Gig Karma
The voyeuristic blogging continues!
An odd pattern has surfaced over the past four months pertaining to Antedote and performances the band has take part in. Including last night (4/7), the band now have been shut off in the middle of a song in the middle of the set THREE times! How strange that Karma bears its fruits in this way.
We were given the opportunity to perform downtown along with DJ Radar. The show went off without a hitch, there was actually a soundcheck so all of the levels were adjusted to make sure that they sounded good. The start time was even close to the planned time only being delayed for about a half and hour. Things were looking up. The band kicked off to a pretty enthusiastic crowd burning through the majority of its set at a frantic pace. Juggling several different things at once during the majority of the set sometimes causes me to get into this zone of focus where I will just watch somebody for awhile. This night I had the pleasure of watching somebody get EXTREMELY angry at one of the MC's, even throwing a napkin(to no avail) at him. His drunken face flushed and red with emotional belligerence, I later spied him making out with a fat blonde girl in the back parking lot even going to the extent of receiving a little oral stimulation out in the open leading to full on 'bend her over and plow her' in the middle of the parking lot. No coverage, nothing to hide his hideous exploit. The humorous thing was that this guy was snapping pictures of this girl while she was attatched to him at the crotch. (If you haven't realized, this guy attempts to be a 'professional photographer') Then the seemingly inevitable thing occurred. During the Wonka song, suddenly the PA went out. And in like fashion to the previous shows the bass, guitar, and drums still were on, so once again there was a drum n bass improv session in hopes that the PA would be repaired so the set could be finished since there was only one remaining song. Unlike the past two shows where we were shut off with little or no explanation, the PA simply blew a fuse. BUT it was already to late so our spot in the show was over. What a way to end a set: a blatant dropped signal during mid 'rap'.
So this is the third time our set has been ended prematurely. Observing this karma is quite interesting. Having to wake up after only four hours of sleep is also interesting karma. The combo takes the cake. Because lists are kind of nifty here is a list of us being cut off and why:
1. City of Phoenix, South Mt. Park: after being warned not to use suggestive language and revamping some of the lyrics to fit the gig, we were shut off after the incompetent city of phoenix sanctioned delusional sound man 'heard' us using swear words during a song. We did not even know we were using em. Huh. But thank you dear tax payers, we were still paid despite his aural hallucinations. It was funny to witness him hiding from us after he did that. We made it through many songs, we got cut off during a song with five more to go.
2. Venue of Scottsdale with Lucky D : Follow the link so you get the story. I still am not entirely sure why we were shut off, there really was never anything more said about it, nor was our money returned. We made it through 2 songs. We were rudely cut off during the middle of our third song, no explanation given.
3. Coach and Willie's with DJ Radar: Technical problems. Fuse blows in PA. We almost made it through. Cut off during the second to last song.
Hopefully the karma for this matter has burned itself up.
"Enlightenment for the wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water" -Thich Naht Hahn
An odd pattern has surfaced over the past four months pertaining to Antedote and performances the band has take part in. Including last night (4/7), the band now have been shut off in the middle of a song in the middle of the set THREE times! How strange that Karma bears its fruits in this way.
We were given the opportunity to perform downtown along with DJ Radar. The show went off without a hitch, there was actually a soundcheck so all of the levels were adjusted to make sure that they sounded good. The start time was even close to the planned time only being delayed for about a half and hour. Things were looking up. The band kicked off to a pretty enthusiastic crowd burning through the majority of its set at a frantic pace. Juggling several different things at once during the majority of the set sometimes causes me to get into this zone of focus where I will just watch somebody for awhile. This night I had the pleasure of watching somebody get EXTREMELY angry at one of the MC's, even throwing a napkin(to no avail) at him. His drunken face flushed and red with emotional belligerence, I later spied him making out with a fat blonde girl in the back parking lot even going to the extent of receiving a little oral stimulation out in the open leading to full on 'bend her over and plow her' in the middle of the parking lot. No coverage, nothing to hide his hideous exploit. The humorous thing was that this guy was snapping pictures of this girl while she was attatched to him at the crotch. (If you haven't realized, this guy attempts to be a 'professional photographer') Then the seemingly inevitable thing occurred. During the Wonka song, suddenly the PA went out. And in like fashion to the previous shows the bass, guitar, and drums still were on, so once again there was a drum n bass improv session in hopes that the PA would be repaired so the set could be finished since there was only one remaining song. Unlike the past two shows where we were shut off with little or no explanation, the PA simply blew a fuse. BUT it was already to late so our spot in the show was over. What a way to end a set: a blatant dropped signal during mid 'rap'.
So this is the third time our set has been ended prematurely. Observing this karma is quite interesting. Having to wake up after only four hours of sleep is also interesting karma. The combo takes the cake. Because lists are kind of nifty here is a list of us being cut off and why:
1. City of Phoenix, South Mt. Park: after being warned not to use suggestive language and revamping some of the lyrics to fit the gig, we were shut off after the incompetent city of phoenix sanctioned delusional sound man 'heard' us using swear words during a song. We did not even know we were using em. Huh. But thank you dear tax payers, we were still paid despite his aural hallucinations. It was funny to witness him hiding from us after he did that. We made it through many songs, we got cut off during a song with five more to go.
2. Venue of Scottsdale with Lucky D : Follow the link so you get the story. I still am not entirely sure why we were shut off, there really was never anything more said about it, nor was our money returned. We made it through 2 songs. We were rudely cut off during the middle of our third song, no explanation given.
3. Coach and Willie's with DJ Radar: Technical problems. Fuse blows in PA. We almost made it through. Cut off during the second to last song.
Hopefully the karma for this matter has burned itself up.
"Enlightenment for the wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water" -Thich Naht Hahn
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