paroles, paroles.

I realized that I don't mind enjoy sitting down for hours listening to some materials to nitpick and then thinking about the arrangements accompanied by my 2 other fellas -- pencil and paper. Pretty hard doing at in the office though. Cuz I can imagine the sound but I don't know which note. If there's a keyboard or guitar around it'll be much easier. I tend to instantly forget the sound I found in my head =.= therefore I whistle and then write it down in form of numbers.

On a totally unrelated topic, me and the Rubbers went for a gig last night :D

-A Night in Paris-. It was at a golf clubhouse. We were rushing for sound check. The traffic pwned us =.= but then thank God we still managed to do it.. When we arrived, we were shocked to see that the PA system has only 4 channels for mic! Drat. So we plugged in our instruments there hoping that it won't blow up. There was no other choice. The soundcheck went fine, but then there was other problems: the clubhouse only provide 1 mic stand and they don't have music stand for the chords. Dang. So we gotta head out to get those from 'somewhere else' :P. We managed to get that, and by the time we arrived, the event has begun, and some fellas from the other band told us that we gotta go on stage right after the mc's jibberjabber which was a few minutes after. We were so surprised cuz according to the schedule we were supposed to play at 10.20pm and they asked us to play at around 9.35!! But then we did it anyway. Fiuhh.

We planned to play only 3 songs but then the mc kept on asking us to play more and we even need to accompany people dancing! Oh. Fyi, we didn't practice cuz we didn't have time. So we reuse the songs from the wedding gig :P Towards the end of our slot the PA's power went unstable so it was blinkin away on and off. But that didn't really make a scene. Fiuhhh.

The PA went worse. When the other band play, it went ok during the first few songs but then it went downhill ever since. When they played, the PA just turned off by itself and then back on again. But then I got a lesson from this: The show must go on. When the thing went off they continued playing and their vocalist seemed confused at first but then she just carried on when the PA went off. Also, everybody should continue playing/singing so that when the thing turned back on again, the song won't mess up. I saw the guitarist and bassist did the same thing. The clubhouse's crew turned off some of the lights and so the PA didn't die  as much anymore.