3 Mile Stone - Kenny Wayne Sheppard Band 4-29-10 Grune Texas

[3 Mile Stone]

Some shots form the show. House staff photographer, snagged the shots from thier Face Book Page (Gruene Hall). It was a great night. Sold a bunch of CD's and T-shirts. The KWS crowd was a good fit for us. A great night of high powered blues.

3 Mile Stone

Me ...

Howard

Howard & Rene

Denny

Kenny Wayne

KWS Band Singer Dude (sorry I can't remember his name .. he was great though!)

Bass Player Dude and Chris Layton

 

[Steedee]

Too cool.
I seen Kenny here in ST Louis last year and he was great.
His singer was Noah Hunt. I believe that's him in the photo too.
He sold out, but it doesn't look like he's touring here again this year.

 

[3 Mile Stone]

Too cool.
I seen Kenny here in ST Louis last year and he was great.
His singer was Noah Hunt. I believe that's him in the photo too.
He sold out, but it doesn't look like he's touring here again this year.

Noah Hunt ... thanks. I really like him. Not a huge range but damn he's just got this rich tone in his voice, amazing. The band was great, and he has a lot of really good material. His fans were a great bunch to let us entertain them while they waited.

 

[Steedee]

Too cool.
I seen Kenny here in ST Louis last year and he was great.
His singer was Noah Hunt. I believe that's him in the photo too.
He sold out, but it doesn't look like he's touring here again this year.

Noah Hunt ... thanks. I really like him. Not a huge range but damn he's just got this rich tone in his voice, amazing. The band was great, and he has a lot of really good material. His fans were a great bunch to let us entertain them while they waited.

Thats a mighty fine accomplishment for a local band.
You must have a pretty good status down there in Texas.

 

[Buckeyedog]

Dude, that's sweet man!

 

[jmgman69]

Dude, that's sweet man!

Awesome Tommy!!!

 

[Wagster]

That sounds like a great gig. Did you record it?

Did you use the Mod 50? How's the reaction to using a modern amp from the Blues purest? My Mod 50 can hang with any single channel boutique amp plus the versatility takes it over the top.

 

[3 Mile Stone]

Too cool.
I seen Kenny here in ST Louis last year and he was great.
His singer was Noah Hunt. I believe that's him in the photo too.
He sold out, but it doesn't look like he's touring here again this year.

Noah Hunt ... thanks. I really like him. Not a huge range but damn he's just got this rich tone in his voice, amazing. The band was great, and he has a lot of really good material. His fans were a great bunch to let us entertain them while they waited.

Thats a mighty fine accomplishment for a local band.
You must have a pretty good status down there in Texas.

Thanks. We have been banging it out locally for well, over 20 years. What's amazing it it's basically me and the same guys for all this time. Most of the other musicians in town say that can't believe we still can still hang out and not want to beat the shit out of each other. We are working on that status still and let's be honest we are good and we deserve gigs like this but after all these years ... we know people and the music game requires connections ... period. All in all still a joy for me at 50 years old to go out and do this. It takes several days to recover, but well worth it my friends!!

 

[3 Mile Stone]

Dude, that's sweet man!

Awesome Tommy!!!

Dude, that's sweet man!

Thanks guys. It was really a TON of fun, because the crowd is ready to see a great show. You know there gonna get it from Kenny so it's all set for you. Just go out there and show a little something.

That sounds like a great gig. Did you record it?

Did you use the Mod 50? How's the reaction to using a modern amp from the Blues purest? My Mod 50 can hang with any single channel boutique amp plus the versatility takes it over the top.

No recording. Working on that and some DVD action later this year.
I did use teh MOD 50. I originally had intended to do this gig with the Rebel 30 & a Telecaster. I stuck to my guns on the Tele, although I played the Les Paul for the final 4 songs just to grab a guitar that was in tune and not slow down the show too much. I agree with you on the MOD 50 and that is the reason in the end I opted to use it. I have it, why would I leave it at home? It's the best amp I've ever heard and it deliver my sound. I didn't get much reaction to the amp, mostly just really positive comments about the band, which sounds good partly because of my amp so.

Oh yea, you can see it the background of the shot of our Bassist, Denny. It's blurry but there it is sitting my bad ass 1X12 Egnater Oversize (Thanks BuckeyeDog!!!). Parked under that is my new Motion Sound SR112, rotating speaker. Absolutely awesome sounding. Does what no chorus can do. Both cabs miced and running a mix in my monitor right in front of me. I tell you it was Rock & Roll heaven in the sweet spot.

 

[Wagster]

I feel the same way about my Mod 50. I have a really nice AC30tbx that I modded with Sozo vintage caps, MM Woden output transformer ect. I have used that amp and a modded AC30CC with Sozo's and MM Woden for a long time. I thought I had the rig until I bought the Mod 50. Now the other amps disappoint me when I play through them.

Here's my AC30CC. I made a quick clip for a friend who was thinking about buying one. Crappy cam and noddling but the tone is nice. The Mod 50 eats it up which is kinda scary.

 

[Doubleneck]

Dude, that's sweet man!

Awesome Tommy!!!

Dude, that's sweet man!

Thanks guys. It was really a TON of fun, because the crowd is ready to see a great show. You know there gonna get it from Kenny so it's all set for you. Just go out there and show a little something.

That sounds like a great gig. Did you record it?

Did you use the Mod 50? How's the reaction to using a modern amp from the Blues purest? My Mod 50 can hang with any single channel boutique amp plus the versatility takes it over the top.

No recording. Working on that and some DVD action later this year.
I did use teh MOD 50. I originally had intended to do this gig with the Rebel 30 & a Telecaster. I stuck to my guns on the Tele, although I played the Les Paul for the final 4 songs just to grab a guitar that was in tune and not slow down the show too much. I agree with you on the MOD 50 and that is the reason in the end I opted to use it. I have it, why would I leave it at home? It's the best amp I've ever heard and it deliver my sound. I didn't get much reaction to the amp, mostly just really positive comments about the band, which sounds good partly because of my amp so.

Oh yea, you can see it the background of the shot of our Bassist, Denny. It's blurry but there it is sitting my bad ass 1X12 Egnater Oversize (Thanks BuckeyeDog!!!). Parked under that is my new Motion Sound SR112, rotating speaker. Absolutely awesome sounding. Does what no chorus can do. Both cabs miced and running a mix in my monitor right in front of me. I tell you it was Rock & Roll heaven in the sweet spot.

That is too COOL! hope you had one of those nights were everything was in snyc!

CONGRATS!

 

[3 Mile Stone]

It really was in sync, and I love it when that happens. We made a ton of new fans that night. After the show I was just hanging out. About 15 people I didn't know just walked up to me and mentioned how much they enjoyed the show. What a great feeling!

 

[blueskies]

3 Mile, What a cool gig for you!!! I remember seeing KWS open for Aerosmith--he must have been just out of junior high school at that point.

Do you have a link to any of your band's music?

 

[3 Mile Stone]

3 Mile, What a cool gig for you!!! I remember seeing KWS open for Aerosmith--he must have been just out of junior high school at that point.

Do you have a link to any of your band's music?

Sure!

Main page is here ...

http://3milestone.net/

and the tunes are here. You can get our CD on CD Baby and iTunes has us as well. Enjoy, and feel free to give me some feedback. We should be working on our next one soon.

https://www.myspace.com/3milestone

 

[Wagster]

Killer sounding band. What are you main modules? Sounds like a BMAN on some of the cuts.

 

[blueskies]

Hey Tommy,

Awesome job all around on your website, Myspace (you have a lot of fans), and Facebook. From a band perspective, your marketing is well done (I like the idea of a promo video montage, but you deserve to have a live video with guitar solos!!). Have you tried using Facebook to send gig invites to all the fans? It's pretty easy.

I'm really impressed by your band's sound as well--it's bluesy for sure, but with a modern twist. Just great rock and roll... and your singer has pipes!!!

It looks like you record with a keyboard, but play live with two guitarists. Is that you playing the fierce slide on Outta Pocket?

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[Steedee]

Yeah, you got a really sweet tone nailed down man.
Band sounds great, definitely my style of music.
I love modern Blues and Boogie........

 

[3 Mile Stone]

Killer sounding band. What are you main modules? Sounds like a BMAN on some of the cuts.

When I was doing this project I used the following gear. Strat is a Parts Bastard with pretty standard Fender hardware etc. The only thing "special' about it is the Deluxe Player 12" radius neck, Paul Reed Smith CE24, Tom Anderson Pickups. I used a lot of pedals really just for kicks to hone in on different nuances. Long story short there is Xotic BB, Barber LTD, Fulltone Fat Boost, T-Rex Mud Honey, Zen Drive. Amp was of course the MOD 50, with Bassman, SL and a single channel EG3. Vox Tone Lab SE in the loop for use of it's excellent analog, modulated and other delay models. Speaker cab was a very old Marshall 1936 2X12 with old Celestion G12-65.Live I now use a Gibson Les Paul with DiMarzio PAF Anniversary pups, my Strat and a Tele lately. Pedal board has a Korg Pitch Black, Xotic BB, Fat Boost, MXR Bass Octave, Wampler Chorus, for fast "Vibe" tones and a Fulltone OCD. MOD 50 with Bassman & EG3X goes into a single Egnater oversize 1X12 with warehouse Speakers ET65 and a Motion Sound SRV112 rotating speaker for slow George Harrison style Leslie sounds. Vox Tone Lab, Yamaha DG stomp in the loop for delay. Some really tone sin that rig. It makes me smile, feeling pretty happy with it. Toying with going to a TC G Force.

Thanks for asking.

Hey Tommy,

Awesome job all around on your website, Myspace (you have a lot of fans), and Facebook. From a band perspective, your marketing is well done (I like the idea of a promo video montage, but you deserve to have a live video with guitar solos!!). Have you tried using Facebook to send gig invites to all the fans? It's pretty easy.

I'm really impressed by your band's sound as well--it's bluesy for sure, but with a modern twist. Just great rock and roll... and your singer has pipes!!!

It looks like you record with a keyboard, but play live with two guitarists. Is that you playing the fierce slide on Outta Pocket?

Cheers,
Jeff

Hey Jeff, thank you thank you! Appreciate that and I'll pass it along to the guys. Face Book is cool, we've been using it, working that still. Thanks for the compliments all around on the music. We actually have the two guitars on stage, that's Rene doing all the work on the left side of the mix. Howard is half our singing team (Rene singing also, Tom Gillam guests, wish he was OURS!) and he plays keys and harp on stage as well as on the CD. Yea, thank you so much I play all the slide on the album.

 

[3 Mile Stone]

Yeah, you got a really sweet tone nailed down man.
Band sounds great, definitely my style of music.
I love modern Blues and Boogie........

Thank you so very much. I am humbled by your compliments, really I don't take this shit for granted at all. If you get it and dig it, I really feel honored and thanks again!!! I love modern "heavy roots" music myself, love Bonomasa and Warren Haynes. Hey guys, here's something interesting. A German Record Distributor just bought 50 CD's off Cd Baby. Here is review from a German web page.

http://www.home-of-rock.de/CD-Reviews2/ ... Stone.html

Rough (from my little brother who speaks German) translation is ...

Strong slide-boogie in "Tres Dedos", the lead-in from the first album by Texas blues rockers, 3 Mile Stone (not to be confused with a band from the Bay Area called Three Mile Stone), with a little help from some friends, notably Tom Gillam as vocalist on some tracks. Homepage is displayed on the left. The album blends songs like the Doobie-esque "Time Rolls On", or the classic twelve-bar "Walk On" with its acoustic blues tones. Harmonica (indecipherable...something about a special note about Tom Johnston's son lost on the mike. Hmm.) Super.

(More really funky Deutsch-glish follows.) Otherwise, the usual suspects. From the godfather of ZZ Top to the Allmans and other Texas blues rockers in between. Recalls/reminds one of John Nitzinger or Lightning Red (indecipherable--something about him playing in another class).

Back to Tom Gillam, who sings "The Big Kiss Off", infused with long guitar and harmonica solos and the blues rock "Long Hard Road". These tracks are all top notch. Not that the others were bad--far from it--with the possible exception of the superfluous cover of Calvin Carter's "I Ain't Got You", but if I were the bandleader, I would definitely make the boy an offer.

But the blues rock tracks or the live track "The Party", for example, show the band's two (permanent member) singers are also quite competitive. The latter is actually one of those wonderfully languid, slow tracks with good backing vocals where there's a tendency to dream with a glass of beer out on the veranda watching the ruby-red sunset, and when then come the double leads...wonderful. Or the slide solo on "Leave A Message"--good, crisp, not too long.
This is blues rock at it's best--nothing experimental, just straight, good music played soulfully played by experts, for connoisseurs. Technical production is okay (meaning good). No overkills with the instrumentals. No need to press every last note into the solos (something vernacular--not quite sure what he meant, but that's close), but rather, this is music one can listen to anyplace, anytime, anywhere.





He didn't like our cover of "I Ain't Got You"

Othe rthan that he seems pretty stoked about. It's so cool in this new age of digital music. I'm 50 and enjoying a (tiny) international following. It's crazy!

 

[Steedee]

Yeah, you got a really sweet tone nailed down man.
Band sounds great, definitely my style of music.
I love modern Blues and Boogie........

Othe rthan that he seems pretty stoked about. It's so cool in this new age of digital music. I'm 50 and enjoying a (tiny) international following. It's crazy!

Thats the greatest thing about Blues. You can be old and people will still like you.
Haha, now that the Deutsch are fans, maybe you should see about touring with the Da Scorpions!