Yacht Rock is dusting off Michael Jackson's Thriller for a performance this Friday night at the Park Tavern. Yesterday we wandered through a quick rehearsal of it.
We originally had learned the entire record for Halloween of last year (perhaps you will recall this). We also played it on The Rock Boat this past January, and haven't thought about it since!
Video from the boat:
I'm pretty lukewarm about playing it. I made charts of everything I have to play, so I just read it down. I have no love for it. I bet that I'll have more fun playing the clav part to Peg in the first set.
Anyway, rehearsal was fine. Bencuya assigned me a few parts that I need to grab before tomorrow night, and I need to tweak a few of my laptop sounds that didn't do what I expected them to do. I also discovered that my cable from my computer to my little mixer is going bad--I had some crunchy static that went away when I used my crappy emergency cable. It's always something!
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