Well las week my band played our first "stage" show together for a local promoter. There were 3 other bands, and being the new comers we were first. Of course it was also the long weekend so it was a small crowd turn out (metal shows here are usually packed, but long weekend everybody goes camping .etc lol) but it was a blast!
While we were loading in and setting up i kind of got teased (friendly) by the other bands about my larger drum kit (7 piece gretsch with a bunch of brass) and being somebody who has never been 100% confident in his own drumming i was starting to get nervous as hell.
The whole band gets on stage, sound guys mic up the kitj and we start sound check, so of course im on the spot kinda soloing for all these musicians lol. So i whip out some beats, do some rolls, play my cymbals and were ready to play.
Our monitors all die during the set, few minor screw ups, but nothing big and we KILLED. The promoter was asked to set up a show for us to headline, and informed us the next day that the general opinion was that we were just too good to play first in future shows.
My wife was in the crowd with my Zoom, filming us, and people walked up to her constantly complimenting my drumming, telling her i had awesome timing and an ability to bring out certain song accents that just made the tunes what they were.
And for the first time i had the sound guys, people in the audience, and every other drummer there tell me how good both my kit (especially my snare) sounded, even had a few of the other drummers have me look at their kits and help them tune a bit before they played that night. My band was complimented also for our professional and friendly attitude during load in and load out. We have been asked to join a fairly popular band in a small tour that theyre doing to a few towns in our area as well
So all in all for having a drummer who thought the other guys would blow him out of the water and a bass player and guitarist who have never played on a stage before, im on a complete high from that show and while not everyone digs our music, its nice to know theres a group out there now who is just nuts about it now
While we were loading in and setting up i kind of got teased (friendly) by the other bands about my larger drum kit (7 piece gretsch with a bunch of brass) and being somebody who has never been 100% confident in his own drumming i was starting to get nervous as hell.
The whole band gets on stage, sound guys mic up the kitj and we start sound check, so of course im on the spot kinda soloing for all these musicians lol. So i whip out some beats, do some rolls, play my cymbals and were ready to play.
Our monitors all die during the set, few minor screw ups, but nothing big and we KILLED. The promoter was asked to set up a show for us to headline, and informed us the next day that the general opinion was that we were just too good to play first in future shows.
My wife was in the crowd with my Zoom, filming us, and people walked up to her constantly complimenting my drumming, telling her i had awesome timing and an ability to bring out certain song accents that just made the tunes what they were.
And for the first time i had the sound guys, people in the audience, and every other drummer there tell me how good both my kit (especially my snare) sounded, even had a few of the other drummers have me look at their kits and help them tune a bit before they played that night. My band was complimented also for our professional and friendly attitude during load in and load out. We have been asked to join a fairly popular band in a small tour that theyre doing to a few towns in our area as well
So all in all for having a drummer who thought the other guys would blow him out of the water and a bass player and guitarist who have never played on a stage before, im on a complete high from that show and while not everyone digs our music, its nice to know theres a group out there now who is just nuts about it now