dcburn
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As big a fan of Garcia as I am, I totally agree!
Ive noticed the band ads are calling for 90's/2K's and beyond. What happened to 60's/70's/80's lol ?
Dan Gleesak
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The millennials are taking over
shar-vell Dan
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IDK how they can't get out of bed.
Dan Gleesak
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As an elder spokesman of the Millenials, I don’t know either. Children are crazy and everything is expensive.
That being said. We showed up in droves for the Fastball/Sugar Ray concert in town last night
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VonBonfire
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The difference is Garcia can actually play the blues whereas the jam and tribute bands have guitarists who generally can't. We were just discussing this about a Hendrix tribute act yesterday. The guy covered Hendrix but he didn't have that deeper grasp of blues or RnB the same way Hendrix does.
Anyone who grew up after the 60's has had less and less exposure to blues and soul so there isn't as much good music anymore but it really nosedived about 15 years ago as the boomers aged out of the scene. I can't tell you how many times I've hired a guy who says he knows blues but can't stick the most basic 12 bar blues changes without screwing the order of the chords up or adding/subtracting bars. Or a drummer who has some kind of adhd mental block preventing him from staying in the pocket or hitting the snare authoritatively. So you're left either to find an old guy who knows the stuff and can still stick it or a young guy who desires to know it. A needle in a haystack. Qualified personnel who want to work and have a good attitude is at an all time low, kind of like every other job I guess.
Dan Gleesak
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Seriously though, this is a top tier pop song for any generation
@VonBonfire i could imagine Roy Buchanan ripping to this like he did “Can I change my mind”
@VonBonfire i could imagine Roy Buchanan ripping to this like he did “Can I change my mind”
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VonBonfire
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An Austin band no Austin band covers cause it's not Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Prince, or Sublime. It's becoming like McDonalds where you get the same shit served to you in every bar you go to. The same types of band all do the same songs as each other. No one digs deep into any catalogs. Corporate burgers have little variation and all taste like cardboard so I don't buy them either.
Dan Gleesak
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I only worked at a casino for a few years but I’ve heard uptown funk and happy, enough for 3 lifetimes
Floyd Eye
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Well Dan, name some bands active prior to 2011 who were getting any paying gigs in STL doing exclusively 90s and later hard rock and alternative music. Paying gigs, not selling tickets to see your shitty band at FUBAR or Cicero’s.
For the cokeheads.
I didn't know floyd invented 90's/2K bar band music in STL, interesting.
ya know ive heard plenty the last 35 yrs and don't even know who floyd is.
SgtThump
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One was named “Harddrive” and I played bass with them from 1998 - 2000.
Ha ha. But it was current music then.
Floyd Eye
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My point wasn’t to pimp my shitty, now defunct band. It was to point out that getting gigs doing Rage, Deftones, AIC, Offspring, Everclear, Ludo, Tripping Daisy, STP and Soundgarden covers in bars in 2011 wasn’t easy. And it’s easier now. Because the old heads that wanted to hear REO and Skynerd quit going to bars because they’re fucking old. The people in bars these days grew up with 90s music.
Dan’s just pissed off cuz I made him look stupid yesterday when he was talking out his ass.
SgtThump
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I got your point and was trying f to be funny. Apparently, I failed. lol
Floyd Eye
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No that was my bad dude. I understood what you were doing and was actually aware I was explaining something to you that you weren’t confused about.
shar-vell Dan
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You don't have that power homo.
You'll have to live your life in wonderment that there's something bigger than you.
Floyd Eye
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Dude just posts a random meme accompanied by some text only he understands. Fuckin classic man.
Put the bong down Dan.
Put the bong down Dan.
rsm
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I hate jam bands, neo funk, and grateful dead tributes. All tributes suck actually but there is a lot of that junk here too. I call jam bands go-nowhere music. The same people who criticize blues for being three chords then go play two chord songs with no lyrics in them.
jam bands, I think the jamboree bears...
rsm
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Fleetwood Mac?
rsm
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shar-vell Dan
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