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8Jul/100

Different Theater, Same Results

So I'm subbing in for the extended run of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and I really do enjoy performing the show. I just seem to have a complicated relationship with theaters - I go in to play, and the gear goes wrong somehow. Club gigs, private shows, large venues - never seem to have a problem. Put me in a musical, though, and things go wacky. This particular performance has some bass-focused music, too, so there's no hiding behind the synths in case something goes wrong. Fortunately, everything that went wrong went wrong before the start of the first show and I could remedy the situation easily:

  1. Bad cable - lifetime warranty doesn't beat the spare cable (or the Stage Ninja cable when I was told the backup cable was too long for the stage
  2. Radio station in the amp - really? In a grounded bass amp with no other indication of issues? Managed some gain and EQ tweaks to minimize, and I'm not going through a PA anyway, so it's not noticable
  3. Lightbulb on music stand goes out - alright, that's not my fault. Stage lights and a quick replacement carried the day.

I suppose that's why I keep the spares around, but I'm moving on to another musical this weekend, and I wonder what's going to break there . . .

2Jul/100

Fountain Square Music This Weekend

Radio Radio welcomes Slick Idiot tonight for a set of dark industrial music. Tomorrow, more World Cup action and Bigger Than Elvis.

The Vollrath just has a Saturday show listed for tomorrow with The Blakes, but I'd be surprised if they weren't doing something tonight as well. Head on over.

Hassenpfeffer performs tonight at the the White Rabbit Cabaret, there's live jazz at Maria's Pizza, and the Brass Ring hosts lounge music all weekend long. And, if I may be so presumptuous - Fountain Square is a wonderful place from which to witness the downtown fireworks. I'm performing at Theater on the Square this weekend, but I'll head back to the Square afterwards for all the festivities. Have a happy holiday!

1Jul/100

New IMN Podcast and Musical Theater Stuff

The new IMN podcast is up - download it or listen at the site or on WFYI HD2 Thursdays at 4pm and 10pm.

Also, it looks like every weekend I have through the first weekend in August contains musical theater goodness. This weekend and the next, I'm subbing in for the extended run of the "Great American Trailer Park Musical" at Theater On The Square, and then after that comes the BOBDIREX production of "Something Funny Happened On The Way to the Forum" at the Athenaeum. Back into the world of weirdly reproduced scores and pencil notes.

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