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Tonight, Jar of Souls returned to Classic Café for the first time in some months.
Set up was an interesting event. We had probably three or four times the gear that we need to do this show (not an entirely unheard of thing with JoS), so I didn't load in as much as I might normally use (leaving the fretless and the six string in the car). Mark took up a good bit of real estate to my left, Ryan on my right with Rich far over to my right.
But the entertainment had already started. There was an abyssmally drunk girl on the verge of her own wardrobe malfuntion who was very eager to get the attention of each and every member of the band. To the point of offering total strangers fifty bucks if she could just sing one song. I found it rather amusing, for about fifteen minutes. Then it was just annoying.
The show was pretty good. We had a little difficulty getting the levels set appropriately for the room. The first set of the night went rather well; we had a number of people up and dancing through some of the songs. We ended the set on the Rush tune Freewill, one of my favorites that I used to play in college.
About two thirds of the way through the first set, we had lost a number of people (for whatever reason -- it's late, music too loud/didn't like it, had to be somewhere else, etc.). However, we pretty much finished off the rest of the crowd with the opening number to the show. 2112: Overture/Temples of Syrinx is one of those tunes pretty much for the diehard Rush fan and/or serious musician. And it would appear that we didn't have all that many of either in the audience tonight. We worked our way through the rest of the set and then called it a night.
I think that Mark will be rejoining us for a few shows in the future. I hope so, it was fun playing with him. Rob also sat in on a few tunes. I'll upload the photos from the show (and the set lists) sometime later. After pretending to get at least some sleep.
Posted by Casper at April 10, 2004 02:47 AM