Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:40:30 -0700
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From: wabbott@townshend.Corp.Megatest.COM (William Abbott)
Subject: /f Mermen show, teeshirts
Folks, its THURSDAY and I'm just getting the digest from MONDAY-
S l o o o w e m a i l . . .
Actually, I didn't make it to the show myself. I spent most of
the lighted part of the day getting parts for my single-cab
and working on it, and my brother was kind enough to help through
all that, and so I finished dinner with a friend at about 11:20pm.
I figured the band would get along without me ok. I'd triple booked
the day :-)
My friends Sarah and Lorne and Joe went, and Joe reports
that it was pretty much the same as their CD Food For Other Fish
(their first CD, and my favorite- recorded in 2 days direct to
2 track DAT). Joe also said it was wickedly loud in the club, and
people who arrived later packed like sardines, with a line outside.
The Mermen played a solid hour and a half set from 10:00 to 11:30, and then
took a break, to presumably return and play from 12:00 to 1:30.
My friends left at the break.
DO take ear protection if you see these guys in a small place!
I hope to make the May 19th show, and won't have anything except
work that day :-( But I like the sardines in loud sauce thing- reminds
me of body surfing! And I'll bring extra ear protection for friends.
You'll be able to tell who I am because I'm going to go
to Kinko's Copies and turn my .sig file graphic into a tee shirt.
I'll report on how well this works, and whether they can do the
same thermal printing on flannel. As far as I can tell, the process
is a C O L O R transfer, so I'm going to try a big water-color
wash over the b&w image, as well as straight b&w. (or gee, do it
green or amber on black!) I figure white and maroon, and white and
sea blue are the hot setups.
I blew-up the image below to fill an 8 1/2 X 11 inch sheet
(A4 for non-north americans) in two steps, 200% enlargement and
then 195% enlargement. So anything that fits in 10(V) X 29(H) characters
would take the same 390% enlargement to 8.5 X 11. I'm actually
hoping the tranfer image size is 11 X 14, we'll see.
There are a number of wonderful .sigs in this group, and
being able to turn one's .sig into a shirt at onesy-twosy prices
and effort would be cool- imho. Heck, we could trade autographs
at the tour and such...
Just a thought.
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