short answer:
basically well.
longer answer:
fingers felt funky before i started. i was trying something different with a live sound for this type of thing, which created a problem. the stage can be a little woofy, so i decided to stack two cabs and used two amps; the bottom one with less volume filled the low end and got more clarity out of the top one. problem was i couldn't find my mono to dual mono cable, so i had to used a stereo boss eq pedal to split the signal. the pedal defaults to being on. it worked at home, where i remembered to put it into bypass—but i forgot to put it in bypass on the gig, so i was struggling with my sonics for a good deal of the set. (i came to this realization when i woke up this morning . . . oops.)
anyway, first two "tunes" were a bit little bit off and then things got better. fingers warmed up. audience fed me a bit. as a friend who does a lot of solo saxophone gigs remarked (i asked him for feedback), "you were thinking too much and finally tuned out the audience and then it took off" . . . which was pretty much spot-on from my experience.
people seemed to like it. i didn't embarrass myself (i don't think). i video-recorded, so i'll see what i think later.
i've been going through some old cassettes and have realized i've been attempting solo bass stuff with effects/loopers, since 1985 (!), but it's a different—and interesting experience—playing solo completely "naked" (no effects). seems kind of audacious?
i learned some stuff and kind of want to do it again.
so . . . success?
pic by a friend
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