Hello good people, its been a long time since I've posted anything in this blog. I have been pretty busy lately with my band, Whiskey Hill. Back on May 4th I had the opportunity of a lifetime. The way it all went down still baffles me but it really happened and I have the video to prove it haha!
It started out one day when I logged on to my youtube account and discovered a fresh new video from a band called JB and The Moonshine Band who's channel I am subscribed to. The video had just been posted about 30 minutes prior to me seeing it. Get In Where You Fit In was the name of the video and it was basically a contest for a chance to perform with them on stage. It just so happened I had a video of my band doing a cover of one of their songs, Hell To Pay. I'll be the first to admit it wasn't a very good cover, and it was from our first gig, using a cheap 4 channel no name PA head coupled with my old Kustom speakers. One of which was turned toward us for a monitor because it was all we had at the time.
I entered the video into the contest never thinking we would ever win it. It was done in jest really because I'm always pranking my band mates anyway. Within about 20 - 30 minutes I get a "restricted" call coming in on my cell phone. I ignored it because I was in the middle of a text message at the time telling one of my band mates what I had done. Luckily they left a voice mail. When I checked the voice mail it was shocked to find that it was JB Patterson himself asking if I could be in McKinney Texas that Friday to sing Hell To Pay with them on stage. He left his email address and told me to get in touch with him and let him know if I could make it. I emailed him and explained to him that I was not the singer and I was actually one of the guitar players. He answered back and asked if both myself and our singer would be willing to do it. Of course I said yes, and then called my singer to ask him if he could do it. Being the joker that I am, he didn't believe me at first. So he came to my place to listen to the voice mail. He even wanted me to play it again so he could record it on his cell phone. Of course he was shaking when he recorded it because he was a bag of nerves and in need of a pinch or something lol. I could barely believe it myself.
We arrived in McKinney the following Friday afternoon and was greeted by the manager, "Hamburger Dan". Dan asked if we were planning on driving back home after the show and I told him we were. He told us we should stay the night as he had an extra room anyway. Well it didn't take any arm twisting on our part and we agreed to stay. We had a gig the following night in Texarkana opening for Brian Jones and the OzzyCash band. Needless to say we ended up partying with the drummer, Gabe, from JB and The Moonshine Band. We didn't get to sleep until around 5am and had to get up at 8am to head back home and load up for the gig in Texarkana. Playing on stage with JB and The Moonshine Band was the highlight of my musical life so far. I will never forget that night and I hope its a sign of more good times to come. JB and the band are a great group of people. They were all very friendly, kind, and generous, and just good ole down to earth regular guys who happen to play music for a living.
