Girly, I have a quick question, and this isn't meant to put pressure on you...but how up to date is the draft board? I am just curious for searching means to make sure my potential selections aren't taken already. Thanks.
Girly, I have a quick question, and this isn't meant to put pressure on you...but how up to date is the draft board? I am just curious for searching means to make sure my potential selections aren't taken already. Thanks.
Not very up to date.. I'll try to update tonight.
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If we can help you with that part of the job, let us know.
Board updated. Please check for errors.
Thanks for the offer but it doesn't take too much time to update. I just have to get off my butt. The board is pretty plain, do you guys want to add anything to it to spice it up? I could do links like the hottie draft board but there is no musicpedia.
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Sorry guys, I'm having trouble trying to come up with some of the selections. Maybe if someone would like to help me with bass guitar, or the east and west miss categories, that'll be great. I have no idea what bands reside where.
Problem is, I honestly don't know any bass guitarist or drummers.
Sorry guys, I'm having trouble trying to come up with some of the selections. Maybe if someone would like to help me with bass guitar, or the east and west miss categories, that'll be great. I have no idea what bands reside where.
Problem is, I honestly don't know any bass guitarist or drummers.
Sorry guys, I'm having trouble trying to come up with some of the selections. Maybe if someone would like to help me with bass guitar, or the east and west miss categories, that'll be great. I have no idea what bands reside where.
Problem is, I honestly don't know any bass guitarist or drummers.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
with our next selection we will move to the keyboardist selecting Page McConnell who got his start with Phish.
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Page Samuel McConnell (born May 17, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a pianist/organist/keyboardist most noted for his work with the jam-rock band Phish.
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Other musical projects
In 1997, McConnell played keyboards on the title track of Scottish band Travis' debut album "Good Feeling". The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite who also produced Phish's "Billy Breathes" album.
In 2001, McConnell appeared on Tenacious D'sdebut album. That fall, he joined the band on stage at their concert at Higher Ground in S. Burlington, Vermont.
With Oteil Burbridge and Russell Batiste, McConnell was the founding member and leader of Vida Blue.
After a two-year hiatus from the music industry following the breakup of Phish, McConnell returned as a solo artist, recording an album of all new material in 2006. This new album was released April 17, 2007 through Sony/BMG’s Legacy Recordings, and is self-titled. On signing with Legacy, McConnell has stated, "I know a lot of people just put stuff out on the internet, and that's certainly an option — especially these days and especially if you're catering to the Phish fans who already know who I am. But I wanted a little bit more than that...I was proud of the record, and I wanted as many people as possible to hear it when I was done with it."[1]
The album features ex-bandmates Jon Fishman, Trey Anastasio, and Mike Gordon, though they don't all play together on the same track.
McConnell headlined the High Sierra Music Festival in July 2007, which was held in Quincy, CA. His touring band features multi-instrumentalist Jared Slomoff, guitarist Adam Zimmon, bassist Rob O'Dea, and drummer Gabe Jarrett. Said McConnell, "I have a really good feeling about this group. It feels like a band, although it's in its infancy right now. It really does feel like there is a collective consciousness."[2]
Instruments
Page McConnell plays a Hammond B3 with a Leslie 122 speaker (this has been modified with a large boost to the percussion effect possible), a Fender Rhodes, a Yamaha C7 "baby grand" (7'6") piano, a Hohner D6 Clavinet (often used in sync with a wah-wah pedal), a Moog Source, Alesis Andromeda A6, a Yamaha Motif, a Moog Little Phatty, and a Yamaha CS50 polyphonic synthesizer. He also plays the theremin. The Rhodes as well as the clavinet are sometimes played through a Maestro Phase Shifter.
Thanks for picking Tim...anyone else ready to go??
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
For my next selection, in the bass category, I choose Stu Hamm.
Stuart "Stu" Hamm (born February 8, 1960) is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his virtuosic playing style and solo recordings.
Born in New Orleans, Hamm spent his childhood and youth in Champaign, Illinois, where he studied bass and piano, played in the stage band at Champaign High School, and was selected to the Illinois All-State Band. Hamm graduated from Hanover High in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1978 while living in Norwich, Vermont. Following high school, he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he met guitarist Steve Vai and, through him, met Joe Satriani. Hamm played bass on Vai's debut solo album, Flex-Able, which was released in 1984.
Hamm has performed and recorded with Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani and many other well-respected guitarists. It was playing live on tour with Satriani that brought Hamm's skills to national attention. Subsequent recordings with Satriani and other rock/fusion artists along with the release of his own solo recordings solidified his reputation as a bassist and performer.
With our 9th selection, BF & the BFFs are proud to bring into the fold one of the great rock records of our time, recorded by one of the great bands of our time... An album whose anger, power, epic scope and brilliance still resonate today, almost 30 years after its release... An album that marked the high point of pure punk rock, both musically as well as intellectually, and has served as the standard every since... The Clash's magnum opus, 19 songs that hold together and propel the listener to the type of heights only the most important works of Rock 'N Roll art are capable of.... London Calling (1979)!!!!!
Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time:
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Recorded in 1979 in London, which was then wrenched by surging unemployment and drug addiction, and released in America in January 1980, the dawn of an uncertain decade, London Calling is nineteen songs of apocalypse fueled by an unbending faith in rock & roll to beat back the darkness. Produced with no-surrender energy by legendary Sixties studio madman Guy Stevens, the Clash's third album sounds like a free-form radio broadcast from the end of the world, skidding from bleak punk ("London Calling") to rampaging ska ("Wrong 'Em Boyo") and disco resignation ("Lost in the Supermarket"). The album was made in dire straits, too. The band was heavily in debt; singer-guitarists Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, the Clash's Lennon and McCartney, wrote together in Jones' grandmother's flat, where he was living for lack of dough. But the Clash also cranked up the hope. The album ends with "Train in Vain," a rousing song of fidelity (originally unlisted on the back cover) that became the sound of triumph: the Clash's first Top Thirty single in the U.S.
