New Horizon: How my 'other side' got a chance to come out and play

So, Last night was the annual 'National Night Out' event hosted in North Las Vegas (NLV) by the North Las Vegas Police Department, it's a cool event that, through my work with the Mobile stage and audio work with the City of North Las Vegas Special Events Department I was introduced to two years ago. Last year Nasty Habits ended up playing a set with about 12 hours notice, the event coordinator called us the day before to see if we'd fill in a spot that had been left open by a band backing out... I had given her my card (for the music/band stuff) the year before while I was running the City's sound system for the evening... The event in NLV is held in a sports park and takes up the entire track area and then some, and draws a pretty good crowd each year (this year being really well attended if you ask me).....

My band, Nasty Habits was scheduled to play, like we did last year, and I was looking forward to it. In the middle of the day Yesterday I got a message that my drummer was not going to be able to make it, and subsequently my guitar player opted out as well.... Now, though I was looking forward to jamming with my mates and was disappointed that at the last minute we had to back out, I came up with a contingency plan...... I had my lovely wife take my bass gear home and grab my acoustic guitar ( I was, after all running sound for the event....) and I told the event coordinator that I would be able to cover the time that we were going to occupy as a band by playing a solo acoustic act... I've not done this in a professional setting before, just at parties, and on my couch at home, in front of my wife, and our cat....

I knew the keyboard player from the band that was scheduled to play before us and knew that they had a full band, so I asked if they would switch time-slots with me, and told them ( and the sound guy who was filling in while I was playing) that they could save a bunch of time if they went ahead and set up while I was playing, as I only needed a small patch of the stage... so there I was, my Garrison acoustic (G-50E) and a mic, I sat on a little folding chair and made my way through 30 minutes of stuff, started off with 'Sittin' on the dock of the bay' and then did some Delbert McClinton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mayer, Marvin Gaye, Eagles and some more Delbert. It went really well and the crowd was really attentive, I actually had a full crowd that really seemed to enjoy my music! Yay me! I figured a nice 30 minute acoustic set would not be the best end-of-the-event type of thing, so I had the other group with the full band finish the night, and it worked out very well!

So now I think my time on the couch might be occupied with adding more songs and getting them down-pat so I can start looking for a few evening gigs here and there as an acoustic solo act, it's a cool different kind of release and may help spark my inspiration to write/create, which seems to have been on hiatus for the last several years!

Check it out, my name is even on the web page for it!!

Saying Goodbye........... well not yet.....

So I've decided that my Gibson Les Paul that sits in the corner collecting dust just needs to go, or I like to think that it will be finding a better home where it will be played and appreciated a little more......... I *made* the decision about three weeks ago, I MADE the decision (complete with craigslist post) today. I have posted it for a fair price and listed its condidtion honestly, so I should have no problem selling it. I will miss it, but I really don't play it that much, and haven't been the guitar player in a band since I played at Christ United Methodist Church years ago. She has been good to me, and I will always remember my first Real guitar....



I feel a little better about selling her after I heard that Gibson bought out Garrison Guitars, the make of my very nice acoustic guitar that I got for Christmas last year and are not honoring Garrison's lifetime warranty... Nothing makes you lose faith in a mega-corp like Gibson faster than knowing that the hard-earned money that was spent on something that was advertised as having a great warranty was now hard-earned money spent on a guitar with no warranty..... so I'm not selling it to spit in their faces, although I doubt if I'll ever buy another Gibson guitar..... There are plenty of options that sound great and feel great that cost much less, so that's probably what I'll look at next.

I really enjoy my Schecter bass, it is still blowing me away every time I play it, so I'll most likely look into one of their guitars when it comes time for a replacement.

Speaking of my Schecter bass, it is my main axe, and so I've also decided to sell my Fender Jazz bass deluxe 5 string that I had modified with my favorite pickups... it too was listed today. I have it listed for a fair price as well, it was my church bass, but even then I was missing my Schecter's thin neck.... so long Fender......

when either of these will sell I don't kow, I can only hope it is soon.

General ranting... it's been a while....

So I'd like to do a Craigslist style rant to start off.....

To the lady in the green Camry in front of me this afternoon, the one with the mobility scooter dangling on the hitch platform that barely supports it. I see you have a huge oxygen tank on your scooter, must be pretty serious because that thing is huge... I wanted to honk my horn and flash my lights to get your attention because I could swear that I saw smoke coming form your car window, surely your car must be on fire because I swear that you have an oxygen tank on your scooter, or is that a massive Nitro tank? You must race that bad boy against the other aging tuners in town, my bad, I'll let you go n your merry way, now get out of the left lane, or at least speed up to the speed limit...............

Cool, I;m back.... let me just say that you know you've been away from something too long when it takes you 20 minutes to get the correct username and password combination,......

So if you check out Nasty Habits Myspace you can see our new promo video, I have received very good reviews from peers and I think it looks and sounds pretty good!
So it's time to hit the streets again and pitch th band to more venues. I think we have a good enough product to try for some better rooms and may have a few contacts I can use!!! If I have my way we'll have a loaded schedule again soon!

So here's what is new with me.....

Still no full-time day work, I do have an opportunity to test again for the correction job, so I'll be training my butt off for the next month....... I have started working as a production assistant/audio tech at Tony N tina's wedding, a dinner show at the Rio Hotel, it is a fun show! I get to see it 4-5 nights a week, and I get dinner there too.... I am really enjoying it and I thinkit will make for a good mark on my resume (seeing as it is in a major hotel/casino....) .

Besides that I'm down by 4 pounds from 2 months ago, I had a cool trip back east to surprise my twin brother for our 30th birthday, and my migraines have made a little comeback.... hurray for coworkers keeping large amounts of ibuprofen with them at all times... imagine going to wwork with a migraine that you've had all day when you job is to mix the sound and do the lights, two things that you try to avoid when you are having a migraine.....

The worship band from Gracepoint has been pretty busy, playing a lot of things outside of churh services, we've played several youh gatherings and played at the Nevada Baptist Conference, and the 2th of this month we;ll be playing center ice after a las Vegas Wranglers hockey game for 'faith and family night' I'm looking forward to tat, as we'll probably get to watch the game!!!


SO just a quick catch-up, I'll be back here more often!!! stay tuned.

Date night interrupted.

so as K and I were getting ready to go out to see Spamalot (see previous post) when my phone rang.... Wojo (GP worship leader) called to ask if I was available to run sound at a local Rock club.... He didn't have all the info handy, but gave me the number of the guy in charge, so I called and it was aparent that I would have time after the show (Spamalot) to take K home and get myself down to the club...

The mixer was a Mackie TT24 (digital mixing console) that I have not worked on before... I downloaded the manual and looked over the basics, seemed easy enough. The sound system is installed, so I knew it couldn't be too hard to run.. Sure enough, the staff got me into the sound booth and into the closet that holds the microphones and cables, and I was ready to rock!

Two bands on the bill, local original bands, I was expecting heavy metal screamers (there are a lot of them in Vegas) but was pleasantly suprised by the two bands. A good mix of jam-band stuff and rock and blues, both bands were pretty good!
The first band was doing grat, then the bass player broke a string... no backup bass and no extra strings.... so it was the guitar player/vocalist and drummer jamming out some tunes.... people were leaving, the MOD gave them the 'last song' and it was back to the house music and stage swap...

Second band used the same drumset and bass rig, so the larger half of the swap was already done. These guys were jamming! I can't say enough about how good these guys were, everybody knew their part, good interaction between the guitar and the keyboard, and the vocalist knew how to work the crowd!!

I got a lot of compliments from the bands and their friends/family but the least expected came near the end of the second bands set.... the sound booth at the Rainbow is a little room a full-sized door with a window on the top half ..... so this cute girl knocks on the window, I wasn't sure what she wanted/needed and the band was a little on the loud side, so I leaned in her direction (ear first) she said 'Thanks for doing a great job" and kissed me on the cheek.... Happy St. Patty's Day!!!! I'm not sure if I was being hit on... didn't realy occur to me at the time, I said 'thank you, happy St Patricks day." and went back to my little stifling box (it was really hot in the booth)...

All in all I'd say it was a good night. It was good to get behind the board again, and to know that I can walk into a foreign situation and handle it like a pro, had I not told the bands that it was my first night ever working this room, they probably wouldn't have known, and that's my goal, to be as professional as I can no matter what is thrown my way.

My mix was awesome (in my not-so humble opinion)

Spamalot!!!! Good Show!!!

K and I decided that we needed to go out, really do a date night in Vegas.... we chose Monty Python's Spamalot and dessert out. We got the show part, dessert was interrupted....

So take a Monty Python movie (or parts from many), put it (them) to music, add dance scenes, and voila! a great 90 minute show filled with all the best parts of Monty Python bits! You knew what was coming, the whole crowd recited the lines along with the actors, and the laughs were loud and many!

Now.... add J O'Hurley in the lead role (he was J peterman on Seinfeld and won on Dancing with te stars), absolutley hillarious. What a nice touch, to have O'Hurley's dry delivery and timing along with a good cast, it really made for a great night.

The scenery was top-notch small theatre stuff, really good us of props and scenery, it was kind of like waching a high school musical that had a really big budget. Good use of modern projection technology, without making it the focus of the show (ala Celine....)

I was pleased to see that the show uses a real band, tucked away somewhere under the stage.

So my final word on Spamalot...... COME OUT TO VEGAS AND WE'LL GO SEE IT!!! I could easily recommend this show to anyone and everyone!!!

Love,Love, Love

Advertisers in Las Vegas do a good job of hyping things before they are even an option, so by the time The beatles Love ( the new Cirque show in town) was open, I was already sick of it. I know that sounds a bit drastic, but really, I had heard so much about the show and seen the billboards for so long, it was no big deal that there was a new show in town... Now, I've got to go on a bit of a rant...

I understand the Beatles were one of the biggest innovators that pop music has ever seen.. I know that they did for music what, at the time, no one else could do... I understand that they are Giants... Why in the world can't the show have a band playing the music.... It's not like we haven't made even more leas and bounds in the industry, and a full band wih a couple of competant keyboard players could nail those tunes just as effectively. I can almost see having the vocal tracks cued in, but even then you could find some convincing vocalists to copy the vocal parts effectively.

That said....K got me the soundtrack for LOVE th other day, and all I can say is WOW... George and Giles Martin took original recordings and mixed them up a bit. they took song parts and put them on top of other songs, took outro's and made them intros.... Giles re-mixed the Beatles... What a dream job, for a guy to follow in his father's footsteps and work with the Beatles' music... The only parts added in the now would be strings to go with George Harrison singing 'While my guitar gently wheeps', and not only a great song, an old recording of it, just G ond his Guitar. Seeing as George Martin wrote the scores to a few other beatles songs, I wouldn't even say that it is too much of a departure, and the part is true to the old Beatles sound. I can ony imagine how great this must sound in the theatre, with a full-on sound system going on '10'......

K and I loved Mystere, it's a great show that leaves you almost breathless... I can't imagine the training and physical ability that is needed to do the acrobatic movements that these frogs are doing... and the original music was cool (I must add that we got tickets comped to us by the guitar player from Mystere who comes out to see us play and jams with us.....) I can't imagine that anoy other Cirque show could capture my imagination like that one did... even with great music... Not to mention that the tickets are wicked expensive... to no have a band to pay, I can't imagine why they might be so high...

My opinion is this... get the CD... it is a great teatment of some great songs... I have to say that I have enjoyed all 26 tracks several times already...

A nice addition to anybody's collection, LOVE makes the Beatles a little more modern in production quality and has a lot of fun too!

A little punk for your holiday!!!

Yesterday afternoon a couple of felllows from LMG, an audio-visual event technology company in Vegas who we rent items to and from, dropped off a Christmas basket filled with goodies (chocolates and cookies and chees and crackers....) and we got to talking about playing in a band. One of the guys said that he just did a show with his band JinglePunx and explained that they were a punk rock band that did christmas songs, pretty obvious from the name... cool idea.. check out the like in their name, it's pretty well done stuff!! He was quite funny, he said he screamed in key and wouldn't even pretend to call it singing... I'd have to agree, but he really does have a lot of enthusiasm!! So have some fun listening to these guys.. click on the link that says flash music player...

MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate and cookies......

DJ Big Red in tha House!!!!

Nasty Habits has the weekend off, well, most of the band does... TOmmy D asked me if I'd be interested in DJ'ing his company Christmas Party, and being the outgoing person I am, I said Yes. So Tonight I am DJ'ing a party. I've got my tunes ready, I'm going over to TOmmy D's before hand to get his PA (how cool is that, all I need to bring is my music and my personality).. Actually I've got some re-arranging to do in the equipment racks, but anywho, I'm just bringing one rack with a CD player in it and my MP3 player....

I have drawn a blank as to any games to do or anything, I don't even know what the owner of the business is expecting, I'm kinda flying blnd and going by what I feel is right, I think it will be good! I've found some very cool Christmas tunes and some rap/dance stuff and then a lot of classic and modern rock (I'm guessing the age range will be from 24 to 50+ so I've got a lot of both kinds, older and newer music) Party gets started at 7:30 and goes to about 12, should be fun!!!!!!!!!!

Birthday items are here!!

Thank you to all who sent cards on my birthday!! (Oct 8)... I had a hard time deciding what to get for my B-day, and decided to go with some gear I have needed/wanted for a while. I got a pedalboard, which is a peice of wood that is covered with carpet and you put Velcro hook tape on the pedals so they won't go anywhere. The one I got has a built in power supply so I can use it to get power to 6 pedals, whic is great because it means no more wall-wart power supplys or outlet strips, one wall wart is all it takes to get everything working!! I also got a pedalboard cable making kit, a great invention that lets you make the cables in lengths that you need, so I've got a new pedalboard with power for my pedals and custom length cables!! It's really going to make my setup time a lot shorter!!!!

I also found a cool jacket, like a real jacket (suit style, but for more casual look with jeans) that is the right size and made for short people!! So I'll be looking good for some of our Christmas parties we are playing!! I've been looking for a jacket like this for over a year, they all seem to be way too long and look dumpy. This one is just right!!


Thanks again for all who sent cards and/or called me on my B-day! I've been really busy working and the band is playing a lot, so I'm sorry it's been a while since I blogged, I'll keep updates coming, I promise!!!!!!

Hot Weekends in Vegas!

So here is another shameless plug for my band, Nasty Habits... We've been waiting for the bookings that we've been working for to come (most bars book three+ months ahead) and they are finally here!! We are a pretty tight band as it is, but this string of back to back working weekends is going to really make us a force to reckon with!!! Here is a little picture of me Rockin' out! and as always, you can find pictures of most of our gigs that are taken by our drummers wife Mel.

If you look at our schedule on the website, or our MYSPACE page you can see that this next few months will be pretty busy, and we've got christmas parties and New Years Eve to look forward to as well!!!

I've got two huge blisters on my index and middle fingers (from banging away on the upright)..... ouch!

We had a youth service at Gracepoint, it was pretty cool, check out K's Blog for more info....

I've put my resume to two sound companies (going to get back into working full-time, just going to try to keep with the theme of audio) so we'll see what comes of that.....

Funniest thing I've seen in a while!!!

While browsing the Harmony-Central Froums, I came across a link to this video that someone has made of John Petrucci, It's pretty funny! HE can really shred, I am not putting him down at all, I just thought it was sooo funny!!! 'This controls how many people die around the world...' That's too funny.

Half way through!!!

So the craziness continues!! Let me get you caught up on my crazy week(s)....

The ballon festival was a resounding success!! The new speakers by D.A.S. that the City of North Las Vegas got are awesome! With very little tweaking I had a great sounding system at my hands. The childrens stage was a blessing, the performers were all great! they kept the kids into the music, and of course, had great messages for the kids. I even got to meet and do sound for Debi Derryberry ( the voice of Jimmy Neutron) along with David Chicken (he did at least one show every day of the event, and was a pleasure to work with!), Amy Lowe, and Zak Morgan. They may have been easy as far as the channels settings go, but I'd really have to say that they were just an easy gig all around, not a complaints or grumblings at all, from any of them or me!! (musicians can be a huge pain in the you-know-what when it comes to a soundman they've never worked with before...). Besides the long hours and constant sun, I had a blast, and I really think that the Special Events department made a very good impression ( the event was a huge success....... if I hadn't mentioned it yet..)

Thursday night I played with Straightaway, we had a good gig, for a first gig. I'd have to say that they (the guys in the band) really worked hard and got a good show out of it ( it was after all their first gig as this band) I had fun and wasn't worried about my performance (I guess that sounds a little cockey, but I worked ont the tunes myself so I knew I had them down). We even et the drummer and bass player from Alice in Chains, which was really cool because we had played of their songs in our set!!

Indian Springs with Nasty Habits was cool, the first week in a long run of gigs (finally), My voice ws shot becase of the long days outside in the wind and dust.... We (read: Cory) got to fire up the new equipment and record the sets, I can't wait to hear the fifth or sixth weeks, as we are already pretty tight, just need to get a little more polished...... My lovely wife trecked up the road with me so she could drive me home and let me get a little sleep on the ride (which I needed, Did I mention they were long days).....

This week I'm working a convention, doing good honest work, stocking materials for the attendees, a lot of walking, lifting 20-60 pound boxes, and more walking. It's kind of funny to think that after three years working at the call center, I can do this kind of work for the same amount of money...... I'm really enjoying walking around with my MP3 player on, just doing my thing.... and I sure could use the exercise.... the balloon thing had me standing or walking within a very small area all week............ I'm doing this all week, so I'll be back to my sexy slim self in no time!!!!

Nasty habits is back at Spanky's Pub this weekend, our favorite little neighbourhood joint! I'm working another convention next week too. I'll keep you informed...

Slow week, next week will be a killer!

I've been working this week, doing some work at a conference with about 150 attendees, nothing difficult... I did see a woman from a nother convention fall (she tripped on and edge where the carpet ends and meets the tile floor) and the people from her convention made a big deal about it (and ultimately tried to blame the hotel, of course) when it couldn't have possibly been the flip-flops she was wearing, or the fact that she was talking to her freind and her head was turned and she wasn't looking where she was going, or that she was trying to reach into her bag with her good arm (that's right, her right arm was in a cast already)......... Drama, and so early in the morning.... One of the folks who was at the conference I was working said he is pretty sure he saw her at the Black Jack table that morning before the incident, chances are she was enjoying some of the fine comped drinks as well???!!!!

Did more training with the City of North Las Vegas, each of the crew members has set up and taken down the mobile stage by themselves now, so we should be able to get it up and down with no snags and in very little time!! We were training on driving the stage around, it's a 26' trailer/5th wheel, so it took a bit of getting used to backing it up, but after a few times through, I think I've got it!!! We have a big balloon festival called balloonapalooza that is next weekend, but we will be working from wednesday through sunday, it's going to be a lot of fun, and I'm going to get to work with the city's new D.A.S. speakers!!!

I've been practicing with straightaway, a local hard rock/metal band this week, I'm subbing in with them next thursday at the Rainbow Bar and Grill, that should be fun!! then Nasty habits is playing Friday and Saturday in Indian Springs. I'm going to be busier than a half-armed paper hanger, but It's what I've been needing, to get to work and keep myself busy!!

Standing in the Shadows... actually I'm sitting on the couch...

While K has been visiting family back on the east coast, I've been sitting at home, not really sure what I want to do. A friend called me up yesterday (probably because he knew I'd be bored and lonely) and asked if I wanted to hang out with him and his wife, I met them at Wal mart (they were doing some shopping there, otherwise I wouldn't have been there....) and started my day that way. One of the fellow posters on the music forums that I frequent had posted about a movie called Standing In the Shadows of Motown being in the $5.50 bin, so I grabbed it while I was there (I had seen parts of it on PBS a few years back and really wanted to get it for myself..)

I've been watching it and it's special features all afternoon! It's great to see the 'Funk Brothers' and hear their side of the story. I would highly recommend this DVD (2 actually) to anyone who is remotely into music and especially to those who love motown!

One could only hope that in their life they would be a part of something so huge... THese guys lived it, and now they tell their story...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 documentary film about the story of The Funk Brothers, Motown Records' primary studio band from 1959 to 1972. It is also the title of a 1989 book (from which the film derived) by Allan Slutsky focusing on bassist James Jamerson,.
The film covers the career of this band with interviews with band alumni and dramatic recreations of specific episodes. It also outlines the disheartening fact that the band was responsible for more #1 hits than any other, yet they were generally unknown - overlooked in favor of the vocalists who sang over their music. In addition, footage from a reunion concert in Detroit, Michigan with the surviving members of the band is included featuring several music performances of major Funk Brothers hits sung by major current R&B, pop, and soul musicians, including Gerald Levert, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan, and Montell Jordan.

Big Red when He was not so big, and not so red.....

Here is an old picture I love! Can you say pre-determined vocation? I know I can!!!

More Pictures on Flickr

I took some pictures of my friends' band this weekend!! Check them out!
Go to the side bar way down the page and click on the flickr badge!!!

Yay!! Happy Amazon Dance!!

My loving wife very kindly ordered two sound reinforcement books that I have wanted for quite some time, the Yamaha Sound reinforcement Handbook and the Yamaha Guide to Sound Systems for worship. When I was at CHrist United Methodist Church in Salisbury we had a copy of the S-R handbook in the tech booth. This is the best live sound book there is, period. I have and enjoy another book, The Live Sound Manual that I lend out to freinds who are interested in learning or boning up their knowledge of audio, but it is only a minor blip on the radar compared to the Yammie book.. THe S-R handbook has lots of information about pretty much anything you may encounter in the world of audio equipment, it tells you what things do and how to get them to do those things, it even has mathmatical equations (ugh) that are used to determine certain things in the audio world. No other book comes close to this one... I'll be busy reading it any chance I get next week.

The Guide...dor worship is great too, for a different reason, instead of dummying everything down (which may be necessary given the volunteer status of many church 'soundguys') to almost childish, it really explains everything from designing a sound system (or hiring a company to design one) to running and troubleshooting. A good middle ground is Church Sound Systems, a book I picked up to a couple of years ago to help the folks at a different church (who left it in the choir room collecting dust, so I repoed it)...

I'm doing a couple of workshops tomorrow for a church (or three) up the road from Las Vegas who are looking for information on contemporary worship. I'm doing one about Bass Guitar and it's place in a worship band, and one on running sound. I'm super excited, I get to use my training experience, and talk about two things I love!! I've been compiling info and trying to decide what to include (I've got a three page handout that I've put together for the audio workshop)...

For the bass workshop, I'm probably going to go over a few inportant things like: Play what the song needs, not always what you want.....etc... I do have a few advanced books to recommend, Encyclopedia of scales and modes for bass and Walking Jazz Lines for Bass...

I'll post to let you know how it goes!!!

Booking the band

So I've discovered over the last few months that bar managers are not very easy to contact. I mean, you can call them, leave a mesage, but they don't call back.. You can go into their establishment to see about open dates, and they'll inform you that their calendar is in the office somehwere else.. Bars that we have done very well at, even, are hard to get in contact with, and the managers have even told me to call them 'next week' so we can get some more dates inked...

I must say that the manager at one bar in particular is awesome to deal with, he actaully seems to be interested in having entertainment! It's a nice thing to call him and talk business because you don't ever feel like you are a pain in his behind....

Just ranting here as I do another round of call-backs to another (or the same) group of managers who seem to never be around.....

If you are interested in booking us, check out our website our Myspace or comment on this post, it'll get e-mailed to me!

BFT and me... our trip to a movie set!!

SO I like to search on Craigslist (pretty much every day) to look for freelance job opportunities or good deals, and I came across a post looking for musicinas to be extras in a movie... It is a film students thesis film... I responded to the post to inquire about what style of music they need people to mime and some other details... The response I got was 'Elvis style and some modern stuff' so I said 'Great, I'll bring my upright!!' I took BFT to Jerry's Nugget, a small locals casino on Las Vegas BLVD in North Las Vegas.... THe setting was the lounge, I was wearing black slacks and a white button-up shirt, they gave me a red bow-tie to wear and popped on the song, a boppin' birthday song in the style of Elvis (obvious licensing issues with using a real Elvis song) and it was really easy to learn (not that we needed to play the actual song, I'm just a bit of a perfectionist, I guess. Everybody was impressed with BFT, said that it was just what the shot needed and also that it was just pretty cool in general, so that is a good indicator of the general public's reaction (I leave BFT propped up in the middle of the stage when we are done playing, so anyone coming to the venue will see it and maybe they'll be interested enough to check us out that night...) so we played the song a bunch of times, about 4 different camera angles, multiple takes, but it was cool. then we got on our normal clothes for the other song, a modern singer-songwriter tune.... it goes along with the storyline somehow.. and jammed along with that track a bunch of times. It was a fun experience!

I also had the opportunity to talk to the lounge manager about my band, Nasty habits... I 'just happened' to have a packet with me and I approached her with it after I was done all of the shots the band was in... We went right back into her office and she popped the CD in, I wento over sets and song lists with her, so hopefully we can get some work out of that contact! It is a neat little lounge, very 'Old Vegas' style! We'll see!!!!

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