Robert
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements.
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- City & State/Province
- Camrose, Alberta, Canada - used to be Umea Sweden.
Here's a photo from Saturday's gig. It was a "Black Tie Event" - a fund raising event, organized by the Rotary Club.
We played "cocktail music" - kinda boring since people was just walking around drinking and talking, didn't pay too much attention to us. Paid well though, and was short and easy.
There was a dance band that played later that night. The guitar player and the drummer had in-ear monitors, and they played to a backing track on a laptop. The drummer had those electronic drum thingies. The guitar player had a POD XT Live, and he had awful tone. Probably didn't set up his sounds very well. It was also very hard to hear him, since he played through the PA, competing with everything else (4 vocals, backing track, drums and whoknowswhat). Summary - it would stink to play in a band like that, because it was also "karaoke-like". Thank goodness for loud tube amps and real drums! :R
We played "cocktail music" - kinda boring since people was just walking around drinking and talking, didn't pay too much attention to us. Paid well though, and was short and easy.
There was a dance band that played later that night. The guitar player and the drummer had in-ear monitors, and they played to a backing track on a laptop. The drummer had those electronic drum thingies. The guitar player had a POD XT Live, and he had awful tone. Probably didn't set up his sounds very well. It was also very hard to hear him, since he played through the PA, competing with everything else (4 vocals, backing track, drums and whoknowswhat). Summary - it would stink to play in a band like that, because it was also "karaoke-like". Thank goodness for loud tube amps and real drums! :R
R Glad to hear you are getting some gigs. Sounds like fun, even when it is just the cocktail stuff. 
