Category: Live notes

I managed to wake up chuck a while back. He himself had managed to sleep on that couch for about 3 hours, despite the loud techno directly beneath him. Astonishing.

We woke up again at about 8, everybody pretty bleary. Loaded up the van, checked out of the hotel, and hit the road. And promptly got really, really lost in downtown DC. Getting on the beltway is a maze of onramps and flyovers, all of which I think we took …

Well. Huh. We got the video running, thanks to my 100 feet of video cable and their DVD player. I don’t think it was synced exactly right but it was close enough. We had some technical problems – a Mic cable had a short that didn’t get caught until we’d …

Soundcheck was perfunctory. Well, for us anyway. The humidity is terrible on the instruments – chuck’s bass was about 3 semitones flat and we didn’t have much chance to tune, so soundcheck was interesting. Video may or may not work – they’re having some issues with the equipment. We’ve got …

This club is huge. Gigantic. Wow. It’s also very hot and humid, and it’s pouring rain outside. We’ve got loadin done, and now we’re waiting for soundcheck. This could take some time. 2 bands soundcheck before we do. We need to eat. Dan loks tired, Chuck looks lost, and I’m …