#72606 by Shredd6
Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:45 am
Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:45 am
Well, we played it. I met up with Hayden, we had a couple beers, hung out for a bit.
The gig had it's quirks. Not our best. First 30-seconds into the set, our drummer kicked a hole in the kick drum. We found out later that the head was about 3-years old and had been payed 2-3 nights a week. So it was due.
Sound guy had no clue how to run monitors. He seemed like a nice guy, but he just couldn't work it right period. On stage or in the crowd. You know.. I was just talking to Hayden about how I've been curbing my rants here on Bandmix. But it's hard for me to understand how this dude has a job doing this kind of work. The experience on stage was torture. It was a freakin mess, and it spilled through into the performance. I couldn't hear my guitar one bit, the vocals were very faint, but I heard the keyboard at jet engine decibles.
You know what... I've run my own gigs before. It's really not hard to run a monitor system correctly. I personally was highly dissapointed with the lack of professionalism of their sound man. I swear to God I thought I was just playing air guitar for half of the show. And it doesn't help in the guitar lead department either. I'm fairly sure my leads suffered as well. I guess Hayden would be able to chime in on that. 'Cause I have no clue. I couldn't hear ANY of it.
Hayden and I were talking about his "fund in the sun" festival experience before the show, and he was telling me how bad he had it there, and how pissed he was at the end of it. And lo and behold, I have a similar experience and he's watching our train wreck. Hahahaha..
I guess I'm just going to have to chalk it up as a mediocre show. My apologies to Hayden, he really didn't get to check us out on one of our better nights. That bums me out. Our whole band was really excited to play this gig. It just turned out to be kind of a mess..
The gig had it's quirks. Not our best. First 30-seconds into the set, our drummer kicked a hole in the kick drum. We found out later that the head was about 3-years old and had been payed 2-3 nights a week. So it was due.
Sound guy had no clue how to run monitors. He seemed like a nice guy, but he just couldn't work it right period. On stage or in the crowd. You know.. I was just talking to Hayden about how I've been curbing my rants here on Bandmix. But it's hard for me to understand how this dude has a job doing this kind of work. The experience on stage was torture. It was a freakin mess, and it spilled through into the performance. I couldn't hear my guitar one bit, the vocals were very faint, but I heard the keyboard at jet engine decibles.
You know what... I've run my own gigs before. It's really not hard to run a monitor system correctly. I personally was highly dissapointed with the lack of professionalism of their sound man. I swear to God I thought I was just playing air guitar for half of the show. And it doesn't help in the guitar lead department either. I'm fairly sure my leads suffered as well. I guess Hayden would be able to chime in on that. 'Cause I have no clue. I couldn't hear ANY of it.
Hayden and I were talking about his "fund in the sun" festival experience before the show, and he was telling me how bad he had it there, and how pissed he was at the end of it. And lo and behold, I have a similar experience and he's watching our train wreck. Hahahaha..
I guess I'm just going to have to chalk it up as a mediocre show. My apologies to Hayden, he really didn't get to check us out on one of our better nights. That bums me out. Our whole band was really excited to play this gig. It just turned out to be kind of a mess..