About Us
Half-Price Blues is a full-bodied musical experience with a pub-sized footprint. Half-Price Blues is the classy guitar-based jazz-rock fusion show that caters to bons viveurs on a hoi polloi budget.
How do they do it? It’s simple: Volume. Also, the fact is that DJ Dominique has canned, freeze-dried, and cryo-vac’d the best rhythm section performances that can be coaxed out of the world’s finest musicians for replay on demand. Mick is a retired session and studio guitarist from Austin, Texas and is usually paid in gift cards or useless trinkets.
The takeaway is that you get the very same chords, extensions, inversions, modes, scales, and passing notes that the most expensive instrumental bands play. You get the same kind of antique, boutique, and exotic equipment that the most epicurian artists use to wow audiences around the world! All this at a fraction of the cost of a comparable experience with a touring show.
Who Should See Half-Price Blues?
Music Lovers, Students, and Gear Geeks: This is the core audience for Half-Price Blues. Do you enjoy the thrill-ride of an improvised show? Does abuse of the Locrian mode amuse you? Want to hear irreplaceable antique vacuum tubes scream their valuable life away for your enjoyment?
Dancers, Musical Experientialists, Intuitives: If the music can come alive in you, you might enjoy a Half-Price Blues show. The rhythm is rock-solid and most of the somgs are, unlike those in some fusion shows, in very danceable time signatures. The guitar parts are wholly improvised on the spot in an intimate conversation with the room, giving a sort of spiritual experience to those that are open to it.
Alcoholics, Conversationalists, Readers: Half-Price Blues shows have no lyrics, no breaks, no pitting the right side of the room against the left in a screaming contest. It’s actually pretty easy to ignore, for those that aren’t into it.
