Last Friday I played at a private party with my band, and damn, that was the coolest gig I ever, ever did!!! It was all planned on very short notice, a surprise birthday party for a co-worker of our singer. The guy is a drummer himself, turned 65, and his son-in-law thought it was a good idea to invite us, as he really likes our music ???
We get an adress, and when we show up, there is a boat waiting to take us to the 'venue'! 15 min later we're at a really small island, with this big barge in front of it where we're supposed to set up our gear! When we arrived, we were informed to give a signal when our last song starts, so they can set of the fireworks........ :o Small crowd, maybe 120 people, but playing on such a tiny island, with a very welcome reception, and fireworks (big time!!) during the last song? Gig of a lifetime!!
Paul
Rad! No vids or pics?
Jacob
Quote from: jkokura on August 26, 2013, 06:08:02 PM
Rad! No vids or pics?
Jacob
Rad for sure! Pics and vids will be coming!!
That's sweet! I wouldn't mind playing that kind of show for free. Where'd the power come from?
Quote from: jimilee on August 26, 2013, 06:31:08 PM
That's sweet! I wouldn't mind playing that kind of show for free. Where'd the power come from?
It was for free... ;) Well, we got food, drinks, the backline was rented for us, and we had a great night, so who cares!! Power came from a couple of 4 kW generators, running on good old gasoline!!
Paul
Quote from: DutchMF on August 26, 2013, 06:37:33 PM
Quote from: jimilee on August 26, 2013, 06:31:08 PM
That's sweet! I wouldn't mind playing that kind of show for free. Where'd the power come from?
It was for free... ;) Well, we got food, drinks, the backline was rented for us, and we had a great night, so who cares!! Power came from a couple of 4 kW generators, running on good old gasoline!!
Paul
what a great way to spend the day! I play for free all the time if they were all like that!
For sure, bro!!! This is one of the reasons I play in a band in the first place!
Damn cool! Maybe some of the pub will get you some other paying gigs. I mean free is great and all but money ain't bad either ;D
Damn, that is cool. 8)
Your boat is waiting to take you to rock n' roll island... 8)
Pics or it didn't happen. :)
That's rad.
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Very cool! 8)
Quote from: billstein on August 27, 2013, 09:36:59 PM
Pics or it didn't happen. :)
Pics and video will follow!!
Where's the pics ??? :)
man! that's a recurring dream for me! thanks for sharing with the rest of us. the closest to that I could EVER come was a gig we did in the woods. a flat bed for a stage, generators for power, and deer stew cooking. we weren't into it 20 minutes and the bottom fell out of the rain clouds. we still had one helluva time! gosh. that was almost 30 years ago...