SHAZAM! What a great show! But we'll get to that later. First, let's rewind back to before the show, a few days in fact.
It's
always a little hectic before an event we are playing and this time was
no different. The week of the show we had a bunch of various things to
consider or do including another practice to get ready. This show we
were only able to get in 2 practices before because of scheduling and
the first didn't seem as sharp, so there was a little extra attention to
making this practice go well. Everyone came focused even though we
were all tired from the week at hand and pulled together to be ready for
Saturday's event. That's the one thing about my band mates, I know I
can count on them when the time comes no matter how out of whack things
are beforehand. We also decided to get shirts as many of you know and I
think this went well. Thursday at a certain point we didn't even have a
shirt order in or shirt design selected for that matter, but came out
with a nice looking shirt by Friday. Great job on C's part for
spearheading that project with B and I's input. I really like the first
version a lot but you can count on some future designs later on in the
game for sure. We also came to the conclusion that we didn't want to
just sell our fans a shirt this time, we had to give them something
more, so we decided to include a 3 song CD of our music from
www.ReverbNation.com. Hopefully, everyone was pleased with that package
as we put a lot of thought into it.
Now on to the show
(and what a show it was). The turnout was awesome! We had a good
feeling on our potential numbers based on initial feedback and we saw many folks right before the show headed into Barnacle
Bills to grab a bite first. But there's really no way of really knowing until the show and we were pleasantly surprised. It was great seeing so many of our friends
and family make it out to the show! The support from everyone really
means a lot to us and it's always a great time when we are all together,
especially when we are jamming! We had a sound check around 8:30 and
everything seemed right on. But once the crowd came in, those sound
levels ended up being skewed somewhat. We give the sound guy there a
lot of credit, he did us very well! When a sound guy doesn't know your
music, it's a little harder to dial things in that are sounding off. He
did a solid job and we appreciated everything he did. There
seemed to be something slightly off with the sound at times from what we
are used to and I never really heard one tom that I hit throughout the whole
show (and I have 3 of them!). It seems I was the only one who couldn't
hear them, so hopefully that was indeed the case. They checked out fine
in the sound check, but once folks got in they disappeared on me.
Overall, I did like the sound there and think that venue provides a
solid sound based on its acoustics. We'll just use our experience from
this time to be sure we've accounted for those little things next time. You
really do learn something new every time. I'd say all in all it went
well. I saw a few clips of video from my phone and it sounded solid for the little bit I got to see. C
had this nice little ending on Not Fair that seemed new and on the
spot, but it was right on! B had several leads that just slayed it up.
Both of them did a great job and I hope I did my part as they certainly
did! I know we had a really good time playing there with everyone for
sure! We also got a lot of compliments from Down Below on our crowd and
the kind of folks we had there and they mentioned believing us next
time when we say we're bringing the party! We tried to warn them, but
sometimes you just have to experience it for yourself! hahaha! Our
crowds are always consisting of awesome people wanting to have a great
time and it always shows! A big shout out to everyone who came out and represented!
As for Pimp Lightning, we are planning to gather very soon to recap our Down Below experience and go over our next stage of planning for the band. We've taken a different approach to managing our goals (thanks to C) and it really has us moving along very well. We've accomplished many things this past month or so and are looking to take our momentum into our next phase ahead. Look for a few more new things on the horizon.
Our
next show will be at a private party known only as Bombtown on August 1 then onto the Backwoods
Bistro on August 17 to help them celebrate an anniversary with a few
other bands. As of this moment, Pimp Lightning is #3 on the local
Reverbnation Rock Chart and have been for the last 6 days! Shock on!
Until that next Lightning Show!
- DMaster Miagi - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
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