Members maltomario Posted June 7, 2010 Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 Had a great gig weekend. Played Fri to a packed house at some irish bar we play every month. We are great there, I dont know why - who knew irish people dig 80's rock? The bar gave us free t-shirts (leftover from st patty's day). I brought my LP Axcess and my EJ strat to that show. Haven't gigged the EJ in a while, and I was in mood for something different. on saturday we played at Watkins Glen international speedway following the Sahlen's 6 hours at the glen race.I've never been to a race so it was exciting just to be there and hear all the cars, seeing the crews, crashes, fires, etc. a pro sound company was hired to provide sound. We just brought our instruments and our lighting rig. stage setup was great and we had 8000W of PA power. Striking an A chord just rumbled the stage. It was so awesome and the sound company had us mixed perfectly. We were set to start at the completion of the race so when it was that time, there were only about 20 people. We thought "oh boy this is gonna suck" but within 5 minutes the crowd grew to about 200 and by the 6th song we had about 400-500 people hanging around. Pickup trucks pulled up in the back of the crowd and people just chilled on chairs in the truck bed. I saw some older 60-something guy dancing by himself in the crowd so i leaped off the stage and snuck up behind him and was playing a solo without him knowing. then his friends told him to turn around and he was surprised to see me. wireless is great lol. I handed him a pick, then let him strum my guitar while I fingered the chords. Later that night after our show he walks up to me and says that he always wanted to play guitar - so I told him congratulations, you did! I gave him a pick and told him to keep it for his next concert. He told me that letting him strum my guitar made his day, which is pretty awesome compliment considering all the action going on at the race that day. Our 2nd to last song, my singer notices some 12-yr old dancing in the crowd like michael jackson. He was very impressive - so we pulled him up on stage and let him dance during one of our songs. he was moonwalking, crotch grabbing, hat tipping, all the characteristic MJ moves. It was so fun, and the audience got a great kick out of it. After the show, kids came up to me and asked for guitar picks and autographs, as well as my singer and drummer too. We all signed our set list and gave it to the dancing kid which made him happy. Then dominos guy comes over and gives us 4 pizzas. how cool is that? i lurves me some pizza after a gig! The stage was sponsored by red cat winery so some pro photos will be listed on their facebook page soon. untill then all i have is crappy cell pics my friends sent me. The best part was seeing the kids smile, making the rock hand gestures during my solos and stuff - and of course making personal connection with that older man. That kind of stuff is what its all about for me and what motivates me to keep going. No video yet but here is a few pics: setup sound check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreatDane Posted June 7, 2010 Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 sounds like two great shows, Mario! how did it go with the EJ strat on Friday? what songs did you use it on, and will it make an appearance again soon? i saw some pre-show pics from saturday on Facebook; looks like you had plenty of room up on that stage, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members maltomario Posted June 7, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 EJ strat was great. Its a little stiff feeling compared to my charvel / les pauls i usually play, as consequence of blocked bridge design of the EJ. I was having some feedback issues which I doubt were the guitar - i suspect it was the drummer's headset mic and the awkward acoustics of the room reflecting sound back to his mic. but other than that it was fine, I played it for the entire first set ranging from eric clapton to AC/DC. Really like the tone of that guitar alot. oh yeah, stage was huuuuge. I was trying to get my drummer to bring out his huge journey drum kit (which he bought on ebay a few weeks ago, previously owned by dean castronovo from journey).. unfortunately he was still waiting on a few pieces of hardware for his drum rack. here's a pic of his kit:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4512519897_1df90c3e85_b.jpg stage must have been 20x60. felt amazing to have all that power in PA, and plenty of floor monitors. I don't think we've ever sounded that good. I really hope some videos surface, can't wait to see it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members maltomario Posted June 7, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 video coming soon - found out my bass players wife took some clips. woot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Posted June 7, 2010 Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 Excellent gig write-up. That stage and power do sound pretty sweet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soundcreation Posted June 7, 2010 Members Share Posted June 7, 2010 Good for you man. That sounds like a great gig and nice audience interaction. Bet it was a blast to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members maltomario Posted June 11, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 3 replies. Guess I won't bother next time I have some good news to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreatDane Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 3 replies. Guess I won't bother next time I have some good news to share. don't you dare hold back on us, Mario :poke: three of us posted, but over 120 people reviewed it. maybe they're shy. maybe they're jerks who can't take a second to tip their hat to someone like yourself who's out there playing and having fun. maybe their keyboard doesn't work. maybe they're jealous, small-minded moles who couldn't get past themselves enough to support another musician. maybe they just weren't interested enough to expend the energy it takes to type 'nice job' or click the button that makes one of these things. maybe they had every intention of typing some sort of reply, but then they got called away from their computer and haven't come back to it yet. that shouldn't stop you from posting gig reports, or anything else for that matter. i think i'm going to look for one of those EJ strats. you like the pickups? how about the 12" radius neck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nuke_diver Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 What do you expect...it wasnt a Gibson quality discussion or a Page vs Clapton arguement Be glad that you got to play in a cool place (WG is one of the best tracks in America IMO) and had a great time doing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcindc Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 True dat Watkins is awesome! Great gig report! video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ElectricEye Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 Awesome!!! I hope to get to that race some day. I still have to watch it on my Tivo..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jelloman Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 awesome, mario... ...keep posting these...some of us live vicariously through the exploits of others... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlackCat Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 That sounds like a great gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Preacher Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 Most of us are illiterate, and thus the emphasis on pikchurs. Still, I stand by my earlier statement, sounds like a special gig. I'll never do a gig like that, and I'm glad you took the time to post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Selsaral Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 I have yet to play in a place half as nice as that. Jealous of the huge stage. Cool pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kid Klash Posted June 11, 2010 Members Share Posted June 11, 2010 Excellent photos, excellent report! Keep it up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members unworthy Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 3 replies. Guess I won't bother next time I have some good news to share. I'm just not worthy. BTW, I thought I read you were having to sell the Axcess. Glad you didn't have to. Cool gig, D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GreatDane Posted June 12, 2010 Members Share Posted June 12, 2010 I'm just not worthy. BTW, I thought I read you were having to sell the Axcess. Glad you didn't have to. Cool gig, D wrong dude. that was _pete_, and he did end up selling it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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