Drew Emmitt Band Toledo, Ohio 6-30-2005

Drew Emmitt Band Toledo, Ohio 6-30-2005
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> Hey Y'All,
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> I decided to check the music scene yesterday since I am in Toledo working the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic LPGA event for the next 2 weeks. Lo and behold, I see Drew is right here in town! No 2 hour drive after a show. It was still a long day as I had to meet my Sysco truck full of groceries at 5:00 am the morning of the show, ouch! He played at a small bar called Mickey Finn's. Good draft beer selection. I got down there at about 8:30. I saw Matt from Kenosha, setting up by the soundboard. He is doing a matrix of mics/soundboard for a few of the shows on this tour and they are available for download. About time the boys began doing this. When Drew arrived with Steve, Chris, Greg, and Ross, I went over to say hey. Steve and Drew are never surprised to see me the past several years as I have shown up at shows all over the country.
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> We chewed the fat a bit, Greg and I even shared a phone call with Sammy out in California just before they hit the stage. The sound was very good. There was a minor hum coming from the bass amp. There were some crackles in the middle of the first set. The house sound guy told us it was the lightning from the huge storm going on outside. After the show, Drew and I reminisced about the '96 Greenville, S.C. show where lightning actually arced inside the building during soundcheck! My buddy Rich and I were taping the soundcheck as it happened. That quickly ended the soundcheck that night!
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> My only regret was the fact that there were probably only 25 people at the show including Matt and I taping. To be honest, after halfway through the show, almost everyone was dancing up front, lots of fun. I got to hang with Andrea and Nicki. This is my second time seeing Chris on banjo, and he seems quite comfortable up there. Ross took some wicked leads with some great finger pickin'. Greg handles the stand up bass like a pro. I almost wish he played it during the Salmon shows in the past few years. Great versions of 99 Years, One Step at a Time, and Country Blues stretching out almost 10 minutes, in the first set. The second set was highlighted with the closing four song run of Highway Song, Tangled Up>The Other Side, and WFB. After the show I hung out with Drew for a bit before heading off to bed. Here is how it went down:
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> Drew Emmitt Band
> Mickey Finn's
> Toledo, Ohio
> June 30, 2005
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> 9:08
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> GOLD HILL LINE 5:45
> 99 YEARS 4:30
> SILVONITE 5:11
> GET ME OUT OF THIS CITY 4:00
> ONE STEP AT A TIME 4:58
> THIS HOUSE 5:18
> ROCKY ROAD BLUES 4:55
> THE COUNTRY BLUES 9:42
> 9# HAMMER 6:44
> MIDNIGHT RUN 3:03
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> 10:00 (54:05)
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> 10:40
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> LITTLE MAGGIE 8:29
> MIDNIGHT BLUES 5:35
> BAND INTRODUCTIONS :30
> BREAKDOWN? 4:35
> DELTA QUEEN 5:10
> STEAMPOWERED AIRPLANE 6:08
> BLUE NIGHT 6:15
> HIGHWAY SONG 8:00
> TANGLED UP IN BLUE> 7:42
> THE OTHER SIDE 6:45
> WHITE FREIGHT LINER BLUES 8:19
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> 11:46 (2:00:42)
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> MBHO 603>MACKIE SOUNDBOARD>DAP1
> FOB/DFC/KFC/ZFC
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> Everyone on the west coast, have a Gorge-ous time this weekend! Send the setlists via text if you can. Everyone have a great and safe, Fourth of July weekend!
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> Late,
> Z-Man
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> Check this one out:
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> San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, a Market Street venue for popular music, will be renamed the SF Weekly Warfield under a three-year promotional deal between concert promoter Bill Graham Presents and the SF Weekly newspaper.
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> The new name will be inaugurated with a launch party this fall to coincide with the SF Weekly Music Awards. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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> The San Francisco Bay Guardian said it is being hurt by the deal.
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> Tim Redmond, the Guardian's executive editor, said that Bill Graham Presents told the Guardian's advertising staff that the concert promoter will reduce or eliminate its ads in the Guardian because it has agreed to commit more advertising to SF Weekly. Redmond said Bill Graham Presents pulled ads in the Guardian for this week's issue, due out today.
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> Redmond declined to say how much Bill Graham Presents spends on Guardian ads, but said the concert promoter is one of the weekly paper's 10 or 12 largest advertisers. "It's a big chunk of change," he said, but the loss "will not break our backs. We're not going to lay off staff or go into a tailspin over this."
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> Bill Graham Presents, which is owned by entertainment giant Clear Channel Communications, presents more than 500 concerts and other events annually at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Chronicle Pavilion, Fillmore, Warfield, Punch Line and Mountain Winery in the Bay Area, and other venues in Northern California. Redmond said concert listings, which the Guardian carries free, will not be affected by any change in advertising.
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> The Bay Guardian has long had a contentious relationship with rival SF Weekly, which is owned by New Times Media, a Phoenix chain that owns alternative weeklies in 11 markets, including Cleveland, Dallas, Denver and Houston. It also owns the East Bay Express in Berkeley.
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> In October 2004, the Guardian filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that New Times Media, the SF Weekly and the Express engage in predatory pricing by selling advertising below cost and that "New Times offered secret deals to some advertisers to keep them from advertising in the Bay Guardian," as Redmond wrote in an article at the time. The suit is still pending.
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> Erik Siebert, marketing manager for Bill Graham Presents, said he couldn't comment on the Warfield deal or Bay Guardian ads. Regarding the current issue of the Bay Guardian, he said: "I certainly didn't cancel any ads for this week. I didn't book any ads."
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> Bill Graham Presents also advertises in The Chronicle. The paper's advertising department declined to comment on whether the concert promoter has changed its Chronicle advertising commitments.
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> Redmond said the alliance between two local arms of out-of-town corporations is "a classic monopolistic chain getting in bed with another monopolistic chain."
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> John Mecklin, editor of the SF Weekly, said: "To my knowledge, it's just a plain old sponsorship deal, and the people at the Bay Guardian are conspiracy freaks who'd say bad things about us no matter what. If SF Weekly discovered the cure for cancer, the San Francisco Bay Guardian would bemoan our assault on the cherished liberal ideal of mortality."