Our cover of Travis Tritt’s “Trouble”

lefty2 said:
The only band that I've played trouble with is a fly by the seat of your pants band they don't have a song list, use a metronome, the guy doesn't even tell you what the name of the song is. He just shouts out dog or George for the key and starts playing. And you gotta figure out what it is all of a sudden. He tends to play everything faster than the original also. So I don't know how fast he's playing It. I just know that I can't possibly do it with one hand LO L
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Gah, I played with one of those guys! He would tell the audience, "Let's play stump the band!" and just start a song we've never played in our lives. The bass player and I would always pull it off. The same bass player that played with me then plays with me now.
 
PorkPieGuy said:
It’s taken a lot of practice and work to get there. At this gig I switched from 5A’s to 7A’s. It made quite a bit of difference.
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Do you find you play faster with 7A's? A switch back and forth too, but find I have a little more speed (but less fluidity) with 5A's. Like the extra weight helps with rebound on singles...
 
brady said:
Do you find you play faster with 7A's? A switch back and forth too, but find I have a little more speed (but less fluidity) with 5A's. Like the extra weight helps with rebound on singles...
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The 7A's were easier. I played the same song with 5A's the next night. Both were fine, but the 7A's flowed a little better for me.
 
One thing that drives me crazy with house sound guys is that they always tend to put a ton of compression (gate?) on the kick drum where you have to slam the kick to get it to come through the house. I'm not that heavy of a player, so I've learned to tell the sound guys to lift whatever kind of gate/threshold they have on the kick to nothing because I'm really not that heavy of a player. The trashcan ending shows the results of doing this. The very end sounds like I have a double-kick pedal, but I don't. I'm just doing some "fast feathering," but because I had them ditch the compression, you can hear each note. A lot of times, hardly anything comes through if they've compressed too much.

IMO, the sound guy is always the most important member of the band.
 
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