Re: Looper's Poll--Live or Memorex? (also gig spam)

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I say go for it.  Maybe you could borrow or rent an LCD monitor for the 
evening.  Good lighting is VERY important, in my opinion.  I forgot to 
bring any "stage" lights to the last party I played, and one of the 
hostesses kept turning off the lights as we were setting up.  She told 
her friends the party started at 8 (the webpage/flyer said 10) and felt 
obliged to have a halloween ambience going for the early people.  
Anyway, make sure you can see your stuff, and break a leg.

Mark

Mark
On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 08:20  PM, Gary Lehmann wrote:

> Well, here's a chance to cast your vote on the subject--
> I got this gig, see, at a local beer/wine pub, seats maybe twenty 
> people if
> they love each other, on the basis of an audition I did with acoustic 
> guitar
> and vocal augmented by laptop with sequences.  Virtually no looping, 
> just
> for a solo on one song and an outro on another. although I did a couple 
> of
> songs with just guitar, vocal and harmonica solo.  Then a couple of 
> nights
> ago I discover the display on my laptop has become too dim to see, so it
> must go back to Hewlett Packard for a week (dude, I shoulda bought a 
> Dell).
> Should I drag the desktop (with its horrible CRT glare) to the gig or 
> try to
> do it with my EDP?
> A mitigating factor is that I invited the talented Mr. Harvey Starr to 
> sit
> in on Ztar and he says he's probably gonna do it with me.  Don't you 
> think I
> should bite the bullet and do the live thing?  What are they gonna do, 
> FIRE
> ME????
> Please cast your vote, if you have one, to the list, as someone named 
> Chooky
> sent some viral screen saver thing I narrowly avoided, and I have been 
> more
> careful about opening my mail.
> BTW, the name of the Place is Henifin's Pub, located at 13314-16 Poway 
> Rd.,
> Poway, CA  92064, telephone (858) 486-0764, the date is New Year's 
> Eve, I
> start at 9 PM and they have a free buffet that starts around 7 and 
> EVERYONE
> WHO SHOWS UP IN A LOOPER'S DELIGHT T-SHIRT gets a free beer.  One beer 
> for
> everybody.  My final offer.  Unless you wanna sit in, and then you gotta
> bring your instrument.
> Gary
>