Started late and finished early. Now you can tell everyone ragging on you to "Suck it".
No, no; I would never do that. I asked for input because I wanted it, and I think we have to remember everyone was basing their advice on their own experiences. Some festivals are run tighter than others. My only issue was when the guy said, "even asking them about it is an insult..." or something like that. At some point, you have to just say, "c'mon, man!"
Are you using a Fender Rumble on stage? What model? What are your impressions using it live?
I've used that Rumble 60 at every show since I bought it, about three or four years ago. It is more than adequate. It has a nice tone, and it has never been turned up more than halfway. I had it rigged so that we could both use it, by simply switching our wireless on or off. I had two transmitters on the same frequency. Krystal usually uses a big 2x15 cab, and she hates my little rumble, but we wanted efficiency on setup and teardown. That amp rules, in my opinion.
I am glad things went well, I was one of the people here concerned about you going over time, but that doesn't stop me from congratulating you on a great gig. I still have my opinion that it's sometimes easier to follow the rules unless there is some overwhelming reason not to, nine times out of ten everything is fine It's just that sometimes you run into some one who will use any excuse to hold it against you that you didn't do what they asked. Call it tempting fate, I still would have done all I could just to come in at 45 minutes and spared myself all the stress of having to think about it so much.
I always stress about time management, and remember, I had three other members who wanted to do what they wanted to do. We do like to live on the edge, but it's important not to go over it, if possible.
O.K.
Good show mellow.
Where did you cut the 6 minutes?
Were already going over 2 min.
Started late by 3 min.
Ended ahead of schedule 1 Min.
Where did you shave the time ?
no, he was scheduled 45 and told 50 was drop dead, used 3 on front end, gave up 1 on the back (of the 50) so only dropped a minute. my guess is tempo as someone mentioned earlier. that and they prob played 46 min and some seconds.
glad it went well. the pics look great!
I would say there were some small tempo increases. I'm just happy they weren't too bad, because I hate that. We flowed directly from one song to another in most cases. We were introduced, and came out rocking; when I take off my bass and Krystal had to switch from 12-string to bass, I did my standard "Rocking in the Free World" speech, where I talk about people in the military, and the USA, and of course, we have one short dead stop before Freebird, so I can ask "What song is it you wanna hear?" as I always feel compelled to do.
I look forward to posting video. The sound my camera picked up sounded tinny, hopefully just because of camera placement. I was told by festival goers that we sounded "great," and I can only go by that. I heard the band after us, and they were too loud, and sounded like a wall of noise. I asked people if we were that loud, and they said, "yeah, you were really loud, but you sounded a lot better than that."
As anal as I am, you can almost bet we didn't sound as good as I would've liked to, but I think the sound was about a 6.5 out of ten.
Could've had more defined bottom end; could've been more consistent; could've had more effects on the vocals.
But remember, I'm far more picky than most people, and we will see what the "pro" video sounds like. I know we had plenty of subs, so I am guessing the sound crew had tin ears, from blasting out some of their high register over the years, as most sound crews do.
Sadly, most of them don't even know about it.
I guess they should just be thankful they're not dogs.
