Last night's Yacht Rock show was a dry run of the BeeGees stuff before tonight's big Andrews Upstairs gig. I realize that this blog has become the catalog of my failures, but here's how it all went down:
First problem of the night was with the setlists. Somehow the setlist that Nick had sent out for Thursday did not come on the email I received, so to me it looked like both Thursday and Friday were the same thing. I printed set lists for myself, Greg, Bencuya, and Cobb. Right off the bat, we had to deal with that.
I discovered that my sustain pedal for the top keyboard was dead. Luckily, there was an extra pedal in the crap behind the stage. I plugged it in and it worked. One problem solved!
As I was getting dressed before the gig, I realized that I'd forgotten my shades, so I had to sprint out to my truck and grab real sunglasses.
We trudged through the BeeGees stuff in the first set. I don't think anything went horribly wrong, but we were all very unsure o…