Sunday
Jun192005
first show in a long time
Sunday, June 19, 2005 at 02:32AM
Well, I'm in a Holiday Inn outside of Chicago, about to go to sleep. Caedmon's played their first show tonight in over three months. It was a lot of fun. I was worried that we would be pretty rusty, but if came very naturally and was a really fun show. My parents drove up, and some other family, who I haven't seen in quite a while, came out. It was good see them. I played two songs in the middle of the set, High School Band, and New Beginning, which is a tune I'm working on for my next record.
It's always fun to fly to shows because you have to limit yourself to the instruments you can take on a plane and then use the amps provided for you. We request certain items, (drums, amps, Hammond organ, etc...) and probably get what we request 3/4 of the time. I used to always get a Vox AC30 and a Fender Twin, but I switched that Twin to a Fender Blues Deville on our newest rider. Tonight was the first night I played through one, and man, it sounded incredibly. So much warmer and deep than the Twin. I also got to use my new flight board for the first time. It all worked well and sounded great.
I had a great time playing. It was really fun to be with the band again. Cliff and Danielle's new baby boy, Benjamin, is six weeks old and he can't really be apart from Danielle yet, so he came with them. He is SO cute. It was kind of weird to see another baby's face. I'm so used to Ella's on a little baby body like that. He was really adorable, though, and makes the cutest little noises.
The church we played at tonight had a little pile of gear over in the corner of our dressing room. There was a Rhodes electric piano, a small 6-channel mixer, some speakers and a little case of Boss pedals. Ben Shive had left his Rhodes at my studio for a while, and I was using it all over the place. He came and got it last week and it got me started looking for one of my own. I asked someone from the church if it got used, and if they would think about selling it. He went and asked around and came back to tell me that it, and the whole pile of gear, was mine. I was pretty floored. Since my parents came to the show, I threw the stuff in their car and will get it in a few weeks when we see them again. I'm so excited. Todd is going to take the mixer and use it for some small recordings in his basement. I might use the speakers as amp cabinets, or playback speakers in my tracking room. It was a pretty huge gift, and I'm very thankful.
Well, I've got to try and get some sleep. We've got to get up fairly early to make our flight. Thanks to everybody who came to the show tonight, And remember, call your dad's today, it's Father's Day.
It's always fun to fly to shows because you have to limit yourself to the instruments you can take on a plane and then use the amps provided for you. We request certain items, (drums, amps, Hammond organ, etc...) and probably get what we request 3/4 of the time. I used to always get a Vox AC30 and a Fender Twin, but I switched that Twin to a Fender Blues Deville on our newest rider. Tonight was the first night I played through one, and man, it sounded incredibly. So much warmer and deep than the Twin. I also got to use my new flight board for the first time. It all worked well and sounded great.
I had a great time playing. It was really fun to be with the band again. Cliff and Danielle's new baby boy, Benjamin, is six weeks old and he can't really be apart from Danielle yet, so he came with them. He is SO cute. It was kind of weird to see another baby's face. I'm so used to Ella's on a little baby body like that. He was really adorable, though, and makes the cutest little noises.
The church we played at tonight had a little pile of gear over in the corner of our dressing room. There was a Rhodes electric piano, a small 6-channel mixer, some speakers and a little case of Boss pedals. Ben Shive had left his Rhodes at my studio for a while, and I was using it all over the place. He came and got it last week and it got me started looking for one of my own. I asked someone from the church if it got used, and if they would think about selling it. He went and asked around and came back to tell me that it, and the whole pile of gear, was mine. I was pretty floored. Since my parents came to the show, I threw the stuff in their car and will get it in a few weeks when we see them again. I'm so excited. Todd is going to take the mixer and use it for some small recordings in his basement. I might use the speakers as amp cabinets, or playback speakers in my tracking room. It was a pretty huge gift, and I'm very thankful.
Well, I've got to try and get some sleep. We've got to get up fairly early to make our flight. Thanks to everybody who came to the show tonight, And remember, call your dad's today, it's Father's Day.
Reader Comments (9)
That's great that you got a free Rhodes! So when does the tribute to Adam Again begin? Happy Father's Day Papa O!
Ugh, ANDY O. I'm listening to "Beautiful Girl" and I had forgotten how fantastic it is. I think I'm gonna put it on repeat.
I'm so jealous right now it's not even funny. It'd be worse if I hadn't bought myself a new toy today, then again I did have to BUY it. Digitech space station, I'm so happy I just had to brag.
I'm glad to hear you guys weren't rusty. I'm looking forward to 7/3.
It was great to see the band again. We drove down from Milwaukee and had a great time. It was nice to hear your two songs in the middle of the show, especially High School Band.
I know how you feel about the gift, Andy. When my old band and I had just started, we didn't have much money, so we asked the pastors that we knew if they had any old church sound equipment that they didn't use anymore. And sure enough, they did. Most of it was broken, or the wires had been eat'n by rats, but I still use the three 20 ft. cables they gave us.
You got a free Rhodes?
I'm jealous. Like a green envy-monster or something.
That's pretty awesome, dude.
ChrisP is a dork, but he does have a SpaceStation, which makes him my new best friend. We live right next to each other and hang out all the time. I mooch off of him all the time. So I guess I have a Spacestation now.