I never did figure out for whom we were playing last night. The Yacht Rock Revue did some kind of auction/charity event thing last night at Summerour.
This gig went much better than the previous night's blanks.
All the excitement (for me) came in the second set, when the batteries in my EWI died in the first song. I just swapped them out for what I thought were fresh ones, so I must have a bad one in there. Anyway, pretty significant panic. I was able to limp through the first tune (Africa) by turning everything off whenever I wasn't playing. Once we got through that, I quickly stole the four batteries in my sax mic transmitters and put them in the EWI. Whenever I needed to play saxophone in the second set, I would take the two batteries out of the wireless MIDI transmitter I have on the EWI and put them in the sax transmitter. It wasn't too bad--I just had to plan a couple of songs ahead so I would be ready to do the battery Chinese fire drill in between songs.
I'm thinking about stashing a pack of AAs in Monkey's amp.
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