Did a fun acoustic + electric gig at IOTA in Arlington, VA a few weeks ago. Expert photog Chris Rief was on hand to document, & grabbed these great shots.
Category: Gigs
Live gig w/the Laura Tsaggaris band this weekend. Gig was at a beautiful, huge church/theater space out in Fulton, MD. Great FOH sound system, sweet guys running the board; drums were behind tall plexiglass shields, which made the on-stage experience much quieter, but was somewhat difficult to really find the pocket, in that most of the drum sounds I was hearing were those that were reflected off the back wall. Thus there was a minuscule permanent delay to everything. Worked out fine in the end, though I would’ve preferred at least more kick & snare in the monitor mixes. Tasty playing as always by Wes Lanich on keys, Chris Brown on bass, Chris Keever on drums, and Laura on vocals & guitars.
I threw my iPhone on the drum riser during a track, & here’s the resultant video. From being on that riser, the shot bounces with every kick drum hit, so it’s kind of like that Seal video for ‘Crazy.’ Please excuse dated, unhip video reference. The vid:
Did a gig at DC’s fabled Black Cat last Friday the 26th. LT on guitars & vocals, Beardy Carluzzo on bass, Paul Garisto on drums, Josh Whatshisname on sax, me on guitars. Fun! Loud!
Overtime Records secret video assassin snagged a few clips from amongst the throngs of faithful attendees. Check a few out right here (warning: audio on these is less than stellar. I blame the liberals…)!
Birthday Tune
Winner’s Curse
Get Yourself Right
Back on 12.20.09 I did at gig at the Kennedy Center here in DC with local singer-songwriter Laura Tsaggaris. The gig was the night after Snowpocalypse #1 here in Washington, & I had to load out my guitars & Vox AC30 (60 lbs!) over/through a 5-foot snowdrift from my rehearsal space. Yikes. Arrived unscathed, though, & had a great set with Laura & Co.; the band that night was Laura on vox & guitar, me, Eric Shimelonis on bass, Phil Carluzzo on piano, & the always-killer Paul Garisto on drums. He used his ’57 Ludwig kit, which is flat out one of the best sounding drumsets I’ve ever heard. Plus, it’s black.
Couple of shots here of the view from the stage, including a few of how they mic’ed up the Vox, Laura’s Princeton Reverb, & the great, gigantor Steinway (pair of AKG C414’s). One SM57 on each amp, & I thought it was kind of interesting how he went off axis with both, without even checking the on-axis sound. I asked the FOH engineer about it & he basically said, “Always sounds better.” My default is usually straight on-axis, aimed right where the dust cover meets the cone. I’ll have to try the off axis thing & A/B the two next time I have a few minutes to dork out.
A great multi-camera video of the gig can be streamed here. Face-melting guitar solo action starts around 28:00 in.
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