Just to warn u…I’m not doing spell check on this one….Read at ur own risk….
We played a joint gig with two popular local bands on Sat..I have long time conections with one of the groups…”The Great Book of John”….The frontman went to college with me….The bass player’s older brother and I were good friends in High School….Both of these guys had just stepped down from another well known group to focus on this band…The opener of the night was another friend I knew from the early stages of AOC…It was great to reconnect and catch up with such talented folks…We tried out two new tunes….one instrumental…one singer….I was pretty pleased with the response and our performance…We’re also trying out a new presonus digital board that is pretty amazing…
On sunday a new candidate tried out for the church position…He was really talented, but on the second song he forgot to move his capo, and we played it in A instead of Bb…This is not an issue except for when you have a 10 piece horn section coming in 20 sec. after the song starts playing Bb…..We managed warn the other guys to lay out, and transpose the tune on the spot…It was interesting….
This morning was off to work out, then A and I had a writing session. After lunch I settled in for 15 students…I’m just now wrapping up…This semester, I have some really talented kiddos…I’m excited to see where music takes them, and I’m thankfull God has put our paths together….
Tommorrow I go with A. to meet a symphony conductor for lunch…In March we are playing five of our tunes with a regional symphony. The scores are being written by this super famous Nash. guy…I’m pretty pumped….
Video’s of the day….Bands from the weekend…
