{"id":4146,"date":"2013-03-28T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2014-01-02T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T17:46:00","slug":"antsy-mcclain-brings-pbs-to-the-mello-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/antsy-mcclain-brings-pbs-to-the-mello-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Antsy McClain Brings PBS to The Mello Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_650\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4146-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=4146-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><strong>On Saturday, April 6th, KPIG-favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/antsybio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antsy McClain<\/a> brings The Trailer Park Troubadours *and* an entire PBS film crew to Watsonville&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mellocenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mello Center<\/a> for a big concert and a whole lot of fun. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe that just a little over ten years ago, Antsy McClain was &#8220;ready to call it quits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Antsy was out from Nashville for band rehearsals last weekend. We chatted over coffee, and he told the story about how their 1998 debut record <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.unhitched.com\/product.sc?productId=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Doublewide and Dangerous&#8221;<\/a> was just sitting, unreleased, in supplier warehouses. He was about done with it all. Then the late Laura Ellen Hopper called from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpig.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KPIG Radio<\/a>. She invited Antsy and the band to open for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertearlkeen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Earl Keen<\/a> at KPIG&#8217;s annual Humbug Hoedown. Laura Ellen also told him that songs like &#8220;It Ain&#8217;t Home &#8217;til You Take the Wheels Off&#8221; and &#8220;Skinny Women Ain&#8217;t Hip&#8221; were popular on the station.<\/p>\n<p>That news, and their opening slot for Keen, were the breaks they needed.<\/p>\n<p>Antsy was soon retrieving product from his label and their distributors. &#8220;I bought thousands of CDs, VHS tapes of our EPK video &#8211; all the rage at the time, and I bought the rights and intellectual property issues to our website.&#8221; Antsy&#8217;s first independent release, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.unhitched.com\/product.sc?productId=2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Way Cool World&#8221;<\/a>, soon followed. He&#8217;s been an indie artist ever since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PBS_HANDBILL.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4174\" alt=\"PBS_HANDBILL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PBS_HANDBILL-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Antsy plays nationwide, but he&#8217;s particularly fond of the west coast. That&#8217;s due in no small part &#8220;to the KPIG family&#8230;we do our largest shows in northern California&#8221;. He plays in Santa Cruz several times a year, including annual New Year&#8217;s Eve shows at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riotheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Theatre<\/a> in Santa Cruz and a regular appearance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santacruzcountyfair.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz County Fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mello Center show will be extra special, since he really is bringing a PBS film crew along. &#8220;We could have done it anywhere in the country&#8221;, Antsy said, &#8220;but I wanted to do it here with my friends&#8221;.<\/center>Songwriter\/teacher Peter Berkow, who&#8217;s also a PBS producer, first heard of Antsy through his sound-man Dale Prince and Australian fingerstyle guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommyemmanuel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Emmanuel<\/a>. Berkow&#8217;s now a pal of Antsy&#8217;s and pitched the idea of filming a Troubadours concert to PBS. The rest is history&#8230;or at least will be when the special airs.<\/p>\n<p>For this concert, they&#8217;re building a special &#8220;trailer park set, full of &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s kitsch&#8221;. They&#8217;ve even designed the setslists so that folks who might be new to the band will immediately get the &#8220;Enjoy the ride&#8221; motif behind Antsy and his music. The first set features &#8220;Hangin&#8217; With My Friends&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/LIVING_THE_DREAM_SAMPLE.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Living the Dream&#8221;<\/a>, and &#8220;Living in Alumimum&#8221;, while the second half includes funny fan favorites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJa3TwxBMh4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;My Baby Whistles When She Walks&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eA9ul4eixCI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Everything&#8217;s a Dollar&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Antsy wanted to remind everyone that this won&#8217;t be a &#8220;tight, sit on your hands thing&#8221;. Anyone who&#8217;s been to a Troubadors show knows it&#8217;s a big fun party. Lots of laughs, lots of loud shirts, and lots of &#8220;Flamingoheads&#8221; singing along. Be ready to have a good time. You&#8217;ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tickets<\/strong><br \/>\nTickets at on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/TPT_ON_PBS.html\" target=\"_blank\">unhitched.com<\/a> &#8211; available for the concert or the concert AND the after party the next day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Podcast Highlights<\/strong><br \/>\nWant to hear from Antsy himself? He&#8217;s been a guest on my &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; podcast several times. Click here to listen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Episode #119 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/3659\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Living the Dream&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Episode #101 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/1386\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Heroes (and Vinyl) Last Forever&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Episodes #51 and #52 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/246\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Antsy McClain of The Trailer Park Troubadours&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fantsy-mcclain-brings-pbs-to-the-mello-center%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KPIG-favorite Antsy McClain brings The Trailer Park Troubadours and a PBS film crew to Watsonville\u2019s Mello Center for a big concert and a whole lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}