Last night was the first gig I’ve had bashing the skins for about three weeks. I played a little too much golf last week or lifted something too heavy and tweaked my bad back. Sitting on a drum stool for three hours and putting all the balance and weight of your upper body on your bad lower back isn’t the best feeling thing in the world. Now I’m hurting bad today…
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Big gig tonight
One of the biggest gigs of the year for one of my lesser known bands is tonight at the Utah Arts Festival. We had our biggest, most receptive crowd ever at this same gig last year.
A report will follow.
Man there are times when you just need to bail. This is one of them. This client is the pickiest pain in the ass I’ve had all year and for what? So I can try to make this junk play? You gotta be kidding.
I should have bailed when she brought in the 8 track with BUILT IN SPEAKERS and no line outs.
Gig description
Fix 8 track tapes. Break open the shells and then splice together tape more frail than Karen Carpenter’s remains in the hopes it doesn’t just fall apart again.
Transfer fixed 8 track tapes via player with no outputs to CD. Oh what just put a mic in front of the speakers on the 8 track? Oh man.
For good measure transfer an old 78 from 1963 which has creases in it and only plays about 3 seconds before it goes haywire.
All this while the picky client is asking millions of stupid questions…
Kill me.
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Yearly symphony recording gig goes well
Every year I do a neat recording gig of a youth symphony in the one of the best halls west of the Mississippi: Abravanel Hall. This is a pretty easy gig, as all the gear is in place and I just tap in my laptop to their high quality mics and hit record.
The first pic below is of rehearsal. Look up on the wall and you’ll see two small windows. That’s where the sound room is.
The pic below here is shooting out of the sound room window during the performance.
1. Never argue with a drunk
2. Never argue with a mormon.
3. Never argue with a drunk mormon.