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Msifit Toys at the Jukebox - August 11

2006-07-22T20:58:00.000-04:00

Misfit Toys will be at the Jukebox - a great club with a big dance floor, house sound and lights, and plenty of room.

The Jukebox
5435 Ridge Road West
Spencerport, NY
(585) 352-4505

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Dave hits #1 on Songramp

2006-05-25T18:49:00.000-04:00

Misfit Dave Preston, a proficient singer-songwriter in his own right, has hit #1 on Songramp!! To hear this #1 song co-written by Dave Preston, Trudi Cross and Jeff Southerland click on this link:

You Are the Music in my Heart

Way to go Dave!!

Back to Kinley's June 3

2006-05-22T20:54:00.000-04:00

We had a great night at Kinley's last Saturday night and will be going right back:

June 3rd.
Same time - 9 to 1.

Kinley's
476 Route 104
Ontario, NY
585.265.3140

Gear Geek Alert:

The new on-stage mix system worked like a champ with new monitors, another power amp and 4 more speakers. We're not trying to get louder, just disperse the sound more evenly around the stage so everyone can hear the little musical things that get thrown in on the spur of the moment and make it so much fun to play live. The word from the Front of the House is that the new vocal mix was crisper as well.

For you guitar players: Ever the Tone Junkie, Kenny has added a mini switch that adds a new pickup combo to his custom Stratocaster by combining the bridge and neck pickups. We're also considering doing the "series to parallel" humbucker conversion to Frank's guitar.

Misfit Toys at Kinley's May 20th

2006-05-06T00:14:00.000-04:00

Misfit Toys will be at Kinley's on RT 104 just past the windmill by the Wayne county line. Come early, have dinner and get a good table for the evening.

May 20th 9-1
Kinley's
476 Route 104
Ontario, NY
585.265.3140

misfit toys info - Return to JR's

2006-04-25T20:15:00.000-04:00

Misfit Toys will be back at JR's Black Horse Tavern this Saturday, April 29th from 9:30 to 1:30 am. We've got some new tunes to mix in among your favorites as well as some of our more obscure and off-the-wall stuff.

Jr.'s Black Horse Tavern
2013 Ridge Road
Ontario, NY
(315) 524-7354

new config of misfit toys - first gig

2006-01-30T12:32:00.000-05:00

the new configuration of misfit toys played our first gig this weekend at JR's Blackhorse Tavern in Ontario. JR's is a good venue if you like down and dirty rock 'n roll/pool/darts and of course a variety of liquid sustinence.

The new Lineup:

Frank Sanseri - Keyboard/Guitar/Vocals
Dave Preston - Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
Laurie Sanseri - Drums/Vocals
Dick Detwiler - Bass
Kenny Sheehan- Lead Guitar/Vocals

Sound was good on stage as we settled in - working through a set list of 60s-90s material. The Violent Fems "Blister in the Sun" with Frank out front and Dick's outlandish bass fills contrasted with Dave's "Little Red Riding Hood" (Sam the Sham) and served notice that we'd be all over the map as the night progressed. Laurie's late night rendition of Bobby McGee got a walk-on high five from one of JR's regulars. Dire Straits "Money For Nothin' " saw new MT member Kenny Sheehan doin' the Mark Knopfler fingertip deal on the guitar and doin' his best MK laid back chant "I should'a learned to play the guitar!"

Some late arrivals were left chanting "one more song" as 1:30 came and MT obliged with a final Skynard tune (3 Steps)

gear-geek alert!

Kenny was breaking in a new axe to compliment his customized Fender Strat - it's a Dillion PRS clone that has been rewired to split the pickups. Both felt good running through the live stereo Mesa/Marshall split stack.

On stage sound will be refined for our next show by adding more distributed speaker cabs for synth and drums.