relief whenever a couple of big clouds came by and blocked the sun.
Toasty warm indeed !! Only the drummer had any shade at all, from a pop-up tent that didn't come anywhere near to covering the stage..
There was a slight breeze which helped a little, but I found it impossible to keep the guitar in tune.
Anyways, it was not even a little bit fun until the sun went down, and by then I was completely soaked from sweat and very likely delirious from the heat.
That's my 3rd outdoor gig this summer, also my last! |
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Danny Letz
From:
Old Glory,Texas, USA 79540
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 1:52 pm
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| Did one in Greenville Texas July 4th. Somehow the little bit of wind that was blowing got word we were starting and quit blowing. The saving grace was that it only lasted 2 hrs. It was one of those gigs where there was a band before and after us so we had to set up and down quickly. My biggest problem was keeping my picks on and keeping the sweat off the strings. The Zum Hybid stayed in tune very well. |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 3:42 pm
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This has been the hottest dry summer Ive ever seen in east Texas.105 on a cool day.I gotta trick tho.I set up beside the pa colums.I stack um so I will have a shade.We been playing a lot of little town festivals lately and it has been hot.We played the mud bug fest in Sheveport,and I saw a fire hydrant chasing a dog.
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 5:28 pm been there done that
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yeah I agree we played a 4th thing outside and it was HOT while not 100 degrees it was above 90
man so much sweat I couldnt even see half the time
shirt soaked wore out from the heat
makes you glad you can play inside where the air
cond is running on stun..........when you can
jeepsssss Mike  |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 5:35 pm
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Several companies make small, portable canopies. Here's one at Wal-Mart for less than $20-->Click Here
I wonder if one of these could be strategically located so as to put you in the shade. |
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Fred Shannon
From:
Rocking "S" Ranch, Comancheria, Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 6:39 pm
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Try Gulfport Mississippi on the 4th of July on the bed of a 40 foot lo boy trailer with the temperature at 98 degrees, humidity the same, and no wind with a hell of a hangover. I quit drinking after that one.
phred
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George Plemons
From:
Corsicana, Texas, USA
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Posted 10 Jul 2011 8:06 pm !
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| Heck Fred I STARTED drinking after this last one! Lee, you are from Texas and you know what the pay scale is here so you should know Walmart is way outta my pay scale.. |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 11 Jul 2011 9:13 am
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| Yep! Having a little river of salty sweat roll into your eye just as you start a ride on a song is so much fun. You squeeze that eye shut, and then you look like Popeye playing the steel guitar! |
I forgot to mention, that's what happens in the room where our band rehearses. It's really hot outside. |
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Arty Passes
From:
Austin, TX
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Posted 11 Jul 2011 5:09 pm
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| Add a nice dusty rodeo arena to that 100, and then you know it's all about the glamour of show biz. I'll take it over freezing, though. |
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Elton Smith
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2011 10:41 am
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You boys from Tx got that right!
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Adam Goodale
From:
Pflugerville, TX
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Posted 14 Jul 2011 1:55 pm
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I played a dancehall near LaGrange last saturday night that had no AC... My starched shirt was glued to me by the end of the night...
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Joe Miraglia
From:
Jamestown N.Y.
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Posted 14 Jul 2011 2:29 pm
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Westeren New York-- One day It's 90 the next day it's 50 than it rains  We have it all. |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 14 Jul 2011 3:53 pm
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| Phred, I know about "Guffport". I started playing in a band in 1959 while at Keesler AFB. I remember several "warm" nights including one July gig in Bay St Louis, about half way between Gulfport and New Orleans. |
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George Plemons
From:
Corsicana, Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2011 2:09 pm
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| Thats funny Adam..I am going to have to start spending some time around that Austin area and start stealing some of those hot licks coming out of that nest of players down there... |
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