Members jeff42 Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 Whew... finally was able to log back in... Well its been very busy in Ostrich Hat land. Sunday Afternoon we played a bar that was near the parade route for a st. paddy's day parade. LOTS of drinking and partying that day. Here's some video: [video=youtube;i1gkAoaWZ8o] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wheresgrant3 Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 Jeff... sounds great and looks like a great time. Honestly I don't know why you guys don't get more respect in your market. You sound tight, look fun and can keep a room dancing. The song selection is pretty much what every successful band on the circuit is playing. I would think it would be easy to plug you in for $125-150 a man. I'm seeing bands really scale down around here... 5 piece are becoming 4 piece.... and bands transitioning from electric to acoustic. But they aren't drawing crowds or really entertaining... they are just providing a cost solution for a small bar worried about budget. You guys would give many small bands a run for the money... and you are doing it without backing tracks. Kudos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wades_keys Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 I'm seeing bands really scale down around here... 5 piece are becoming 4 piece.... and bands transitioning from electric to acoustic. But they aren't drawing crowds or really entertaining... they are just providing a cost solution for a small bar worried about budget. Yeah, two of my bandmates did an acoustic duo tonight for pretty much that reason. Small bars worried about budget pretty much sums up the state of the majority of the places to play around these parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members joshmac Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 Cool gig. Looks like fun. For a gig such as this, where it seems like volume is not a huge issue (you guys are putting on a rock show), do you still prefer to e kit? The vids i've seen of you on an acoustic kit have interested me way more than any of the e kit ones. I feel like you guys would sound bigger with a thicker sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MDLMUSIC Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 Love the little leprechaun hat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 Jeff... sounds great and looks like a great time. Honestly I don't know why you guys don't get more respect in your market. You sound tight, look fun and can keep a room dancing. The song selection is pretty much what every successful band on the circuit is playing. I would think it would be easy to plug you in for $125-150 a man. I'm seeing bands really scale down around here... 5 piece are becoming 4 piece.... and bands transitioning from electric to acoustic. But they aren't drawing crowds or really entertaining... they are just providing a cost solution for a small bar worried about budget. You guys would give many small bands a run for the money... and you are doing it without backing tracks. Kudos Thanks Grant, we are making some progress getting a bit more "respect"... Some LOL We did a Battle of the bands at Mohegan Sun Casino in Wilkes-barre on Wednesday night and beat out 4 VERY good bands including one that is very popular and similar in style. So its on to the semi-finals for us. Maybe that will lead to a few open doors for us since even if we lose in the semi finals I can say we were one of the top 10- and this BOTB at the casino is a pretty big thing in my area. Our schedule is pretty full, we are inching our pay up and hopefully we can finally drop the rooms we really dont enjoy and add more A-type rooms. We are going to hit the 3 year mark in May and we have come a LONG way from what we started out as... just 3 guys in the corner with instruments- Small PA, no lights, a borrowed bass, an acoustic guitar, music stands and a small v-drum kit (my practice one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 I still like playing my Ekit but I get where your coming from. I am putting serious thought into bring out my Ludwigs to a bigger gig and see how we like it. Maybe I will but both of The Bigger rooms we have our eyes on have a nice A kit to play on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members jeff42 Posted March 21, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nchangin Posted March 23, 2014 Members Share Posted March 23, 2014 Nice vocals. Drums are solid and busy, you have to be dead at the end of a 4 hour gig! Usually in live video's it's pretty easy to point out a f up, I didn't really see one, this will be good promo stuff I've been listening to your video's in the past, see a lot of overall tightness with the band. Variety is killer, and again nice nice vocals. side note drummer observation (who's still not quite sold on e drums YET) The crash had a nice long sustain on that one shot sorry I could look again but I'm tired lol. Do you change your config from song to song on the fly with the e drums? Like do you have pre programmed styles, like disco, rock, funk, heavy, etc that you can switch to on the fly? I do like the snare and the bass sound, did sound pretty dang close to an acoustic. And no tuning it? wow, no drum case wow no worrying if it get's scratched, wow. No drum mics, wow. Sure would take a lot of the headache of being a drummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 23, 2014 Nice vocals. Drums are solid and busy, you have to be dead at the end of a 4 hour gig! Usually in live video's it's pretty easy to point out a f up, I didn't really see one, this will be good promo stuff I've been listening to your video's in the past, see a lot of overall tightness with the band. Variety is killer, and again nice nice vocals. side note drummer observation (who's still not quite sold on e drums YET) The crash had a nice long sustain on that one shot sorry I could look again but I'm tired lol. Do you change your config from song to song on the fly with the e drums? Like do you have pre programmed styles, like disco, rock, funk, heavy, etc that you can switch to on the fly? I do like the snare and the bass sound, did sound pretty dang close to an acoustic. And no tuning it? wow, no drum case wow no worrying if it get's scratched, wow. No drum mics, wow. Sure would take a lot of the headache of being a drummer. Thank you! I do have a few kits I use that are slightly different depending on the song- and a few of the pads are set to things like cowbell, tambourine, hand clap, woodblock and so on. again depending on what I need. You can tune it how ever you want it through the module to get the sound you want for the snare in addition the heads can be tightened up or loosened up to how ever you like them. For shows that we have our own sound man I usually give him 4 sends so he has control over snare, bass, cymbals, toms/ aux pads. Otherwise its one send to the board but I can adjust it from my module. At the end of the night the cymbals are packed away with the kick drum, module and pedals and the rest stays on the rack which is folded up and placed in the back of an SUV. So yeah it has a lot to do with the cutting down set up and break down time along with volume control. Not sure if you can see it in the video but we have no backline, just monitors. My ears don't ring after a gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted March 24, 2014 Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 I always thought you were the bass player. I never know who anyone is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 nope... in this group the drummer keeps it all together. strange I know. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 24, 2014 Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 I always thought you were the bass player. I never know who anyone is.Yah I did too until a couple of days ago. Kind of interesting that the players aren't listed on either their FB or website? OTOH I hate those typical bios you see where they list what everyone's equipment is - who really gives a carp except other musicians? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 I guess i forgot to include the members when I re-designed the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 it is on the FB page though, just hard to find since they changed the look I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 24, 2014 Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 it is on the FB page though' date=' just hard to find since they changed the look I guess[/quote']Don't see it, are you sure you set it as "public"? : https://www.facebook.com/ostrichhathatpack/info EDIT> Yah, found it buried on your "other" FB page: https://www.facebook.com/ostrichhat/info?collection_token=100002048189366%3A2327158227%3A8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/ostrichhat/. is the one we use the other one will probably just get shut down. I tried to get people to switch but they wont so its going bye-bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 24, 2014 Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/ostrichhat/. is the one we use the other one will probably just get shut down. I tried to get people to switch but they wont so its going bye-byeNormally I hate those mis-purposed "personal pages" but there are a lot around that predate FB's "musician/band" pages capability and with FB's recent "follow" addition they're sort of OK with me now . I still won't "friend" a band's page but will "follow" one if they've turned that on. What really irks me are band "personal pages" with the security set so you can't see anything on it unless you "friend" them. here's one: https://www.facebook.com/vanishing.breed.12 You can't even see any of their posts or their events so would never know they have gigs coming up . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jeff42 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 24, 2014 yeah after it was set up for us by a friend i noticed it was not a band page it was a personal profile. thats when the band page was started but it was too late. no one would switch. so we're stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Austincowbell Posted April 2, 2014 Members Share Posted April 2, 2014 We played a 3 hour show and I went to the hospital with pneumonia leaving a really cute 23 year old girl in my bed.ta-dah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted April 2, 2014 Members Share Posted April 2, 2014 We played a 3 hour show and I went to the hospital with pneumonia leaving a really cute 23 year old girl in my bed. ta-dah! You couldn't find someone to sub for ya? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Austincowbell Posted April 2, 2014 Members Share Posted April 2, 2014 You couldn't find someone to sub for ya? for the show or the girl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted April 2, 2014 Members Share Posted April 2, 2014 You played the show. I was thinking of the poor girl in your bed who was left un-entertained... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Austincowbell Posted April 2, 2014 Members Share Posted April 2, 2014 You played the show. I was thinking of the poor girl in your bed who was left un-entertained... the show had to be played within a specific time frame. The girl accepted a raincheck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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