Gonna Be On the Tube!

[P. Aaron]

This Thursday July 28th, between 8 & 9AM on FOX-2 News in Detroit. The R & B band I am in; Soul Quest will perform live...no taping.

We could get bumped for a political scandal or someone's talking dog. For now however, we're scheduled to be on!

I'll wear something nice.

Should I play the 3-tone r/w w/tort Precision or, the black Precision V w/maple?

[evenintheshower]

Go with the 3-tone P. It will look better on television than the black. I hope everything goes great for you! Way to go!

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by P. Aaron

This Thursday July 28th, between 8 & 9AM on FOX-2 News in Detroit. The R & B band I am in; Soul Quest will perform live...no taping.

We could get bumped for a political scandal or someone's talking dog. For now however, we're scheduled to be on!

I'll wear something nice.

Should I play the 3-tone r/w w/tort Precision or, the black Precision V w/maple?

Atta boy! Congrats. Maybe you could get a copy of the show and give us a link?

[Rockmusician]

Originally Posted by evenintheshower

Go with the 3-tone P. It will look better on television than the black. I hope everything goes great for you! Way to go!

+1

[colcifer]

Originally Posted by evenintheshower

Go with the 3-tone P. It will look better on television than the black. I hope everything goes great for you! Way to go!

Or even better-a J .

[P. Aaron]

Originally Posted by Quickie

Atta boy! Congrats. Maybe you could get a copy of the show and give us a link?

The way TV is these days, all segments are video-taped and can be found online. So I'll link it.

Hope I don't suck!

[Quickie]

Originally Posted by P. Aaron

The way TV is these days, all segments are video-taped and can be found online. So I'll link it.

Hope I don't suck!

Positive thoughts dude, positive thoughts.

[P. Aaron]

Originally Posted by Quickie

Positive thoughts dude, positive thoughts.

Yeah I know! Actually, I fear mis-cues by others. I am so rooted in formality.

[svtb15]

Burst will look better on TV.... Black has alot of reflection... you want you mama to see you right?

[Gord_oh]

i voted for the black p5, but now im thinking 3 tone...

bring a copy to bass fest in september!

[mikeruss]

When we were live on a local Dallas, Tx Morning show on ABC a few months back we had a really good time. It was actually our second time to appear (2 years prior) so we were more relaxed and it still helps out with the bookings since it creates a very professional product to watch for potentail customers.

A word of advice if I may, bring a sound guy. We did and it made a huge difference as we run about 20 channels with all of the drums, synths and voc's and he knew exactly what we needed to sound good. We also used our PA gear(mixer/effects/compressors) with just the monitors and no mains with the two Stereo XLR's to the station system. Worked out really good and the station guy was very happy that he didn't have to figure it all out.

PS. I agree on the Sunburst as I too went that direction with my MM and am still very hapy with the results.

Here the vids if anyone is interested:

Billie Jean - ‪Counterfeit Radio playing Billie Jean on GMT‬‏ - YouTube

Seperate Ways - ‪Counterfeit Radio playing Separate Ways on GMT‬‏ - YouTube

So congrats! Relax and enjoy and don't think about the millions of viewers watching Sorry, couldn't resist.

[P. Aaron]

I know we'll get a bit of a warm-up. We don't have a sound guy so, we're at the mercy of the engineers in-house.

If we do well footage wise, we can always dub better audio. it will be interesting and fun.

Thinking the 3-tone myself...but the fiver feels really good to play too!

[P. Aaron]

We did the show live and it went quite well. The interviewer was funny and kept us relaxed. I played the 3-tone and will post a video once I dig it out. We had several takes to polish it up.

Using the TV monitor in studio, I tried to keep the bass on camera best I could but the darn camera man kept movin' around.

It was easy!

[CapnSev]

P5 dude, represent!

You should also throw a mirror pickguard on it so everyone knows you're there.

[P. Aaron]

Originally Posted by CapnSev

P5 dude, represent!

You should also throw a mirror pickguard on it so everyone knows you're there.

You're a smidge late. I was leaning towards the fiver. Probably on Saturday cause we're playing a longer set. Thanks or polling tho'. Depending upon which full time act I get into, I'll choose a guard based on that bands' style. Leaning to tortise shell.

[P. Aaron]

Expecting outgoing audio to be somewhat meh, I kept my lines simple. Though I threw a few things in, which on playback, are not noticeable. Not real surprising. It's TV.

As I was playing along, I noticed a break on the video monitor and figured something went haywire, which is confirmed in the playback. During the guitar solo, you would get an awesome shot of my rig except that for promotional purposes, I covered it with a Jam For Vets t-shirt. LH1000 going through a LDS 2 x 10 ported cab.

Jam for Vets Project Performs on FOX 2

It was fun and went quick. We received good feedback about it all.
Hope you enjoy it.

[Dave Siff]

Nice!
You look like you were havin' a great time. I saw a couple of "bass faces" there! The bass sounds just fine on my computer speakers, and it looks great on TV, too. You just cannot beat a sunburst/tort/rosewood Fender!

[Pollinator95]

Nice! The signal dropout killed the momentum a bit, but it still sounded great. I was actually surprised at how good your singer´s voice was, and your tone was killer too.
Great performance throughout.
Edit: Damn, Dave beat me to the introductory adjective.

[mikeruss]

Very nice! The sunburst looks good and the sound is great. Congrats.

[Epidrake]

That was great! I love the cause you guys are playing for too. Well done. Glad you picked the burst, it looked really good.