Last night was my worst experience doing a live set
to date. I thought my last set was a close call when
my zip drive broke with all my data in it, but I
somehow pulled it off after a midnight run to kinkos.
This time my sampler completely fried--my worst fears
realized since I've tweaked my set to be more sample
heavy.
I was calling emailing everyone I knew to see if they
had a sampler I could borrow. No luck, I thought the
game was over, but after 11pm I got a phone call, from
Jon O, the promoter, and he had actually pulled it off.
I couldn't believe it, but at the same time I still had
to get all my gear set up down at the club. Needless to
say I got there a little late, and still had to install
all my mods and upgrades to the borrowed sampler on-site.
We switched up the order and Stewart went on before me,
allowing time to get the gear together and I went on
at around 1:40am, without a soundcheck, and after my
third song the lights came on. Game over. My seven
hours of panic was concluded by an anti-climactic
'warm up' as I didn't even get to the good stuff yet.
Oh well, gear is gear and these things happen I guess.
My gutted sampler is still sitting here beside me.
Dale "I Should've Played Guitar" Lawrence
>Again full respect for Dale and Stewart. Stewart's show was interesting (it
>even made my wife want to dance at one point) but it seemed to lack variety.
> I mostly heard a lot of heavy kick and clicky hi-hats without much in
>between although he had some interesting rhythmical moments which he
>probably could have played out a bit longer (that's coming from a stewart
>walker fan). I heard Dale was having plenty of technical difficulties
>earlier in the night (broken sampler?). That's too bad as I really wanted
>to hear his live show but we left after a couple of Dale's tracks as
>everyone I was with was getting a bit tired.
>
>What time did Dale end up playing until?
>djr
