first thanks to all that came out to the vanhelsing monster bash!
it was a busy day i met dana downtown at about 2:30 at her place then we were off to the cd printing house to pick up the limited edition dunes "socializing with life"
cds, from there we went back to dana's where chris picked us up to head down for load in and sound check at 5pm as you all know it was a blustery day quite chilly!
we arrived matt was there with our roadies volk and chris but no jason we met all the people that we needed to meet sound people organizers the guys from "doctor" who are all very cool guys and girl(thier guitarist is a girl really good player and cute)the lead singer is danny greaves x frontman from the watchmen a fairly well know canadian band which achieved a level of success here in canada in the 90's, as i said all good people, so these guys are sound checking first its now close to 6 and jason has yet to arrive, so to put it mildly panic began to set in its hard to do a sound check with out your lead guitarist and to top it off he had my amp and electric guitar aswell(i was freaking out). my voice seemed to be okay but usually before a show i have a habit of convincing myself that i cannot sing, jay shows up at twenty past six just as doctor finishes thier sound check thank god (apparent car problems)right so we start doing our check its cold and my voice is shite, so we finish and im not so happy with the way things were going up to this point at all for the next hour i drank hot water and honey in hopes that this would remedy my vocal pains, we hit the stage at 9 sharp opened with the song "now" and guess what i could sing again so im feeling a bit better now for sure the place was pretty full my voice was working my guitarist was here all is good.
5th song in i break a frickin string during "hurry up" not good! so i swithced to my electric while our roadie volk put a new one on for me 2 songs later its back to an acoustic song volk comes up with my acoustic at least i think but its not he mumbles to me "i broke the new string putting it on heres the back up" now normally this wouldn't be a problem you know backup guitar cool! the problem was is that we didnt sound check the backup and we didnt have a feed back buster for the sound hole( feed back buster goes in the sound hole of the guitar to cut any feedback from the stage monitors with out one usually on plugging in one would hear shrieking feed back)in my head im like this could all go very wrong i plugged in and and....................
nothing (there is a god) no feedback! so we played out the rest of the set anxiety free
overall i dont think it was our best performance we played a little fast and a little sloppy at times but what we are hearing on stage and what the audience hears is completly different, turns out that played pretty well we got a lot of positive feedback from strangers and friends alike.
got some good connections at edge 102 lana and barry taylor were there we chatted good people lana asked for a disk to play on her indie show very cool, met the presidents of universal music and universal studios they said they really enjoyed our shit, there were lots pretty ladies there aswell which is always a good thing,
from there on we just partied like rockstars to the wee hours in the morning
overall a pretty successful show and a good time, oh yeah on matts journal he has lots of pics from the show so check them out

pullie