> Join Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars with special guest stars
> for this good cause, as we try to help find a cure for AIDS within our
> lifetimes. The Shadowville All-Stars Revue at Riverwalk Event Saturday,
> October 13 2012 Rotary Park Boat Landing (Riverwalk) 1300 Victory Drive
> Columbus, Georgia 31904 USA
> Less than two weeks away, now!
> All that has changed greatly since the 1990s up to now. Here's an
> archived post from a while back that describes the scene here well, what
> is becoming known internationally as "The Columbus GA sound".
> Really old commentary on the Phenix City-Columbus music scene with some
> interesting obsevations od the main players of the day:
> http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.arts.poetry.comments/more_talent_from_sha...
> More talent from Shadowville
> The balcony of Mallard's apartment/Luminous Studio, where we smoke and
>>>>>>> write, has a perfect view of the AFLAC skyscraper, with a giant
>>>>>>> cartoon of
>>>>>>> the famous Shadowville duck insurance salesman!
>>>>>> "Brian Mallard is not the same man I knew 6 months ago, his stage
>>>>>> presence has vastly improved, and take last week, he led the a full
>>>>>> band, when he was the only one who knew the song..." Glen Giles'
>>>>>> words...
>>>>> Oh yeah, this has happened several times when it happened that Mallard
>>>>> was the only /official/ Shadowville All-Star in the house, most
>>>>> notably
>>>>> last week when we did the set with a cascade of just three acoustic
>>>>> guitars (Mallard leading, Glen Giles and John Phillips) and my
>>>>> vocals... one of my favorites ever.
>>>> That's cool! I didn't hear about that! I bet it was great! Where was
>>>> it? The Vault?
>>> That was last Wednesday at the Loft, while Glen was fill-in hosting for
>>> Brent.
>>> I was talking with John Phillips, the drummer, and at first he was
>>> going to do some brush on snare percussion, then said he wanted to
>>> borrow a guitar and get an acoustic bass bottom for Mallard and Glen.
>>> Here's what he wrote me about it the next day:
>>> "...I liked the acoustic, mellow sounds Wednesday (I'll also like the
>>> rip-roaring sounds on Saturday, it's all good). I would like to try
>>> some more mellow sounds with the All-Stars sometime; after all, I'm
>>> looking to purchase a vibraphone in the future. Could be fun."
>> I agree that would be interesting! I have found that I really dig
>> acoustic music... and the rockin' stuff, too! My musical flow is closer
>> to acoustic though, I think. Hard to say. I play what I play. I met
>> John, too, for the first time. "Hey! All-Stars' drummer right?" He said
>> yes, and then shook my hand. I did not miss that his hand was cool.
>> Air-conditioning cool... heh, he had just arrived, from I guess an air
>> conditioned car?
> Heh... that couldn't have lasted long... as hot as it was, onstage
> under those lights the heat is, as Jordan describes it, /soul
> sucking/... which adds to the method acting of it all, a Journey Thru
> Hell, though dark heat... Ozone Stigmata and the like deaw heavily from
> the Orpheus myth
>> Join Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars with special guest stars
>> for this good cause, as we try to help find a cure for AIDS within our
>> lifetimes. The Shadowville All-Stars Revue at Riverwalk Event Saturday,
>> October 13 2012 Rotary Park Boat Landing (Riverwalk) 1300 Victory Drive
>> Columbus, Georgia 31904 USA
>> Less than two weeks away, now!
>> All that has changed greatly since the 1990s up to now. Here's an
>> archived post from a while back that describes the scene here well, what
>> is becoming known internationally as "The Columbus GA sound".
>> Really old commentary on the Phenix City-Columbus music scene with some
>> interesting obsevations od the main players of the day:
>> http://www.nnseek.com/e/alt.arts.poetry.comments/more_talent_from_sha...
>> More talent from Shadowville
>> The balcony of Mallard's apartment/Luminous Studio, where we smoke and
>>>>>>>> write, has a perfect view of the AFLAC skyscraper, with a giant
>>>>>>>> cartoon of
>>>>>>>> the famous Shadowville duck insurance salesman!
>>>>>>> "Brian Mallard is not the same man I knew 6 months ago, his stage
>>>>>>> presence has vastly improved, and take last week, he led the a full
>>>>>>> band, when he was the only one who knew the song..." Glen Giles'
>>>>>>> words...
>>>>>> Oh yeah, this has happened several times when it happened that >>>>>> Mallard
>>>>>> was the only /official/ Shadowville All-Star in the house, most
>>>>>> notably
>>>>>> last week when we did the set with a cascade of just three acoustic
>>>>>> guitars (Mallard leading, Glen Giles and John Phillips) and my
>>>>>> vocals... one of my favorites ever.
>>>>> That's cool! I didn't hear about that! I bet it was great! Where was
>>>>> it? The Vault?
>>>> That was last Wednesday at the Loft, while Glen was fill-in hosting for
>>>> Brent.
>>>> I was talking with John Phillips, the drummer, and at first he was
>>>> going to do some brush on snare percussion, then said he wanted to
>>>> borrow a guitar and get an acoustic bass bottom for Mallard and Glen.
>>>> Here's what he wrote me about it the next day:
>>>> "...I liked the acoustic, mellow sounds Wednesday (I'll also like the
>>>> rip-roaring sounds on Saturday, it's all good). I would like to try
>>>> some more mellow sounds with the All-Stars sometime; after all, I'm
>>>> looking to purchase a vibraphone in the future. Could be fun."
>>> I agree that would be interesting! I have found that I really dig
>>> acoustic music... and the rockin' stuff, too! My musical flow is closer
>>> to acoustic though, I think. Hard to say. I play what I play. I met
>>> John, too, for the first time. "Hey! All-Stars' drummer right?" He said
>>> yes, and then shook my hand. I did not miss that his hand was cool.
>>> Air-conditioning cool... heh, he had just arrived, from I guess an air
>>> conditioned car?
>> Heh... that couldn't have lasted long... as hot as it was, onstage
>> under those lights the heat is, as Jordan describes it, /soul
>> sucking/... which adds to the method acting of it all, a Journey Thru
>> Hell, though dark heat... Ozone Stigmata and the like deaw heavily from
>> the Orpheus myth
