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Third Time Thruis a band made up of quite good musicians of "a certain age", who all long ago opted to join the establishment and get day jobs, and who now are expressing their mid-life crises (and in some cases embarrasing their teenage children) by reliving their rock-and-roll fantasies. The band members are all from the Raleigh and Cary area. The playlist of the band has a lot of classic rock and roll, and Motown, but is constantly evolving to include other styles as well (see the "repetoire" tab). We can pull it off live, and we tend to work reasonably cheap in this age of DJ's and canned muzak. This year we finally tried out the fog machine. To our delight, it worked and no one got hurt. |
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Fan demonstrates appreciative face plant. For full video click the "Listen" tab then click the "Head over Heels" tab. Glenn says "Don't try this at home." 
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TTT has a long history with drummers named Dave. See if you can spot Dave in these photos that we've taken throughout the years.
Where's Dave? You have to admit, the rest of us have aged well. |
Rock Dave was our long time drummer until he sailed off, twice
Jazz Dave followed but he sailed off in an RV
Delaware Dave.
Drummer Dave Geter and Tom Bundick.
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| Third Time Thru plays songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and the new millennium. Here are
some of the songs we do, tried to do, or thought about doing. Follow the
hypertext links for the lyrics and chords.
Here's the
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These are the songs we learned in 2015
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These are the songs we learned in 2014
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These are the songs we learned in 2012
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These are the songs we learned in 2011
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Songs we learned in 2010.
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Songs we learned in 2009.
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Songs we learned in 2008.
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Songs we learned in 2007 and perfected in 2008.
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Song we learned in 2006
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Here are the songs we learned in 2005
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Here are the new songs we learned in 2004. Most were suggested by the new guys:
Daniel and Alan. We wanna make them feel like they belong. Apparently this tactic wasn't enough to convince Daniel to stick around.
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These are the songs we learned in 2003
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These are the songs we learned in 2002
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These are the songs we learned in 2001... somewhat inspired by the release
of the Beatles number 1 hits
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These are the songs we learned in 2000
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These are the songs we learned in 1999
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These are the songs we learned in 1998
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Here's stuff we've been doing for a while.
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stuff we've learned in 2017.
More Than You Want to Know About Third Time Thru
This page last modified December 2015| Third Time Thru is a working Rock 'n Roll band made up of a bunch of
folks most of whom haven't given up their day jobs. Currently no one lives at the TTT commune, where we practice all day long.
Merri is a part time resident. She moonlights picking up a few bucks here and there booking high paying gigs for another band (but not us).
We've been having trouble keeping drummers recently. Fortunately it seems there's always a drummer named Dave ready, in the wings, waiting to take over.
Dave Geter (aka Dr-Dave) is our newest drummer named Dave.
You probably know us from other bands we've been in.
Some of us used to be with Merri and the 4 Skins. 2015 was a 're-forming' year. We got another new drummer named Dave. For clarity we call him Dr. Dave since D.R. are his initials. A couple of folks retired. Carole retired and un-retired. But now we're ready to start gigging again. Our bass player saga has finally reached a happy conclusion. Don is still with us and he seems to be having a great time. He's been a positive influence musically as well as screwing with the audio gear and being our recording engineer. |
We like to play together every few weeks. We'd prefer to play more often,
but its too hard to get us all in the same place at the same time.
When we first started playing together, practicing every few weeks was not enough
to make progress. The result was we'd play a song 3 times and it would sound good.
The next time we got together it was like starting all over again. We'd have to play
the same song 3 times before it sounded good. That doesn't work if we're going to play a gig.
You only get to do a song once during a gig. However, it did provide a name for the band: Third Time Thru.
No matter how much or little we practice, the song sounds good the third time through.
When we run short of band members, Will Williams might promise to come sit in (but he
usually doesn't). Jazz-Dave Leder used to sit in with us on drums
when Rock-Dave was sailing. Ultimately Rock-Dave sailed one time too often and Jazz-Dave replaced him.
We won't play for you however, unless you're in the
family or ... We can be
talked into doing freebie fund raisers if its a good cause.
Our lineup includes 3 or 4 lead singers (who all want to sing lead on every song), a keyboard player, a bass player, a drummer, 2 lead guitars, 3 or 4 guitars, 4 back up singers, harmonica, and 2 more guys that sing well enough that we're going to take up a collection and buy them some mics. In addition we've got a cowbell, a guerro, knockers (2 sets), tambourines, an egg and a banana! Between Glenn, Andy, Alan and Don we've got the most amazing collection of electronic equipment you've ever seen in a band that plays as infrequently as we do. In 2008 Alan and Glenn chipped in and bought a smoke machine. It remains to be seen when we'll actually use the thing. |
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Bass Players:
John Wolk, used to play bass with us. Unfortunately he had a lot of trouble
remembering to come to practices. In 2001 a tribe of pigs flew over his house
and stole all his equipment. So we had to let John go back to selling paint.
(The pigs didn't steal the paint... it figures.). Ted
Buckner replaced John on Bass. Ted's a real musician who actually had a gig
with the now defunct Lula's Birthmark. Unfortunately
Ted found he couldn't handle two bands. So he gave up music entirely. But alas, John was not to be long with us the second time. It seems that tribe of pigs just kept flying over his house, wreaking all kinds of damage on his ability to come to practice or gigs. Will Williams joined us, on short notice, for our next two paying gigs. After that... we were back to our normal "looking for a bass player" mode. In late 2007, we placed an ad in the neighborhood newsletter and found a bass player, Bill **** (name obscured to protect the guilty). Bill picked up the songs up quickly. He also had a great work ethic. The problem was that the guy liked to argue. That would be an asset in the Roman Forum perhaps, but not in a friendly rock band that enjoys lively, but upbeat discussions. So we left Bill to the Romans.
Of course that left us in potentially desparate straits. We have a couple of gigs
booked, but no bass player. Luckily, during an instant messaging session with a co-worker,
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led to a music discussion with Don Jones.
Andy has worked with Don for a few years in some high stress situations and the guy is dependable
and level headed. Plus, it seems he can play bass. He used to play bass and
keyboards in a jazz-fusion band. He also plays violin. The thing is, he
hadn't played in 20 years. But he talked a good game and told us he was
interested in starting to play again. To prove it, he went out and bought
a new bass. That, and the fact that he learned the songs in about a second,
convinced us to give Don a try. A bit more digging turned up that Don plays keyboards and violin
on a regular basis. It was just bass that he hadn't played in 20 years.
A year later Don is still working out. We're all hoping this is the final journal entry in
the bass player saga. 
This discussion is taking place in the facebook group "What happened to all the Long Beach Characters?"