'z'alright
Just got back. Seems like it was pretty good.
The sound was a little squirrelly.. the system hovering on the edge of overdrive.. but minus sonic perfection, it was still, I think, good.
We didn't even mess anything up! At least I didn't. Other than the occassional guitar flub. Didn't quite lose my voice, either, which was a distinct possibility.
As far as I could tell, everybody else rocked it quite successfully.
posted by caparoon @ 4:00 PM
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Congratulations on rocking. I miss rocking. I was listening to an old demo tape on the way back from St. Louis last Thursday. Betsy had recorded a Wish show - circa 1993 - on the B-side. There were some "technical imperfections" but it was generally quite rocking. I had forgotten all about face-melting guitar solos. There aren't too many opportunities for that sort of thing in my present gig.
haha.. no, I imagine not. : ]
My friend Eric, coincidentally, was just telling me that he got out an old SHOUT cd and listened to it. Oh, the nostalgia.
Today, I am trying hard not to lapse totally into mooning and nostalgia. Just enjoy having gotten to rock a little, and plan on doing some more. It's hard not to spend all day "with the echos of the amplifiers ringing in your head," I tell ya.. I imagine the rest of the guys are having the same problem. I saw it coming, and tried to start preparing myself almost as soon as I walked offstage. I hope that they did, too.. : }
You and I will do some rocking here one of these days, I'm sure.
Went back later & caught the slingshot57 show. Man.. those guys rocked.
congrats john. what was the final setlist?
Thanks man!
Final set list was:
10 years (mine)
Life is Good (stellar kart)
elaste (violet burning)
Casey (mine)
gold brick road (chris simpson)
Wow - Stellar Kart, violet burning, AND Chris Simpson - how eclectic. I really like the 10 Years song, but I don't think I've heard Casey. I'm very intrigued by the Chris song - I haven't heard any of his compositions that I could imagine you playing. (Dream Theatre covering Chris Simpson, yes; John Caparoon covering Chris Simpson, mmmm... maybe not so much.)
Anyhoo - maybe we'll get around to doing an outreach event in the park this year and I'll get to put together a band. I got the personnel lined up - I just need a good excuse to pull the trigger. (Drool.)
That's right! We were mixing it up.
Although I think that they mostly sounded coherent. We brought a little of ourselves to everything but the stellar kart. ..well.. I guess a *little* of ourselves we brought to that.. the part that plays a mesa/boogie, predominantly. ; ]
I'll email you an mp3 of simpson's song. His version is with kind of a NIN style whispered vocal and an analogue synth.. but it's surprisingly easy to imagine it with a big rock vocal and guitars that sound like TOOL. Which is exactly how we did it. If I ever get a digital representation of that, I'll also pass it around. Chris didn't even get to hear it--too busy having babies over there!
Blessing on your band-putting-together. May it remind you of what it's like to put together a band. : ]
Aw yeah, we rocked it. And I'm learning to live with "The Void"...mostly by gorging myself on the portions of event media I've gathered. : ) Until the next one, that is.
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