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Battle of the Bands in Monterey!
What a great show for Turn this night was. None of the bands from this night get to go on to the finals on Sept. 17, but no matter, Turn rocked the crowd and the crowd gave Turn back one of the best reactions if not the best reactions Turn has ever had. Thanks so much, you guys rock! We had a great time and I think have finally started to get the word out about Turn.
It was:
Friday, September 10, 2004, 10:00 P.M.
$5.00 Cover
21 and Over Show
At the Lava Lounge in Club Octane, Monterey, California
The bands rolled a die to determine playing order and first up that night was InBalance, then Turn, and then Flojos Nos Visten.
Thanks for checking out Turn at the Music Mayhem show in Soledad. It was a ton of fun. I'd like to thank Henry from the Kick Start Devils for arranging the show with Turn included and to Paul of Liquid 8 for handling our sound.
Show information:
South County YMCA Teen Youth Club Presents: 1st Annual "Music Mayhem" featuring:
Hate for State
Kick Start Devils
The Arcade
Noise Addict
Waking Dead
Dark Begining
Eskoria
Prophecy Failed
Turn
Moria
Spun Loc
Faith Has Bled
Liquid 8
Cogent Silence Within
Sad Boy Sinister
The Wrath
...this was the proposed line-up. There were only a couple of changes from it.
Sunday 07/11/04
Doors opened at 1:00 P.M., show started at 2:00 P.M., and ended at midnight!
South County YMCA, 560 Walker Dr., Soledad, CA 93960
For tickets or directions, contact the YMCA at (831) 678-1239. Tickets are $5.00 in advance and $8.00 at the door.
13 and up.
Turn from Germany has changed their names...sort of. Apparently one of the guys has the rights to "Turn" there and the artwork but the rest of the guys are continuing as TURN UP. Since http://www.mp3.com site went away, I haven't seen any word about the band Turn from Ohio. Last I heard/read, the Turn from Ireland was playing here in the U.S. at the SXSW festival in Texas. ...Interesting. I just found that the Turn in Ireland has their own web site and on it they say they formed in 1998. I'm glad to hear that my Turn was playing clubs here in Monterey two years before they even formed--yea. http://www.turn.ie
Come see Turn and Noise Addict at the Lava Lounge on Sat., June 5! Free 21 and over show!
Stay tuned for information about Turn playing at a festival in Soledad July 11...
Special News: Raymond's good friend Andre Tonelli has been busy enough to announce a release date for his new E.P. Pick it up as soon as you can!
Saturday night May 1 at the Lava Lounge was with Noise Addict, Griswald and Lavish Green!
Surprise show in December! Turn played on Saturday, December 6 at the Lava Lounge in Club Octane!
Wow! Thanks everyone that came to Nov. 1's show! What a great night! Thank you! --Raymond
Show status:
Turn played twice in August.
September's show in Greenfield at the skate park was rescheduled so Turn can't play it.
October's show in Stanford was fun and we're glad we made it Friday, October 17, 2003 to the Tresidder Memorial Union, Stanford. We'd like to do another show there again.
November's show at the Lava Lounge in Club Octane with Turn, Noise Addict, and 3-D...well, read above!
December and January Turn is unavailable.
Turn is looking for looking for a February gig.
Turn played on 1240 AM, Sunday (08/17/03) from 2:00 P.M. to 3:30 P.M.! We played on old instrumental version of "Slaughterhouse." It was the first CD I made for the band. We also played "Eye Disease" from our latest CD of the same name. We played the following songs live: Money, March of the Psycho Kings, Psycho Rabbit, Six Day War, Pedal to the Metal.
Thanks to Henry for having Turn once again (08/01/03) at the YMCA in Soledad for another blast of a show. We can't wait for our next show in Greenfield at the skate park Sept. 20, 2003. No details yet, but stay tuned.
Here are links to a practice April 30, 2003.
Jam (April 30, 2003)
Greensleeves
Ralph Shoukry CD! Raymond made a CD featuring Ralph's three songs "A," B," and "C" that Ralph wrote with a drummer named Doug in San Louis Obispo in 1995. Ralph and Doug had recorded the drums, rhthym guitars, and bass. Ralph had started recording leads but they got lost when the tracks were ported from the four-track to the PC. Raymond made up some lyrics and sang on "A." Lyndon mixed the songs and likes to refer to them as "Ashes of This World," "B-2 Bomber," and "Camoflagic." We haven't shown Ralph anything we've done . . . until now. Raymond put two copies in the mail to him and hopes he likes it. Raymond took some artwork off http://www.derekriggs.comwithout permission and hopes nobody minds.
Show! Turn played with Breathe, W2H, A Day's End, Answer to the ? and other local bands at the YMCA Youth Leadership Fundraiser, 560 Walker Dr., Soledad. The show went from 7:30 to midnight on Saturday, April 19, 2003. Admission was $5.00.--Wow, what a great show that was! The crowd was great! Don't just take my word for it, ask anyone that was there. Thanks to Joe and Leah for getting us the show!
Raymond would like to thank Carvin Jones for letting him play "Mustang Sally" with his band on Monday, January 20 at Char's.
Click here for some new recordings by Jake E. Lee, courtesy of Jake and http://www.jakeelee.com.
Flat Top
Old Fleetwood Mac
Crush Solo (Alternate Version)
Raymond took forty seconds out of one of the jams with Dan from September and placed it here: 11th Minute. Practices with Vince playing bass, Scott Frus playing guitar and singing, and Raymond playing drums have been..."going." Raymond will be taking pictures of his guitars and listing them in the Gallery at the Ibanez Register web site!
Raymond also put up a small version of the "Steve Vai Jibboom (Raymond Lugo Lead)" .mp3 file so it would fit on the web site.
Raymond has been jamming with drummer Dan Finch, III, talking about playing drums with Vince Marotta on guitar and vocals with another bass player. Raymond sang on "A" which is a song by Ralph Shoukry. Raymond will be adding guitar leads to Ralph's songs, "A," "B," and "C" soon!
On Monday, September 16, 2002, Raymond played at Chars in Phoenix, Arizona with Carvin Jones' drummer and bassist for open mic night. Raymond played about four songs with them. Three of the songs were also with Big Nasty an excellent singer who belted out the blues with passion. Thanks to Carvin Jones (what an excellent player) for letting Raymond play Carvin's Fender Stratocaster and rig. The first song was a blues song that Big Nasty knew. The second was an upbeat twelve-bar progression in D minor where Raymond got to play a lot of lead. The third song Big Nasty sang another blues number in E minor. The last song we did was "Johnny B. Goode" which was of course rocked out with an extended lead at the ended. Thanks to the Canadian who told Raymond that "he was really good." There were so many excellent players playing that night that made it a very exciting night.
The new CD Eye Disease is finished! E-mail me for a copy.
Lyndon mixing the four new songs--this time with vocals on three of them. Yea!
More Shows!
Turn played a show at Ocean Thunder with Legion Victorious, Relapse, and The Darvon Complex on Thursday Night Thunder, Feb. 7. The show with Controvert (from San Jose) on Thursday Night Thunder, Feb. 28 was cancelled.
Gaslighter show: See Turn played with Chapter 13 and Blueprint in Gilroy on Saturday, Feb. 23 at about 8 P.M.
Turn played Viva Monterey on December 22 and January 19 without Saucer from Sacramento.
Roy Kurano of Turn opened for Pepperstomp at Viva Monterey on Friday, Dec. 14.
Thursday Night Thunder
November 29 at 9:00 P.M. at Ocean Thunder.
Turn played with Los Dryheavers, Double Fisted, and Me Vs. Everybody. Come out and support your local heavy scene!
I was featured on "Hey, Mom, I'm on the Bone" on 107.7 FM The Bone (KSAN) on Friday, Oct. 26, 2001. I played Turn's "Pedal to the Metal" from the Smash Hit Record CD at midnight! I hope you caught the show! The signal is also streamed from their web site so people from all over the world could have caught it.
Turn played with Pepperstomp on Friday and Turn played with Driven and The Darvon Complex, on Saturday October 5 and 6 at Viva Monterey!
Thusday Night Thunder featured Turn and Philence at Ocean Thunder on Thursday, September 20.
Turn played with other unknown bands at the Gaslighter's Music Hall, Gilroy, on Saturday, September 22. Raymond had his Ibanez JS100TR stolen that night. If you see an Ibanez JS Series with EMG pickups, please e-mail me information. I have let the Gilroy Police Department know my serial number. My case number is 01-5475.
Turn on TV! Turn was featured playing on KMBY and at the Monterey Rock & Art Festival on Monterey's public access channel 24. The show aired August 16, 2001 at 8:00 P.M.
Maybe Lyndon can tell me when he took that trip to Texas which allowed Trevor, Dan, Roy and myself to jam out "Money" and "March of the Psycho Kings," come up with the name Turn (us here in CA, USA), and play Whitey's Place. But I know it was before July 18, 1996 because I have video of that night. Since then other bands around the world have been named Turn. Those bands are Turn (Dublin, Ireland [2000?]), Turn (around
Stuttgart, South Germany, in march 2000) [now Turn-Up, Turn (formed in the winter of 1999-2000 and now in Columbus, Ohio). Chad from the Turn in Ohio says there's another Turn from Italy (but I can't find any information regarding such a band). Axel from the Turn in Germany says there's another Turn in Austria (but I can't find any information about that Turn either).
E-mail me your name and address to get on my mailing list.
On January 7, 2001 I recorded a lead over the Steve Vai leadless version of Jibboom. I had never heard the song before. I listened to this leadless version the night I downloaded it and then about one and a half times before recording on my PC--just enough to figure out what key I think it's in and then show Roy what I was about to record over. It was a Turn practice night and we were waiting for Lyndon. I listened to Steve's version with the lead today (January 15) and I'm glad I didn't hear what he was doing before I recorded. It would have made me think too much about what I should or shouldn't be playing instead of doing my best at what I know how to do. My Steve Vai Jibboom (Raymond Lugo Lead) version is available in my Napster\Music directory. To find the track, search in WinMX. The file name is Steve Vai Jibboom (Raymond Lugo Lead).mp3. I hope you like it. Wish me luck! [Today is March 2, 2001. I just checked out tonos.com and I didn't make it to the finals--doh!]
If you care about what I was playing on, it was my Ibanez JS100 (yes the red Joe Satriani model), but I've got an EMG 81 in the bridge and an EMG 85 in the neck positions. I used either my MAIDEN--JANICK GERS/ERNIE BALL pick or Anthrax's YOUR FATHER WORKING?/HOW'S YOUR MOTHER? pick. I plugged into a 30-watt Peavy Backstage 50 amp. I recorded on a Gateway PC mic in my HP Pavilion using the Tonocorder 8 Track software. It was my first take without warming up. I tried another couple of takes, but the fire and freshness was in the first take, so that's what's there.
Let me know if you know anyone that wants to get on or off my mailing list. I'd like to thank
everyone who's been helping us out. You rock!
I'd also like to let the following players know that I would honored if any of them would come over and jam at my studio for fun:
Jake E. Lee
Greg Chaisson
Eric Singer
Jeff Martin
Chris Poland
Nick Menza
Marty Friedman
Dave Mustaine
David Ellefson
William Mecum
Rich Mullins
Rob Oswald
Mitch Mitchell
Chris Layton
Tommy Shannon
Rocky George
Please come over if you can and let's have some fun. I've got equipment and players if we need them. I live in a small town so there won't be people invading. Just e-mail me.
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