Racks, Rigs & Late-Night Plans

I wonder how long I can keep it up posting every night this week. Knowing me, this will be the last one in a row. But who knows. Tomorrow, I need to go shopping for a new set of cases for some of my equipment. I want to get two smaller cases so it’s easier to carry my stuff.

Visitors to our show Saturday night will notice a new speaker system. I hope it works well. If I can find some cases I like tomorrow, I can transport it all in my car, I think. That’s great. And these new speakers rock, even rivaling my JBL’s. And I can pick them up without giving myself a hernia—almost anyway.

I’m playing our last show on them now to see how it sounds, and it’s real nice. I have to pump up the bass though since they don’t produce as much bass as the JBL’s. One day I’ll get a set of subs to go with these speakers. And another amp. I wish I had about 3000 dollars and I’d be happy. I could have a nice, nice setup. Ahh well.

I’m debating on whether to record our last show into the computer or not. I’m leaning towards not. We can’t keep recording and recording. What’s gonna be the point when we get a hundred copies of the same song? I’ll probably record Saturday’s show—there’s gonna be some new songs we haven’t played yet. I might even take the feedback destroyer out of the loop; it’s breaking up some sounds I don’t want it to.

Did you know FrontPage suggests the spelling “gonad” for the word “gonna”? Gonad. Hmm. I just found a guy selling some racks used. I sent him a desperate email to tell him I’d come to his house tomorrow to get them if the price was right. Otherwise, I might just go without the racks for this show and do it like we did when we were starting out—just being careful and taking it one at a time. Except, my CD player is really designed to be rack mounted. Gonads. Ahh well.

In case you didn’t know, I publicize on www.raleighmusic.com, and we have a fan mailing list. Visit groups.yahoo.com and search for the singermercy group. I even mailed out a snail-mail letter earlier this week to one member who didn’t have email.

I’m still hungry. I only ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich tonight for supper. Think I’ll see what I can scoop up.