Hot As A Pepper Party Band
Saturdayze / Jeff Gates Band at Churchill’s Pub Anderson!
Saturdayze Party Band fronted by Jeff Gates on vocals and guitar, John M. Hoyt on bass from Hot As A Pepper and Lance Sweatt on drums, also from HAAP is going to be so much fun!
You’ll hear some classic rock, some blues, some motown, some disco/funk and maybe even an original.
Let’s get down tonight!
Hot As A Pepper Party Band January dance date night at Old School Tavern!
New year, new tunes, new attitude!
We will be playing a wide range of dance music from genres such as Disco, Funk, Motown, Rock, Pop, Top 40, Carolina Beach.
Your favorite classics favorites through current chart topping hits.
With around 500 shows since 2012, we’ve built a large and exciting repertoire of amazing variety music! Almost all of it is danceable. Most are requested over and over again.
Expect songs from artists like Prince, Bruno Mars, The Temptations, DNCE, KC & The Sunshine Band, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Portugal the Man, AC/DC, Hall & Oates, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Daft Punk, Carlos Santana / Rob Thomas, Eurythmics, Wild Cherry, Etta James, B52s, Commodores, Earth Wind & Fire, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, Peter Gabriel, Harry Styles, Madonna, and many more…
There’s nothing like live local music! Get out and get down!
HAAP features:
Ani Perez – Vocals
John M. Hoyt – Bass & Vocals
Chris “CC” Carroll – Guitar & Vocals
Wilson Ligon – Vocals, Keys & Guitar
Lance Sweatt – Drums
Audio Tech: Pamela Hoyt
Hot As A Pepper Party Band January dance date night at Old School Tavern will be fun and we’re always thrilled to play live music at our favorite Upstate venues, but that’s not all we are about – we also do many private events throughout the year.
Hot As A Pepper Party Band is available for hire for your party, wedding, reunion, festival or any other event in Greenville, the Upstate and beyond – Let’s party like it’s 1999
Contact us for booking today.
Find our calendar and more information on our home page or here on the Palmetto Showcase!
Hot As A Pepper Party Band Warehouse At Midtown Nov!
We’re back at Warehouse at Midtown!!!!
We will be playing a wide range of dance music from genres such as Disco, Funk, Motown, Rock, Pop, Top 40, Carolina Beach.
Your favorite classics favorites through current chart topping hits.
With around 500 shows since 2012, we’ve built a large and exciting repertoire of amazing variety music! Almost all of it is danceable. Most are requested over and over again.
Expect songs from artists like Prince, Bruno Mars, The Temptations, DNCE, KC & The Sunshine Band, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Portugal the Man, AC/DC, Hall & Oates, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Daft Punk, Carlos Santana / Rob Thomas, Eurythmics, Wild Cherry, Etta James, B52s, Commodores, Earth Wind & Fire, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, Peter Gabriel, Harry Styles, Madonna, and many more…
There’s nothing like live local music! Get out and get down!
HAAP features:
Annie Perez – Vocals
John M. Hoyt – Bass & Vocals
Chris “CC” Carroll – Guitar & Vocals
Wilson Ligon – Vocals, Keys & Guitar
Lance Sweatt – Drums
Audio Tech: Pamela Hoyt
Hot As A Pepper Party Band Warehouse At Midtown Nov Debut will be fun and we’re always thrilled to play live music at our favorite Upstate venues, but that’s not all we are about – we also do many private events throughout the year.
Hot As A Pepper Party Band is available for hire for your party, wedding, reunion, festival or any other event in Greenville, the Upstate and beyond – Let’s party like it’s 1999
Contact us for booking today.
Find our calendar and more information on our home page or here on the Palmetto Showcase!
Hot As A Pepper Party Band gets funky at Eastside in January!
First time in 2023 – new year with some new tunes!
We will be playing a wide range of dance music from genres such as Disco, Funk, Motown, Rock, Pop, Top 40, Carolina Beach.
Your favorite classics favorites through current chart topping hits.
With around 500 shows since 2012, we’ve built a large and exciting repertoire of amazing variety music! Almost all of it is danceable. Most are requested over and over again.
Expect songs from artists like Prince, Bruno Mars, The Temptations, DNCE, KC & The Sunshine Band, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Portugal the Man, AC/DC, Hall & Oates, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Daft Punk, Carlos Santana / Rob Thomas, Eurythmics, Wild Cherry, Etta James, B52s, Commodores, Earth Wind & Fire, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, Peter Gabriel, Harry Styles, Madonna, and many more…
There’s nothing like live local music! Get out and get down!
HAAP features:
Annie Perez – Vocals
John M. Hoyt – Bass & Vocals
Chris “CC” Carroll – Guitar & Vocals
Wilson Ligon – Vocals, Keys & Guitar
Lance Sweatt – Drums
Audio Tech: Pamela Hoyt
Hot As A Pepper Party Band gets funky at Eastside in January! will be fun and we’re always thrilled to play live music at our favorite Upstate venues, but that’s not all we are about – we also do many private events throughout the year.
Hot As A Pepper Party Band is available for hire for your party, wedding, reunion, festival or any other event in Greenville, the Upstate and beyond – Let’s party like it’s 1999
Contact us for booking today.
Find our calendar and more information on our home page or here on the Palmetto Showcase!
Saturdayze / Jeff Gates Band @ The Mason Jar
Saturdayze Party Band fronted by Jeff Gates on vocals and guitar, John M. Hoyt on bass and Lance Sweatt on drums with additional guitar by Stevie Ray Gates is going to be a blast!
The Mason Jar is under new ownership and we have have secured two shows to help rock the place!
You’ll hear some classic rock, some blues, some motown, some disco/funk and maybe even an original.
Show is from 9:30pm to 12:30am
Let’s get down tonight!
Saturdayze / Jeff Gates Band @ The Mason Jar
Saturdayze Party Band fronted by Jeff Gates on vocals and guitar, John M. Hoyt on bass and Lance Sweatt on drums with additional guitar by Stevie Ray Gates is going to be a blast!
The Mason Jar is under new ownership and we have have secured two shows to help rock the place!
You’ll hear some classic rock, some blues, some motown, some disco/funk and maybe even an original.
Show is from 9:30pm to 12:30am
Let’s get down tonight!
Our trusty Allen and Heath ZED22FX mixer was working so well that we decided to replace it… With this:
Sometimes you just have to mix it up (pun intended) and try something new and there’s not much newer that we can afford than the Mackie DL1608.
The DL1608 is not your typical mixer. They have removed 90% of the knobs, sliders and meters, leaving you with a box that is rather small, with 16 XLR inputs, 6 1/4″ TRS, a pair of XLR outputs, and a headphone jack. The only knobs are the input trim knobs and the headphone level knob.
There are two switches. Do you need any more than that? There is one to turn it on and off and one to shoot some voltage onto the inputs for your phantom powered devices.
EVERY THING ELSE is controlled from your iPad. The entire control surface is gone from the mixer and moved to an app.
You are not locked into just one iPad though. You can keep one docked if you wish, and that iPad can control the thing, as well as record two channels of mix audio (unfortunately, you cannot record all 16 channels like you can on the Presonus or the Behringer digital mixers). Using an inexpensive wireless router, you can plug the Mackie into that, and use several other iPads / iPhones to control the thing.
Here’s our plan:
DL1608 on stage, will reside on my bass amp’s road case. All stage wiring from mics and to speakers will run to the mixer. NO SNAKE running across the floor to pose a health and safety issue to dancers.
An iPad will remain docked in the DL1608 at all times and we will record two channels to that docked iPad. This iPad will be used to control the stage monitor mixes (remember those 6 aux outs? We can have 6 different feeds).
An 802.11n wireless router (Currently a very inexpensive Asus model) will plug into the Mackie and be velcro’d inside my road case.
My wife is our audio engineer who has been doing both front of house and monitor mixes for me for a couple years. She will now use her own iPad to control the Mackie from anywhere around the venue she chooses! NO CONSOLE TAKING UP A TABLE in the middle of the room. No Snake. No chance of someone spilling a beer in it.
Our guitarist and drummer probably want a different mix…. I’ll let them associate their own iPad or iPod to the Mackie and give them permission to affect ONLY their mix.
Should we add in ear monitors at some point, this system will be perfect for that too.
Shakedown cruise is coming this Friday at Rhythm & Brews in Greer, SC. I’ll try to reply or post a new blog post with the results. Oh, and we will be taking the old ZED with us, just in case!
John M. Hoyt – Bass guitarist on a mission
Hey, it’s been a while, but here’s some updates for you…
First and foremost, we have added a member, Chris Eller, who now is the guy keeping the beat going. He’s a pretty good guy, and a terrific drummer, so be sure to pop in and check him out at one of our next public gigs.
We’re booking again… We took some time and have been working up a bunch of new material and breaking Chris in. So, if there is a venue we need to be hitting up, please let us know! We’re hoping to start filling the calendar for March and onward, but there are a lot of dates in February we are available for too!
Need a T-Shirt? It’s time to have some new ones made up! This design is extremely popular. Hard to keep them on hand for the shows, but we’ll do our best. If you know you want one, hit us up and have us reserve one in your size. $20 dollars for one, or get two or more for 30 bucks!
Notable upcoming gigs open to the public:
2013-04-13 Heart Walk Greer
2013-04-19 Greenville Heritage Main Street Fridays
2013-05-10 & 11 Bovinova 3.0
Hope to see you there!
Our calendar is filling quickly thanks to good friends spreading the word about a band that wants to bring fun and funky live music entertainment to your Upstate SC gig!
We have several tentative bookings, but as it stands, here are the current confirmed performances:
Sept. 22 – Woodburn House / Ashtabula Plantation semi-formal – Private Event
Sept. 29 – Sippin’ In Simpsonville – Oktoberfest (ROCKTOBERFEST!) – Public Event / $15 in advance, $20 day of.
Oct. 5 – Private event at the Embassy in Greenville
Oct. 13 – Quaker Steak & Lube in Greenville for “Guard Your Life” event – Public Event
Nov. 3 – Poker run charity fundraiser at Pop A Top in Piedmont, SC – Public Event
Dec. 8 – Rhythm & Brews in Greer, SC – Public Event
We’ll work on getting our calendar up to date and possibly change the format of it so it is easier to see at a glance, as well as get notifications. Facebook events will be added for all public events.
Would you like to hire Hot As A Pepper to provide music for your festival, dance, graduation, reunion, wedding reception or rehearsal, engagement party or some other reason? Please call us at 864.979.1224 for more information!