Hey guys,
I'm excited and nervous at the same time, as I have my first gig ever tomorrow night! I've been playing guitar for about 6 years now, and never got a chance to play live due to school or bands coming apart.
The show will be at my University, as a charity event, and my band essentially came together just to play this show... I have jammed with the singer for over a year now and we gel really well, and we brought in a bassist and drummer (both from our circle of friends) in the last three weeks to play the show.
We originally planned to play:
Baba O'riley
Little Sister
Are you gonna be my Girl
Slither
but after many changes from the people who are organizing the gig, and complaints from the drummer, we ended up with the following:
Dani California (added to the set list 2 days ago :| )
Ain't talking about love (been jamming over this one for a long time with the singer)
Little Sister
Something about a truck
Are you gonna be my Girl
Slither
The singer will do some backing guitar for the Jet song and slither through his L6 2x12 amp, and the bassist is using a L6 guitar amp, cause he doesn't have a bass! I'll be using my Axe going to FOH and a QSC K12 to monitor myself.
I hope everything goes well, but I believe tonight I will be spending the whole night rehearsing and setting up my axe tones (they are almost there).
I was told the venue will mic amps, so I'm expecting someone will try to mic the qsc, and will have to deal with that. thankfully we are going first out of 4 bands and I think so we have about 40 min to set up!
any advise or suggestions on what I should keep in mind?
Thanks!!
I'm excited and nervous at the same time, as I have my first gig ever tomorrow night! I've been playing guitar for about 6 years now, and never got a chance to play live due to school or bands coming apart.
The show will be at my University, as a charity event, and my band essentially came together just to play this show... I have jammed with the singer for over a year now and we gel really well, and we brought in a bassist and drummer (both from our circle of friends) in the last three weeks to play the show.
We originally planned to play:
Baba O'riley
Little Sister
Are you gonna be my Girl
Slither
but after many changes from the people who are organizing the gig, and complaints from the drummer, we ended up with the following:
Dani California (added to the set list 2 days ago :| )
Ain't talking about love (been jamming over this one for a long time with the singer)
Little Sister
Something about a truck
Are you gonna be my Girl
Slither
The singer will do some backing guitar for the Jet song and slither through his L6 2x12 amp, and the bassist is using a L6 guitar amp, cause he doesn't have a bass! I'll be using my Axe going to FOH and a QSC K12 to monitor myself.
I hope everything goes well, but I believe tonight I will be spending the whole night rehearsing and setting up my axe tones (they are almost there).
I was told the venue will mic amps, so I'm expecting someone will try to mic the qsc, and will have to deal with that. thankfully we are going first out of 4 bands and I think so we have about 40 min to set up!
any advise or suggestions on what I should keep in mind?
Thanks!!