Old Heads Get Validation

[diablo175]

I debated titling this: Rock n Roll Never Dies But Some Bands Need To.

A bit too morbid. Besides, this is intended to be an upbeat post. My cover band, Bad Karma, has only played one actual paying gig in 4 years, when we first started out. Personnel changes and a couple of major health issues have stymied us. We've managed to get out there regardless, playing open mic nights and then returning for "feature sets" where we get to play for 45-50 minutes during said Open Mic events.  Yeah, playing for free- woo hoo! 

We've played at last night's venue out in Blue Bell PA a few times and have managed to endear ourselves to the locals and the house band leader. To be fair, we've killed it comparative to the other acts, aside from the house band. We played again last night and despite myriad technical issues (including a very senior moment when I missed playing during an entire song because I thought my rig had shit the bed. Turns out my toggle switch on the Lester was a little wonky on conductivity and well, you know...  ) we delivered the goods. So much so that the house band leader, after giving us major props, asked if we wanted to do a full paid show. 

Ah, the sweet sound of validation. I was resigned to thinking that I was going to ride into the rock n roll sunset on a horse (in this iteration) that had never played a legit 3 set, payed gig.

It bears mentioning that despite our age, we were NOT the oldest one's performing that night, not by far. Kudos to those codgers for still getting out there and playing. No Hamer content but I did bust out my Jackson Custom Shop FWAM. It garnered more than few comments and looks of admiration(?)

 

 

 

 

[alantig]

8 minutes ago, diablo175 said:

We played again last night and despite myriad technical issues (including a very senior moment when I missed playing during an entire song because I thought my rig had shit the bed. Turns out my toggle switch on the Lester was a little wonky on conductivity and well, you know...  ) we delivered the goods. So much so that the house band leader, after giving us major props, asked if we wanted to do a full paid show. 

Sometime in the last year or so, we saw a (much younger?) band opening a show.  During the second song, one guitarist had that panicked look cross his face and he went back to his amp, started jiggling knobs - no sound.  Back to his pedal board, played with a couple things - nothing.  Check the guitar - still nothing.  Back to the amp.  Nothing.  Climbed behind the amp - nothing.  Check the guitar again.  Check the pedal board.  Check the amp.  Talk to the roadie.  Check the amp.  Back to the pedal board.

AHA!

Dude had forgotten to unmute after tuning.

[diablo175]

39 minutes ago, alantig said:

Sometime in the last year or so, we saw a (much younger?) band opening a show.  During the second song, one guitarist had that panicked look cross his face and he went back to his amp, started jiggling knobs - no sound.  Back to his pedal board, played with a couple things - nothing.  Check the guitar - still nothing.  Back to the amp.  Nothing.  Climbed behind the amp - nothing.  Check the guitar again.  Check the pedal board.  Check the amp.  Talk to the roadie.  Check the amp.  Back to the pedal board.

AHA!

Dude had forgotten to unmute after tuning.

I don't feel quite so bad now.