Man, I just had the musician’s equivelant of the “going to school naked dream”. Ugh – we were playing in some sort of auditorium – big stage, lights, et cetera… but for some reason, we ended up leaving set up till the last second… (I felt really bad too, because I kept telling Brennan to do it)… And I couldn’t find my nails, and I had masking tape as opposed to electrical tape (but I kept SEEING my electrical tape) and I’d JUST set down my guitar cables….
So it’s time to take the stage, and my mic stand (a straight stand, not a boom stand!) was wiggly, and the lights above my part of the stage weren’t working … and Heather wasn’t playing this one, did I mention that? She was on a DATE! And we couldn’t move the piano, so Sharif had to face the wall behind the stage… and I finally get up on stage, half an hour late and go to plug in my guitar, but my cable’s cut in half!
The audience seems to be ok with it – they just seem to be having a grand old time, but man… I was dying!
So, the dream cuts fast to driving in the countryside with my Dad in his Austin Healey, and he’s explaining to me that it couldn’t have been sabotage, because there’s an “ill wind” that blows when that happens, and I would’ve noticed it blowing.
Urgh.
I’m going to go double check that we have extra mics for tonight. In the meantime, we’re out of low E strings… anyone got spares?
A contest?
Also, as a random note… we’re coming up on the end of our run of postcards – and I’m ready to art up some pictures of us, but the only problem is…. well, I want this next run to reflect our current configuration: Rowan, our beautiful percussionist, Sharif, our sensual wiggly-man, Heather, our gorgeous Heather, and me… and I’m our me. We don’t have any photographs of that.
It’s always been tricky, getting photographs of all of us, because I’ve always wanted to do everything myself, but Heather deflated my skull a bit, and made a very good suggestion – turning it over to you guys. We’ve got a bunch of foursome shows coming up over the next couple of weeks, and we’d like to invite everyone to take as many photographs as you’d like… before and after shows, feel free to grab us and pose us… and give those pictures to us. Whichever photograph (or photographs) gets chosen by us will then be arted up by me, and used in our next flurry of promotionals. The lucky/skilled photographer(s) will get a credit line (something like – original photograph by ___________ and arted by ____________ – we can discuss the wording, because that kind of dual work is always weird to explain). The “flurry” will include our next run of postcards, our promo kits, our photographs that we send to newspapers, posters, and maybe even band portraits for the interior of our upcoming CD.
Anywho – the details – 4×6 is preferred, and digital photographs MUST be at least 1200x16oo pixels. Bonne chance – show us beautiful things (that look like us).