May 19, 2004

FoI pre-show

Tonight, the three of us congregated over at Shahin's place to do the final run through of the set. We each played our solos for each other, so we would know what to expect. Shahin will probably be playing two during the gig. Tonight, I learned that we are playing for two hours, not one and a half. But for this kind of money, I'm not complaining.

I think that we're still several songs light for the amount of time that we'll be playing, but I think we have one or two possible solutions:

  1. Do some improv, just winigng it as we go
  2. After the set break, announce over the mike that "we've had some requests to repeat some of the songs from the first set, so we're going to do what we can to make our fans happy"
  3. Wing our way through some of the originals that we only half (or a quarter) know

In case I have to do more, I worked out most of Victor Wooten's rendition of Amazing Grace (with all the harmonics). Trust me, it's nowhere close to even approaching the same zip code as Vic's version, but it will allow us to eat up a five of six minutes.

Posted by Casper at May 19, 2004 10:18 PM
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