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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at13:46:

 

quote:

Being 40 and having many dead and dying brain cells, my memory is fuzzy. Isn't Melodyland where you guys played that Randy Stonehill tribute show in 1990? I remember it because we were in town recording our second CD for Frontline and we got to come to rehearsals. I even got to sit in on drums for "Walls of Doubt" because Ed was running late. Was that Melodyland or am I on crack?

Jerry, i think you're absolutely right. i think that WAS melodyland. it's amazing they let us back in there. you might still be on crack, though.


(kidding)

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Posted by uvulapie on 10-28-2005 at14:25:

  Free Tater at the Sizzler

Congratulations on your second Grammy nomination, you ol' chucklehead! Be sure to wear something sparkely this time so Mariah Carey will notice you.

Seriously - I hope you guys win though I know the marketing odds are against it. THREE CHEERS FOR THE CHOIR!

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Posted by jiminy on 10-28-2005 at14:28:

 

whaa??
fill us all in dude.

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at14:40:

 

hey jason -- i don't think they've finished voting right? i think they have awhile until they announce the results? if we'd been nominated again, dan would've had it in ten foot high letters on the choir site.

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Posted by Gabriel Syme on 10-28-2005 at14:49:

 

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Originally posted by Jerry Davison Anyways, I only ever saw DA live 3 times. Once in 1986 I think, it was Fearful Symmetry tour and you guys played at a tiny auditorium in Atlanta.

Hi, Tim!

I've only seen DA live... well, never. & I didn't know they had ever played in Atlanta.

The closest thing I have to a concert screw-up story involves Michael Card. He was here in Athens playing outdoors at Legion Field. As he finished a song, the lights dramatically cut out. Except, what actually happened was the power had gone out. After about 45 minutes without being able to get the power back on, he & the band dragged out the bodharans, accordion, mandolin, & such & finished the concert with an acoustic set in the middle of the audience.

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Posted by uvulapie on 10-28-2005 at14:55:

  This is your Brain on Less Sleep

I just re-read the e-mail from Dan... and you are correct, sir. Perhaps I should have paid attention to the warning presented in the classic "REEFER MADNESS"... I wondered why he made it the second item in the e-mail. OY!

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at14:57:

 

hi Gabriel! that's a great story. one time (and i think i've told this before) the da road crew guys knocked the stage power completely out at an outdoor festival by driving in too fast and ramming into a bunch of equipment behind the stage.

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Posted by jiminy on 10-28-2005 at14:59:

 

thats OK
We can project it!

(think thats in Reefer Madness too..............)

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Posted by sprinklerhead on 10-28-2005 at14:59:

 

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Originally posted by tchandler hi Gabriel! that's a great story. one time (and i think i've told this before) the da road crew guys knocked the stage power completely out at an outdoor festival by driving in too fast and ramming into a bunch of equipment behind the stage.

That's funny. Was that at SuperFest on some ski slope in California?

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Posted by jiminy on 10-28-2005 at14:59:

 

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Originally posted by tchandler hi Gabriel! that's a great story. one time (and i think i've told this before) the da road crew guys knocked the stage power completely out at an outdoor festival by driving in too fast and ramming into a bunch of equipment behind the stage.

keystone kops.....ahhhhhhhh

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Posted by Jerry Davison on 10-28-2005 at15:05:

 

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Originally posted by Gabriel Syme quote: Originally posted by Jerry Davison Anyways, I only ever saw DA live 3 times. Once in 1986 I think, it was Fearful Symmetry tour and you guys played at a tiny auditorium in Atlanta. Hi, Tim! I've only seen DA live... well, never. & I didn't know they had ever played in Atlanta. The closest thing I have to a concert screw-up story involves Michael Card. He was here in Athens playing outdoors at Legion Field...

Hey, I didn't know you were in Athens, GA. I grew up there! I LOVE that place! Go Bulldogs! PM me later.

Er, sorry, everyone... as you were...

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at15:05:

 

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keystone kops

those guys were hilarious. i still keep in touch with wes leathers who went on to work for pat benatar, foreigner, santana, the greatful dead, etc.

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 10-28-2005 at15:13:

 

hey tim,

sorry I don't have any good concert mixup stories; at best if I had really cool parents, I might have remembered a DA show in the late 80s, but then y'all didn't play the east coast much either

Well, my Dad did have some pretty cool music. Lotsa boxes of 45s and some LPs.

Probably one of the best shows I saw in high school was by Eric Gales, who at the time was maybe 16 himself. He sorta got billed as being a newer Hendrix, but he wasn't drugged out and I saw him actually turn down some of the "house girls and substances" after the show, after my friend and I talked to him some outside his tour bus.

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Posted by larryl on 10-28-2005 at15:18:

 

afternoon tim.....no funny stories from me...not involving you anyway.....

the one funny thing that comes to mind is the choir playing the pterodactyl in atlanta, with bill campbell on guitar, and wayne everett on percussion.....

it was a non-smoking venue, and wayne chain smoked throughout the set.....we laughed at him all night...

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Posted by freak on 10-28-2005 at15:22:

 

c-stone 90 was my first and only time seeing a "true" the gen-u-wine members of DA all playing a set (saw 2001 sans Mr. Chandler; 2002 sans Mr. Flesch)...

but c-stone 90 ended with everyone jumping greg in a real cool brawl... that was FREAKIN' AWESOME!!

What a great time.

I of course would love to see you and the guys out sans a brawl any old time!

Here is hoping.

~f

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Posted by freak on 10-28-2005 at15:24:

 

I remember you in '86 touring with Stonehill and Phillips...

You had a big shouldered jacket.

You played messiah college (my alma mater) and during "dancing with danger" you got down and did curley's on the floor...

Pretty nada cool.

great show - I believe it was Raven on Drums, as well.

~f

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at15:27:

 

hi Mountain Fan!

hey larryl! yeah, Wayne is a really funny guy. he made that tour a lot of fun.

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 10-28-2005 at15:28:

 

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Originally posted by tchandler hi Mountain Fan! hey larryl! yeah, Wayne is a really funny guy. he made that tour a lot of fun.

I bet he didn't have the facial expressions of Steve though!

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at15:28:

 

hi freak! yes that would've been Raven on drums. he's the greatest!

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Posted by tchandler on 10-28-2005 at15:30:

 

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I bet he didn't have the facial expressions of Steve though!

that's true. Steve's facial expressions are one of a kind.