we’ve got a moment to blog so here’s a wrap on 2011:
Those Handsome Hooligans did 2 holiday parties in December to rave reviews and we had a blast! t’was a great way to end the year off and keep us keen for 2012. we even made it to a gig in a full blown blizzard! white knuckling indeed!
if u don’t follow our twitter feed, we scored some neon strings over the holidaze. we’ve been dying to use them since we read about them in BassPlayer mag awhile back. they look sick and hopefully sound and play well enough. we’ll post something here when they make their way onto the bass.
2011 ended on a shocking note for Molly’s Chamber as we lost our singer. so tryouts have been ongoing since the week before the holidaze and now we’ve trimmed the Chamber Idol list down to just 3. we plan on making each of the 3 jam an entire night with us instead of just 30mins to get a better sense of them and then make a final choice. fun but a lot of work. i doubt we’ve ever played PJ’s “alive” so much and so often as we did during the tryouts! here’s to hoping we get the ball rolling again quickly as gigs are already lining up! all 3 of the finalists are top notch so the outlook is fantastic!
we rented a traynor dynabass 200 to rave reviews for our last gig of 2011
the final count for gigs in 2011 was 41. if u’d have said we’d play that much a year ago, we’d have laughed at ya. to say we are pleased with how 2011 went we’d be understating the fact. so many great times! we truly had a blast this memorable past year! its doubtful we’ll get to 41 again in our lives but never say never. the learning curve was quick and steep in 2011 and well worth every note, every km travelled and every moment spent on the bass. here’s to a rockin’ 2012! lookin’ fwd to whatever lies ahead!
