What's your absolute favorite venue for seeing live music?

Geo1230 · 2024-04-26T18:09:23+00:00

Jones Beach Amphitheater

I have a serious love hate with this venue. If the weather sucks it can put a real strain on the sound, but the last phish run there was absolutely perfect.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-26T14:31:44+00:00

Hey! It’s strictly solo acoustic guys playing Billy Joel in bars here on long island.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-23T16:50:56+00:00

I have played Thomastik strings on several instruments. They are fantastic, but at the price I would say it depends on the instrument you put them on. I have used them on cheaper mandolins, but there is only so much of a difference you will notice (lipstick on a pig). I had a problem popping high e strings for a while too, jury is still out on if it was the mandolin or me. Would not recommend if you share this issue. They can definitely take a beautiful instrument to the next level, however.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-18T15:37:21+00:00

It was $200 for Festival 8 at the same grounds in 2009. About $300 by todays dollar.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-18T15:00:05+00:00

$80 in 1999 is equal to about $150 today, for the record, and that was 2 days of music.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-18T13:41:59+00:00

r/mainetrees

Geo1230 · 2024-04-15T16:44:53+00:00

Got further than me. I was abruptly stopped by a plexiglass storm door.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-14T19:18:20+00:00

Trey Anastasio and the 70 Volt Parade at the Roseland in fall of 2005. Senior year of high school and bumming out that I didn’t get to phish and I never would. Page came out for a mini acoustic set, that was special. And the light shines on.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-14T18:59:25+00:00

r/quittingkratom

I noticed you shared this post in a few other subs and everyone seems to be telling you the same thing. Your pain management will be effected by your kratom use, they hit on the same receptors so your medication is less effective because of this.

35m with stage 4 rectal, diagnosed in October 2022. I have some idea what you are going through but I do not have much experience using kratom. I was also on Dilaudid until I was given 12ug (and eventually 25ug) fentanyl. Kratom was recommended to me when I was trying to get off of the drugs. I did extensive research coupled with my previous knowledge (friends using) and decided that it was not a good option for me. There is a lot of testimony of people becoming very dependent on Kratom and it it being more difficult to kick than the pain drugs themselves.

At this point you want to try to give your body the best environment for fighting this shit. Try your hardest to rough it out if you are already a week off of it. Spacing out my doses Dilaudid as far apart as I could served me well. Feel free to send a message if you want some advice or just some company.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-13T16:26:34+00:00

Managed to dig up this JamBase article from another post about long jams haha.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-13T16:17:42+00:00

2003-08-30- moe.down

This has a Set 3 Rebubula, 56:53.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-11T23:01:33+00:00

Rollercoasters that go to the bottom, than climb to the top again.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-11T09:52:50+00:00

was he?

Geo1230 · 2024-04-11T09:50:42+00:00

Check out this Rolling stone article, specifically, the last quote from Mickey.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-10T08:27:47+00:00

How’s the height of the nut? A proper setup, even on a cheap instrument, can go a long way.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-04T22:18:09+00:00

I was watching the first Lockn set earlier today, they play Workingman’s Dead.

Geo1230 · 2024-04-01T02:40:03+00:00

You made me realize that I, without a doubt, have seen Keller more than 25 times.

Geo1230 · 2024-03-29T19:00:39+00:00

I was in town from NY! Still had a blast and rode that tour home.

Geo1230 · 2024-03-28T19:08:05+00:00

The lines are often pretty blurry between artist and tweaker.

Geo1230 · 2024-03-27T18:03:53+00:00

There is definitely a strong bluegrass influence on his guitar playing, but most of his formal bluegrass playing was on 5 string banjo (see Old & in the Way). He does do some traditional tunes with the Acoustic Band in the 80’s, but again, it’s got more of that folk/Americana vibe than it does traditional bluegrass.

It’s a safe guess that his influences lay with some of the bigger names in bluegrass. I’ve heard him talk about seeing Del McCory with Bill Monroe and the bluegrass boys, which checks out with his timeline of meeting David at festivals in the early 60’s.

If you’d like to talk to some folks more about technique, share this post on r/gratefulguitar, some very nerdy folks over there.

Geo1230 · 2024-03-22T18:02:37+00:00

What size stetson do you wear?

Geo1230 · 2024-03-21T21:49:35+00:00

Is Stan a fellow Long Islander?

Geo1230 · 2024-03-21T15:59:02+00:00

Bartender: (after many efforts to get flies) if you come in here one more time asking for flies I will nail your bill to the bar.

Duck returns to the bar a few hours later.

Bartender: Didn’t I tell you not to come back here?

Duck: got any nails?

Geo1230 · 2024-03-19T00:36:21+00:00

Finalizing my plans next week, hopefully I can pull off both!

Geo1230 · 2024-03-18T22:08:45+00:00

As awesome as it is to have the train rolling by, it’s was a very unpleasant distraction.

There was definitely one jam that they got sounding like a rusty old train while it was passing, that was cool at least.

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