- got yelled at for playing too long
- we played so fast that my arm was sore for the next 2 days
- Eric's patch cord blew a fuse
- during Cappello's drum solo, the double kicks fell off the drumset
- at the end of that solo, one of those drumsticks blewup into little shards
- and my fingers were so tired that I couldn't play Master of Puppet's properly
That was that, but this past Saturday was The Gig from Hell Pt. 2.
So collectively I think all of us have decided never to work with or for Supernova ever again. They are a shit company ultimately and don't know what the heck they're doing. They're good for the little kids, because they can be pushed around and they're happy just to play. But when really work needs to be done Supernova is definitely not the place you want to be. Regardless, so the past Saturday we played at the El Mocambo for the first time. We played upstairs because (obviously) we aren't that popular enough to play downstairs). Anyways, the venue is pretty shit, but the place has history. The first part is the heat. Holy crap it was freaking hot there, they really should have installed windows or kept the door open and vented the place out. But regardless spotlights make all stages pretty hot. The thing that makes this the gig from hell is a combination of an untalented soundguy and lack of organization on the part of Supernova.
So collectively I think all of us have decided never to work with or for Supernova ever again. They are a shit company ultimately and don't know what the heck they're doing. They're good for the little kids, because they can be pushed around and they're happy just to play. But when really work needs to be done Supernova is definitely not the place you want to be. Regardless, so the past Saturday we played at the El Mocambo for the first time. We played upstairs because (obviously) we aren't that popular enough to play downstairs). Anyways, the venue is pretty shit, but the place has history. The first part is the heat. Holy crap it was freaking hot there, they really should have installed windows or kept the door open and vented the place out. But regardless spotlights make all stages pretty hot. The thing that makes this the gig from hell is a combination of an untalented soundguy and lack of organization on the part of Supernova.
I think a lot of our fans were dumbfounded by the short setlist of the night, so I will explain here what happened. The night of we planned on 6 songs, with an addition by Cappello and I to sing Eric Happy Birthday that night. However we got shafted to only 5 songs and no birthday song. After we finished Balsam Lake (our 4th song), Cappello and I were supposed to get everyone to sing Happy Birthday and then go into the cover song, YYZ (yes!!! I know -___-). Regardless when Balsam Lake ended, the sound guy told us we had one song left. Now, I totally lost track of time but for fuck sakes, there's no way that was our full set time. They just cut us short and told us to leave. So that's the fault of Supernova. They did because they were behind schedule. We got on stage 30 mins late due to previous bands pilling up on stage time. So it's not our fault that their organization sucks (double meaning). We should not have our set cut short due to their incompetence.
Now for the soundguy. I don't know if this guy is experienced or he's just new. but there is one thing I can tell you, he is untalented in every way. (this first part is a little music geeky), I know that my XLR output is hot, but the solution to that is not to turn the bass on my bass all the way down. He should have fucking told me I was blowing out his speakers and clipping. What I really needed to do was turn down the gain and cut some volume on the preamp. He's a moron for that, a much more experienced and talented guy would know that the musician has much more familiarity with his equipment and would know what to do. He's lucky that I had my orange nickel plated strings, if I had my monel flatwounds, he would have gotten his face melted off. The second this is that he doesn't understand line 6 amps. Now, after this gig, I've decided to return my spider IV because I'm not happy with it, but it is a very important part of eric's setup. But if u've done enough amateur shows you've worked with enough line 6 amps. And therefore you should know that volume channels are all preset on line 6 amps. Working and playing around on the amp will not do anything. In this case the sound guy kept trying to turn down the volume on eric's amp because it was blowing back feedback all night. He should know better that line 6 amps can't be changed like that. I don't know how much experience this soundguy had, but i can say that he was definitely the worst one I've had so far.
Anyways that's enough of complaining about that gig.
what we've learned after this gig was: never to work with Supernova ever again
what I've learned: have control.
I took on a lot more than I could chew that gig.
Anyways that's enough of complaining about that gig.
what we've learned after this gig was: never to work with Supernova ever again
what I've learned: have control.
I took on a lot more than I could chew that gig.
- too many new effects/toys to handle (not enough experience to truly control it in a live setting)
- too uncontrolled energy, so much so that it was throwing my tempo
- i almost beatup a guy in the crowd by accident, I thought he was trying to high-five me, but then he turned around; and in my moment of sheer highness, i shook the shit out of him and forced him to give me a high-five. I keep forgetting this is not a mosh-pit.... sorry dude if ur reading this, didn't mean to ruff u up like that (I'm pretty sure he was like a foot taller than me)
Let's see today's featured artist, i'm gonna have to go and find one right now. How about Selena.... what's her name? lol ya that's not happening. ok it's really late, so not gonna spend time to feature a band. So instead of that I list a bunch of random music things that happened recently.
- Bob Marley's death anniversary (30 years), wow 30 years with Marley, I saw a guy wearing a Marley shirt on the day, it made me smile
- this seems sorta out of place but whatever, Limp Bizkit actually released a new single called Shotgun. It's ok, in my opinion. It's sorta retarded actually, the Wes on the guitar is really good and DJ Lethal does a really good job on it, but Fred is just retarded. I don't hate Fred, actually I don't even dislike him. I used to be the biggest Bizkit fan, but I liked the stuff the "fans didn't like" I love Results May Vary, the one album everyone hated. I didn't really care for the other stuff. I swear give that album a chance, listen to the closing track Drown, one of the best songs ever from a very unlikely source.
- Limewire has been forced to pay like 100 million dollars for distributing music illegally.... lololololol, I really don't care much actually
- The Darkness are coming back!!!!! CHEESE METAL!!!!! but I like them but not enough to be a fan
- Something important happened on American Idol... that's what they always say
- There's no Ozzfest this year!!!! not that I go, but still, that sucks for metal in North America
- Noel Gallagher's fake twitter account announced tracklistings I believe. I don't remember, I didn't believe it when I saw the headline. Why? because Noel doesn't own a computer that's why. He would have steal his girlfriend's laptop to first make a twitter account and then he would have to figure out how to type... actually no, he would first have to figure out how to turn the laptop on. No no, I can just imagine Noel going "this is bollocks, fook this, this is a student's job, fook this"
Good Night
