estanley1
332 posts
Jun 01, 2009
6:50 AM
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I concur re: Skipper's. I've seen them all over the state, but the energy you referred to at Skipper's is tough to duplicate. I've been in large, rowdy crowds in different cities, but its just never the same. The stage is a tad on the postage stamp side, though. With Scone gone and now having two guys where there was once one, Art might have to play from Dennis' shoulders next run thru.
I think the stage at Skipp's is built on a trailer...Clay?
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"Now if you happened to come down here tonight...and you don't wanna hear the person next to you sang, and you don't want'em to dance, cause you might spill your drink, you came to the wrong show in the wrong venue."
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mofrofans1
Admin
1731 posts
Jun 01, 2009
9:56 AM
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Yup ES. Until the (still current) owners bought it in the late 70s Skipper's had been a trailer park (not "manufactured homes" but an old fashioned Florida trailer park (ick.)
To turn it into a bar, they used some of the structures (the oyster bar is the old lobby/main ofc.) The county wouldn't let 'em put a stage in cause it's in a residential area. (There's a midnight music cutoff on weekends still today.) County finally agreed to let them put in a temporary stage. So the owners wheeled up a big ol flat bed trailer. To make a really long story really short--25 years later and what's still the foundation for that stage? That same flatbed trailer.
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Gr8ful98
285 posts
Jun 01, 2009
10:17 AM
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Favorite MOFRO Venue...hmmm
sounds like a new thread.
For me it's a 3 way tie:
Bamboo Room (R.I.P.)
Skippers
Natural Ampitheater @ Suwanee Music Park
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"throwin' pennies on the tracks and playin' in the rain...oblivious of the world around us that was going insane"
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notfadeaway
16 posts
Jun 01, 2009
7:48 PM
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Man, who knows! Not nearly the amount of times most of you have. The first show was at Jake's Toadhouse in Decatur, July 28 '02. Then there's the Variety, Sidebar, GA Theater, French Quarter, Midtown, Orange Peel, Smith's Olde Bar, The Joint, Jacoby Hall (those were some awesome shows.) I believe a little over 20. Have listened to at least 200 shows however. More than any other band, I know that.
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I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be
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Richard
52 posts
Jun 02, 2009
10:55 PM
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Holy crap y'all are some pretty darn sick bastards I tell ya. And they call me "Sick Pup" for having some autographed dolls, and seen these guys three times since last Sept. Two of those shows were in March, two nights in a row, and we will see them in July and again in August, but hell........some of ya are just plain nuts !!!!! And I like that.
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mofrofans1
Admin
1753 posts
Jun 03, 2009
10:25 AM
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Yessir Richard there are some hard core folks on here. There's more out there too though. One of em's even crazy enuf to have started a fan site.
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MofroFan1
"I call any dinner party where you have to say "Excuse me" after you burp fancy." --Lewis Grizzard
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Chicago
12 posts
Jun 06, 2009
12:31 PM
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5 times since New Years. Discovered them just this past September but didn't get to my first shows unitl 12/30 and 12/31 (new years 2009), then Gainesville, Orlando (where I have lived since 2000) and last was Savannah. I love them!
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Sunshine
612 posts
Jun 12, 2009
1:27 PM
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Very impressive Jenshew!! that is almost 8 shows a year.......damn your good.
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"No effort, no gain
No effort, stay the same
No don’t you ever try to live a lie"
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swkelley
377 posts
Jun 12, 2009
2:59 PM
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Hey, jen.....hope you and the family are doing fine. Glad to hear Denver is treating you well.
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any groove is reason to move
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Gr8ful98
291 posts
Jun 13, 2009
5:19 AM
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GOOD TO SEE THE SHEW'S HAVE MADE IT HERE!!!
Welcome Jen!
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"throwin' pennies on the tracks and playin' in the rain...oblivious of the world around us that was going insane"
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Bulldog
1 post
Jun 29, 2009
6:45 AM
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Hello everyone, new to the site but not new to the band.Some of you guys I have met or seen at several of the 18 shows I've been to. The most at one venue...Forida Theatre 3. Only one outta state...Statesboro Ga.,also the last show :(.
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Sunshine
637 posts
Jun 29, 2009
7:38 AM
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Welcome to the board Bulldog!! don't be a stranger! :o)
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"No effort, no gain
No effort, stay the same
No don’t you ever try to live a lie"
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Sunshine
756 posts
Jul 19, 2009
5:24 PM
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Welcome Mark & Jilly!! Looks like we ourselves and two for one!!
Now you know you two are gonna hafta post a review now, doncha!!
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"No effort, no gain
No effort, stay the same
No don’t you ever try to live a lie"
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mark&Jilly
5 posts
Jul 19, 2009
5:37 PM
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Hey sunshine, thanks for the welcome. We are from Buffalo NY .Have family living in Jax FLA.Maybe we will meet some Mofro Fans in Pitt sunday.
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FireFly
601 posts
Jul 19, 2009
6:33 PM
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fam in jax? if mofro does new years again at freebird, you guys will meet all of us.
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville
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Hog Calla
17 posts
Jul 19, 2009
8:51 PM
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Im not sure of a certain number... 40-50ish. The first show I ever made was an accident... Harpo's in Ybor (I think 97'). I was living in Lakeland, Fl at the time & happened to stagger into a fucking, kick-ass band playing Harpo's. Several killer NOLA shows... Jazzfest, Voodoo, HOB, MapleLeaf (02 or 03???...my fav). Varsity, Skippers +4, Mobile, Jackson, Hattiesburg, Fayetteville (Sooooiiee), & ATL coming up!! Plus... I just saw that the weekend I'm going to see Phish @ The Gorge, the boys are playing Barnaby Blues fest in BC...Hmmm?
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giggles
679 posts
Jul 19, 2009
9:46 PM
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The Gorge is one of my ALL TIME favorite venues, the vista from the lawn is absolutely magnificent! They call it Heaven's Amphitheatre for a reason!!
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Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
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Sunshine
759 posts
Jul 20, 2009
8:46 AM
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Maybe someday my Mofro Travels can take me beyond my usual outer limits..
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"No effort, no gain
No effort, stay the same
No don’t you ever try to live a lie"
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giggles
681 posts
Jul 20, 2009
9:45 AM
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For several years running, me & a gaggle of friends would camp along the Columbia River for Labor Day weekend and check out the three day DMB run @ the Gorge. I swear to you Sunshine, everytime I would crest the hill leading up to the venue and see the beauty before me, I would lose my breath!
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Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History
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Sunshine
760 posts
Jul 20, 2009
10:11 AM
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well as long as you get it back,,, hee hee
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"No effort, no gain
No effort, stay the same
No don’t you ever try to live a lie"
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Hog Calla
18 posts
Jul 21, 2009
6:50 PM
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I'm super stoked!! I've never been to The Gorge.
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msynan
8 posts
Aug 20, 2009
5:09 AM
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too many to count, but well over 20
NOLA
Ashevile
Charleston
Denver
and then 7 or 8 places in Florida... My fav would have to be Skippers if for nothing else, the fried okra. My sis lives on Atlantic Beach, so any Jax show means toes in the sand, and Springing in the Blues usually falls on my birthday, so I am partial to when they used to play that show annually. My biggest regret is that I did not go the the Mofro Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra show
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