Hey just wanted to apologize for having to leave early sat nite at Franks. I hope you understand. I promise I will be there for the phoenix show at 10.
00pm cant wait !!
 

Not a problem Paul-Thanks for coming out anyways! See you at Schultzies!



WAYNE
CAROLINE BLUE
CAROLINE BLUE My Space Page
 

Hey everyone,

-Hope everyone had a great weekend. Here's a recap of what happened w/ CAROLINE BLUE at our show on 10/25/08 @ Frank's Country Roadhouse in E. Syracuse,NY-our 1st time here.


-We arrived a few hours early and proceeded to get the gear unloaded & set up. Then we got to relax alittle bit before showtime. It was cool to see people here that I haven't seen in quite awhile.
Check out our FANS, FRIENDS & FREAKS Pics to see if you recognize any of them :)

-Before the show started, we received word about a few things. Frank's CR doesn't like the bands playing there to be too loud. We heard that the band that was here the night before received alot of flack for that and that this was one of the reasons they were told to stop playing around 1 AM.I didn't think that we'd have a problem with this, but as soon as we started sound checking, we were told to turn down. In fact, my guitar had to be mic'd up because of this. I didn't mind per say-but my guitar's stage volume was pretty low. John-the soundguy-did the best he could-and he did a good job. I could hear everything in the monitors. If I stepped away from them though, I could still hear my vocals, but my guitar was faint. In addition, there was only 1 light tree w/ 4 cans on it to light up the whole stage, but those things happen and we made due.


-Starting things off was The Pudge Band from Oneida,NY. They play in a Classic Rock style-and do all originals.Here's something else we found out after the night was done-Frank's CR prefers bands who play covers.Our music styles might be alittle too distant to work effectively on the same bill-but they did a good job. I have to admit, though, I was very surprised when they decided to take a break (?!)-and I wasn't the only one. I was told that was the old school way of doing it-a break every 10 songs. A modification of that is when you play for an hour, you play for 45 minutes & take a 15 minute break. Unfortunately, that doesn't really work any more-at least not in CNY. Many of the popular bands in CNY don't take breaks and people here are used to that. One of the most popular bands in CNY-One Hard Krank-will play 4 hours with no break. The problem is, breaks are usually a time when people leave the bar. This isn't always the case, but it does happen quite alot. We have to work on this ourselves. Again, at night's end, we were told that Frank's CR had a problem with both bands taking a break.I'm getting ahead of things here, but CB also took a break. In hindsight, I probably would've decided to go on as long as we could before taking a break.I've already discussed this with the rest of CB & it's something we're going to work on.


-Then CB hit the stage. Here's our setlist for the night...

Set 1
Dirty Deeds (Done With Sheep)-Dr.
Demento
Love Me or Leave Me
Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots)
Deny
Living After Midnight (Judas Priest)
Pain
She (KISS)
Slave to the Hourglass
Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Won't Be Home Tonight
Mine,Mine,Mine
Stay
Out of My Life (I Want You)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)

Set 2
Too Late

-Overall, I have to say we weren't playing up to par this night. I made my share of mistakes- I messed up the lyrics to "Sex Type Thing" initially (sorry Alain!) and during "Mine,Mine,Mine" my voice cracked like a whip on the 2nd chorus. We usually do a cover/original/cover/original etc. format for our sets but we had to temporarily switch that for reasons I won't mention here (see "WAYNE-THE BOOK" for the real story-soon available where better books are sold-HA!). Given what I mentioned earlier about how we were told that Frank's CR preferred cover material, I'm sure you can imagine how that went over.....John the soundguy even mentioned that, during our set, he was trying to tell us to play more covers. I didn't hear him though so we did what we did. If I did, we would've played more. We still had a number of cover tunes to play-we actually have more covers than originals right now. But anyways...

-As I mentioned earlier, we took a short break around 1 AM. People did clear out when we did, but there were still people in the bar. We started the 2nd set-only to be told by Frank's CR that we were done. Regardless, we still played 1 song before ending it-hence why Set 2 only has 1 song listed.


-Then came the end of the night. This is where things got alittle heated. John the soundguy told me he's works here alot and knows the guys so he offered to get the money from our guarentee for us. Fair enough-espcecially in light of the problems that happened as well as being told the previous night the bar tried to short the band that played here. When he returned, we were told that Frank's CR shorted us $50 from our guarantee-and that they initially wanted to short us $150 of that. We were told about all the previously mentioned problems with the bands as well as a few more. One the one hand, we were told that he said that The Pudge Band carried us, cause there were more people here for them than for us. On the other hand, we were told that he said that The Pudge Band was driving people out of the bar and their break really had people leaving. We were also told that he said CB would never play at Frank's CR again. Considering all the flak & hassel that happened this night, it's just as well. Getting shorted on our guarantee sealed the fate of us ever playing there again anyways.Just another day in the music business....

-I want to thank Shelly for getting us this show, John for running sound, The Pudge Band for opening, Ria for taking pics and being our mobile CD shop :), and all the people who came out to see/support the bands. Special Thanks to Jason for being such a good sport in taking all those "sheep" shots (HA!).
Hey-at least you got a CD right? :)

-Next Stop-Halloween night (Friday 10/31) in Phoenix,NY. CAROLINE BLUE will be opening for Bad Alice @ Schultzies and performing a set of KISS songs and in KISS makeup.
Hope to see you there!
 

The artist who recorded "Dirty Deeds (Done With Sheep)" is Bob Rivers - not Dr. Demento. The good Doctor (although he does have one song that he sort of "sings" called "Shaving Cream") is primarily a radio host.

 

Thanks Zadoc.I wondered about that-but all I could find when I checked was the song credited to Dr. Demento. Granted, I didn't do an extensive search....Looking forward to jamming with you guys @ The Checkpoint Tavern on 11/15.


WAYNE
CAROLINE BLUE
CAROLINE BLUE My Space Page
 

you guys rocked as usual @ Frank's. Wayne you are an awesome guy. I really appreciate you coming up to me to say hi. That makes you guys ROCK even more. Talent and personality is hard to find in some bands, but you guys have both. Keep rockin.
Hope 2 c u @ Shultzies's
 

Thanks-you're too kind! Hope to see you out at Schultzies!

WAYNE
CAROLINE BLUE
CAROLINE BLUE My Space Page
 

You guys we're awesome at Frank's ......what make a band is talent which you have .You take the time to talk to the people that come out to see you, which is so awesome about you...Have a great week...Hope to see you guys at Shultzies's YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!
 

Thanks Patty-and thanks for doing that magazine cover w/ my pic! Hope to see you at the show at Schultzies!

WAYNE
CAROLINE BLUE
CAROLINE BLUE My Space Page
 

i knew we were in for it as soon as i saw the sign... frank's COUNTRY roadhouse... and when i walked in i was instantly reminded of the scene in the Blues Brothers when jake and elwood walk into jim's country bunker...

see the similarities? BLUES brothers... caroline BLUE....

well, what we should have done was change the set list to Theme from Rawhide and Stand by Your Man and the owner would have been happy ... though i doubt highly if everyone else would have liked that, as it's not our job to entertain the owner, it's our job to entertain everyone else there... perhaps one day he will realize that.

 

i wanted to let you know even Country bands have been ripped off by this place and did not return. i can give you a name in person. i do not want to use the name with out permission. i'm sure when i tell you the person's name you might know them. they are a good country band and one of the singers are very good. so the problem is with Franks not any of you.