A Good Gig

I'm posting a photo from the sound check at Saturday's Up River Band gig at Brady's Brewhouse in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

I think Judy did a nice job of capturing the artist and his fine rig:

The Artist and his rig.

In this case, the Artist's rig consists of:  his axe, a home-built Telecaster copy with some handwound Travis Morris pickups in it; his amp, a Savage Macht 12x head powered by vacuum tubes over a 1x12 Savage bottom sporting a Mojotone BV-30 speaker; his unseen pedal board sporting a variety of foot pedals designed to enhance his tone mojo; and a Shure SM57 microphone.  That's all a lot of nonsense if you don't wield an axe, but maybe I'll get around to that if I get on a posting frenzy.  Suffice it to say that everything interesting today is specialized and filled with technology and magic.  Pub music guitarmanship is no different.

If you have not been to Brady's, it is a brewery with a restaurant in it.  It has a nice elevated stage.  They serve a hamburger with peanut butter and bacon called "the silly good burger," and it is.  If you think peanut butter on a burger seems strange, imagine a Juicy Lucy with a very soft melted cheese of a salty, slightly nutty flavor.  They also serve a wood fired crab and shrimp dip that's outstanding.  I'm told the beer is very good, too.

We played for about 4 hours.  Nobody was injured.  There were a few excellent moments.  It was a good gig.