Great Night!

Well, for once, the anticipation equaled the actuality.

Last night playing music at the Oasis was wonderful. Full house, appreciative crowd, Party, Party, Party.

It was a little tense before we started. Not only did we have to set up our equipment, but we also had to wire in their new house system. That was the hard part, their system.

Setting up a band is unbelievably complex. Just the key board and PA takes 17 cables. Plus a monitor PA, drums, guitar amp connected to the PA's and on and on.

Then add to that a brand new, never been de-bugged house system. Damn! It all got done but it was tense.

Our first set went perfect. Second set came apart at the seams and the third set was pretty good.

All in all, a great night.

It always shocks me how much better organic, live playing sounds vs. computer aided music. No comparison.

The other thing that always gets me, is how much can go wrong with electronic equipment, especially keyboards. During the second set, the keyboard started to only put out about half of the sound it was producing a moment ago.

Why?

We must have pissed off the gods of the keyboard. Never did figure it out. It just started working again.

After ten minutes of pell mell trying to figure it out.

That kind of disruption leaves musicians in a funk and playing below their talent for a few songs.

The place was so crowded that some meals were 3 hours late! Including the bands food.

Boy, I was hungry after we played when our food finally arrived!

It was a wonderful night in spite of all the breakdowns.