How was your last gig?

[bigtimecow]

my band's last gig was quite awhile ago, but we're playing a show april 23rd so that'll be good. anyway, it was at this place called drifters in new hampshire and it fucking sucks. the shows there are good (atleast the bands are), the venue's great, but the owner is a douche bag. for one, he brings his like 1 year old kid to every show, so we can't swear or anything. (mind you, he could leave the kid at home with his wife/girlfriend [not sure] but of course, she must come as well). so yeah, the owner, christian, is a faggot. but anywho. we played with our best friends pretty much: on a mission, ransom note, and the virgin suicides. but we played second to last and we did pretty damn good. i got ill sweaty, like, sweatier than usual. so did matt (bass) and shaun (guitar). we played almost all of our songs i think, and we sold a good amount of cd's and crap. but yeah, the show was great. when the virgin suicides went on almost nobody watched them, and there was this big like 10 minutes intermission in the middle of a song because nick had to tune his guitar or something. i dunno, they weren't that great. but yeah, the show was a blast. (and that band ransom note lives in the middle of nowhere [i forget] so it was pretty sweet having them come out and play with us cause they want us so bad). yeah, there's my story. eat shit.

[slavemason]

Last weekend we played in Clemson SC at the Joint. It usually has a pretty good crowd but for some reason the place was empty. We later found out that the "Girls Gone Wild" crew were in town at some other bar.

In short, practice all you want but in the end, titties win.

[soundtest]

We played a couple of weeks ago. Turnout was the biggest yet but FUCK almost everything that could go wrong, did go wrong, at least for me.

First of all, my bass is a piece of shit... I plug into the bar's amp and play... no sound. Ok, check levels... still no sound... My bass is flakey so I thought that the input had just decided to die at that perfect moment. I switch and use the other band's bass. Great! Got sound... then it cuts out 2 seconds later... shit. Maybe it's my pedal? Battery dying? Doesn't really make sense but sure.. I go direct. Sound? Yes.. We start playing... halfway through the first song I have no sound again. FUCK. 3 songs in we stop and switch bass amps. After that it was alright, but what a load of shit.

[slavemason]

Friday's gig at Fred's Speak Easy (Asheville NC) went well enough. Though I think "Sweet Titty" didn't go over as well in their liberal arts community as it usually does in our grease-pit hick town.

We get to play with Trevor Dunn this Wednesday, which should be entertaining. Bass wizardry on the upright bass is always a treat.