we're a live band!
we played our first show in over two years last night and it went really really well! i actually thought the first seven songs were pretty flawless, it was only after i monologued for a bit before "jazz" that i think i killed our momentum, and then i started flubbing some words, and that tommi missed couple of drum cues. i think i started over-thinking, getting like, oh we're doing so well, and then of course start fucking up, haha! otherwise, the show started off great, afterall i had had to pee earlier, and i done did it in a urinal next to some other dude, so i figured if i was brave enough to pull that off and not get all pee shy, fuckin' playing a show will be easy! it went by really quick, if only my damn guitar would have been willing to stay in tune. i had it in tune with itself for weeks, but then i bust out the tuner yesterday afternoon, and lo and behold, it's a couple steps down, so i tune it up to standard E tuning, but cuz almost all the strings are relatively new, the fucker kept going out. at least i didn't break a string or anything during the show.
we played ten songs. they were: my self doubt, corporate rock, i hate music, the failed musician, i got a mental block, count the days, ambisexual, jazz, hack, another dead queer boy.
so i thought that was a pretty good set, short and sweet, and only one really old song, though a couple are pretty old to us. but seven of them we hadn't played live previously, so hey!
the other bands were great too. kate bornstein never showed up, but fortunately, due to soundcheck feedback issues, we didn't go on until just after 9:30pm. Dyspecific rocked the house, they have a new guitarist who is really good, and cute, and they were a lot tighter and put on a fun show with a great stage presence, probably something we lack a bit of. WOOD is a drag king classic rock cover band, and they've been together for over five years or so. their drummer was really really good, tommi was very impressed and was like, now i realize what you mean when you said a hot drummer is what makes a band sound awesome or not. as far as their repetoir, my shouts for purple rain did go unheeded, and as far i saw, they didn't play any queen, but otherwise they were pretty fucking solid. my only criticism is, some of the songs were trad-prog-mor tunes that i fucking hate, but their rendition of the who's won't get fooled again was killer. we felt a little green around them at first, and they asked us the horrible question, what kind of music do you guys play, and i was like, uh, um...uh...like indie rock or something, i guess a lil' no wave, if i wanna sound hipster, and they were like, oh, erase errata, that's cool. after we did soundcheck, sarah from dyspecific was like, hey, y'all sound like the fall, and i was like, really, cool!
anyways, we got paid $114 bucks! that was awesome! i was really shocked that so many of our friends came out, y'all rule! after the show, and the tedious load out, my fucking car wouldn't start, cuz i guess having the flashers on for 20 minutes makes it do that, but some angel was walking by right when it happened and saved us, a real sweetheart. after that we went to the store, picked up some liquor and beer for all of our friends partying back at the house, cuz we really owe it to everyone who was willing to plop down five bucks to come to our show, even when there was the risk of us sucking terribly.
the only thing that was a pain in the ass was all the damn crack heads, fucking hell, they be shameless, the first one, who i gave change to, was like, i need a quarter for something to eat. this with her diamond hoop earring dangling, anyways i was like sure, just to get her to go away, and then she's all looking in my wallet to see if i have more change, so i give her 70 cents. then i'm parking the car, and these four dudes are fucking smoking crack in the alleyway, and one is like, all puppy dog, do you have some change man? and he's young and fucking cute, and none of them are street people dirty. fucking hell, the tenderloin, i mean, wtf, no fucking shame! and then while loading out, some guy is like, can i trade you my ripped dollar for change, you can tape it up, and i was like NO man, c'mon! c'mon!
oh yeah, so we got a pictures and video of the show, might even have it all up by later today. fun stuff! we're so multi-media savvy! thanks to andrei and tony for capturing the magic, haha. oh, have jessica is now down to try playing keyboards with us! yay!
we played ten songs. they were: my self doubt, corporate rock, i hate music, the failed musician, i got a mental block, count the days, ambisexual, jazz, hack, another dead queer boy.
so i thought that was a pretty good set, short and sweet, and only one really old song, though a couple are pretty old to us. but seven of them we hadn't played live previously, so hey!
the other bands were great too. kate bornstein never showed up, but fortunately, due to soundcheck feedback issues, we didn't go on until just after 9:30pm. Dyspecific rocked the house, they have a new guitarist who is really good, and cute, and they were a lot tighter and put on a fun show with a great stage presence, probably something we lack a bit of. WOOD is a drag king classic rock cover band, and they've been together for over five years or so. their drummer was really really good, tommi was very impressed and was like, now i realize what you mean when you said a hot drummer is what makes a band sound awesome or not. as far as their repetoir, my shouts for purple rain did go unheeded, and as far i saw, they didn't play any queen, but otherwise they were pretty fucking solid. my only criticism is, some of the songs were trad-prog-mor tunes that i fucking hate, but their rendition of the who's won't get fooled again was killer. we felt a little green around them at first, and they asked us the horrible question, what kind of music do you guys play, and i was like, uh, um...uh...like indie rock or something, i guess a lil' no wave, if i wanna sound hipster, and they were like, oh, erase errata, that's cool. after we did soundcheck, sarah from dyspecific was like, hey, y'all sound like the fall, and i was like, really, cool!
anyways, we got paid $114 bucks! that was awesome! i was really shocked that so many of our friends came out, y'all rule! after the show, and the tedious load out, my fucking car wouldn't start, cuz i guess having the flashers on for 20 minutes makes it do that, but some angel was walking by right when it happened and saved us, a real sweetheart. after that we went to the store, picked up some liquor and beer for all of our friends partying back at the house, cuz we really owe it to everyone who was willing to plop down five bucks to come to our show, even when there was the risk of us sucking terribly.
the only thing that was a pain in the ass was all the damn crack heads, fucking hell, they be shameless, the first one, who i gave change to, was like, i need a quarter for something to eat. this with her diamond hoop earring dangling, anyways i was like sure, just to get her to go away, and then she's all looking in my wallet to see if i have more change, so i give her 70 cents. then i'm parking the car, and these four dudes are fucking smoking crack in the alleyway, and one is like, all puppy dog, do you have some change man? and he's young and fucking cute, and none of them are street people dirty. fucking hell, the tenderloin, i mean, wtf, no fucking shame! and then while loading out, some guy is like, can i trade you my ripped dollar for change, you can tape it up, and i was like NO man, c'mon! c'mon!
oh yeah, so we got a pictures and video of the show, might even have it all up by later today. fun stuff! we're so multi-media savvy! thanks to andrei and tony for capturing the magic, haha. oh, have jessica is now down to try playing keyboards with us! yay!
posted by eriq at 10:35 AM
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Never before has this happened: "Oh God, I got so drunk the other night - I JOINED a BAND..."
hahahaha
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