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Bizarre gig tonight

FrankTFrankT
edited July 2013 in Chit chat
My band has been booked for an Indian wedding party. Playing tonight from 9-12 at a hotel. The most inappropriate booking we've ever had. I'm dredding it.

Gonna get my gear into my car now and head off. I'll find out tonight how well Hendrix's Machine Gun will go down. Hope we don't get lynched...

Laters... :)
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  • WhenIWasCruelWhenIWasCruel
    edited June 2013
    there will be no "later".
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited June 2013
    FrankT wrote: »
    I'll find out tonight how well Hendrix's Machine Gun will go down.

    if you're playing some hendrix go for Vindaloo Chile ;-)
  • fogfog
    edited June 2013
    you'll be fine...



    you didn't say the age group you were playing for ?

    my friend Jay although indian (hindu) listens to all sorts, but makes acid jazz and house amongst other things.. maybe they heard of your set list before and like that.

    I remember hearing some jungle in the background at a friends daughters wedding (a hindu one) , so the music in the back isn't overly important as maybe it's a hindu one with a LOT of people (I've been to about 5 now, and they are big numbers at all of em)
  • ZoffyZoffy
    edited June 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    if you're playing some hendrix go for Vindaloo Chile ;-)

    Hey Joe should go down well at a wedding :-D
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  • zx1zx1
    edited June 2013
    Throw in some gangsta rap, that should go down well!:grin:
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited June 2013
    Zoffy wrote: »
    Hey Joe should go down well at a wedding :-D
    haha...
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited June 2013
    I like machine gun, its like heavy metal mixed with blues solos,
    I also like the band 'cream' who did similar stuff and did a great live concert in 2005
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited June 2013
    FrankT wrote: »
    I'm dredding it.
    Irie!
  • FrankTFrankT
    edited June 2013
    Well, I'm back and in one piece... There were hundreds of people there. Most not Indian at all.

    We started softly with some rock n roll. But they had a noise limiter that kept tripping out and cutting our power off. Arrgghh.

    Soundchecks.




    Bloomin camera kept getting knocked over as well. Kids jumping about all around my gear all night. I got through the intro of SRV's Lenny, when my camera went flying by a kid's flaying arm. Broke it I thought, had to put it away.
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  • def chrisdef chris
    edited June 2013
    Nice licks frank , guessing that was johnny b Goode?

    whats the point of a noise limiter at a party, is that some legal thing...Might as well just ask you to turn it down a bit between songs if its too loud instead of everything cutting out
  • MaccMacc
    edited June 2013
    I played a gig once where they too had one of those bloody limiters, every time the drummer hit the snare it would go off, we tried covering it with a cushion and all sorts before the promoter who by this time had had enough, phoned another venue up the road who had nothing on that night and moved us and all the crowd in taxis/minibus's to it.
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited June 2013
    I played a gig in Newcastle once and that had a noise control thing on the wall. Not a limiter, but if it went red, then you were playing too loud. It wenr red the second the soundcheck started and remained red all night. There were only 2 paying punters and their dog anyway so no one bothered about it! As we normally rehearsed through headphones (electric backing track....no live drums) we treated the gig like it was a live rehersal. We were as tight as **** that night too :-D
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited June 2013
    ey, yer pretty good on that guitar
  • STeaMSTeaM
    edited June 2013
    slenkar wrote: »
    ey, yer pretty good on that guitar

    AH! I thought he was the one singing! :D

    Even when I play at home I have a noise limiter...I call it "The Wife"...never thought of sticking a cushion over her though :lol:
  • FrankTFrankT
    edited June 2013
    slenkar wrote: »
    I like machine gun, its like heavy metal mixed with blues solos,
    I also like the band 'cream' who did similar stuff and did a great live concert in 2005

    Here's myself improvising to a machine gun backing track.

    ccowley wrote: »
    Irie!
    As in Judge Dredd!
    slenkar wrote: »
    ey, yer pretty good on that guitar

    Cheers. Honestly, I'm hopeless technically compared to 10 years ago... :lol: I never picked up a guitar at all for at least 5 years. The few hendrix tracks and blues jams on my youtube channel was the first time playing for a long time. Playing more now, trying to get back what I lost.

    My best jam (imho) is the C90 Improvisation on my youtube channel. If your into improv, as some don't listen through the crap parts where I'm looking for ideas/inspiration. But when I get inspired, I play well. Andrew Owen made that backing track.

    There has been a benefit to giving up guitar though. I don't play automatic anymore. I tend to play more original/artistic and considered now, with lots of feel.
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  • FrankTFrankT
    edited June 2013
    def chris wrote: »
    Nice licks frank , guessing that was johnny b Goode?

    whats the point of a noise limiter at a party, is that some legal thing...Might as well just ask you to turn it down a bit between songs if its too loud instead of everything cutting out

    Yeah, its some legal thing, because its a residential area. A hotel...
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  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited June 2013
    FrankT wrote: »
    Here's myself improvising to a machine gun backing track.

    I've just finally given this a proper listen. Bloody amazing work there, Frank. :-o
  • RomppainenRomppainen
    edited June 2013
    STeaM wrote: »
    Even when I play at home I have a noise limiter...I call it "The Wife"...
    Limiter, pfft... Rather a source of the noise :lol:
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2013
    STeaM wrote: »
    AH! I thought he was the one singing! :D

    Even when I play at home I have a noise limiter...I call it "The Wife"...never thought of sticking a cushion over her though :lol:

    Yeah it's best not to smother the missus that's generally referred to as murder :D

    Of course even with no life lost it's usually referred to as cruel and unusual punishment :lol:
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  • FrankTFrankT
    edited June 2013
    GreenCard wrote: »
    I've just finally given this a proper listen. Bloody amazing work there, Frank. :-o

    About time! :) That's been up for nearly 2 years.!

    Just got home from a gig at a charity event. Festival type thing, played on the back of a trailer. Couldn't hear myself onstage, all the sound was mixed up front, with nothing coming back through the monitors. Bloody awful sound onstage.

    I never played with that band before either. But got a lot of good comments on Another Brick In The Wall, and my solo to Hey Joe which I played with my teeth.

    All good fun...

    Just noticed, none of the youtube vids are working anywhere on the WOS forum at the moment. Something's gone tits up...
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  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited July 2013
    FrankT wrote: »
    About time! :) That's been up for nearly 2 years.!

    Yep, but me being the pleb I am, never thought to follow the YouTube link in your sig. :oops:

    I've now subscribed too, just in time for you to close your account! ;)
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited July 2013
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Yep, but me being the pleb I am, never thought to follow the YouTube link in your sig. :oops:

    I've now subscribed too, just in time for you to close your account! ;)

    Me too. I just about managed to sit through Cavatina without blubbing like a little girl. It always makes me feel really sad - not morose or depressed or anything, just sad for the entire duration of the song - for some indefinable reason.

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