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ateolfI showed up after the gear had been loaded and all (was off at the Memphis for Bernie meeting) though Paul and Ryan weren't there anymore. Ryan went back home to lesson plan before we played and Paul was...I don't know. After a bit Nervous Curtains played. They were really good. Synthy, proggy. They put on a pretty good show. They had lights and some minor stage setting stuff. I got their t-shirt and their most recent cd: Con. Okay, so after them we set up! The amp we were using as a backup since my guitar amp died a ways back...seemed to die as we were setting up. Nice. This would be my bass amp. So I guess I don't have any amps right now. Alyssa was nice and grabbed an amp from the studio next door we were able to borrow. So with that out of the way, here's our setlist:
Fall Behind
A Series of False Starts
Visitant
The Provincial
Cameras
Lost Year
The old song was fun to resurrect in spite of our overplaying it in the past few years because I tried out a different arrangement. Since I wasn't gonna be there to help load and possibly set up, I figured I should make things easier on the other guys. Cut out the typical wall of synth approach and only brought one. So we arranged the set around this. I had this idea of playing the bass on the Prophet with the arpeggiator clicking out single notes. So that was cool. "Visitant" also was a little different. I kept the Prophet doing its drone and since I didn't have another synth I came up with something on guitar. Towards the end of "Cameras" I dropped a stick (we didn't have backups either for some reason) and almost immediately after that the bass drum mallet came off the pedal. So I finished the song with just one stick banging the rhythm on one of the toms. Overall a pretty good set. At times the sound was weird with the strange guitar amp, but that's to be expected, I guess. Paul, as he has been doing much of late, was really going to town with these overplayed runs on the bass (I don't think he was as drunk and fucked up as at other recent shows so they weren't sloppy and off-time on top of it). During an egregious one during "The Provincial" Jacques looked at me behind his back and gave an annoyed eye-roll and I just laughed. I guess that's about it show-talk-wise.
Fall Behind
A Series of False Starts
Visitant
The Provincial
Cameras
Lost Year
The old song was fun to resurrect in spite of our overplaying it in the past few years because I tried out a different arrangement. Since I wasn't gonna be there to help load and possibly set up, I figured I should make things easier on the other guys. Cut out the typical wall of synth approach and only brought one. So we arranged the set around this. I had this idea of playing the bass on the Prophet with the arpeggiator clicking out single notes. So that was cool. "Visitant" also was a little different. I kept the Prophet doing its drone and since I didn't have another synth I came up with something on guitar. Towards the end of "Cameras" I dropped a stick (we didn't have backups either for some reason) and almost immediately after that the bass drum mallet came off the pedal. So I finished the song with just one stick banging the rhythm on one of the toms. Overall a pretty good set. At times the sound was weird with the strange guitar amp, but that's to be expected, I guess. Paul, as he has been doing much of late, was really going to town with these overplayed runs on the bass (I don't think he was as drunk and fucked up as at other recent shows so they weren't sloppy and off-time on top of it). During an egregious one during "The Provincial" Jacques looked at me behind his back and gave an annoyed eye-roll and I just laughed. I guess that's about it show-talk-wise.
