Doom(ed) Set

Ok so we played a festival at a local bar the other night....this show was doomed from the start i fear....

story goes like this....promoter saw us play at another gig wanted us to open his festival...we say ok after looking at the line up (which at the time was quite diverse).....forward two weeks later...i get an e-mail from the lead singer of the headlining band telling me the promoter pulled out, but he was taking over the show and wanted to know if we would still play....i say sure.....another week goes by 17 bands has gone down to 7.....ok so we get a longer set and more money (less to divide up win win) so the day of the show comes (keep in mind we have plastered flyers everywhere in our area as the venue is 2 hours away) we get there a little early but not too early and no sound guy and no P.A. about a half hour before we are supposed to go onstage the lead singer of the headlining band shows up with a brand new P.A. he bought that day and tells us the sound guy bailed on them the night before in favor of a D.J. Gig....oh and the divierse line up is now all hardcore thrash metal bands (and we play stoner!) doomed i say....

so we set up mic everything and do a quick sound check and away we go.....during our second song, the monitors start acting really weird, by our fith song we are disgusted because what we are hearing on stage is complete crap so after 40 minutes we quit....

during tear down we discover that the drummer from the other band (guy that set up the P.A.) had our gui****s amp and one of the power amps plugged into the same outlet strip and it was starving both the power amp and the gui****s amp hence the weird sound. The strip was melted on the bottom side....

and naturally every band after us sounded great!

wasn't all bad though as we discovered what the audience heard was not what we heard....got invited to host our own show at the venue

i know no pic didn't happen right







it was mostly a sausage fest, but check out the lead singer of one of the other bands that played after us

www.myspace.com/splattafish

 

trust me had you heard what we did coming out of the monitors you would have split too not to mention it's really hard to play with two other guys when you can't hear them and they can't hear you....

besides we were supposed to only play an hour anyway....

did you miss the part where we disovered they were starving the gui****s amp? it probably a goof thing we ran when we did or his amp may have been damaged.....the strip it was plugged into was melted

 

if you look to the right of my bass amp there were speakers in front of us and behind us!

i think i already established the guy running sound didn't know what he was doing....hence the rant

 

what is a Stoner band supposed to look like?

we get compared to Reverend Bizarre, Acid King and Sabbath a lot

 

not sure what the whatever is about but thanks for the compliments...I love that bass...best sounding bass and best feeling bass i have ever owned

the cabs i built myself and the amps were bought used, it's just stuff i pieced together

 

we could hear the drummer but he couldn't hear us, we tried a few times in between songs to get the problems fixed, but the guy that was trying to run sound was using a brand new board and didn't have a clue what he was doing....we even tried to get him to just turn them off....and even if they turned up the monitors the power amp was being starved and we just got more crap out of the monitors...it also affected the sound of the guitar as well...considering there were 5 bands after us we figured it was just better to get off the stage...had we actually played longer there may have been damage to both the power amp and our gutards amp...

it was just bad all the way around....

 

We have a P.A. as well but didn't bring it because we were assured that a professional soundman would be there with a nice P.A. and all the bands would have to do is deal with their own gear

lesson learned