Re: Interesting/sobering gig last night

On Mar 30, 3:09 pm, bvoiced <bvoi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <47ee9f92$0$1095$4c368...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 "js" <nothing AT nothing DOT com> wrote:



Played an original gig with the singer I produced at Duke University last
night, opening for 2 bands from Oberlin college. (No, I didn't get paid)..

Our set went well, no problems. Me, singer, and a young guitarist. I need to
teach the other two how to open up songs and go with the crowd energy
though. They just play everything straight down the chart and end abruptly.
I also need to teach them to but the ACTUAL key on the chart, not just the
concert key and "Capo 1" scrawled in the corner. That made for some quick
ear training...

Other two bands were interesting. They were from Oberlin college, which is a
big classical music school in OH. The first band was an instrumental quartet
led by a violin player. They weren't fusion, more like instrumental rock -
improvising was at a minimum, but the songs were cool.

 The violin and guitar did a lot of complex stuff with delays. In fact, the
drummer was entirely cued off the delay cycles, and never slipped up. The
violinist also did a lot of FX "tweaking" getting on the ground to
manipulate various pedals. Right up my alley. It was definitely the
violinist's band.

The second band was this weird conglomeration of instruments - 2 cellos,
keys, guitar, English horn, cittern, glockenspiel (yup), drums, and a lot of
other stuff. There were like 10 people on stage. They were novel, but not
great - it was basically emo with lots of live instruments. Cellists had
everything scored out too.

The sobering thing is that I felt so fucking OLD. I'm 39, but I look at
least 10 years younger - I mean I still get IDed everywhere I go. However,
the college students all looked like they could be my kids. Our singer who
is 22 also commented that they looked young, so I  didn't feel too bad....

Until I was waiting in the bathroom line, and this soccer mom in front of me
(who looked like she was in her 50s) asks "so which one of your kids is
playing here tonight?".

I usually don't get hung up about age, but that hurt.

Wait till you see what happens to your good looks between the ages of 40
and 50.  Now THAT'S sobering.

Wait a minute! I thought that more mature look worked for guys...
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