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Saturday, June 03, 2006

'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.

7 Comments:

At 7:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.

 
At 7:36 AM, Blogger caparoon said...

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.

 
At 1:16 PM, Blogger mr_eric said...

congrats john. what was the final setlist?

 
At 1:41 PM, Blogger caparoon said...

Thanks man!

Final set list was:

10 years (mine)
Life is Good (stellar kart)
elaste (violet burning)
Casey (mine)
gold brick road (chris simpson)

 
At 5:39 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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.)

 
At 6:32 PM, Blogger caparoon said...

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. : ]

 
At 8:04 PM, Blogger about me said...

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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