Twisted Apple Records

Radio Underground did Club Metronome again.  Bigger crowd (mostly thanks to the other bands).  You’d think I’d know after all these years, if you hit the stage without a sound-check the stage is gonna hit back.  “Don’t worry, I’ve got it dialed-in,” said the sound guy.  Um…?

We were the second of three bands and the first one up sounded pretty good (they got a sound-check).  The changeover was mostly getting Arty and my amps into place and mic’d up as all 3 bands were sharing the drum kit and bass amp.  A quick “One, two” into our vocal mics and we were off.  Way off, it turned out.  Now in the interest of keeping some bridges unburned I won’t go into detail, suffice it to say while I like Chris’ playing, I really need to hear what the rest of the band are doing, too.  The comments afterward were polite attempts at optimism.  It appeared to be that the times the band really gelled were the moments of reckless abandon (Interstellar Overdrive to be more specific).  I think that came out of being at the end of the set and just letting go (and using the Force).