Death to All

[soobiebear]

Now that I've gotten that out of the way...

Had an emergency change of plans, had to head out to help Paulie's drummer's brother's band as their tech just didn't show up for some reason. This was all Friday. Nothing was done right, every time the drummer closed his high hat there was this giant percussive boom from the mic not being set up right. I don't know where they got their feeder from, but it was all taped together and spliced and people were stepping on it, spilling beer on it, just not good. Bass player (the guy's brother) thinks he can sing (backups) but it double or triple sharp on most things, ended up putting him very low in the mix which I'm sure he's pissed about. They were slamming the Jager and it just got worse and worse. One follow spot, a lamp that size should have been a max of 25' from the apron, but they had it back easily 75' and there was no one to run it. The guy who they convinced to man it ended up standing on a chair and just swinging the thing around like a newb. Somehow he found a blue gel and we had no follow spot all second set. Man it was bad. And this is supposed to be one of the top billing acts in the area. Maybe I'm just spoiled.

I love festival sets. 'You got twenty minutes for change out. Go.' Err, yeah, maybe with two ramps. Went fairly well. Rained a lot of the afternoon, left a giant puddle to the front left of foh. Lots of mud and wasted space. We got a lot of lightning/thunder from about 10p-midnight but it didn't affect anything. Crowds were def. on the small side due to weather. That's how it goes. Did manage to meet Dan Aykroyd, that was kinda cool.

The bad news is I thought Kim had broken his glasses with the blue lenses, the old Ralph Lauren ones. He turned up with some zyl tortoise pair, god knows where he got them from. Fixable with a bit of creativity the spring hinge should get him through the day. He'll have to get a new pair though.

I won't go into the salmon coloured jacket or whatelse not. He's still a prick.

Going back for more tomorrow. Have a stonking headache, the tent promised turned out to be a 10x10 EZ-up. Saved the gear but I'm sun sick. Been outside too much last few weeks.

Comments

[babzz.livejournal.com]

Wow, Dan Aykroyd, thats brilliant!
Steel Panther.... I mean, I think they're genius, but I hate it that people who didn't like The Darkness suddenly do love Steel Panther

[meemzward.livejournal.com]

LOL i know I've met all these people that say "oh i hated the Darkness, but Steel Panther are great!"

LOL!
Personally I love Steel Panther though!

[soobiebear]

That sucks, cos to me they do sound a lot alike, have a similarly flashy frontman, catchy tunes, and are good fun. Only difference really is that Steel Panther are taking the piss and making a joke of it when TD weren't.

Just goes to show TD should have been a comedy band and not tried so hard.

[babzz.livejournal.com]

The fact that TD wanted to be taken more serious actually added to the lol-factor for me XD it like, made it even more Spinal Tap, which made me love them even more