Playing a black Sabbath Set in just a few hours. Little nervous.

The Stage is set. I go on last of 6 bands most of them cross formed with members but the sound man is letting me keep my entire rig on stage till I need it. The Opening band's bass player is using my rig. He asked and I could not say no cause his cover band invited me down to play a couple songs with them at a gig so I totally owe him anyway. And I am cool with experienced guys who know what they are doing so its all good. I don't have anyone to run my camera so I offered use of my rig to another bass player in exchange but not got a reply yet. They are only doing two songs anyway.

A bit nervous about this gig. Our set list is,



Black Sabbath
Snow blind -
Into the Void
Planet Caravan
Hand of Doom
Wicked World
Neon knights
Heaven and Hell
Iron Man

WE have the longest set list. We are most worried about
Snow Blind, Neon Knights and Heaven and Hell.

Snow Blind went through some arraignment changes that were un spoken, in other words we agreed to things that later got switched out with other parts. I caught it by reviewing video tape and only alerted the band one practice before show time.

Heaven and Hell and Neon Knights our vocalist dropped out only a week and a half before showtime (tonight) and we had a replacement but he was only able to rehearse once then once at a dress rehearsal at the club. He is also not very familiar with the songs. We in fact only played them all the way though with the new singer once. Choppy and iffy and I even just caught today that the drummer is not doing a double snare every turn around in the song's structure like on the recording. I just alerted him to that today. It's subtle but is the reason why his tempo was running away from him. The Double snare helps regulate that.

It's a SOLD out show and I am praying we can get though it with out having to blow a song and stop. I will be so busy counting in my head and cuing the drummer as well as the guitar player and even the new singer I won't even be able to "preform" much at all. Or have a good time. I will be worrying about the songs outcomes while keeping track of my own playing.

 

Dress rehearsal two nights ago.

 

WHEW! We pulled it off. Some mistakes (all) related to the drummer. Even mine was his fault cause I was worried about cueing him. I'll have some video later Sunday. We were not the only band to make minor mistake anyway.

Now back to un loading my gear.

 

TO be clear I am not in a black Sabbath Tribute band, bands were formed for a one time event of black Sabbath Music. 6 Bands covering about 25 to 30 songs?

Here is Hand of Doom. you can see me blow the scale at 3:44 hahaha. I was focused on cuing the drummer and did not realize I had one more to go. Ahhh suck!

 

What's your music scene like where you live? NO open mikes?

 

Ohhhh. Well at least you are out there playing even if you can't play what you want. I was never a huge Sabbath Fan myself. Most the songs I ended up playing I never really heard before and only knew one song beginning to end going into it.

So on stage I had no idea how badly Heaven and hell was going till I saw the Video. The Singer had gotten better at the placement of the words but got lost in the end, confused the guitarist and he never got back on track. I was oblivious.

Watch me cue the singer before the words for heaven and hell come in. He always wanted to jump in too soon. I could not help him on the end. We run Neon Nights and Heaven and hell together. (oh and the Drummer played Neon Knights a la punk version. I told him about the double snare and I guess he wanted to go punk.