The City Veins

Aaron was supposed to write this post on Monday, it’s now Wednesday and so being tired of waiting, here’s my recap of Sunday night.

On Saturday, we had an amazing practice.  We came up with a great new setlist and blistered through it with a ton of energy and musical virtuosity.  There was only 2 problems: 1) we were in our basement and no one was watching and 2) in this band, having a great practice is almost certainly a jinx for a live show.  Every time we’ve had our best live shows, we’ve had awful practices before them.  I think it’s because we get the “suck” out of our system.   So needless to say, we felt Saturday might have been a bad omen.

The good news is that, from a performance standpoint, we played really well Sunday night.  We were right in fearing the omen, however.  With the exception of the microphone, almost every piece of our equipment broke in some way.  For the first 3 songs, the guitar amp was alternately nowhere near loud enough or was screeched horrificly in obnoxious feedback.  I’m not sure it was ever loud enough all night.  At another point in the show, the bass cut out completely for about half a song.  And not one to be outdone, my snare drum malfunctioned 2 songs in , leaving me to work around that the rest of the set.

As odd it sounds, it’s good to have nights like that once in a while.  It both keeps you focused, and teaches you how to work around issues and still put on a good show.  That being said, I look forward to a month of totally kick-ass shows now that the music gods have exacted their revenge on us for that practice.

Thanks to all who came out to Galaxy Hut on Sunday, we love and appreciate your support and we promise a whole lot less stuff will break next time.