First "gig" in 31 years ...

TTony

OK ... not so a "gig" - more of a musical distraction for a bank holiday barbecue party.

But, it's still the first time that I'll be playing in public in 31 years.

It all happens 2 weeks today.  We (gtr/vcls, bass/vcls, drummer/no-vocals) have a 7-8 song set and are aiming to play for 30mins or so.

It'll probably get video'd (the curse of the smartphone) so I'll try to get a copy if it's worth sharing ...

Wish us luck!!

mike_l

Good luck with that......

Get the jazz notes out tomorrow, or at least let me play them for you ;-) I'm good with j-notes

TTony

Never seem to run out of j-notes ...

Bellycaster

Nice one. That's probably an ideal scenario to ease you back into playing in public. No one will give a monkeys about the Jazz notes if they had a couple of Lagers.

Grunfeld

Nice one!  And I thought I was a slacker leaving it 20 years between gigs!

What songs are you going to play?

TTony

Grunfeld said:

What songs are you going to play?

Junior's Wailing (Quo)

Rocky Mountain Way

Teenage Kicks

Baby Baby (Vibrators, c1977)

In My Chair (Quo again)

Milk & Alcohol

Sharp Dressed Man

Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)

I Knew the Bride (Dave Edmunds)

 

The last 2 are for "encore" should we get that lucky, and should my voice still be surviving (it's getting better, slowly).  Not sure of the running order of the rest of them yet.

Grunfeld

TTony said:

Baby Baby (Vibrators, c1977)

!! I used to love playing that with my last band.  (I think I may have tabbed the solo for ClareBear on here about a thousand years ago too)

Great song!

:ar!

TTony

What a coincidence! 

Although the Vibs still play it live (AFAIK) and it was pretty much their only ever "hit", I don't remember ever coming across anyone else who recognised or remembered it!!

I do "an interpretation" of the solo

ChristophEar

Exciting, good for you @TTony! I look forward to seeing the video

Aidanspaghetti

Good on ya for getting some Dave Edmunds in there

Planning on opening my next gig with "From small Things"!

Bets of luck with the gig - great to get back playing!

JookyChap

Good on you TTony... I don't feel such a slacker now (it's only 19 years)

ddlooping

Nice one, Tony, have fun!!

bigjon

You're always welcome to another Cambridge jam night if you want to practise getting over your stage-fright :-)

TTony

Thanks all.

Have just bought a decent (I hope) external mic for the iPad, so an audio recording at least should be available for fans to buy immediately afterwards

@bigjon - I hope to come along to some more jam nights.  Perhaps work out a track or two in advance?

mike_l

@TTony Good luck with that mate.

As an honorary Cambridge  Cartel member you should venture to more jam nights

bigjon

TTony said:

@bigjon - I hope to come along to some more jam nights.  Perhaps work out a track or two in advance?

I'm on for that. My next jam-night foray is to the rock jam this Saturday. @Mike_L is going as well, let me know if you are going to be there and we'll make a plan. 

mike_l

@bigjon I'm hoping to play betterer than I did on sunday :-(

TTony

Final "practice" yesterday.  The recording was lo-fi, but it suited the playing ...

 

http://snd.sc/17W7HIs

mike_l

@TTony impressively good. You should have played that last week at the jam, I think it would have gone down very well.

 

ddlooping

Not bad, Mr. TT.
Bass & drums needs tightening though.

TTony

mike_l said:

@TTony impressively good.

ddlooping said:

Not bad, Mr. TT.
Bass & drums needs tightening though.

Thanks Mike - though I think DD was probably closer to reality with "not bad"

 

To be fair to my bandmates, the drummer would admit that he doesn't play nearly often enough to be "good", and the bassist was just back from 2 weeks holiday in which time he'd done no bassing at all, so he was probably a touch rusty. 

It'll all be fine on the night ...