by John Bowen » Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:16 am
Ha! I didn’t think there was any video of this!! Blackmail!!!
They were playing 3 demos a day, and for the last day of the show, Martin (Ernst, the keyboardist) invited me up to play some lead lines. I didn’t know the tune (obviously), and I couldn’t really hear myself (see me checking the headphones at 0:31). Also, Martin had told me it was this ballad they had been doing during the day, and to use this more breathy synth sound I made....and then he starts this uptempo tune! After a few stabs of the smoother sound, I decided to change to the Mini feedback lead I like, but I still wasn’t too sure when to drop in some lines.....but it was a lot of fun to do! It’s been some time since I was onstage playing any keys.
We actually did 3 songs, and this was the last one. I think I had more playing time on the others. (At the end of this tune, I switched to playing a clavinet sound, but it’s not very audible.)
Next year we plan to do more of this, and actually have some practice beforehand (and I hope a better monitoring situation for me! I hate it when I can’t hear what I’m doing).
Ha! I didn’t think there was any video of this!! Blackmail!!!
They were playing 3 demos a day, and for the last day of the show, Martin (Ernst, the keyboardist) invited me up to play some lead lines. I didn’t know the tune (obviously), and I couldn’t really hear myself (see me checking the headphones at 0:31). Also, Martin had told me it was this ballad they had been doing during the day, and to use this more breathy synth sound I made....and then he starts this uptempo tune! After a few stabs of the smoother sound, I decided to change to the Mini feedback lead I like, but I still wasn’t too sure when to drop in some lines.....but it was a lot of fun to do! It’s been some time since I was onstage playing any keys.
We actually did 3 songs, and this was the last one. I think I had more playing time on the others. (At the end of this tune, I switched to playing a clavinet sound, but it’s not very audible.)
Next year we plan to do more of this, and actually have some practice beforehand (and I hope a better monitoring situation for me! I hate it when I can’t hear what I’m doing).