Well, they didn't kill us
Sep. 15th, 2002 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdThree Good Measures played a wedding.
Specifically, Monica's wedding. She's in our band, so it's not quite like a real gig. But that's good.
Even a normal wedding wouldn't usually be worth writing about, except we've never played together in front of, um... anybody before. It felt at the time like it was pretty much a mess, but the guests (I'd guess around 100?) seemed to think we were really good, and the audience-viewpoint recording that I made and just listened to just now tells me that a lot of the stuff we were hearing, they weren't. Or wouldn't have noticed. So that's good.
The site - the Maple Valley Lake Wilderness Centre - was pleasant; the wedding was outside, which was for the best - the acoustics inside the building's main halls are terrible, and I'd have hated to have been playing inside. At first we were pretty afraid of setting up outdoors - the clouds looked like they meant business - but it turned out fine; the sun even peeked through briefly, once or twice.
The set list, in rough order except for the flute solos:
Acres of Clams, Luki, General Taylor, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Trois Navries de Ble, By My Side, Old Brown's Daughter, Si Bheag Si Mhor, Dancing with Mrs. White, Mari Mac, Old Black Rum, You Woke Up My Neighbourhood, The Jolly Butcher, and three flute solos performed by Anna.
What we forgot:
The music stands. I'd noticed a church on the way in; Mimi and I drove back over to them and asked whether we could borrow any music stands. They couldn't find the one (1) they owned, and pointed us to the Nazarine church about a block away, which let us borrow three- they were actually willing to loan us as many as we'd need, but we only needed three at that point as three others had already shown up.
What the wedding party forgot:
Everything about the sound setup for music. Fortunately, I'd kind of expected that, so I brought our Distortomatic 2500, a not-really-PA system made from bodging together a Sharp cassette deck, a Realistic microphone and miniamp, and Zenith speaker that I got for free somewhere that I didn't mind sitting on wet grass. We were using it so our vocalists could get used to singing in front of a microphone. And the site was able to get an extension cord out to us, so we had power.
What I didn't expect:
To be totally wiped out after an hour's worth of performance. I mean, seriously, we're all just thrashed. Hopefully that's why this entry feels like it's meandering so randomly. ^_^
Okay, I'm too tired. Bed now!
Specifically, Monica's wedding. She's in our band, so it's not quite like a real gig. But that's good.
Even a normal wedding wouldn't usually be worth writing about, except we've never played together in front of, um... anybody before. It felt at the time like it was pretty much a mess, but the guests (I'd guess around 100?) seemed to think we were really good, and the audience-viewpoint recording that I made and just listened to just now tells me that a lot of the stuff we were hearing, they weren't. Or wouldn't have noticed. So that's good.
The site - the Maple Valley Lake Wilderness Centre - was pleasant; the wedding was outside, which was for the best - the acoustics inside the building's main halls are terrible, and I'd have hated to have been playing inside. At first we were pretty afraid of setting up outdoors - the clouds looked like they meant business - but it turned out fine; the sun even peeked through briefly, once or twice.
The set list, in rough order except for the flute solos:
Acres of Clams, Luki, General Taylor, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Trois Navries de Ble, By My Side, Old Brown's Daughter, Si Bheag Si Mhor, Dancing with Mrs. White, Mari Mac, Old Black Rum, You Woke Up My Neighbourhood, The Jolly Butcher, and three flute solos performed by Anna.
What we forgot:
The music stands. I'd noticed a church on the way in; Mimi and I drove back over to them and asked whether we could borrow any music stands. They couldn't find the one (1) they owned, and pointed us to the Nazarine church about a block away, which let us borrow three- they were actually willing to loan us as many as we'd need, but we only needed three at that point as three others had already shown up.
What the wedding party forgot:
Everything about the sound setup for music. Fortunately, I'd kind of expected that, so I brought our Distortomatic 2500, a not-really-PA system made from bodging together a Sharp cassette deck, a Realistic microphone and miniamp, and Zenith speaker that I got for free somewhere that I didn't mind sitting on wet grass. We were using it so our vocalists could get used to singing in front of a microphone. And the site was able to get an extension cord out to us, so we had power.
What I didn't expect:
To be totally wiped out after an hour's worth of performance. I mean, seriously, we're all just thrashed. Hopefully that's why this entry feels like it's meandering so randomly. ^_^
Okay, I'm too tired. Bed now!
