Any more thoughts about this? There is a new live music venue in Santa Rosa called Rock Star University that is a teaching/studio recording business along with "House of Rock" live music venue. I have no affiliation with them, but I did talk to them about shooting a video for my tribute band a few months back. The venue has a variety of shows ever few weeks. Mostly 80's/90's hard rock with some blues, jazz or tribute, too. The next shows are Winger, Foghat + Gamma, and a ZZ Top tribute band.
The Reason I'm bringing this venue up is 3 reasons:
- House of Rock is in Santa Rosa - 6 miles or 13 mins away from Alembic HQ
- they have a large stage, with backline amps and drums, video, pro-tools recording gear, and can either rent out the facility for a private event, or open the doors to a public event.
- for an international Alembic gathering - this could be a good place to host the event, feature a few performers or special guests, have a benefit show, and record audio and video to share with the friends of Alembic.
I bet if you planned this the week before NAMM - like Sunday Jan 15 - you could get more people who might be able to add an Anaheim trip to NAMM 2017 to their travel itinerary too.
Just a thought in case someone else did not have a better idea.
PJ
