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I've been trying to track down a copy of Pow Wow '93 for the past few years, but have been unsuccessful in doing so. Pow Wow was the annual talent competition held at Maconaquah High School in Bunker Hill Indiana. I was in a band back in 93, my sophemore year, called The Flying Gimps. We performed in Pow Wow, playing Helmet's "Unsung". We ended up winning $100 from the competition. At one point I had a copy of Pow Wow for that year but it got recorded over by something a few years later. I've tried contacting the school, but the media teacher who ran the show for many years no longer works there and no one there has an archive of the old shows.
A few weeks ago Derrickfound me on Myspace.com. Derrick and his brother Sean were in the band as well, Derrick actually wasn't going to play in the show but do to some unfortunate circumstances had to take Sean's place and fill in. I asked if he happened to have a copy and he gratiously offered to dupe me a copy and send it over! It should be here in the next few days! I'm hoping to digitize it and get it online, as well as get a copy for Lindsy as she also performed in a different part of the competition.
More on Pow Wow...
My sophomore year of high school at Maconoquah High School I got to perform in a band. We were called The Flying Gimps, and we performed a whole two times that year. Maconoquah had a talent show every year called Pow Wow.
Derrick Smallwood, one of the other members of the band got me a copy of Pow Wow 1993, and I've gone ahead and ripped the video to a WMV file. I've got two files, linked below. The first one is the original footage of The Flying Gimps performing Helmet's Unsung, the audio on this is horrible, but it's the original recording, I'm going to have to say the lack of quality is due to the positioning of the camera in front of the bass player's amp/speakers.
http://christoc.com/video/TheFlyingGimps-Unsung-93.wmv 18.4mb
The second video is what we should have sounded like! I've dubbed in the song from Helmet over the video.
http://christoc.com/video/TheFlyingGimps-UnsungDubb-93.wmv 19mb
UPDATE: I've moved them to a server with much better...
So, you're lazy like me, and hate taking your Zune inside the house because really all that means is that you forget to take it with you in the morning when you leave.
Well never fear! With the new firmware update 2.1 it looks like you're going to be able to leave your Zune in your vehicle, and sync up the device! I'm excited about this. My Zune is always in my Tahoe, plugged into a power source, so this should work out excellent for me assuming the Wifi has a strong enough signal in the driveway, which wasn't a problem when I was outside working on the Project240z all spring with my laptop running!
This also means it should work well for Natalie's Zune as well! Though, if I buy a Corvette it now means I'll have to wire up the Zune again, as it won't have the connection I already added for the...
What did I do tonight? More than most nights!
I got home and decided it was time to tear into the motor that blew in the 240Z. So I did that! I found the piston. Well, I found some of the piston, in 100+ pieces. After working on the car tonight I had dinner with my wife, then came upstairs and was planning on getting some work done. Instead I opened up my Bass case and plugged into the amp. I played for quite a while, far longer than I expected, mostly learning some Green Day tunes. I must admit, I think I was born a base player, not a guitar player. I find it so much easier to just pick up and play a song, though, bass parts are generally...
So last night 7 of us went out to dinner at Llywelyn's in Webster Groves. I wanted to go see Steve Ewing from The Urge playing there, and I figured I'd drag along a few guys from work so Natalie and I would have some people to talk to.
It was a great time, and I must say, Steve is an amazing singer, if you get a chance to see him playing somewhere do. In person he sounds just like the recordings except with a little more crowd enticement there. Check him out at www.steviee.com
I'm also proud to say I'll be using some of his music in upcoming videos for www.corvettez06.org and www.project240z.com
Yesterday I mentioned that NIN has a new release out, Ghosts I-IV that you can purchase from www.nin.com for $5. Well I purchased it last night and have been unable to download it completely since.
I've emailed support and am hoping to hear back from them soon as to how I'm going to be able to download it.
So STP is coming to town! They were the very first concert I ever went to, back in 1994 at Arco Arena with Jim. It was an amazing experience and I've seen them one other time here in St. Louis.
It looks like they will be back in town on June 8th, 2008, I'll be there for sure!
Sweet! Signing up for the Stone Temple Pilots fan club was the best thing I could have done. I just purchased 4 tickets for the June 8th show at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater here in St. Louis, in Row K!
It should be a great show!
Wow, I was just about to head to bed when I saw this post from Cesar over at Zune Insider.
Great news, the spring update for the Zune is here, or almost here. I'm looking forward to these specific updates.
A short review for tonight, perhaps a longer one in the morning, perhaps not.
Ashes Divide, eh, not a fan. They performed well, I'm just not a big fan of their music.
Saliva, great live, I might have to buy an album of theirs on my Zune this week.
Chevelle, good show live, sounded great, but not a huge fan of their music, I have one album, not likely to buy another soon.
STP, amazing, great show as always. My first concert back in 1994 was STP at Arco Arena in Sacramento. This show wasn't as flashy but still good nonetheless. I think this is my third time seeing STP, and 4th Scott, I will definitely make the trip again sometime if given the chance.
We were sitting in what amounted to the 5th or 6th row, in front of that was the "mosh" pit, but I can't say I saw any moshing today.
I shot some video on my phone, will try to upload it tomorrow if it turned out at all.
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