Trying to do our part in SA - Motorcycle-Journal Forums

**87gsxrnut** · 09-13-2005, 04:16 PM

Right now in San Antonio we have 5,000 evacuees from New Orleans in four shelters across town. Many of the musicians in our city, especially the jazz and blues crowd has spent a lot of time down in New Orleans, and knows that music is a common thread amongst the people down there. The thought really hit home when a New Orleans guitar player showed up at our jam last Thursday. He hoisted up his SRV Strat and said "at least I made it out with this." Really put things in perspective for a lot of folks, myself included.

The San Antonio Blues Society - http://www.sanantonioblues.com/ house band, the SA Blue Cats, has been recently been donating all tip money and part of their show revenues to the American Red Cross. We also wanted to get a jam togther at one of the shelters to provide some music "relief" to the evacuees living there. From all reports, morale isn't the greatest in the shelters, and we figured ANYTHING we could do to get people's minds off the recent events would be welcomed. Mike Davis, publicity director for SABS spearheaded to see what could be done.

We got permission to do the jam after a LOT of red tape, and talking to the local Red Cross and several city agencies. Saturday we headed out and were able to have some fun ripping up some "old school blues" for the evacuees. Not the usual SRV/Thorogood/ZZ Top fare that is usually played around here, but a lot of obscure stuff that we normally play, plus other songs worked up just for this event. We also had some special guests drop by, Benny Harp and Charlie Cruz.

The event could have been better advertised within the shelter, but lack of communication and resources prevented it. When we showed up, the gate guard didn't even know we were supposed to be there. The people that did come out, hang out, and listen for a couple of hours had a great time.

We are currently trying to get this worked out with our Red Cross liasion to get this as a weekly volunteer jam for other San Antonio area Blues/Jazz bands that want to donate their time and participate.

Special thanks to the 49th Finance Battalion (ARNG) from Austin for hooking us up with a generator.

The music community down here will continue to do what we can to help out. There was a big fundraiser concert here in SA last saturday, and the SABS is having a HUGE fundraiser this Thursday at Sam's Burger Joint - http://samsburgerjoint.com/ There is also a relief concert at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin Wednesday, September 21 at 7 p.m. The event will be headlined by Willie Nelson.

- Nut

SuzukiGirl1 · 09-13-2005, 04:18 PM

That's awesome Nut!!!!

**Trapper** · 09-13-2005, 04:32 PM

Good on you guys. I was wondering about how the SURVIVORS were impacting your neck of the woods.

blackie1491 · 09-13-2005, 06:25 PM

Great stuff.

ChicsterMG · 09-13-2005, 07:11 PM

That's great!

Keep it up

Scourge · 09-14-2005, 04:07 AM

Strong work brotherman, strong work.

icarus13 · 09-14-2005, 07:03 AM

Great pics--Good to see that ya'll are doing what you can to help thoese folks out. I believe every city in Texas has some of the disaster survivors and all are doing what they can to help them out. Kudos to Nut
_________________________________________________

"Now is the time of all good parties to come to the aid of man."

doblerj14 · 09-14-2005, 07:24 AM

looking good

**Louis** · 09-14-2005, 07:40 AM

It's great 'Nut.

Now, about that shirt

stevie c · 09-14-2005, 10:46 AM

Nice one!

sunny · 09-14-2005, 06:33 PM

awesome!

and LOVE that shirt!

**Louis** · 09-14-2005, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunny

and LOVE that shirt!

You're not helping

MagnumForce · 09-15-2005, 09:22 AM

Good going Nut! Love the shirt too, don't care what anyone else says.

sunny · 09-15-2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis

You're not helping

helping what?

vvvvvvvvvvvvv

09-13-2005, 04:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
87gsxrnut Ho Dog Joined: Dec 2003 Bike: 867-5309 Location: Terror Lake Posts: 4,224	Trying to do our part in SA Right now in San Antonio we have 5,000 evacuees from New Orleans in four shelters across town. Many of the musicians in our city, especially the jazz and blues crowd has spent a lot of time down in New Orleans, and knows that music is a common thread amongst the people down there. The thought really hit home when a New Orleans guitar player showed up at our jam last Thursday. He hoisted up his SRV Strat and said "at least I made it out with this." Really put things in perspective for a lot of folks, myself included. The San Antonio Blues Society - http://www.sanantonioblues.com/ house band, the SA Blue Cats, has been recently been donating all tip money and part of their show revenues to the American Red Cross. We also wanted to get a jam togther at one of the shelters to provide some music "relief" to the evacuees living there. From all reports, morale isn't the greatest in the shelters, and we figured ANYTHING we could do to get people's minds off the recent events would be welcomed. Mike Davis, publicity director for SABS spearheaded to see what could be done. We got permission to do the jam after a LOT of red tape, and talking to the local Red Cross and several city agencies. Saturday we headed out and were able to have some fun ripping up some "old school blues" for the evacuees. Not the usual SRV/Thorogood/ZZ Top fare that is usually played around here, but a lot of obscure stuff that we normally play, plus other songs worked up just for this event. We also had some special guests drop by, Benny Harp and Charlie Cruz. The event could have been better advertised within the shelter, but lack of communication and resources prevented it. When we showed up, the gate guard didn't even know we were supposed to be there. The people that did come out, hang out, and listen for a couple of hours had a great time. We are currently trying to get this worked out with our Red Cross liasion to get this as a weekly volunteer jam for other San Antonio area Blues/Jazz bands that want to donate their time and participate. Special thanks to the 49th Finance Battalion (ARNG) from Austin for hooking us up with a generator. The music community down here will continue to do what we can to help out. There was a big fundraiser concert here in SA last saturday, and the SABS is having a HUGE fundraiser this Thursday at Sam's Burger Joint - http://samsburgerjoint.com/ There is also a relief concert at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin Wednesday, September 21 at 7 p.m. The event will be headlined by Willie Nelson. - Nut __________________ Person or person's unknown.

09-13-2005, 04:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
SuzukiGirl1 Moderatrix Joined: Mar 2004 Bike: 2004 SV650S Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 2,700	That's awesome Nut!!!! __________________ SuzukiGirl '04 SV650S, Yellow...lovely!!

09-13-2005, 04:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
Trapper Dogs Best Friend(admin) Joined: Jul 2004 Bike: SOLD Location: Moncton NB Canada Posts: 9,185	Good on you guys. I was wondering about how the SURVIVORS were impacting your neck of the woods. __________________ PointFlushRetrieve.com - Bird Dog Blog Motorcycle-Journal.com Blog

09-13-2005, 07:11 PM	#5 (permalink)
ChicsterMG Refrigerator Magnet Test Engineer Joined: May 2005 Bike: Boulevard C50 Location: Afghanistan Posts: 3,506	That's great! Keep it up __________________ Sometimes you need to ask yourself, "WWGD?"...Just be awesome, that's all! GUT-CUT 2007: 177 LBS. 160 LBS.

09-14-2005, 04:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
Scourge U.B's LoveChild Joined: Apr 2005 Bike: 2002 V-Star 650 Location: Winston Salem, NC Posts: 1,253	Strong work brotherman, strong work. __________________ I hate rude behavior in a man, won't tolerate it..

09-13-2005, 06:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
blackie1491 I took the All Bran Challenge Joined: Jun 2005 Bike: C50SE Location: Aldergrove, B.C., Canada Posts: 7,326	Great stuff.

09-14-2005, 07:03 AM	#7 (permalink)
icarus13 Where Am I ? Joined: Aug 2005 Bike: 04 Volusia Location: Texas Posts: 36	Great pics--Good to see that ya'll are doing what you can to help thoese folks out. I believe every city in Texas has some of the disaster survivors and all are doing what they can to help them out. Kudos to Nut _________________________________________________ "Now is the time of all good parties to come to the aid of man."

09-14-2005, 07:24 AM	#8 (permalink)
doblerj14 Seat Tester Joined: Jul 2004 Bike: 05 Kat 600 Location: northern, va Posts: 95	looking good

09-14-2005, 07:40 AM	#9 (permalink)
Louis Administrator Joined: Sep 2003 Bike: SV650S '05 (Blue) Location: Gatineau, QC, Canada Posts: 10,657	It's great 'Nut. Now, about that shirt __________________ Louis

09-14-2005, 10:46 AM	#10 (permalink)
stevie c Sit speling cheker Joined: Mar 2004 Bike: GSX-R 600 K1 Location: Northants,UK Posts: 1,631	Nice one! __________________ Stevie C '02 Gixer 600 K1,Yellow and Black (fastest colour!), always beats red ones!! Why put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do for you today.

09-14-2005, 06:33 PM	#11 (permalink)
sunny Leaned over, knee down Joined: Nov 2004 Bike: '97 suzuki savage, '90 honda shadow, '75 kh400, and a broom Location: fort worthless Posts: 4,678	awesome! and LOVE that shirt! __________________ "blah blah blah, the world revolves around me, blah blah blah, your perception of events can't possibly be valid, blah blah blah, i wasn't there but i know everything about everything, blah blah blah." - 95% of the male population. you WISH this post was brought to you by rum.

09-15-2005, 09:22 AM	#13 (permalink)
MagnumForce Throttle Jockey Joined: May 2005 Bike: 05 M50, 06 CBR600F4i Location: Sitting on the can... duh! Posts: 3,160	Good going Nut! Love the shirt too, don't care what anyone else says. __________________ "I love the smell of toner in the morning… it's the smell of victory!" MAJ M, Staff Officer

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