My brother’s band is gigging in Nyack this Friday. It’s free so there’s no reason not to go. It’s at Casa Del Sol on main street at 9:30.
One of the cool things about a rocking blues band is that people get up and dance. I love to watch swing dancing. I will go down and enjoy for a while on Friday. I can go because there’s no poker this week – Jim is in NC on a set with his daughter the actress and Bob is working odd hours at his job as an audio/video engineer at ABC. Blues is a good way to deal with a poker jones.
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You should not tell me when they are playing, you never know who might show up……..don’t they ever play on a Saturday or Sunday?
The game is open. I’ve advertised on Craig’s list to get some new blood, but we are low stakes and play odd games. Most real gamblers want high stakes and only want to play holdem – a stupid boring game with no real strategy.
We play “Hot Tuna” a game Jim and I have developed over 25 years of playing poker. It combines the strategy of chess, the exitement of soccer and the danger of bullfighting in a nickel-dime-quarter poker game.
Back in the early 80’s ##
The Ambassador Hotel used to have a Saturday afternoon blues fest and it was the place to go. My ex girlfriends mother and her girlfriend use to book blues bands and were making it a growing concern.
Coincidentally I’m working in the Baker Center building which is adjacent to the old Ambassador, now called the “Daysland Inn.” The place is nothing like the old Ambassador. Also, as coincidence would have it right across the street from the entrance of where I work at nights is the parking lot of what was once Hobbit’s Fantasy shop. In the mid to late 70’s early 80’s this was the place for sf/f. it was a great place to hang out. They even got into vcr’s and tv’s at the time and were one of the first to sell vcrs when they first came on the market. Hobbits was great until they moved out to the Boardwalk market in the basement and then to a small store where the manulife tower is now. Hobbit’s folded in 1985.
What I liked about those days is you could go into Hobbits get your comic file pop over for a bit to eat in the hotel cafe listen to great music drink beer go home and pass out. LOL!
These days I’m more into 3rd wave Ska revival.
Jim
Ska is something that you never hear about. It has a secret underground following of weird white guys and old Jamaicans.
I used to go to Canal Street in NYC when they had flea markets on the sidewalk (Guilliani killed that). There was a bunch of guys with dreads who would sell junk and play Ska on their boom boxes. They sold off their old vinyl collections and I bought some. They had all these limited edition self produced records. They were from Jersey City, NJ, which is some kind of Ska center.
My brother bought a beautiful old Kay Bass Guitar from one of them. The seller claimed it had been played by a famous Ska guy.
This was my only real contact with Ska. I played the records for a while, but I was luke warm about them. They were poorly produced and frankly not all that good. I gave the records to the first person I met who had ever heard of Ska.
Well, Ska 3rd wave revival is better. It grew out of the late 1990’s. Bands like the Wedgewoods and Selector(older)are decent. Bands like Less then Jake aren’t bad but are to hardcore rock for my Ska tastes. I prefer the Two toned Ska and Rock Steady. The Wedgewoods sound like No Doubt but. Ruskabank is one of my fav Ska bands.
I like the bass guitar anecdote.
I’m not a musician like you are, but if I was ever going to learn any musical instrument it would be bass or Sax :-)