It was surprising how nice it felt to be in T.T.’s last night. After I have played a place a few times, I start to feel comfortable there. I know what to expect, where everything is, and don’t have to worry about things like: Will there be enough plugs for the amps? Should we have brought extension cords? What will the sound on stage be like? Will the microphones shock us? Having those questions answered makes for a more relaxed experience. Also, T.T.’s is just a nice honest bar with Budweiser, football, and (admittedly sub-par) hamburgers.
After watching the Redskins try really hard to try to lose a football game, we headed over to the bar. When recapping our last concert, I wrote about how important it was to figure out how to fit all of our stuff in my little Dodge Neon. Well, the reason that everything fits is because we are taking less stuff. While we are figuring out the three person thing, we are not using the keyboard. This is partially because it is easier to work with guitar, bass, and drums, and partially because the keyboard and the keyboard amp will not fit in the car. So the lack of a keyboard and amp, combined with not moving Adam’s stuff, has cut the non-drum portion of our equipment by about 1/2. While manpower has decreased by a 1/3, this still leaves Aaron and I ahead in the moving crap department.
Our performance went pretty well; I feel like we played better on last night than on Wednesday. One little hiccup occurred before “Strike Up The Band.” The guitar had gone out of tune, and Aaron wanted to tune it up. Unfortunately, he didn’t signal his intentions to Spencer quickly enough, because Spencer went ahead and started the song before Aaron had a chance to fix the tuning. We are really trying to cut down on the time between songs, so that is why Spencer started “Strike Up The Band” so quickly, but we may need to develop hand signals, or something, so that we can stop when we need to.
T.T.’s had a hard stopping time of 9:00, so every band was limited to about 35 minutes. So once again we cut our cover, and
After performing, we loaded all of the stuff out. After we got all of the stuff out, Spencer and I were standing out by his car talking. The members of The Solitary System walked by, got in their car, and promptly proceeded to back into my car. I just stood there watching the whole thing happen and thinking, “they are going to stop, there is no way they are going to hit my car.” Well, they hit it, and they hit it pretty good, putting a healthy dent into my rear driver-side door. After what looked like a brief moment of moral uncertainty, they got out of the car and gave me their insurance information.
One of the reasons that I drive a purple Dodge Neon is that, for the most part, I don’t care about what happens to my car. This is not a car that is going to win me the admiration of my peers and the opposite sex. As long as the damn thing runs, I am happy. Getting this fixed means taking my car to a garage, getting an estimate, probably calling insurance companies, blah blah blah. I will have to look again today in the daylight, but I think this dent is bad enough that I am going have to get it fixed. This is just irritating. It would have been better if they had just totaled my car.
Second to revealing what search terms people have used to get to your site (we have two hits for people searching for “Delusional Musician”), copying emails is probably the lowest form of blogging. That said, we want to show you how this band works and interacts, and our emails back and forth are a large part of it.