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Oct. 16th, 2004 11:52 pmgod damn was that the longest fucking day ever.
Today was a community show... we got there at 9 AM. the band was supposed to show up at 10:00 AM. instead, they showed up at 1:15. so basically we spent the morning doing nothing and then all went and got lunch, all of us thinking "goddamnit we could have slept for another 3 hours". so finally the drummer shows up, and then the sound guys (because I guess we aren't good enough, they hired in people from Indiana) who proceeded to dismantle our sound system and make us carry in 15 bajillion speakers/amps/cables/etc. for theirs... then we did nothing for another long time while the sound guys did their thing. not until 4:30 or 5:00 did the rest of the bands (the drummer played in both) show up. then they spent an hour and a half doing a sound check/setup.
problem? no tech rehearsal as far as lighting was concerned. guess who was running lights? yeah, ME.
so basically me and Alex built a dozen random presets -- blue lights, amber lights, red lights, green lights, flashy downlights, flashy background lights, etc. -- and Alex got a rough setlist from the guy with supposed song order and whether they were fast or slow or whatever, and I pretty much ran lights flying by the seat of my pants. because there was NOTHING planned. we just wrote in the presets that we hoped would work for each song and hoped for the best.
then, halfway through the third singer (because the opener was four different girls singing their karaoke-competition winning songs) the entire set of amber uplights goes out. OHCRAP.
( assorted tech crap follows, involving plumes of smoke, and yes I DID write is so that non-techs can kind of understand it )
still don't know what was up with that.... very weird, and therefore probably very, VERY bad.
the rest of my night sucked too, heh. there was the part where the MC didn't show up and the audience started walking off and we couldn't bring lights up because I didn't have a preset ready and there was no one for the spots to pick up, and the performer turned off the mic so then when the MC did show up his mic didn't work... then there was the part where I fell down a short flight of stairs carrying three drums (saved the drums but fucked up my ankle and my arm rather badly -- great!). and the part where I had a panic attack while driving home.
so yeah. I'm really fucking sick of today.... sleep now.
Today was a community show... we got there at 9 AM. the band was supposed to show up at 10:00 AM. instead, they showed up at 1:15. so basically we spent the morning doing nothing and then all went and got lunch, all of us thinking "goddamnit we could have slept for another 3 hours". so finally the drummer shows up, and then the sound guys (because I guess we aren't good enough, they hired in people from Indiana) who proceeded to dismantle our sound system and make us carry in 15 bajillion speakers/amps/cables/etc. for theirs... then we did nothing for another long time while the sound guys did their thing. not until 4:30 or 5:00 did the rest of the bands (the drummer played in both) show up. then they spent an hour and a half doing a sound check/setup.
problem? no tech rehearsal as far as lighting was concerned. guess who was running lights? yeah, ME.
so basically me and Alex built a dozen random presets -- blue lights, amber lights, red lights, green lights, flashy downlights, flashy background lights, etc. -- and Alex got a rough setlist from the guy with supposed song order and whether they were fast or slow or whatever, and I pretty much ran lights flying by the seat of my pants. because there was NOTHING planned. we just wrote in the presets that we hoped would work for each song and hoped for the best.
then, halfway through the third singer (because the opener was four different girls singing their karaoke-competition winning songs) the entire set of amber uplights goes out. OHCRAP.
( assorted tech crap follows, involving plumes of smoke, and yes I DID write is so that non-techs can kind of understand it )
still don't know what was up with that.... very weird, and therefore probably very, VERY bad.
the rest of my night sucked too, heh. there was the part where the MC didn't show up and the audience started walking off and we couldn't bring lights up because I didn't have a preset ready and there was no one for the spots to pick up, and the performer turned off the mic so then when the MC did show up his mic didn't work... then there was the part where I fell down a short flight of stairs carrying three drums (saved the drums but fucked up my ankle and my arm rather badly -- great!). and the part where I had a panic attack while driving home.
so yeah. I'm really fucking sick of today.... sleep now.
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