Look Ma, a wedding gig! AGAIN!

Finally another gig with the Rubbers! :D Well kinda sad Manu can't play with us >.< so i gotta play keyboard and we asked our friend Garrett to sub for bass. As usual, lots of lessons learned.

First, be tactful towards hotel's sound engineers. We asked to connect the guitar and bass' amp to the PA and the fella said that we gotta pay extra 200 bucks for extra connection. Rid0nkul0us. After reconfirming the management, apparently no extra bucks needed. =.="
 
2nd, be polite to them. Don't boss around. Use the basic 'please' and 'thank you'. Well, engineers are human too and they are also part of your performance. Don't mess with them unless you want them to mess with your sound.

We've prepared 17 songs. We thought that those would be enough and guess what, before they did the toast we already played more than half of the songs! Before the whole thing ended we ran out of songs. Thank God they are christian family so we can play worship songs -.- So the 3rd lesson is that you gotta have LOTS of songs in the bag.

4th, go listen to oldies hits. Yeah that might not be everyone's cup of tea, but in a wedding sometimes there will be some uncles who request for old songs. We were pwned by the song 'wedding day'. But thank God that song sounded like it used 3-chords only so we kinda just wing it messily.

5th you gotta have contacts of car or van rental services if you're transp0rtless. Y'kn0w, to get to the venue and to put your gears and stuff. 

 

6th learn songs in different languages especially if you are in a multi-racial country, and make sure you get the pronunciation right. It may offend some people if you get it wrong. We performed in 3 languages that night x.x

Last one! it would be nice if one of you have a smartphone/ipod/ipad/anything that can go online. We don't remember the lyrics of those impromptu songs we played/asked to play. So I used Oxy's phone to google it. But if the venue has no signal, then congratulations! You're screwed ;)