expectations
the gig with the ad hoc band is tonight…the roommate is letting me borrow her vehicle–I didn’t ask…a friend is donating another box of clothes to me…have NO idea when I’ll be home…I dunno how much I’m making, with six people in the band, I’ll be lucky if I come home with $40–but that’s better than nothing…as for tomorrow, I wanna be at work by Noon, if not sooner…could/should be home by 6PM, but who knows?
POST-GIG–it went well considering we only had one rehearsal…the stage set-up was frowned upon by everyone in the Band EXCEPT the leader…mostly it meant that all *I* could hear was the other lead guitarist, and mostly all he could hear was me…who puts the lead guitarists side by side? SHEESH…Ears ringing WAY lots right now…the place was packed (it is a small place but still) and mostly I had fun…got paid a fair amount of money, not that I can afford to complain…Sang a couple as well…could be in bed by 4AM…will prolly be at work by Noon, hopefully home by 7, if not a bit sooner…
ADDENDUM–got to work ’round 11AM, left around 4:40…ears still ringing a bit more than usual…very VERY V E R Y tired…had all day to think about the gig…the one song I was supposed to sing deliberately (FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD) was a bit too fast, MAYBE that was my fault…I introduced COME TOGETHER by saying “We’re gonna do a Beatles song now…” The lead singer/band leader interjected “No we’re gonna do an Aerosmith song…” Now I GOTTA believe he knows it’s a Beatles song; maybe he wanted to appeal to a certain demographic/age group…Even if ya put a gun to my head I will not refer to COME TOGETHER as a song by Aerosmith…I had to take the lead vocal on Bad Company’s CAN’T GET ENOUGH because Bob couldn’t hit the notes–the song is in the key of C not E–that mighta made all the difference…and some of our endings were tentative to put it mildly…playing with my friend Jeff is fun AND frustrating–it’s OK to play at the same time as me occasionally, but not most of the time…and as I said, he’s the only guitarist I know who doesn’t wanna take solos by himself–that’s pretty weird if ya ask me…he’s a very good player…the bottom line? the audience seemed to like us, loud though we were…and almost as important, I came home with a few bucks…
then I remembered…the intro to LONG TRAIN RUNNIN’ was accidental geen-yus…on the other hand, the intro to COLD SHOT was a train wreck–and I was responsible for both…