Not much of a Sunday…once again, I was told not to show for the AM church gig (boooooo). The PM church gig went pretty well, though I've had it with the sound of the piano in the PA. It has a Barcus Berry pickup--sounds like crap! I think it's time to experiment. At the very least, I'm going to put a dynamic mic in one of the holes inside. The pickup has no beef to it! The church has a really great sounding grand piano, and the pickup makes it sound like it's mic'ed with a 57 on the ground 10 feet away.
As far as playing goes, I did kind of go nuts on one song last night. The harmony made sense and I knew it was in three, but as soon as I started playing, I kind of lost my place, which I think worked out OK. I got a little wild in kind of a Branford way, and once I was out there I just kept going. Somehow, the vocals came back in, but I couldn't get out of what I was doing. I just kept going over the top of them until the song tapered to the end. Oops.
I kind of wish I'd recorded it because I fell into stream of consciousness playing so quickly that I really wasn't aware of what I was doing. Maybe next time!
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