Friday, February 17, 2006
the cathy whotonies?
melissa emailed me to ask how the cathy santonies very first show ever world premiere went, and this is what i wrote:
weds night we had practice and we were taking a break and in a whirl of genius mike
and melissa decided to switch instruments and play california uber alles by the dead
kennedys. i was upstairs getting some tea. i came back just in time to see a wire get
wrapped around mike's leg and pulled the amp off the top of the speaker cabinet on
which it was sitting. we just bought this amp and it sounds really great and
blaahblah etc. but it was broken after that. we could tape a cord into the back of it
but it was cutting in and out.
so we asked mike's brother to bring his amp to the show in case we couldn't rig up
the broken vox.
which when we got there we couldn't.
oh did i mention we have a lot of heavy equipment and it rained every single time we
were carrying anything. and we had to move all these heavy tables (see)--we were playing right
under "who's that dumb bastard?--oh john d rockefeller"...in that painting back
there. it was kind of surreal.
anyway so we rig up mike's brother's amp, we start to play and about 10 seconds into
the song, the amp cuts out...then we turn it back off and on and fiddle around and
start to play again with a "heh heh sorry um let's try again" from me--we were all
three nervous as shit. and it cuts out AGAIN! then mike's brother comes over and
notices that it "smells funny". we fried his amp! after 10 seconds of our
song....melissa looked like she was aboutt to cry. luckily another band had just
arrived and they very kindly let us use their amp.
but that whole stuff took up about ten minutes. so we cut two songs out of our
setlist. so we only played 5 songs, but they were our best ones anyway. the other
band we were playing with waas really really nice and they cheered so loud for us
after every song and said "rock n roll" and stuff like that . it was just really
weird because that room was so immense and we're used to practicing in a tiny
basement bedroom. so the sound was hard to hear, we didn't have any monitors, etc.
and mike's bass drum pedal fell off the drum right before our last song which
requires several strings of seven-beats-on-the-bass-drum. yuck!
so yeah well it was weird and a lot of dumb shit happened but we made it and didn't
cry. or shit our pants. or vomit. and people were pleasantly surprised that we
sounded like a real band. i couldn't hear it very well and i messed up more than i
ever have ever. but it's OVER.
so yeah long story short
ha
melissa emailed me to ask how the cathy santonies very first show ever world premiere went, and this is what i wrote:
weds night we had practice and we were taking a break and in a whirl of genius mike
and melissa decided to switch instruments and play california uber alles by the dead
kennedys. i was upstairs getting some tea. i came back just in time to see a wire get
wrapped around mike's leg and pulled the amp off the top of the speaker cabinet on
which it was sitting. we just bought this amp and it sounds really great and
blaahblah etc. but it was broken after that. we could tape a cord into the back of it
but it was cutting in and out.
so we asked mike's brother to bring his amp to the show in case we couldn't rig up
the broken vox.
which when we got there we couldn't.
oh did i mention we have a lot of heavy equipment and it rained every single time we
were carrying anything. and we had to move all these heavy tables (see)--we were playing right
under "who's that dumb bastard?--oh john d rockefeller"...in that painting back
there. it was kind of surreal.
anyway so we rig up mike's brother's amp, we start to play and about 10 seconds into
the song, the amp cuts out...then we turn it back off and on and fiddle around and
start to play again with a "heh heh sorry um let's try again" from me--we were all
three nervous as shit. and it cuts out AGAIN! then mike's brother comes over and
notices that it "smells funny". we fried his amp! after 10 seconds of our
song....melissa looked like she was aboutt to cry. luckily another band had just
arrived and they very kindly let us use their amp.
but that whole stuff took up about ten minutes. so we cut two songs out of our
setlist. so we only played 5 songs, but they were our best ones anyway. the other
band we were playing with waas really really nice and they cheered so loud for us
after every song and said "rock n roll" and stuff like that . it was just really
weird because that room was so immense and we're used to practicing in a tiny
basement bedroom. so the sound was hard to hear, we didn't have any monitors, etc.
and mike's bass drum pedal fell off the drum right before our last song which
requires several strings of seven-beats-on-the-bass-drum. yuck!
so yeah well it was weird and a lot of dumb shit happened but we made it and didn't
cry. or shit our pants. or vomit. and people were pleasantly surprised that we
sounded like a real band. i couldn't hear it very well and i messed up more than i
ever have ever. but it's OVER.
so yeah long story short
ha
