It’s been several weeks, but we wanted to mention how much we enjoyed the opportunity to play the Rawiga Country Club 2008 Pool Madness Party. Everyone treated us fantastically well. In fact, it was a landmark gig and we’ll tell you why.
For years, people have asked, “Do you need anything else?” as the band has gotten settled and all of the power outlets and lights and cables and stage stuff has been sorted. For years, Scotty has responded in his best Cheech-and-Chong impersonation, “How about a pepperoni pizza, man?” Everyone has a laugh (ha ha!) and that’s that.
It happened at Rawiga when our lovely hostess asked the question and Scotty dropped the answer. Only this time a couple pepperoni pizzas showed up a little later.
Finally!
So to the fine folks at Rawiga, we salute you for your amazing hospitality and your fine, fine personal pan pizzas. We sincerely hope to visit you again and ask for several pots of gold, the Maxim calendar girls and a floor pump for Jay’s new guitar.
Jay and Scotty enjoyed the opportunity to sit in the broadcast studio with Kenny Roda. Expecting about 12 minutes to impinge on Kenny’s sports talk extravaganza, the Moo boys were privileged to hang out for a little while longer, talking about the upcoming Moo gig at Johnny Malloy’s in Medina this Saturday 8/30, taking a couple calls from Moo devotees (who knew?), and talking about the new theme song for Kenny’s show “In the Zone with Kenny Roda“.
Yes, every weekday evening you can hear Jay’s mellifluous vocals introducing the Kenny Roda radio show on WKNR 850, backed by the wicked-awesome funk stylings of none other than drunkdude69. For more details, stop on by the DD69 blog - and note that this isn’t the first time that Jay has collaborated with the ‘dudes - he made a memorable guest appearance on the recently released DD69 album “Funk Out With Your Junk Out” (a title which apparently amused Kenny to no end).
Here’s a snippet of the in-studio experience, with Jay elaborating on the recording process, and Scotty detailing how he keeps all of the outtakes for possible future use…
It seems like we spent a lot of time backstage last nigth at the Boneyard. Maybe it’s because that’s where the adult beverages were. And the pizza. And the best graffiti in town.
As far as we know we did play three sets last night, but the memory is clouded in fog machine smoke. As always, we had a great time and the staff at the Boneyard in Mayfield treated us phenomenally well.
Sound was great (thanks Frank) and we had quite a good time:
Discussions about crack
Scotty spitting beer in Jay’s eye
A visit from the legendary Jeff Nagel and the future Mrs. Nagel
And last, but certainly not least, a special stage dance from the lovely “Bambi”
We’ll get around to posting more photos of the debauchery that was our Friday night in the gallery, but until then, here’s a tender Moo moment.
Everyone in Skinny Moo pulls their fair share of gear around. Charley and Scotty haul their drums and keyboards along with the big PA speakers and all of the cables. Crow brings the mixing board and the sub-woofers. Jeff drags his (huge) Marshall amps, guitars, and the communal microphone stands. Jay brings his microphone and the monitor speakers.
The monitors are old Yamaha speakers that saw a previous life as the main speakers for the Foonspeeders and Thomas Reed Smith (two local, original groups). The speakers have been around the block.
Jay doesn’t really like the speakers - not because they don’t sound good, or because they are fragile, or because they blew out the rear window of his new Durango - he doesn’t like them because they are heavy. Much like Scotty’s wife isn’t fond of his keyboard bench because any time she tries to pick it up the scissoring legs invariably manage to crush her fingers, Jay has an aversion to these pieces of gear. Even so, he dutifully soldiers on and brings them to gigs.
With that said, he brought them to the Greenville on the 21st. We gave it our all, and at the end of the night, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, we shuffled outside to load all the gear that we had brought with us. At some point someone noticed that the handle of one of the monitor speakers had just ripped right out of the speaker cabinet. Whoever it was decided that it would be pretty entertaining to not tell Jay and see what happened when he was about to load this most-hated speaker into his truck.
Late-night hilarity ensued (WARNING: probably not funny unless you play in a band with a lead singer who hates carrying heavy monitors at 2:30 in the morning).
We have been notified by several people that the Slim & Chubbys website says the “Rock Shop” will be playing on Friday 6/20 - this is an error on the S&C website. We have contacted the club and they will hopefully update the site. WE ASSURE YOU THAT SKINNY MOO WILL BE PERFORMING AT SLIM & CHUBBYS ON FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH. Hope to see you there!
The weekend of June 20th gives current and would be “moopies” on both sides of the lake to get your Skinny Moo fix on. With a mechanical arm* and an arsenal of new music, Jeff 2.0 leads the moops into STRONGSVILLE where we’ll debut at SLIM & CHUBBYS!! It’ll be a WEST-SI-EED extravaganza complete with PYROTECHNICS** and a giant 30′ prosthetic finger ON STAGE!!***
If that doesn’t get your “moove” on, we’re back at the world famous - but new and improved Greenville Inn in CHAGRIN FALLS (east SIDE!, EAST side!), Saturday, June 21st. The outdoor patio is now complete so SMOKE UP JOHNNY! And you can bring your beverage with you! Hmmm.. sad to think that new marketing for Bars is, “…plus, we feature an outdoor patio where you and SMOKE & DRINK…AT THE SAME TIME. At anyrate, I digress. Hope to see those who haven’t made it out in a while - YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
*Jeff does not really have a mechanical arm.
**there will not really be pyrotechnics.
***there will not really be a giant 30′ prosthetic finger ON STAGE.
Listen to KENNY RODA on ESPN Radio 850 between 6-9pm, Thursday, June 19th when Jayfro will join Kenny live on the air promoting the MOO’s debut at Slim & Chubbys and discussing our big Medina homecoming. That’s right MEDINA - we’re back! New, bigger club. Less expensive food and drink prices. Tune in on Thursday to get all the details!!
If you didn’t know, Saint Patrick’s Day in Ohio is what we like to refer to as a “drinking holiday”. What this boils down to, in corned beef and cabbage terms, is an early start at the bar. Like, pre-seven-A-M drinking. Wow.
As a result, lots of bands perform early in the morning to well-tuned crowds. Our own Mike Crow performed at Cleveland’s House of Blues with the Brian and Joe Band, reportedly downing a shot of Grey Goose at the robust drinking time of 7:45 in the morning. Top o’ the mornin’ for sure.
Some bands perform in the afternoon for the folks that have been drinking since the parade hours, along with the folks that have bailed out of work early to get their Irish on. Jeff performed such a show with Bonfire, rocking the Jigsaw in Parma before having to throw all of his gear into his ride and hoof it over to the Greenville (you’ll note in the pics that he’s still wearing his “Angus” threads. Wicked.).
We had the pleasure of playing at the Greenville Inn in Chagrin Falls from 8:30 to 12:30, slightly earlier than usual since the holiday fell on a Monday this year. Despite this fact, there were still plenty of folks still standing - dancing, even! We had a fun-filled evening, delivering some musical twists and turns (Zeppelin in the middle of Sly and the Family Stone, anyone? Has anyone seen my eye?). The crowd was pretty strong until the end of the evening when (we assume) folks crept home to get some shuteye before work on Tuesday. Although it did seem like a disproportionate amount of people had planned ahead and taken a day off on Tuesday in preparation for their recovery.
So Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to everyone! We’ll round out March with a couple more shows, and then we’re headed into spring at last. Hope to catch you all soon.
Wow, this weekend was a winter extravaganza here in Cleveland. In the space of about 48 hours we got about 20 inches of snow. Some of us are still digging out.
As a byproduct, Moo merriment was seriously curtailed. Our two scheduled shows (at the Rush Hour Grille in Twinsburg and the Boneyard in Mayfield) had to be cancelled at the last minute. We were all left to have lonely practicing at our respctive abodes. *Sniffle*
We’ve rescheduled our Rush Hour Grille show for later this month, and hopefully we’ll get back to the Boneyard in the near future. Of course we’ll have to keep an eye out for rogue blizzards until about the beginning of May. Seriously - a couple years ago we played at the Greenville Inn on the last weekend in April, and while we played about eight inches of late-April snow fell. We were seriously considering moving the band, and associated families and pets, to Vegas after that.
Anyhow, here’s hoping spring actually… well, springs sometime soon.
It seems like we spent a lot of time backstage last nigth at the Boneyard. Maybe it’s because that’s where the adult beverages were. And the pizza. And the best graffiti in town.