Well, it turned out to be yet another amazing show on Saturday. Two shows in fact, back to back. One matinee and one evening. We managed to satisfy both audiences. I was more satisfied with the 2nd show than the 1st one 'cause our volume settings were mixed up on the first show. We managed to assemble all the equipment in less than half hour for the 2nd show which is unheard of. Kudos to my team for helping me out on that. Prior to that, we always took no less than 3 hours to assemble and connect all the cables to the instruments and the mics. Our tempo was a little faster than the original song, but that's ok. Faster is better. Most of the rehearsals we were doing it slowly and it wasn't turning out all that well. The song choices were much better this time - at least that's what I heard from most people. I finally managed to take Rahman on stage - something that others have never attempted before. They were all skeptical in the beginning, but I was courageous enough to start this and end it nicely. I am kind of glad about it. We would have rehearsed for more than two months and went through a lot of difficulties - mostly scheduling the rehearsals at a time that was convenient to everyone.
It is a pain to carry my bigger keyboard, but the last few reherasals, we did it somehow. It paid off man. the drummer got a lot of compliments. So did the singers. I am glad that I was able to help them reach their best. I stressed a lot on quality and it just showed. I need more feedback on how things went. I'll ask around.
The unfortunate thing was that I met with an accident on Friday, the day prior to the show. Coincidentally, last year also, before the same show, my car hydroplaned on the freeway and I lost control. I don't know whether nature is trying to tell me something here, but I need to watch out on the days before this show! My car was pretty badly damaged and is in a body shop now and I am talking to the insurance agents to figure out what works the best. I really hope it is not totalled. The car was doing its job, though it could have been better. It is only two years old though. I am now renting a car and am unable to find out whether this will be reimbursed. Ideally it should be because somebody came and hit me from behind - rear ended in other terms. But I can't afford to lose any work time calling people and figuring out how to deal with the situation. My friend couldn't come for the show from LA - not that he had the tickets, but he would have liked it.
My friend's brother was there and he was totally taken by pleasant surprises. The dance numbers were also pretty good, although I thought there were too many of them. They gave us only 25 minutes to perform on the whole and we cracked it. People in my team were complimenting me on the performance of the show. We all went for an after event party after the show was over at one of the participants' place somewhere in clairemont. They had a huge 3-5 bedroom house shared by 5 people and had it all set up for drinks, smoke and chilling out. I was there for more than an hour and had fun and returned home. My wife had to leave after watching the first show since she didn't have the ticket for the 2nd show. Poor her, she fell asleep by the time I reached. On Sunday, I spent the day working and watching "Walk the Line". I liked the movie and it was great to know both Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon had sung all the songs that come in the movie! That's quite amazing.
The other guys returned the equipment to guitar trader on my behalf since I didn't have a car. they were so nice. We rented shure mics, impedance converters for keyboards with a stereo output, bunch of xlr to xlr cables, xlr to 1/4 inch cables, 1/4 to 1/4 inch cables, stereo cables, mono cables, drum mics, four speakers - cerwin wega pair and peavey pair to serve as audience speakers and monitor speakers. We also rented a couple of cymbals for the drummer, a floor tom, instrumental mics, a nice 18 channel mixer (actually 16 channel, but had two pairs of stereo inputs extra), an echo processor, several mic stands. I should remember this for next year's show.
It is a pain to carry my bigger keyboard, but the last few reherasals, we did it somehow. It paid off man. the drummer got a lot of compliments. So did the singers. I am glad that I was able to help them reach their best. I stressed a lot on quality and it just showed. I need more feedback on how things went. I'll ask around.
The unfortunate thing was that I met with an accident on Friday, the day prior to the show. Coincidentally, last year also, before the same show, my car hydroplaned on the freeway and I lost control. I don't know whether nature is trying to tell me something here, but I need to watch out on the days before this show! My car was pretty badly damaged and is in a body shop now and I am talking to the insurance agents to figure out what works the best. I really hope it is not totalled. The car was doing its job, though it could have been better. It is only two years old though. I am now renting a car and am unable to find out whether this will be reimbursed. Ideally it should be because somebody came and hit me from behind - rear ended in other terms. But I can't afford to lose any work time calling people and figuring out how to deal with the situation. My friend couldn't come for the show from LA - not that he had the tickets, but he would have liked it.
My friend's brother was there and he was totally taken by pleasant surprises. The dance numbers were also pretty good, although I thought there were too many of them. They gave us only 25 minutes to perform on the whole and we cracked it. People in my team were complimenting me on the performance of the show. We all went for an after event party after the show was over at one of the participants' place somewhere in clairemont. They had a huge 3-5 bedroom house shared by 5 people and had it all set up for drinks, smoke and chilling out. I was there for more than an hour and had fun and returned home. My wife had to leave after watching the first show since she didn't have the ticket for the 2nd show. Poor her, she fell asleep by the time I reached. On Sunday, I spent the day working and watching "Walk the Line". I liked the movie and it was great to know both Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon had sung all the songs that come in the movie! That's quite amazing.
The other guys returned the equipment to guitar trader on my behalf since I didn't have a car. they were so nice. We rented shure mics, impedance converters for keyboards with a stereo output, bunch of xlr to xlr cables, xlr to 1/4 inch cables, 1/4 to 1/4 inch cables, stereo cables, mono cables, drum mics, four speakers - cerwin wega pair and peavey pair to serve as audience speakers and monitor speakers. We also rented a couple of cymbals for the drummer, a floor tom, instrumental mics, a nice 18 channel mixer (actually 16 channel, but had two pairs of stereo inputs extra), an echo processor, several mic stands. I should remember this for next year's show.
No comments:
Post a Comment