Gig at Country Walk

Last Friday night we played a rehearsal dinner gig at Country Walk. A fairly small room, but we managed to fit in. Our giant speaker cabs and "wall of sound" were probably too much for this gig, but the audience seemed to enjoy it. Of the new things we had, the new sound system was working off and on...at the beginning I had no lead guitar in my monitor. Then later it came alive and blasted my ears (left ear) off! Man that was loud. Meanwhile, our new lights seemed to only have two settings: on or flashing. The on mode was all-on, so that it was a mixture of reg, green, blue, yellow. THe flashing setting was supposed to react to the music, and it sort of did, but I found it somewhat distracting. I would much prefer if the lights could be manually controlled so that they could set the mood for various song types: fairly basic blue for slow, red for fast would probably work. Hopefully we'll get these things worked out eventually. Next gig is "First Friday" (the first home football game) at 356—should be fun!