As my classic rock band is winding down (2 gigs left and we're calling it quits after 5 years), a drummer acquaintance of ours is losing their keyboard player. So I'm rehearsing with them to be the keys and rhythm guitar player. It's pretty good timing. Problem is, there's a ton to learn, they really leaned heavily on the keyboard player for piano, organs, and horn parts. It's mostly older music that I never knew and learning it all has been pretty slow.
(and I'm finally going to have to play Mustang Sally for the first time in my life)
BUT
I go see them play with their previous keyboard player (a dead ringer for Don Imus) and it becomes clear they can't stand him.
He has a behringer powered submixer and a keyboard speaker right next to him. His mixer meters are constantly in the red, so the sound guy (a pal of mine) has no good signal to work with. All his sounds are distorted (works ok for organ sounds
). During set breaks the other members of the band all tell me he's way too loud and still complaining he can't hear himself.
The sound guy tells me he's warned the keyboard player never to run his submixer into the red, but the guy does it at every gig.
The sad part is, his synths are really nice. A yamaha mox6 and a tyros, that's $5000 worth of synth right there. I own a roland juno Gi that cost me about $500, and a $150 casio. He's got more piano playing technique than me (not that hard). But it's always too loud for his bandmates and he sounds distorted all the time.
TL;DR
which makes my job of replacing him way easier. Even if I suck, I can be way less annoying than this guy while I do it!!!
(and I'm finally going to have to play Mustang Sally for the first time in my life)
BUT
I go see them play with their previous keyboard player (a dead ringer for Don Imus) and it becomes clear they can't stand him.
He has a behringer powered submixer and a keyboard speaker right next to him. His mixer meters are constantly in the red, so the sound guy (a pal of mine) has no good signal to work with. All his sounds are distorted (works ok for organ sounds
). During set breaks the other members of the band all tell me he's way too loud and still complaining he can't hear himself.The sound guy tells me he's warned the keyboard player never to run his submixer into the red, but the guy does it at every gig.
The sad part is, his synths are really nice. A yamaha mox6 and a tyros, that's $5000 worth of synth right there. I own a roland juno Gi that cost me about $500, and a $150 casio. He's got more piano playing technique than me (not that hard). But it's always too loud for his bandmates and he sounds distorted all the time.
TL;DR
which makes my job of replacing him way easier. Even if I suck, I can be way less annoying than this guy while I do it!!!
