Played last night at the Death Jazz night at Bickett. A little different, since it’s the first time I’ve played while I’ve been in the audience at most of the shows there.
Small crowd, as to be expected. Almost all musicians in the audience, I suppose also to be expected. A little odd to see people who you know are actually real musicians watching you play.
Took stick and guitars (parker and the fretless) and the usual bag of pedals. Setup kind of a medium size setup. I initially planned on a smaller more “rock” setup since we would be playing with a kit drummer, but then the drummer mentioned they were bringing assorted synths/pedals/loopers, etc, so went for sort of a hybrid noise/ambient and “rock” setup. Seemed to work okay.
First piece was a bit odd, mostly just supporting the sax. Decided to switch to the fretless as it wound down, but it didn’t want to generate any sound despite it working fine in sound check. So switched to the other guitar, just in time to play about one note before the piece ending. I at least, found that kind of humorous.
Second piece I stuck with guitar, and Bob switched to guitar as well. A nice bit of interplay between the two guitars making growling/grumbling/trembling off kilter riffs.
Third piece I stuck with guitar. Brian started up with a more straight ahead drum beat and some loops, so I started building up a bit of a math rock loop. Brian built up more loops, kind of cycling against the now loud math rock loop. I thought it sounded cool.
Folks seemed to enjoy it. Or at least, they said nice things. But then, people always do, whether or not they mean it.
