Another successful show last night from the LEFT HOOK. This was at the River Roadhouse in Hastings, and local venue that\u2019s known for having live music. Nice, comfortable place in a divey kinda way. Had a bunch of friends come out, plus a moderately sized regular crowd. Would definitely go back.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re getting good at the load-in, setup, soundcheck, and tear-down. I know what I\u2019m doing with the PA pretty comfortably now, and am working on tweaking the EQ and FX to suit the room. Next gig I\u2019m gonna start training Michael to help with that, since he\u2019s the lead singer and it\u2019ll go twice as fast. Also this night Gus played his electronics, since by the end of the last show his hand was pretty swollen. Didn\u2019t sound the same as real drums, but it sounded good, and we were able to mix it into the PA with the vocals no problem.<\/p>\n
Musically we\u2019re continuing to get tighter. We didn\u2019t add any new songs this week, but we reversed the first and second sets, since we noticed that our second set always seem to be the best in terms of energy and flow, and it\u2019s usually when the place has the most people. This turned out the be the case again last night. There was a cute girl near the front singing along to Blue Oyster Cult.<\/p>\n
We ended up not playing our third set cuz Gary got a weird cramp in his hand. Ah well, still a good night. Again, more audio and video coming soon, so watch this space. Meanwhile, our players will have chance to recover, and tomorrow it\u2019s back to booking more gigs, so watch this space for that too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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