okay, so then it wasn't as bad as you first thought, some good came from it then it surely was worth the trouble
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okay, so then it wasn't as bad as you first thought, some good came from it then it surely was worth the trouble
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Played a fancy gig at the Carlyle Club in Alexandria, VA with my upscale band. The place a great retro "big band" look, and the stage was excellent. They had a great sound system and lights, but wanted to charge us $100 to use the sound. So I had to haul in my nice PA to a place with a nice PA. We made a percentage of the door, which for many is a no-no, but considering there was a $10 cover and we had a decent draw, it made us a decent payout.
Mostly did the golden oldies and some jazzier numbers for the blue haired crowd, but oddly Mustang Sally didn't fill the dance floor as much "Alone" by Heart did.
My house band gig, which is an all-request night had an interesting evening last week. We had a guy bum a smoke from me off of my table, who tried to snake my lighter. I wound up yelling at him through the mic to give me my lighter back mid song. Had an older woman trying to prove she still got it by grinding her "curves" in front of the band and others, while the guy she came in with was hanging in the back. Had a guest drummer who was OK. We always seem to do an oddball mix of songs at this gig, and on any given night 40-60% of the songs are stuff we never did before as a band or individuals. We did our usual country-hiphop medley with Just My Imagination - Gin and Juice - It's Tricky - Prince of Belair - ABC - Don't Believe the Hype - Gin and Juice. We also played out I-V-vi-IV medley, and this time we did Good (Better than Ezra), Land Down Under, With or Without You, Don't Stop Believing, back into Good. Random songs we played that night - NIB, She's Everything, some Reckless Kelly, All Apologies, Dark Sunglasses, and Word Up. It doesn't pay much, but it's a fun gig.
Mostly did the golden oldies and some jazzier numbers for the blue haired crowd, but oddly Mustang Sally didn't fill the dance floor as much "Alone" by Heart did.
My house band gig, which is an all-request night had an interesting evening last week. We had a guy bum a smoke from me off of my table, who tried to snake my lighter. I wound up yelling at him through the mic to give me my lighter back mid song. Had an older woman trying to prove she still got it by grinding her "curves" in front of the band and others, while the guy she came in with was hanging in the back. Had a guest drummer who was OK. We always seem to do an oddball mix of songs at this gig, and on any given night 40-60% of the songs are stuff we never did before as a band or individuals. We did our usual country-hiphop medley with Just My Imagination - Gin and Juice - It's Tricky - Prince of Belair - ABC - Don't Believe the Hype - Gin and Juice. We also played out I-V-vi-IV medley, and this time we did Good (Better than Ezra), Land Down Under, With or Without You, Don't Stop Believing, back into Good. Random songs we played that night - NIB, She's Everything, some Reckless Kelly, All Apologies, Dark Sunglasses, and Word Up. It doesn't pay much, but it's a fun gig.
Okay I have two shows this weekend Friday I am in The Sun Set grill in Lincoln Park,NJ it is a very small area the band plays in. In fact the drummer sets up in a small area that was once a fire place and the rest of the band lines the walls like a firing squad ha, ha, ha and we are a 5 pcs. with a keyboard player who prefers 88 keys! Why do we take the gig?, Because the $ is right and the place is always packed never parking in the lot you unload and park way up the street nearly every time. The 2nd gig is in a place called the New Emerson Hotel (and no it is not a hotel and has never been one)????? Anyway we used to play there at least 2x a month until they got a new manager who dropped the live bands for Karaoke sing a longs. Now the new manager is bringing back live bands and went through the books and found us. He gave us a call and we are on for Sat. night. I will get back to you with results from the shows Sunday or Monday
I just got out of a gig at a local bar, "The Coach and Horses". Things went really well, and we even got a pretty good review on a local blog/site:
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"Kicking off the night was Awake To A Dream, whose song The Importance of the Bass Guitar can be heard on the January Windsor Zene Sampler. This four piece band played some heavy rock tunes to an enthusiastic crowd. Prior to this show I had only heard of them via the previously mentioned sampler, and was rather surprised and impressed with what they brought. Even their ambitious cover of Dio’s Holy Diver was quite good; not an easy achievement."
It was a pretty good show, and we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. I had to borrow an amp, I had some complications (I forgot my cable to connect the head to the cab, and nobody had either an AXL or speakon) and I asked around and a good friend lent it to me, I plugged my bass into a fender rumble 25 and then plugged the headphone out into a peavey 115 combo (I'm not sure the exact model, but it was because the amp was big enough but the preamp kinda sucked) it actually gave me exactly the sound I wanted. I was constantly worried I wasn't loud enough, but they heard me just fine apparently.
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"Kicking off the night was Awake To A Dream, whose song The Importance of the Bass Guitar can be heard on the January Windsor Zene Sampler. This four piece band played some heavy rock tunes to an enthusiastic crowd. Prior to this show I had only heard of them via the previously mentioned sampler, and was rather surprised and impressed with what they brought. Even their ambitious cover of Dio’s Holy Diver was quite good; not an easy achievement."
It was a pretty good show, and we all enjoyed ourselves immensely. I had to borrow an amp, I had some complications (I forgot my cable to connect the head to the cab, and nobody had either an AXL or speakon) and I asked around and a good friend lent it to me, I plugged my bass into a fender rumble 25 and then plugged the headphone out into a peavey 115 combo (I'm not sure the exact model, but it was because the amp was big enough but the preamp kinda sucked) it actually gave me exactly the sound I wanted. I was constantly worried I wasn't loud enough, but they heard me just fine apparently.
Hey There, We're playing for a percentage of the bar tonight... We've invited a bunch of folks and hope to rock the house!
It will be interesting to see how playing older tunes works out to keep them dancing and drinking!
It will be interesting to see how playing older tunes works out to keep them dancing and drinking!
Playing an acoustic gig tonight at the Medford Monthly Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It's a benefit for Sudanese refugees.
Our tall blonde female singer has a fantastic voice. Hoping for a good turnout.
Our tall blonde female singer has a fantastic voice. Hoping for a good turnout.
Okay the gig last night went well, we did two new songs Already Gone The Eagles and Melissa the Allman Bros. both came out great and the crowd loved them so, they are keeper. We are working up Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover looking forward to that one. Playing again to night, we are looking forward to this one, we used to play there all the time. They got a new manager and they called us back. Weather holding up okay so far just rain.
Show this coming saturday, Youth lock in for a church in Snellville.
We're playing 5 originals and 9 covers.
Hoping for a decent audience and a good performance! Wish me luck guys!
We're playing 5 originals and 9 covers.
Hoping for a decent audience and a good performance! Wish me luck guys!
I just got back from a fun gig at the Tea Bazaar in Charlottesville, VA. Really funky venue, and a "hipper" crowd than I'm used to playing for, but I had a great time. I was subbing in for a friend of mine in an Americana folk-rock band and had about two days to learn the setlist... And it went great! I had a few minor flubs, but for the most part I was really locked in with the drummer, and even got to throw in a few vocal harmonies! And after the gig, someone told me about a local Latin-jazz band that's looking for a bassist, so I might have an audition soon. What a great night!
We had a great show last night! Late start 10PM so we had to play till 2AM but the crowd was with us and we closed down the place. Got in the house at 3AM
I will post video in a little while RTS here is the video Before you accuse me
I will post video in a little while RTS here is the video Before you accuse me
Ok, I have a show Sat night place called Bogey's Sports Pub, always a good night there, so I'm looking forward to it. RTS
Playing the "Burnout Fest" at the Old Curtis Street Bar tonight! I think the doors are at 8:30 and I think it starts at 9. I have no idea how much it costs and I have no idea where we're slotted but there are 5 bands and it will be loud.
Played to a small audience in the sanctuary. Above 25 so decent turnout for a youth group lock in.
CHALLENGES:
-Sanctuary stage had to have the detachable wall separating the pulpit and the choir loft removed to fit the drums.
-Immovable piano.
-Due to extensive set up time (much harder than we thought) we didn't have a sound check, thus the mix was rough up until the third song or so.
-Due to the drums not being miked, and a very "live" room, the recording sucked; no drums, minimal vocals.
-Long tear down time.
REWARDS:
-Drummer was on stage, where he belongs, instead of 10 feet up in a drum room.
-Much tighter playing than previous shows.
-A reactive crowd! They waved their cell phones on more inspirational ones like "our God is greater" and "Rescue" and rocked out when we jammed on our original "Nothing to Fear" (which lasted an incredible jam length of 8-9 min or so.
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-It's a show. Shows are good.
-COMPLIMENTS. People actually took the time to say "Great job man." "You guys are good."
-A guy corrected his buddy who said "good job on guitar" to me, saying "dude. It's a bass" of course I smiled and took the guy's well-intentioned compliment, but I was excited to actually see someone distinguish the bass! haha!
-WE'RE GETTING PAID!!!! The Youth Minister came up to us and said: "I didn't take up a love offering for you guys because I don't think you'd get anywhere near what I think you earned or need. I'm going to write you a check tomorrow." It may be like 40 bucks or something, but it's a paid performance, and besides, 20 got us a fog machine! The point is that we are being payed to play music, which is what we all want to do.
Got another on Wed. at a Youth group music night at my church. Wish me luck there.
CHALLENGES:
-Sanctuary stage had to have the detachable wall separating the pulpit and the choir loft removed to fit the drums.
-Immovable piano.
-Due to extensive set up time (much harder than we thought) we didn't have a sound check, thus the mix was rough up until the third song or so.
-Due to the drums not being miked, and a very "live" room, the recording sucked; no drums, minimal vocals.
-Long tear down time.
REWARDS:
-Drummer was on stage, where he belongs, instead of 10 feet up in a drum room.
-Much tighter playing than previous shows.
-A reactive crowd! They waved their cell phones on more inspirational ones like "our God is greater" and "Rescue" and rocked out when we jammed on our original "Nothing to Fear" (which lasted an incredible jam length of 8-9 min or so.
) -It's a show. Shows are good.
-COMPLIMENTS. People actually took the time to say "Great job man." "You guys are good."
-A guy corrected his buddy who said "good job on guitar" to me, saying "dude. It's a bass" of course I smiled and took the guy's well-intentioned compliment, but I was excited to actually see someone distinguish the bass! haha!
-WE'RE GETTING PAID!!!! The Youth Minister came up to us and said: "I didn't take up a love offering for you guys because I don't think you'd get anywhere near what I think you earned or need. I'm going to write you a check tomorrow." It may be like 40 bucks or something, but it's a paid performance, and besides, 20 got us a fog machine!
The point is that we are being payed to play music, which is what we all want to do. Got another on Wed. at a Youth group music night at my church. Wish me luck there.
Had a great show only thing that was different, a young couple had their infant girl in the place so, we decide we would start the show after they were done but, they were there to see us. So we start show with the baby in the place and to my surprise the little one was moving to the music. They stay for 2 of the 4 sets. The place was packed and had a few guest players joined us on stage. Night ended with the owner paying us more.
Yeah, and she was a doll sitting in the carrier with her pink hoody and pacifier she had to be 4-5 months tops rocking to the music!
Show on Friday was awesome. Sucked for one reason though... There were 6 bands & while one was playing inside, another was setting up in the garage. While the band in the garage was playing another band was setting up inside, etc... So, we didn't get to watch two of the bands much at all & that sucked.
We were 3rd and played inside (thankfully). Played 7 songs pretty quickly & were done in a little over 30 minutes. Probably 100 or so people and we got a good reception. The drummer from my favorite local band (Low Gravity) came up to me after our set and said we're now his favorite local band so that was awesome to hear.
I also got some compliments on my singing for the first time ever too... One of my friends sort of jokingly said I've "refined my rock star scream" and it made me laugh. Anyway, it was probably our best show yet even though we had a couple of pretty bad mess-ups but I'm told they weren't super noticeable. Pics to come!
Album here, yo!
We were 3rd and played inside (thankfully). Played 7 songs pretty quickly & were done in a little over 30 minutes. Probably 100 or so people and we got a good reception. The drummer from my favorite local band (Low Gravity) came up to me after our set and said we're now his favorite local band so that was awesome to hear.
I also got some compliments on my singing for the first time ever too... One of my friends sort of jokingly said I've "refined my rock star scream" and it made me laugh. Anyway, it was probably our best show yet even though we had a couple of pretty bad mess-ups but I'm told they weren't super noticeable. Pics to come!
Album here, yo!
I have a gig in the a club in my home town Friday night. We play there now every other Friday so I guess we are the house band for Friday night and The Good Rats not sure if you guys know who they are have locked down Sat night. The owner has gone a little off with the promotion calls it PHRIDAY for the PHOENIXBAND Friday But I guess it is cool. let you know how we make out
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