Opium Toad night two April 9, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life, Music , trackbackLast night we played our second set, this time at the very beginning of the show. It was nerve wracking mostly because lots more people that we know came last night (parents and friends). Going on first really didn’t help with that either. At least we had our real singer.
The sound check/practice went well and I felt excited about performing our own song, in which I had two solos. After a lot of hanging around (having quite a good laugh with all the people there I might add) it was finally starting.
We were told to set up whilst being introduced, which was a bit weird but we got a nice introduction (and of course we have an awesome name) and we started playing. Everything seem to be going fine up until my solo. I played the first note (a big bend - come on, it’s gotta be done), I played it fine but I didn’t like the amp sound, it was generally lackluster and have enough sustain. Now my guitar doesn’t have much sustain because of the trem but I think a slightly over enthusiastic noise gate was just making things worse. It also meant every time I didn’t hit a note perfectly it really showed. I did my best to keep a straight face through a pretty much uncountable number of errors, which was all I could do really.
Those mistakes really shook me and although I finished the rest of the song fine including the harmonized solo it just left me feeling crap. We then played cavemen rejoice which I think I played flawlessly, I don’t think I made any mistakes but when we went offstage we were all still pissed off with our own mistakes of which we all had a few under our belt in some form or another. It was basically the opposite feeling of yesterday.
We basically just sat around for the rest of the evening moping with some friends/relatives getting annoyed with us because they said it was fine (and that was the general consensus of everyone we spoke to, the musicians and more attentive people noticed the mistakes but still thought it was good) and we really should take solace in that.
It has essentially just made me even more determined, in fact it’s made us all much more determined to get better because that first night was good and we can do it but it’s a matter of practice and in future, using our own equipment as we all felt the borrowed stuff added extra stress and problems that we just didn’t need.
Personally the best part of this experience was to take me out of my comfort zone, which it pretty much has been for the last 3 days going to a whole new place, meeting loads of new people (friendly people as well, which is great) and generally having a pretty good time even if I did fuck up my solos…
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