So our band played its first gig last night. Not a paying gig, it was a party at the drummer’s house. And man, I had a lot of fun…
I wore my cool hat and everything. We played in front of an enthusiastic crowd… not a huge crowd, but still…
In fairness, a lot of people were outside the garage… and in the house and the backyard. And they were way more enthusiastic than this picture might lead you to believe.
Here is a picture where you can actually see Lance the drummer…
Well, you can see part of his head. He has a really nice house where we hold the practice sessions in the garage. You wouldn’t believe how hot it gets in there in the summer. Our lead guitar player decided to flake on us at the last minute. In fact, he might not be coming back. We did have a stand in for one song. He was awesome….
I never even learned his name. I was so busy freaking out that I didn’t have a lot of time to meet people at the party. I was worried because the guests for our first gig, besides our families and a few friends, were a bunch of local musicians that Lance knows. Playing in front of musicians when you haven’t played in front of people since the 1970’s is a little intimidating. Some of these people are in bands that have actually sold albums… or CD’s… or whatever you call it now. In fact, there were people there whose songs we play. Talk about stress. But we did okay.
And we had this professional light show setup…
Oh yeah… Christmas lights, a little light ball thingy, a small strobe light… all that was missing was a lava lamp and some black lights. Without a lead guitar, my brother Henry filled in with some pretty hot licks. Which meant that I had to carry a lot more of the rhythm guitar. But we pulled it off. Henry, you rock!
Look at him over there by the fridge, being all cool. I want to thank my daughter Mollie for taking these pictures. There you can see my new-used Christmas guitar, an Ovation with a built-in pickup. Thanks again to my lovely wife for that.
Our band still doesn’t have a name because the drummer is holding out for a name that none of the rest of us want. It is getting a little silly. We do a lot of songs from a lot of different eras. I guess if anybody is interested, I could tell you which songs we do. But I am most proud of the fact that we do some of my originals and some of Henry’s originals. I am hoping to get the video my wife took with her cell phone of us doing one of my songs up in a post, but I might not be smart enough to do that, and who knows what the quality will be like. But I had a great time doing my songs, and people seemed to like them…
So all in all, I think it went well, and I felt a little like a rock star…
Pouring My Art Out 
Clicking my bic & swaying back & forth!
A real groupy would flash… never mind…
Believe me – you don’t want me to flash anything at my age! 😉
It is more about generating that level of excitement in the crowd…
I miss lava lamps. I could watch them for hours.
Oh… we did…
The like button is broken. Sigh.
WORDPRESS!!!
I am awaiting the video before I add my comment,
besides if your group sounds wicked enough there
could be some rockin’ times ahead 🙂 🙂
Good luck with your band my friend…
You need to join Youtube and then add
a link straight onto your posting, it’s
really easy to do so get cracking on
with that next 🙂 Oh and have fun too 🙂
Andro
You can do a link in Utube to the blog???
You are a rock star.
I thought I was just delusional.
How does that preclude you from being a rock star?
I never thought about it like that. It might help.
Glad it went well! My Hubby has two lava lamps in his man cave you can borrow! lol
My daughters have them also.
ha cool!
Looks like you all had a blast! Good for you! 😎
This is awesome. Good for you! The only thing I’m missing is the song list. What did you play?
Some originals… Ghost to the Most, Ball and Chain, Can’t Hardly Wait, Don’t Bother Me, Bigger Fool Than Me, Running To Stand Still, I must be high, Honky tonk woman, Peace love and understanding, Strychnine, The way, Breakup song… ha, I used to date the sister of Greg Kihn’s drummer… Dead Flowers, Gunsale at the church, Franklin’s tower, Spooky, Bad moon rising, For Your love, Secret agent man… some other stuff. You need to look up who did them though…
Nice, some good songs in that set. Maybe record a few songs and put them up on YouTube. I’d like to hear your stuff, Dude.
ummmm… there is a button on my header bar that says… my original songs… I did funny little videos…
That’s pretty cool; it’s never too late, man! You must learn how to put that video on your blog; I assume just sticking it on youtube like you did with your other videos – right up there in the header bar under the button called my music – but I’m aware some things are easier said than done!
The light show rocks and I do believe that even Zep never got to play in front of a fridge; rock on.
What’s the band name your drummer wants?
the band name is probably “Yellow Hat”
I could use “posting video lessons” as well! i have a video of my snake feed I can’t seem to get posted on you tube or my blog..
That sounds cool; my three-year-old got to hold a snake today! Sadly I missed it but I’ve seen the pics.
What format is your video in? Is it different to anything else you’ve put on youtube?
That’s awesome your littleun got to hold a snake, what kind?
I’ve never put a video on you tube before, this one was video taped on my camera and then loaded onto my computer and that’s as far as i’ve gotten. I did try to put it on you tube and fb but it didn’t work.
Don’t know what kind; no-one saw fit to ask the snake guy what snake it was…
What file type is it?
oh bummer..lol it’s in quick time.
There’s a website called youconvertit.com that converts file types, it may be slightly dependent on size but you can give that a go if need be.
thank you, i had no idea 🙂 it is a bit long, but i don’t know what’s considered long…what do i convert it too?
Neither do I!!!! I find that .WMV is usually a good one; I think it lowers the quality a bit, and I’m still in the experimental phase myself, I suspect the internet would probably know but a lot of it makes no bloody sense!
ha! i’ll give it a go…i know i find when i google things there’s so much info. i end up more lost than when i started!! thank you for the tips though, you should be the ruler of the world not the art guy! lol
Don’t say that until what I’ve said actually works!
It will never work.
You can’t spell never without spelling eve…let that be a lesson to you.
I can’t spell ever with out a spell checker… let that be a lesson to you.
‘Tis a painful one.
For me too.
Make sure you edit out the blood and the sounds of little mousey screams…
ha we feed her frozen thawed
Oh… so some other person killed them for you. A hitman, as it were.
yep
We want a high def video of mammal murder!
HI DEF! HI DEF! HI DEF!
This is not a tech support help line for rat haters!!!
it seems to me it is…
Well you are wrong… again…
seed guy where are you
Ha… he bailed on the Mickey Mouse Murderer…
apparently
I am going to put a video of me eating on the blog if you don’t watch out.
And we shall hijack that post also!
Right after you scream in pure horror…
What the hell do you do?
Oh… you’ll see…
First I bite my living food, then wrap my body around it and strangle it slowly… then I swallow it whole.
That sounds perfectly normal to me.
But not fun to watch, which is my whole point, I guess.
Ah, well in that case I recommend you not watch it then.
I never watch myself eat… nobody does…
I’d stick to videos of your songs then.
Or I just inject my venom and wait until it can’t move but is still alive… then… bam.
Again, completely understandable behaviour.
Hey, I gotta eat, right?
Exactly.
He is a fast eater… HA!!!
ba doom boom
Because it is sick and wrong…
is not
It is if you had pet rats as a kid…
ha my friend has two pet rats, one was rescued from being snake food..
Rats make awesome pets.
be good floor cleaners..
They are very neat.
i believe that 🙂
Rats got to eat, but I don’t feed them snakes.
rats will do a very good job at damaging a snake in the fight hence frozen thawed
So your snake is a wuss…
nope just domesticated and in a tank
domesticated???
well she’s not in the jungle in the wild, she’s in a tank in our home..lol
Maybe you can chew his food for him too…
not
Don’t encourage that rodent hater!!!
A snake’s gotta eat.
They make vegy-rats
But they’re extremely unhealthy, containing far more salt than a conventional rat…I’d send you the link if I thought you’d bother to click it.
I don’t like to click stuff.
And yet it speaks so highly of you.
Everybody does.
Maybe nobody wants to see your snake eat?
maybe they do..
I’m here, but I can’t reply to your individual comments; someone hides all the reply buttons!
gee i wonder who does that?
I think his WP rants are just cover.
is there a conspiracy here?
Not just here…but it’s there too.
well what do we do about this?
Well…as Ruler of the Universes he’s in quite the position of power, so I reckon that instead of presenting our findings in a logical and cogent manner, we shout about random and ill-considered ‘evidence’ whilst slowly and systematically invalidating our own position of moral pertinence?
I told you I was overthrown as ruler of all.
I thought you just stepped down?
I did, when they had the castle surrounded by flaming beavers… it was those Canadians… wait till they throw you out. It will make our revolution look like a tea party… so to speak…
Those Canadians are all mouth and no trousers…you should’ve called their bluff!
I love the Canadians, even when they disowned me.
you got that right!!
That hat is green… it’s just the lights.
Then ‘Yellow Hat’ should add an aura of mystery…
I don’t have a monkey named George either, curious or otherwise.
I love this! I wish I could still play the guitar. Unfortunately I have EDS and my fingers can no longer do the work. I would love to see a post about the songs your band plays and the video. Also tell us all about the band members. Maybe some of your readers can help you think of a band name! Kat
I did a post asking for band name ideas. I might do another. The funny thing is I think my blogging is giving me carpal tunnerl syndrom, which will mess up my guitar playing. Life is cruel. Some of my original song videos are right up there in the header bar under the button called my music. Thanks.
Ok, cool! You can always use a voice recognition software for blogging. I even have a voice to text program on my phone that is magical. I have EDS so I know what you mean about blogging making your wrists hurt 😦 Kat
I am just old… everything is starting to hurt… sigh…
Awesome! Wish I could play guitar….
I wish you could too… oh wait… you could learn…
I could. I should take that up while I’m traveling around the US living out of my car.
Do it. You are an artistic soul…