Sing Along with Mackie
Our friends at Seattle radio station 107.7 The End have a really cool live kaoroke band, End-A-Roke. They play at local clubs, Seahawks football games, and more. Ever wanted to front Alice In Chains? System of a Down? Ramones? Radiohead? Get up and sing with End-A-Roke.
We caught a recent gig at a Seahawks home game in front of Qwest Field and saw some... uhhhhh.... amazing talent! One guy, who goes by the name of Alcohol Paul, got up and sang a couple of tunes (see him in the picture above) clad in his best football uniform garb, and your intrepid Mackie man (me, behind the speaker below) belted out "Low" by Cracker and "Bad Luck" by Social D. The winner gets a pair of tickets to the football game (not me--dang!), so it's not necessarily all about embarrassing yourself in front of a bunch of boozed-up football game-goers.
Oh yeah... the PA system is Mackie all the way. They've got a CFX-12.mkII mixer, a pair of S-408 active loudspeakers, and SWA-1801z and SWA-1501 active subwoofers. Plenty of power for the band, which consists of 107.7 DJs (from left in top photo) Jim "Killer" Keller (guitar), Dickie Dickie Pye (on drums), friend of The End John Fisher (bass) and DJ Neal "The Midnight Cowboy" (guitar, behind the singer).
