bremen Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 I played my first gig with The Much Vaunted Surge on Saturday. We'd had 3 rehearsals and not written any songs, so we decided to wing it. Line up is bass(me, fretless), drums, guitarist (been playing about 2 months, got her first electric [a Peavey, weighs a ton] a week ago), amplified Slinky, theremin and xylophone. And a WS Burroughs record on the wheel of steel. We played in the corner of an art gallery full of lefty anarchisty feministy works and a lefty anarchisty feministy audience. We were behind a sheet, onto which strange images were projected. So for an hour we made a horrible grinding clanking bashing vavazooming racket...I couldn't see the audience and assumed they'd all leave but they stayed, listened and even clapped at the end. Astonishing how a couple of quarts of beer can fix it so the intonation does not offend the ear. High point for me was the novice guitarist pulling out a 'solo' at exactly the right moment that sounded so like one of Roland S. Harvey's worst nightmares that I had to stop playing and tell her that she must have my babies, immediately. Haven't got any more gigs lined up but I met a guitarist later who asked me to audition for his group. Ho ho! They write songs and everything, and probably tune their instruments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyJay Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 [quote name='bremen' post='449645' date='Mar 30 2009, 04:58 PM']They write songs and everything, and probably tune their instruments.[/quote] Sellouts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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