Happy Easter!

The weather report for Sunday morning wasn't looking too good so I went ahead and brought my stuff up to the church to set up on Saturday night. That way I wouldn't need to carry anything in but my umbrella. As it turned out, there was only a light drizzle and not the downpour I was expecting. Eric was already there and was plugging things in. I got all situated and began warming up as others arrived. Soon we were all there and things took off. Had a few techno gremlins, but nothing we couldn't recover from. Somebody... grabbed one of the vocalist mics to talk through it and must have been drenched in reverb. The reverb got turned down but unfortunately in the process, the audio to me of Kevin's and Jordan's vocals got cut off - completely. I spent the first song watching Kevin's lips and singing along myself to keep track of where we were in the song. Pam finally saw me struggling and got a message back to the sound folks - "Houston, we have a problem". Got fixed in time for the next song though otherwise I would have had to stop and GET it fixed because I couldn't continue without the threat of hosing things up big time.

Oh, my new technology worked without a hitch. I just need to get a few more cables to be able to have more control over my in-ear mix. That will be very cool. I also worked on my kick drum sound by using one of the unused channels on the church's compressor. Kept things from sounding too loose and boomy. I was actually getting a strong "click" on each stroke so I turned the kick drum beater around to switch back to the felt head. Much nicer.

Dave did a good job with the message. It was "tight". LOL! Had several guests there and people we hadn't seen in awhile. All in all it was a good crowd. It always is though no matter how many are there. It was good to see Joel and Chasity too. It was funny seeing Joel with a tan. "Dude, you don't look Goth anymore" I said. "I'm not Goth, I just don't get outside much...". Too funny. Even funnier than that was when Eric started doing the "Goth dance" as portrayed by South Park. Now THAT was riot.

Oh, it looks like Kyle has a groupie now. Apparently, he sends shivers down the spine of a particular member. ;-)

Gonna eat some lunch with the family then probably slither into the bed for a much needed nap. It's gray and rainy out... the BEST kind of sleeping weather.