Technically, I didn’t find this in my file cabinet, because it’s gone forever onto the streets of Brooklyn, but I found this in my electronic file cabinet called the “Documents” folder of my Mac. I still miss Brownies. I think of it as the first “real” show I played in New York. Acme Underground doesn’t count, even though that was my very first venue to play in in NYC.
What’s not indicated is that room behind the “Pay Phone.”
In my biggest coup in booking my own bands, I managed to get my band in 2003, Five Second Flat, an opening slot for Shipping News, one of my favorite bands of the time. I saw their tour dates and called up the venue, Little Brothers, in Columbus, OH and asked if we could get on the show and they guy said, “sure.” It was too easy. It was a great show, too, and the guys in Shipping News were super nice to us and very supportive. During their set they thanked us for playing and told the crowd to buy our CD. It was more than we could have asked for. Lyndon, Jeff, and I were ecstatic.
Coincidentally, that was 11 years ago, today.
“File Cabinet Archives†is stuff I am finding in my file cabinet as I go through it and throw away a lot of old stuff, scan some of it, and save even less of it. I’m posting some of what I find interesting here.
Bling Kong was featured in a Time Out NY student guide in 2005.
“File Cabinet Archives†is stuff I am finding in my file cabinet as I go through it and throw away a lot of old stuff, scan some of it, and save even less of it. I’m posting some of what I find interesting here.
Back in 2006, I signed up to be in the “100 guitars thing” by Glenn Branca. That thing turned out to be “Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City)” and we performed it at Montclair State University in New Jersey on February 4. We received the music, learned it at home, then practiced a few times as a group before the performance.
Also known as “the time I played with Ty Braxton, Wharton Tiers, Sarah Lipstate, Reg Bloor, Mike Banfield, Jessica Pavone, Brad Bennett, Doug Keith, Bryan Bruchman and 91 other people.”
Here’s what some of the music for my part, Bass 3, looked like.
* “File Cabinet Archives” is stuff I am finding in my file cabinet as I go through it and throw away a lot of old stuff, scan some of it, and save even less of it. I’m posting some of what I find interesting here.
