My little road trip continues: A Bar Mitzvah in Cherry Hill, NJ on Saturday night ( 120+ miles) and a wedding Sunday night...... at the exact same Temple
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Got another gig coming up this Friday and I finally found the advertisement that the club is running:
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August, 29 2008 at "The Archaic Sanctum" Goth Industrial Night feat.DJ's from the brew
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Cost : $5.00
Bella Lugosi's dead and has come back to Join us.Goth and Lolita attire,the palest of the pale come join us in the circle of sound ranging from the 80's,90's and neo goth,industrial and electropunk.Gothic industrial fetish parade with the bats that have left the bell tower.We will also submit for your pleasure dark inviting romantic poetry readings with black lights and strobes to transcend you into the night flight in full moonlight.
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wish me luck guys....
Now I gotta go find my black clothes...
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August, 29 2008 at "The Archaic Sanctum" Goth Industrial Night feat.DJ's from the brew
*location*
Cost : $5.00
Bella Lugosi's dead and has come back to Join us.Goth and Lolita attire,the palest of the pale come join us in the circle of sound ranging from the 80's,90's and neo goth,industrial and electropunk.Gothic industrial fetish parade with the bats that have left the bell tower.We will also submit for your pleasure dark inviting romantic poetry readings with black lights and strobes to transcend you into the night flight in full moonlight.
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wish me luck guys....
Now I gotta go find my black clothes...
Not exactly a gig, but I'm going to a jam out by Front Royal tomorrow. I haven't jammed in ages, not even sure what year it was last time. I'm usually too busy rehearsing /gigging. Hmmm, do I even remember how?
- Mar 1, 2005
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Here's something VERY rare for me..........a 3 day weekend........no gigs.......no office......just hangin' out........can't remember the last time that happened.
The only "show" I'll be going to is a car show on Monday, taking my '67 Chevy.
The only "show" I'll be going to is a car show on Monday, taking my '67 Chevy.
- Dec 21, 2007
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Had a gig today, another tomorrow. All fretless tomorrow, mostly played fretless today.
I put an ACG preamp in my fretless last night.
It ROCKED! The bass sounded SO GOOD (sorry for shouting, but it's pretty exciting)
and very, very versatile.
I'm really looking forward to playing it again tomorrow.
I put an ACG preamp in my fretless last night.
It ROCKED! The bass sounded SO GOOD (sorry for shouting, but it's pretty exciting)
and very, very versatile.
I'm really looking forward to playing it again tomorrow.
Mostly I do. I was a little light on AC/DC tunes, and I soon remembered rule #1, stay out of the direct line of fire of the Marshall stack (thank goodness we were outdoors). There were 2 drummers, both very good, and 2 percussion guys, one of whom doubles (triples?) on steel drum and harmonica. A couple of guitar/singers kept things going well. They had great food, a big ole jug of margaritas, and a small but very congenial crowd. Overall, more fun than I was expecting.
The trickiest part was getting my car up the last 100 feet of the driveway. The host lives on a ridgetop with a great view, and a very steep gravel approach, lined with huge boulders that they had dragged out of the way to build the house. I had to back it up and get a running start a couple of times. The Sable wagon is not the greatest hill-climber ever built!
But we made it. One good thing about a location like that, you don't have to worry about townhouses or a mall being built next door.
Oh, and you get great drainage.
Got another gig coming up this Friday and I finally found the advertisement that the club is running:
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August, 29 2008 at "The Archaic Sanctum" Goth Industrial Night feat.DJ's from the brew
*location*
Cost : $5.00
Bella Lugosi's dead and has come back to Join us.Goth and Lolita attire,the palest of the pale come join us in the circle of sound ranging from the 80's,90's and neo goth,industrial and electropunk.Gothic industrial fetish parade with the bats that have left the bell tower.We will also submit for your pleasure dark inviting romantic poetry readings with black lights and strobes to transcend you into the night flight in full moonlight.
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wish me luck guys....
Now I gotta go find my black clothes...
Well, the gig went about as well as can be expected... considering the extremely poor hand we were given by the club owner. We will probably not be playing there again. The day before our singer tried to contact the club to find out more information about the night. No direct answers were given, and the day of I noticed that the club's website had taken down any notice about the "goth / industrial" night that we had been invited to play. Instead, they were plugging away for their fundraiser the next day.
Our worst fears were confirmed when we showed up. The owner had completely given up on the night and had not found a DJ, any other bands, purchased any of the lighting, cancelled the poetry reading, and apparently didn't even tell any of the regulars to attend. Nobody even knew we were playing that night asides from the ones we had told... which I didn't tell that many because frankly the gig sounded downright scary.
We didn't even have background music when we were setting up in the small room. It was so awkward. There were about 5 people there sitting staring wondering what on earth had happened to the "Industrial Goth Night." The place didn't even serve alcohol, and to make matters worse the club owner was still charging people $5 to get in... to see just us play when we're a fairly new band. (we didn't see any of the door charges as an fyi) The PA system was broken and we couldn't get our monitors to work. We did the best we could for the first half, but we didn't have much to work with. Our few diehard fans were doing the best they could to get the room going though
.But towards the last part of the show, people started coming in. They could hear us from outside and apparently really liked what they were hearing... enough to walk in and pay the fee to listen. They had no clue what the place was or who we were, so that was very encouraging. All the demos and stickers we brought were taken and we made $60 in pure donations... so while we were given an extremely ****** setup (no crowd, no advertisements, a cover, no beer or ANYTHING... even background music... to hold attention besides us setting up in a small room to play with the crickets chirping) I think we made the best of it.
Our first gig: a benefit for fire victims sponsored by the Firefighters Motorcycle Club this Saturday. Poster says "live music;" good promotion, huh? If you're in Austin, we play from 1 PM to 2:30PM.
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cons: outdoors
pros: Hooters girls (not that I'm interested...much)
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cons: outdoors
pros: Hooters girls (not that I'm interested...much)
This weekend:
2 on Saturday
2 on Sunday
and I'll get to drive around in whats left of a hurricane.
2 on Saturday
2 on Sunday
and I'll get to drive around in whats left of a hurricane.
Back out to the Radisson this weekend. We're debuting our brand spanking new singer tonight. We had one and only one practice (last night) and quite frankly I was hoping that everything would have come together a little better. Nothing like performing live to hammer the dents out!
I jammed with a guy (keys player) at a gig a few weeks back and he mentioned how his band had a gig coming up but it was in limbo since the bass player had a meltdown and quit. Asked if I wanted to fill in.
22 songs in 2 weeks, gig's tomorrow... Should be fun.
22 songs in 2 weeks, gig's tomorrow... Should be fun.
Playing a show at a place called the Cavern in Xenia Ohio. It like a coffe house with a stage in the basement and all that. Its not a bad little spot. This should be a good show since weve been promoting it like crazy and we got another band that we are friends with opening for us. I'm really pumped!! I'll report back and let everyone know how it goes!
Played a gig at a small bar in Campbell, CA (Silicon Valley area). It was a decent crowd, and we got quite a few people up dancing. It was an 8-midnite gig, so it was nice to end early after the work week.
This was my 1st gig with my new (to me) Genz-Benz GBE600, and it rocked.
So much better than my old (now sold) amp, the similarly rated SWR Workingman's 4004.
This was my 1st gig with my new (to me) Genz-Benz GBE600, and it rocked.
So much better than my old (now sold) amp, the similarly rated SWR Workingman's 4004.Well we just finished playing the show at the Cavern. When we first got there there were a ton of kids hanging out outside the place. I thought that it was good and there would be a ton of people that would be in there to hear us. Needless to say the minute the music started the kids were no where to be seen. Oh well. The setup was extremely cramped on stage. There was a lot of clutter. I was afraid to move too musch because to my left there was an old computer moniter sitting on a barstool.....go figure. There was only one moniter for the whole band, and it didnt even work good. this thing was older than 'i am. other than that we played an excellent show and the crowd really dug it. so I'm happy!! thanks for listening to my story!
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Just got home from a small club gig.......felt good to be back to work, after taking the holiday weekend as a "band vacation".
Nice crowd, good response, and booked again. That works.
Nice crowd, good response, and booked again. That works.
- Dec 21, 2007
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Casual gig - wedding reception. Some good players. More jazz than I'm used to, but I brought a Real Book and the other cats said it sounded good.
We had fun, and the folks there had fun.
We had fun, and the folks there had fun.
Yesterdays gigs were OK. The weather on the other hand.......sucked. Moved my equipment twice during tropical rains from Hannah.
Afternoon gig was listed as 12:30 to 4:30. The caterer tells the leader that the gig finishes at 4. Our leader rephrases that into " good news, if we start early, we'll finish early". Doesn't matter when we start if the caterer says we're finished at 4.
At least today's dry. 2 down, 2 to go
Afternoon gig was listed as 12:30 to 4:30. The caterer tells the leader that the gig finishes at 4. Our leader rephrases that into " good news, if we start early, we'll finish early". Doesn't matter when we start if the caterer says we're finished at 4.
At least today's dry. 2 down, 2 to go
Had a fun gig yesterday at an outdoor block party a friend of ours puts on. Maybe 400-500 people or so. We were the first band on so we had to kind of be guinea pigs for the PA.
It was a very good PA system and we know the sound guy and know he knows his stuff but the sound on stage sucked. We just couldn't get any moniter mixes right, I couldn't hear myself, for some reason the bass amp I had to use was making an ugly buzzing through the moniters, etc. We didn't have enough time for a good sound check so we fought through it.
But overall we played well with only a couple small glitches and had a good day. We will play this place again but probably won't be the first band. Let someone else work out the PA kinks.
It was a very good PA system and we know the sound guy and know he knows his stuff but the sound on stage sucked. We just couldn't get any moniter mixes right, I couldn't hear myself, for some reason the bass amp I had to use was making an ugly buzzing through the moniters, etc. We didn't have enough time for a good sound check so we fought through it.
But overall we played well with only a couple small glitches and had a good day. We will play this place again but probably won't be the first band. Let someone else work out the PA kinks.
Just finished the nightmare gig. That was awful, about the worst thing that could have happened to us. Decent venue, opening for a decent band, decent crowd. Not bad considering we're just starting out.
A little bit of background - we lost our guitarist due to tinnitus, and our replacement injured himself and has not been able to play for some time now. We're industrial alternative though, so we have the guitar recorded and played along with the backing synth track. We even have a mock guitarist we put on stage that people usually love. It just means we can't be as dynamic as we'd like to be, but the music is still there.
So we get on stage, rush through a sound check and... the entire monitor system dies. Nothing we can do about it. I'm playing blind the entire time - can't hear the vocals, can't hear the guitar, can't hear the backing synth, can't hear the keyboard. All I can hear is my bass, what's bouncing off the back wall of the club from the PA and the drums which are going on next to me. Our singer is panic stricken, she doesn't even know if she's singing in the right key because she can't even hear herself. Do you know how hard this makes it to lock into a groove on a song when all you've got is a drummer who is just as lost as you are?!?!?
Apparently we still pulled it off pretty well soundwise, but we looked frozen on stage. The monitors crackled back to life on the second to last song and we started kicking ass again, but it was too late to save the performance.
Much rum was consumed afterward. Our die hard fans were still thrilled but we didn't exactly sell all our merch like we usually do. GAH!!
A little bit of background - we lost our guitarist due to tinnitus, and our replacement injured himself and has not been able to play for some time now. We're industrial alternative though, so we have the guitar recorded and played along with the backing synth track. We even have a mock guitarist we put on stage that people usually love. It just means we can't be as dynamic as we'd like to be, but the music is still there.
So we get on stage, rush through a sound check and... the entire monitor system dies. Nothing we can do about it. I'm playing blind the entire time - can't hear the vocals, can't hear the guitar, can't hear the backing synth, can't hear the keyboard. All I can hear is my bass, what's bouncing off the back wall of the club from the PA and the drums which are going on next to me. Our singer is panic stricken, she doesn't even know if she's singing in the right key because she can't even hear herself. Do you know how hard this makes it to lock into a groove on a song when all you've got is a drummer who is just as lost as you are?!?!?
Apparently we still pulled it off pretty well soundwise, but we looked frozen on stage. The monitors crackled back to life on the second to last song and we started kicking ass again, but it was too late to save the performance.
Much rum was consumed afterward. Our die hard fans were still thrilled but we didn't exactly sell all our merch like we usually do. GAH!!
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