Well, I’ve had a few days to digest the gig from Saturday night. It wasn’t until I watched the video the following day that I had a better feel for what happened. I’m always nervous before debuting a new band and since this one is so important to me it’s a little bit more nerve racking. I think for PM and back to 3 Penny Opera - those were the two band debuts that really had me on edge. Thankfully I didn’t attempt to play lap steel on Saturday like I did at that first 3PO gig! Speaking of 3PO, on the way to the gig I had the iPod on my Top 1000 mix and happily 3PO’s Adam & Eve came on. It put me in a nice frame of mind to not only hear myself playing live (3PO’s 3rd gig) but also that it’s such a bouncy and happy song.
“YO”, I say.
We had a packed (coffee)house so that was cool. The weirdness that I felt from the gig happened because we only played 2 songs (and that’s not enough time to get a feel for the audience or the music) and I was also using a strange guitar. I used Don’s guitar since it made more sense than switching things around and all that. It was significantly heavier so that threw me off a bit. Like I said, we only did 2 songs - 10K & Hanging Up the Dream - so I was actually in a weirder headspace and more nervous AFTER the show than before or during. Everyone that said anything to us had nothing but positive comments so it seemed that everyone liked it. I had no idea how it went. I knew that I made a few mistakes (I honestly don’t think I’ve ever played a perfect gig), but they were minor. So yeah, I really had no idea how it went. Both Don and Shades played really good sets (and Jenn sounded wonderful during the whole evening) so that was great.
Sunday I went over to JennEric’s to watch the tape of the show (thank you, Eric) and discuss web stuff. After watching the tape (before plowing into the excellent brunch) I came away with a better opinion of the gig. Yeah, there were mistakes, but we sounded good, I looked fairly relaxed and the mistakes I made weren’t really audible. So, my new opinion of the gig is that we were “pretty good”. 2 songs is still too short to make an accurate assessment, but we were good for what it was. I still think it’s incredibly awesome of Don to cut his set short that we could play.
Video of the 2 songs is in the process of getting perfected so we can post them online. I’ll obviously post a link here, but we’re going to be posting it to the .com, myspace & on youtube. Hooray!
So, the important news coming out of our practice last night is that we are indeed playing again on the 15th. It’ll be another “Double-Double Duty” show with us, Don & then Shades headlining. Unless something weird happens this will be the last time that Protean Mean and Shades of Winter are on the same bill. I know Jenn can handle doing our set and then Shade’s set, but it’s not something we want to continue doing in the future. So catch history next Thursday in Durham! And yes, we’ll be playing a 30 minute opening set. Not everything we got, but it’ll be the best songs.
Gig info:
Protean Mean, Don de Leaumont & Shades of Winter
Thursday, March 15, 2007 (Ides of March!!)
Marvell Events Center
Durham, NC
time is still TBA for all 3 bands.
Current Location: over there
Current Mood: 
excited
Current Music: Peter Gabriel - Across the River
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