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shanks01 and I can still actually play in front of an audience and then it turned out that, having been to one and a half practices, new bass-guy Jez was quite happy to get up on stage and jam his way through the songs with us. So, with just a hint of trepidation, we hopped up onto the stage and ( after a brief argument: "No, Stu, either you get the chair or you lend me your guitar strap you can't do both!" ) set to playing. As I started the first song, Stu realised he had forgotten his capo and vanished into the audience to borrow one, after about a minute of me just waiting on the same two chords, he had found one, put it on and was ready to come in and totally change the timing I was using ( this always happens on that song ) from then on we were off.
It would be fair to say that we don't rock less hard when we play acoustic- Stu has a lot of voice and he uses it all which does create a certain amount of presence on the stage. The set was a bunch of songs we know quite well and one ( you, sad you ) that we don't know that well and that Stu was kind of thinking abut dropping. Then towards the end of it we started making it bigger and louder until it hit some kind of epic finale with us hammering our guitars and Stu screaming out improvised lyrics that may have included "and then I played the wrong chord and now I'm really confused" or words to that effect. Abruptly and simultaneously we all stopped. Being able to get out and improvise a completely new ending to a song in front of a live audience, that is what makes it exciting to be in a band, taking the songs and making them alive and different. It was brilliant fun. Afterwards we congratulated Jez on keeping up with us through that one "Oh, is that not how it normally goes?" Fair play to the guy, he had only jammed through it with us once. Fortunately we only have four chords we ever use, so it's mostly a question of working out which order they are in this time around...
Either way, it was the most fun I have had playing in front of an audience in years and we just need to find ourselves a decent drummer and a non-rubbish but appropriately piratical name ( we inexplicably have about five sea-going songs in our repertoire ) then get out and play.
shanks01 and I can still actually play in front of an audience and then it turned out that, having been to one and a half practices, new bass-guy Jez was quite happy to get up on stage and jam his way through the songs with us. So, with just a hint of trepidation, we hopped up onto the stage and ( after a brief argument: "No, Stu, either you get the chair or you lend me your guitar strap you can't do both!" ) set to playing. As I started the first song, Stu realised he had forgotten his capo and vanished into the audience to borrow one, after about a minute of me just waiting on the same two chords, he had found one, put it on and was ready to come in and totally change the timing I was using ( this always happens on that song ) from then on we were off.It would be fair to say that we don't rock less hard when we play acoustic- Stu has a lot of voice and he uses it all which does create a certain amount of presence on the stage. The set was a bunch of songs we know quite well and one ( you, sad you ) that we don't know that well and that Stu was kind of thinking abut dropping. Then towards the end of it we started making it bigger and louder until it hit some kind of epic finale with us hammering our guitars and Stu screaming out improvised lyrics that may have included "and then I played the wrong chord and now I'm really confused" or words to that effect. Abruptly and simultaneously we all stopped. Being able to get out and improvise a completely new ending to a song in front of a live audience, that is what makes it exciting to be in a band, taking the songs and making them alive and different. It was brilliant fun. Afterwards we congratulated Jez on keeping up with us through that one "Oh, is that not how it normally goes?" Fair play to the guy, he had only jammed through it with us once. Fortunately we only have four chords we ever use, so it's mostly a question of working out which order they are in this time around...
Either way, it was the most fun I have had playing in front of an audience in years and we just need to find ourselves a decent drummer and a non-rubbish but appropriately piratical name ( we inexplicably have about five sea-going songs in our repertoire ) then get out and play.
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Date: 8 Feb 2010 23:12 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 8 Feb 2010 23:48 (UTC)okok, you've done ones about the various houses before.
a non-horse/house post!!
;)
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Date: 9 Feb 2010 13:54 (UTC)But then, we do enough of that as it is. Man, best. Gig. Ever.
I must update about it soon I feel.
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Date: 9 Feb 2010 14:28 (UTC)It's good to hear that you guys are giggin together.
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Date: 9 Feb 2010 14:29 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Feb 2010 15:01 (UTC)Hydrophobia?
Three All at Sea?
The Curmudgeons?
Tinker's Damn?
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Date: 10 Feb 2010 19:31 (UTC)