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| My Awful Gig Last Night |
My band had a gig last night. I was very excited about it. It was at a popular venue and a lot of my friends were coming to see us for the first time. Three bands were supporting us and they all played well. When it was time for us to play I was totally stoked.
Now, the way these things sometimes go is that musicians will share equipment. Guitarists will share amplifiers because it is too awkward to have 10 amplifiers cluttering up the stage. Drummers often use the same drum kit because it is too awkward to have to change drum kit after each band play. My band are very good friends with one of the other bands, and our drummer and their drummer were sharing cymbals and the snare drum. Once our friends had finished they left, and they left with the cymbals and snare drum. We found this out right when we were supposed to be playing. We couldn't find them, which meant we couldn't play. We asked one of the other bands if we could use theirs, and they said no. Now that really pissed me off. Some people are dicks. But why would you choose not to help another human being when you can. There are people in need, why would you choose to let them suffer. I really don't understand that about people.
The other band were nice and allowed us to use their drum stuff, and we were able to start playing. The first few songs went well enough, except during our cover of Mr Brightside by the Killers, Robin (the guitarist) messed up the intro and it sounded pants. Halfway through our third song the microphones blew. That means they stopped working and none of the singing could be heard. That was really annoying because we had some terrific harmonies in that song, that just couldn't be heard. The sound guy spent a few minutes in between the next song trying to fix them but couldn't. We went forward and decided to play our Taylor Swift cover accoustically, with no microphones, and just the singer playing on his accoustic guitar. He did and it sounded alright. Halfway through the song the microphones somehow started working again and so the rest of the band joined in towards the end, but it just didn't sound right.
The next song is another quiet song, so the singer kept playing on his accoustic. When the rest of the band started joining in it still sounded awful. No matter what I played it sounded like two whales having sex. Eventually we just decided to stop and let the singer do it himself. When he was done he told us that his accoustic guitar was tuned a semi-tone down from all of our instruments. This means that everything we played was out of tune to him. Why didn't he tell us this!! Why was he not tuned to the rest of us!! I was very annoyed because it made us look really bad.
Still, he changed back to his electric guitar and we played on, and it was quite good. For the rest of the gig we played well. Except in one song the singer messed up the vocals and forgot the words, and that made us mess up where the ending was. Some people finished and some didn't, and so we had to try to make it look good. I'm not sure if the audience noticed.
I was very upset about how it went because it was embarrassing. It was the first gig I had where a large number of my friends went. Still, we made £22 pounds profit. Which is much more than we've ever made before.
Well I guess that's all I have to say about that.
God Bless all of you
Later Dudes
SaM
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Posted by samwisdom on 2009-10-01 08:09:31 | Rating: | Views: 37
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