They supply the DoD with various Tonka toys, including the H-1 series of helicopters, the OH-58 and they had a hand in the rotoriculous known as the V-22.

I miss the “Big Iron.”

The band played for several hundred patrons on the opening weekend of Bethlehem’s Annual Musikfest where partygoers walk the town and see live music. This was my first time doing sound for The Flamin’ Caucasians and the good Lord willing, I’ll be doing sound for them again soon.
Cheers,
Steve

Technical information:
Venue:
100′x75′ room with 30′ ceilings, bar off to one side
Solid marble floor, wooden dance floor, no acoustic treatments whatsoever

System:
Sennheiser e835 vocal mics
Sennheiser e906 guitar mic
A&H WixWiz 16:2 board
Lexicon MX-400 effects
Peavey QW Monitors driven by Peavey CS-4080 amps
Peavey QW-3 tops over Peavey QW-218 subs, one each per side
Tri-amp’d with a Peavey VSX-26 DSP
Driven by 5 QSC PLX2 series amps for 11,000 watts of potential power

Sarah Parvin was an amazing young lady who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died at age 12. More info, click here.
On 29 July, Friday the Bucks County Courier Times published this article on the event.

Tom invited me to his house Friday afternoon, bought me dinner, took me to a Phillys game Friday night, gave me a bed in which to sleep while his own daughter was on the sofa, and then we got up at 0500 to be operational when the trailer arrived at 0515 to get it loaded and underway as the first song needed to go downrange at 0730. At 0800, it was time for Zumba…okay…I had no idea. I do now. (As best I can tell Zumba is a cardio workout that is as erotic as it is cardio, and I studied this closely for a very long time this morning. All the females came out of their tents to do this and some were wearing some pretty darn cool PJs….) Anyway, we had opening ceremonies, a few DJs, a ‘piano guy’ and then a few bands later, I left Tom & his associate Dave at 1830 to manage the evening portion of the show. I had to teach Motorcycle Safety Sunday at 0730 and I needed some good rest.

Final Stats:
215 teams
2365 players
645 games played on 26 fields
61 vendors
The Philly Phanatic joined us in the afternoon
The Philadelphia Mobil Zoo came out
The Philadelphia Independence Soccer Team was represented.
Early estimates are of 10,000 to 12,000 people were on hand for this event.
Not sure how much money was raised, but I know the population of Quakertown doubled, on 30 July, 2011.
Cheers!

In the spirit of rocking the birthday of this amazing country, SemperFi Sound is producing “Soul Purpose” from 6:30 to dusk at the Lower Providence PA civic building, and following their amazing performance, is one of Eastern PA’s best fireworks show.

On the way to the gig, I picked up a replacement diaphragm for a speaker that blew up last weekend with Hoodie Allen. RattleSnake Drive rocked the “V” – as usual – and after the gig, while heading home at 0130, a chanced upon some of Montgomery County’s finest that were pre-positioned along Philmont Road identifying partygoers who took a bit too much of the party with them. The officer and I had a quick exchange and I was allowed to go on about my business. (“These aren’t the droids your looking for…”).

Saturday morning also came a bit too soon – 0515 – when one of the greys did her ‘usual’ thing and decided that she had to “go outside.” Decided to actually get out of bed around 9 or so and go repair that speaker, as I needed it for the “Soul Purpose” gig in Wilmington Delaware Saturday night. Of course I also needed to unpack the truck and then pack the trailer with the big rig. Not sure what I was getting into, but I was NOT going to come up short on a first gig with a powerful horn band. The gig went REALLY well and Ren Parker, the sound guy for Soul Purpose, is a real pro at this live production stuff. We broke down the rig, got it packed (Thanks Esty!!!!) and started the trek home. Encountered a 30 minute delay on the 95 North just inside the PA border where the road narrowed to one lane for construction. Got home safely at 0230.