TheGoodRev

They also played Jimi's "3rd Stone from the Sun" in the second set.

Really? I didn't catch that at all. It must have been a tease in one of the longer jams, maybe Mule?

Good work, Dave! That's awesome.

i was waiting to see gordie pop out but didnt happen

That's cause he lives in Austin, TX now.

I'm a huge Big Sugar fan, and I think Mule's take on I'm a Ram could have bettered Big Sugar's if Matt Abts had played the tune straight. Instead he was alternating one straight bar and one sort-of bossa-nova bar, for lack of a better term. I don't know how to explain the rhythm he was doing, hopefully the show pops up soon so I can post it. Anyway, if Abts played it straight like Al Cross, they'd take the cake.

Set 1:

Mr. Man

Bad Man Walking

About To Rage

Lola, Leave Your Light On

Livin' Lovin' Maid

Mother Earth

She Said, She Said

Slow Happy Boys

Driving Rain

Set 2:

Nothing Man

Raining Pain Down On New Orleans

Rocking Horse

I'm So Tired >

Drums >

The End

Time To Confess

Mule >

I've Been Working >

Mule Reprise

Encore:

Silent Scream

I'm A Ram

First set - a little too much fist-pumping 97.7 Rock. I found opening with four - FOUR - from the newest record to be a little weak, though Livin Lovin Maid came out of nowhere and was a nice surprise. Mother Earth was great but a little too long for a straight blues. She Said was as usual, segued into a great Tomorrow Never Knows. Slow Happy Boys was a beer tune, and Drivin Rain is the example I always use for Mule tunes that I could never again hear in concert and not miss. So, a little weak overall.

Which is why the second set was all the more amazing. Don't really remember the first tune. The next one, Raining Pain Down in New Orleans, sounds like a new one about the hurricane. Or it could be a 70-year-old blues tune for all I know. Whatever it was, it was fuckin awesome, a slow creole-blues with a crazy trumpet(!) solo from Danny Louis in the middle. An extended, rocked-out Rocking Horse, and then a full I'm So Tired into a great drum solo into an EXTREMELY extended The End - of Abbey Road fame, indeed. An awesome Mule, then back with Silent Scream from the new record, and a positively MONSTROUS I'm a Ram. I love the tune and have heard its many incarnations, but had never seen the Mule do it, so that was cool. Anyway, great fucking show, second set was probably the best Mule set I've seen with my own two eyes; I've only seen a total of 9, but still. ROCK.

Is TheGoodRev quitting the board now too? Damn... thought today was my day... i'll keep waiting.

Nah, I don't know if I still possess the degree of melodrama that would inspire me to quit an internet message board in a huff. If the board ever gets too stupid, it won't be a quitting, I'll just start coming here less and less...but hey, it looks like things are settling down, as they always seem to do; let's hope we're headed for one big chill for everybody. After all, how much love, sex, fun and friendship can a Skank take?

Shotgun I'm Kevin Kline.

I'll be there, and I could still use a ride back to the Hammer after the show...PM me

Ahhhh....therein lies the difference. Thanks dude.

can'o'phish, I was wondering what you thought of this unit. It's cheap, has built-in digital effects, digital (USB) outs, and includes CUBase recording software. It could also double as a mixer for live sound if the need arose (or handle recording several sources at a time, albeit to stereo).

Aloha,

Brad

This looks like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, at a fraction of the price I thought it would cost. Let me get this straight: this is a mixer that will allow 6 tracks to be recorded simultaniously (4 XLR plus 2 stereo channels); and it will go straight to CuBase via USB? Is USB even fast enough to handle that kind of action? I thought Firewire was necessary for that kind of simultaneous recording.

Any idea of the MSRP on that thing, Brad or CoP? Or, uh, anybody?

EDIT: They seem to be going on Ebay for about $150 US

The 16-track version is going for $175 on Ebay! Did I miss the memo that said that quality home recording got infinitely cheaper all of a sudden? Or have I just been missing these affordable products all this time? I've always been searching for 'audio interface' on Ebay; do these mixers differ at all from audio interfaces? They allow multitrack digital recording to PC and are compatible with popular recording software. Am I missing something?

Present with a fuckin Santa suit, jingle bells and eight fuckin reindeer. Like SugarMegs said, I don't really care either, but I'm worried there will come a point that I completely lose interest in coming back here. Although, I was around for the tail end of the last big incident (which I will not identify) and everything seemed to calm down, so I'm sure it will in this case too. For now, those threads don't even exist to me.

Song Bird in Toronto

http://www.songbirdmusic.com

Aloha,

Brad

This is the place to go if you're looking for used, for sure. A fine, fine establishment.

b-b-bump

I could use a ride home from the Mule show Thursday night, any Hamiltonians going? I'm just looking to get back to town after the show. PM me, and thanks!

The song that first made me love Skynyrd was The Ballad of Curtis Lowe. Seek it out, ye non-believers, and be converted. I'm not big on their big hits, but they have a hell of a lot of album cuts that are hard-riffin, good-boogyin Southern Rock -> see Whiskey Rock A Roller, Workin For the MCA, etc. I skipped my high school graduation to see Skynyrd/Deep Purple/Ted Nugent at the Amphitheatre, and I'd do it again. Yeah, the 'Skynyrd' that tours now is a huge cheeseball of nostalgia trip, but it was a great show.

Ha ha, the Ukraine. Do you know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck. A road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.

Does anybody else see something wrong with this? There are a lot of people in China, and I'm pretty sure they're not all out on their verandas strangling kitties. Not quite 'racist', but sort-of an unfair generalization of, and punishment to, a culture based on one video of a half-dozen people.

I wonder if,

You are lonesome tonight

You know, someone said that all the world's a stage, we each must play a part

Fate had me playing in love you as my sweet heart

Act one was when we met, I loved you at first glance

You read your line so cleverly and never missed a cue

Then came act two

You seemed to change, you acted strange

And why I'll never know

Honey, you lied when you said you loved me

And I had no cause to doubt you

But I'd rather go on hearing your lies

Than go on living without you

Now the stage is bare, and I'm standing there

With emptiness all around

And if you won't come back to me

Then they can bring the curtain down

♫ Is your heart filled with pain, shall I come back again?

Tell me dear, are you lonesome tonight? ♫

Are you serious, or just instigating? Yes, Warren is still with the Mule. If Warren left, there would be no more Mule. I'll be at the show.

I agree with Adsy.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And so your pet naming scheme finally finds its way to the message board...

Cats were great, as usual. Man, does that Hammond ever make a difference. Just so you know, Drawbar, the musicians in the audience take note of your mad B3 skillz. I must also add that this is the second time I've seen the One Way Out with "Lord it just might have to be your Iron Man, I don't know" followed by massive Iron Man riff, and I still find it hilariously good, keep it up.

I'm intrigued, but my main use for an expensive interface would be multiple inputs, to record beds off the floor. I'm not really up on the benefits of a one- or two-input interface vs. recording straight to the line-in jack, can you shed some light Beats?

Oh man, I wish I had seen this thread earlier, I would have been there in a second. I'm committed to the Fatties in Hamtown tonight, though. I'd love to rock the kit on an improv jam with a DJ...any chance of doing more of these, Jaydawg? Is there a communal drum kit happening?

Ah, nuts. In that case, I got nothin. Sorry!

thanks - i downloaded it but couldnèt manage to get a cd burned. i am probably just being obtuse but explicit instructions would be appreciated, perhaps a PM would be more appropriate.

cheerio!

Ha! I was actually typing out instructions in my post, because I had trouble with it when I first downloaded it. But then I was worried about insulting your intelligence, so I deleted them before I posted. But now that I look at their site, there really isn't a tutorial anywhere! Crazy. Anyway, not to worry, here's how you work'er, 'sreal easy:

- Open the program

- Click 'Mastering' on the menu bar and choose 'Audio CD' or 'Data CD' as the case may warrant

- This takes you to a new screen where you can either click 'Add files' and choose them that way, or click and drag files directly into the window

- When you've got it all ready to go, click 'Compile' at the bottom right

- The program will tell you how much is being compiled (e.g. '457 MB to be written'); click 'Ok'

- It'll take a few seconds to compile, a little longer if you're using FLACs or anything else it might have to decode

- When it's done compiling, it takes you back to the first screen

- Click 'Write'; again, it'll tell you how big it is, and how much space is on your blank disc (e.g. '457 MB to be written to disc, 701 MB free'); Click 'Ok' and it'll burn

There's an options menu somewhere there too (not at home so can't recall offhand how to access it, should be in the menu bar) but you can change the usual basic burning stuff like pauses between songs, write speed, etc. Good luck!

Totally! There was a great crowd, and Mark sounds killer with a band. Good times.

I have Nero express, but I also use Burnatonce. It's free, easy to use, and supports wav, mp3, mp2, ogg and flac as standard. Dig it!