- Countdown Entry #39
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- 11:52 PM, Thursday, August 12th,
1999:
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- Thursday,
August 12th, 1999 - 8:00 - 11:00
PM
- FATS BILLIARD EMPORIUM
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- SETUP
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- Reading these
little entries, I'm not sure if any of you can imagine
the stress involved. In a band when you break a
string...no biggie. If you blow a speaker...you can
just use your monitors for that night. If something
goes down in my little makeshift computer I am
100 % screwed. Thus was the case tonight. One of the 4
units that process the video signal into 4 seperate
images wouldn't turn on. It was gonna be 3 TVs. We
were all set up. Set up went quickly again. Everything
was wonderful and then BAM one TV GONE. It's at that
moment that you realize you're doing something no one
has done before on such a pitifully low level and
you're a slave to it. There's no road map for it.
IT BLOWS. So I took apart the computer and
found the unit unplugged. Must've wiggled out in my
trunk. WHEW. But for a moment it's just such lonely
terror. It's the Blair-TVS Project. Without the motion
sickness, just a little heart attack.
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- THE PERFORMANCE
- 13
SECOND SHOW CLIP
(300K)
- SET
1: OPEN
1 - STRONGER - PARODY 1
- SET 2:
RHYTHM - UNPLUGGED - PARODY 2
- SET 3:
HATE -
LOVE - ABBEY ROAD
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- What an awesome
venue. I again really enjoyed the feeling of people
sitting and watching a movie. And as you can see by
the set list, there's rarely a low point in the whole
thing. Very upbeat and comedy oriented. Which
I admit I like. Abbey Road is a bit slow in
places, but too damn bad. That is my one moment to be
a Beatles fan. If you didn't like Abbey Road, you will
not like ME doing Abbey Road. But if you didn't like
Abbey Road-WOW...what was wrong with your childhood?
Abuse? Disfunction? I am truly sorry. Anyway, this was
every bit as good as the Shorty's show, with much
better material. Lots of people showed. Overall around
20 people that I knew came, leaving only a dozen
or so who said they could come and didn't make it. The
ratio is usually the other way around. Voice-wise,
I was still struggling without any sort of
monitors. I simply couldn't afford to get them yet.
The next show I'll have my lighting and monitors
finished. I had a finished version of Hate set
this time, and the Clinton song went over very well.
Also, the very last time the OPEN 1 SET is every
played. Although I might need it for a family
show in case I make the new open more adult.
We'll see. Kick ass night. Can't be too bummed about
anything.
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- THE REACTION
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- "I had no idea
what to expect, that was very cool..." and "Amazing,
that must've taken you FOREVER..." Those were two
really nice quotes. Though I knew most of the
people, this was still their first time seeing it.
I always forget that and then I'm really excited
about their reactions. Jessica, Marty and I sit
and talk about where the mix wasn't good, and try to
be as nit-picky as humanly possible...and the audience
just says wow. That's awesome. And most of the
problems with sound will be fixed when I can
FINALLY hear what everyone else hears. By the
way, I keep mentioning monitors, and many of you
think of computer monitors. Monitors are speakers that
the performer can monitor the sound by. I will
have tiny monitors next to the TVs so I can hear
the mix of my voice over the rest of the singing. As
it is, I can hardly hear it because the speakers are
facing the audience. ANYWHO...got another "They'd eat
this up in Vegas..." comment. (sigh) It just may
happen. We'll see...
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