Members dan88z Posted February 19, 2013 Members Share Posted February 19, 2013 In the "city" near where I live there is an old movie theater that was renovated and turned into a World Cafe Live venue, World Cafe Live at the Queen. They have 2 rooms, 1 smaller 180 person that I recently played with my hippy band, and then the main theater that can hold close to 1000 people. Every year they do various fundraisers for the place. One of the big ones is called Shine a Light on the Queen. It involves 40 musicians or so, playing a night of Rolling Stones songs. Each song has different players rotating on and off stage, different singers, etc. I know the guys who run it and a couple guys from my hippy band did it last year. I would have done it but I had another gig. This year I made sure I was available. I got assigned 6 songs. 5 I had never heard before. I ended up sitting in on a few other tunes as well at the final run thru on Sunday.The show has been sold out for weeks at $50 a ticket.There are 6 keyboard players taking part. One guy has an old Hammond/Leslie they are using, and we're going to set up my S70XS as the "piano" rig, and use my Nord/Ventilator setup as backup for the Hammond (since it's 50 years old).There is a final dress rehearsal/run thru on Saturday afternoon and the show is Saturday night. The coordination involved in getting 40+ musicians on and off stage is massive, and has been done impressively. The rehearsal sounded great and the show is going to be a killer.Here's the set list (I put a * next to the one's I'm playing on- I'm playing Hammond on everything except for the choir part backing up the girl singers on Can't Always Get):Everybody Needs Someone to love *HappyIts Only Rock and RollLoving CupBitchI Got The BluesSympathy for the DevilTime Waits For No OneLet It BleedRip This JointTorn and FrayedTumbling DiceSlaveMothers Little HelperMiss you *Moonlight MileDancing with Mr DChampagne & ReeferAll Down The Line *Thats How Strong My Love IsHand Of Fate *Waiting On A FriendNeighborsYou Got The Silver> *Just Want To See His Face *Memory Motel *Let's Spend the Night TogetherCan't Always Get What you Want *Gimme ShelterAin't To Proud To BegBrown Sugar *Some GirlsJumping Jack FlashSatisfaction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stratotastic Posted February 19, 2013 Members Share Posted February 19, 2013 dan88z wrote: In the "city" near where I live there is an old movie theater that was renovated and turned into a World Cafe Live venue, World Cafe Live at the Queen. They have 2 rooms, 1 smaller 180 person that I recently played with my hippy band, and then the main theater that can hold close to 1000 people. Every year they do various fundraisers for the place. One of the big ones is called Shine a Light on the Queen. It involves 40 musicians or so, playing a night of Rolling Stones songs. Each song has different players rotating on and off stage, different singers, etc. I know the guys who run it and a couple guys from my hippy band did it last year. I would have done it but I had another gig. This year I made sure I was available. I got assigned 6 songs. 5 I had never heard before. I ended up sitting in on a few other tunes as well at the final run thru on Sunday. The show has been sold out for weeks at $50 a ticket. There are 6 keyboard players taking part. One guy has an old Hammond/Leslie they are using, and we're going to set up my S70XS as the "piano" rig, and use my Nord/Ventilator setup as backup for the Hammond (since it's 50 years old). There is a final dress rehearsal/run thru on Saturday afternoon and the show is Saturday night. The coordination involved in getting 40+ musicians on and off stage is massive, and has been done impressively. The rehearsal sounded great and the show is going to be a killer. Here's the set list (I put a * next to the one's I'm playing on- I'm playing Hammond on everything except for the choir part backing up the girl singers on Can't Always Get):Everybody Needs Someone to love *HappyIts Only Rock and RollLoving CupBitchI Got The BluesSympathy for the DevilTime Waits For No OneLet It BleedRip This JointTorn and FrayedTumbling DiceSlaveMothers Little HelperMiss you *Moonlight MileDancing with Mr DChampagne & ReeferAll Down The Line *Thats How Strong My Love IsHand Of Fate *Waiting On A FriendNeighborsYou Got The Silver> *Just Want To See His Face *Memory Motel *Let's Spend the Night TogetherCan't Always Get What you Want *Gimme ShelterAin't To Proud To BegBrown Sugar *Some GirlsJumping Jack FlashSatisfaction Sounds amazing Dan! I realize it's too late for this year, but how does one get in on this?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrcpro Posted February 19, 2013 Members Share Posted February 19, 2013 Awesome sounding gig Dan! Someone should have included "Paint It, Black" though. It's practically the only Stones song people under 25 know. Whenever I run karaoke for young adults, it's the only Stones song that ever comes up (and it gets sung a lot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MDLMUSIC Posted February 19, 2013 Members Share Posted February 19, 2013 No "Honky Tonk Woman"? How can you do a Stones tribute without that one? Sounds like a cool gig, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members n9ne Posted February 20, 2013 Members Share Posted February 20, 2013 Sounds like a really cool gig, and a great concept. Just curious....is that theater a "union" venue? The reason I ask is, there's a nice theater like that here in town that is a great music venue, but they're contractually bound to use union labor at all shows. Any and all equipment that gets carried in or out of the building or set up inside the building is handled by a union worker. It's great for the union guys....but the labor cost means that only national artists and touring groups can afford to book performances. It's simply too expensive for local artists and theater groups to put on a show there.I was just curious whether this theater is the same way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dan88z Posted February 20, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 20, 2013 It's non union. It's a privately owned venue, with a restaurant, the smaller club venue, and the large room. I've rented my rig to touring bands there before and had no problems, and have played there before in the small room. No union thugs waiting to bash artist's heads for carrying their own guitar in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dan88z Posted February 25, 2013 Author Members Share Posted February 25, 2013 Some pics from the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted February 26, 2013 Members Share Posted February 26, 2013 NICE! Looks like it was a pretty sweet show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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