Side band club debut w/crappy pics (T-40 content)

[BrianKrashpad]

This week a gig fell into the collective lap of my "church" side band, Pedagogy (terrible name, I know). This is the keyboard-bass-drums trio doing the praise band director's (Joel's) material. We got a last-minute show for Saturday night earlier in the week. We'd only played one show so far, over the summer at a college youth barbecue at church. I and the 19-year-old drummer have played club gigs before with other bands, but oddly Joel (mid-to-late 20's I'm guessing?) has only done Christian coffeehouses and stuff, never an actual bar-type club gig, even though he had this band back where he used to live.

So we practiced Friday night. Joel threw 2 new covers at me (I don't listen to the same type music he does, so I'd never heard either of them before) for the Saturday show. Tried practicing with my DiY 2x10 and old 60W Sunn head but it sounded horrible at volume. Resolved to use 200W solid state Crate for next practice and show. One of the church's monitors actually started literally smoking, and Joel blew up one of his keyboard amps.

It was pretty loud.

Saturday we had a church praise band practice at 11:30 in the Sanctuary. After praise band, the director, the drummer and I went over to the Fellowship Hall for another Pedagogy practice. This time I played through the 8x10 Ampeg SVT cab and the Crate. Vast improvement sound-wise. Nothing blew up, though we were still pretty loud.

Show was set for 10 p.m. Went to the show at 9 with my daughter, who doubles as roadie and designated driver. Tiny little room, I've played it once or twice before. I played my Peavey T-40 for the first time at a gig. A bit heavy after an hour but not too bad. Sounded bosstastic. Brought my MIM Fender Jazz just in case, but she stayed cased. Probably for the first time ever at a gig I played most of the set fingerstyle, with only a couple using a pick. If I'm not careful I could get some right hand calluses, haha!

A bunch of the church college youth group came, and our singer's mom, haha. Set went well enough, a couple of my friends showed up late and missed us by almost a half hour. The house gave us $10 (yes, ten) and a $20 bar tab. Since our drummer is too young to drink, that meant 3 beers for me and a coke for my daughter.

Hung around for a little of the next band's set. They were a couple aging white hippie guys on guitar and bass, and somewhat younger black guy on drums. Kind of bluesy-jammy type stuff. The guitarist used a stereo rig with a Fat Strat into two Peavey 1x12's. Bassist was especially good, played a Fender P-J with a painted headstock, didn't know the changes by rote, was following the guitarist's hands. They covered the Stones' "Dead Flowers." Got home about midnight, but couldn't fall asleep for another couple hours.

A friend from the church praise band took some pics, which pretty much give new meaning to "crappy." My daughter took a couple too, but haven't had a chance to upload them yet.

Here are a few of the slightly less crappy pics (the drummer for the second band set his crap right in front of me, that's the obstruction visible in some of the pics):











Who is that sexy old dude?



Yeah, that's what she was thinking, I'm sure.

[idoru]

Originally Posted by BrianKrashpad

Went to the show at 9 with my daughter, who doubles as roadie and designated driver.

Oh, now _that_ is some nice work. Mine's not even three years old yet, guess I've got plenty of time to get her used to lugging cabs around for me

c-

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by idoru

Oh, now _that_ is some nice work. Mine's not even three years old yet, guess I've got plenty of time to get her used to lugging cabs around for me

c-

Well, as she's about 5 foot nothing, that SVT fridge cab was way bigger than her. I did the work on that'un, thankfully it's on casters, and she helped steer the thing. But she helped with carrying things like a music stand, bass, and go-box.



By age 3, I had mine fetching beers for me from the fridge.

[konodl18]

What is the backdrop for the stage? Black curtain and x-mas lights or just holes in the backdrop?

It looks really cool and I'll probably steal it!

Derek

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by konodl18

What is the backdrop for the stage? Black curtain and x-mas lights or just holes in the backdrop?

It looks really cool and I'll probably steal it!

Derek

Black curtain & twinkle lights.

[HEK]

Originally Posted by BrianKrashpad

Well, as she's about 5 foot nothing, that SVT fridge cab was way bigger than her. I did the work on that'un, thankfully it's on casters, and she helped steer the thing. But she helped with carrying things like a music stand, bass, and go-box.



By age 3, I had mine fetching beers for me from the fridge.

For the record, I'm five foot three.

[southshoreconor]

is that in San Antonio, TX? looks just like a club i've played called Rock Bottom i think...

[plankspanker13]

What's with tilting the 'fridge? Methinks that might be a tad unsafe.

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by HEK

For the record, I'm five foot three.

Haha, welcome aboard, beautiful!

Note that I did say "about." Lawyers always leave room to get out of a jam.

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by southshoreconor

is that in San Antonio, TX? looks just like a club i've played called Rock Bottom i think...

Nope, funky little place in Gainesville, Florida, called Tim & Terry's. The downstairs is a combination package store/restaurant/music venue, and there's a music store upstairs.

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by plankspanker13

What's with tilting the 'fridge? Methinks that might be a tad unsafe.

Well, because of the little "stacker" thingies on the bottom of the cab, I couldn't put the casters all the way out on the corners of the cab, which would provide good stability. By leaning it back like that, it was actually more stable than it otherwise wouldv'e been, as the back bottom edge was in solid contact with the carpeted floor, and the top back edge was in solid contact with the wall. Re the latter, behind the black curtain is some ratty old carpeting they use for sound absorption, so it makes the contact much more solid than just a hard surface wall.

We played there a second time this last Saturday night, and I managed to bust a caster clean off, so I had no choice but to do the angling thing again. Worked great both times. In fact this last time I loaned the rig to the guy in the band that followed us. Was fun to hear from the audience's standpoint.

[HEK]

Also, that photo of me is frickin' horrendous!

[BrianKrashpad]

Originally Posted by HEK

Also, that photo of me is frickin' horrendous!

Picture, what picture?

Removed.

See you soon.