A Rock Show That Rocked Rockingly
So the Big 3DU Show is now in the past, and it is a rather true statement that we had a blast playing it. We even managed to keep the obvious mistakes to a minimum (although one of the most obvious ones was by yours truly), which is a rather impressive achievement for us. Not to mention all of the practicing that we did. That’s the real accomplishment.
From my vantage point, it was a lot of fun to be with my friends and play some awesome music with them. My guitar sounded great (to my ears), as a band we sounded better, and everyone seemed to enjoy the show. Now, of course, the show was not without its perils and worries, for what 3DU show would truly be complete without its share of troubles and “oh, great"s? Our long and semi-frenzied search for a sound man ended up being for naught when we realized that we didn’t have a snake and the sound board would be positioned behind me and Caleb. This was good in the sense that we didn’t have a sound man anyway, but it presented its share of challenges when it came to sound checking. Another issue we had was that the power amps seemed to be carrying a greater load than they should have, which, in grand Three Days Under fashion, Jesse found a creative (or possibly non-manufacturer-recommended) solution for. All in a day’s work for this band.
There was surprisingly little talk of everyone dropping their jobs and going out on the road together, which probably owes to the fact that we’re all getting old and being on the road is hard work that may or may not pay off anyway. Since we’re all married and more than half of us have kids, having the work you do pay off is getting to be pretty vital for us. And since we’re way past the hopes of selling T-shirts and CDs to make a living, I’m going to put MP3’s of the show up on this website as well as the forthcoming threedaysunder.com site. Just as soon as I get the time to chop up the hour-and-change-long file that currently holds the show. The recording isn’t the best, as the electric guitars (mine especially, but Nate’s too) are barely present due to the aspect of the live show being really loud even without putting the guitar amps through the main speakers much (which is why they’re not in the mix that went to the TonePort), but it is definitely a step up from the old-school live 3DU stuff you may have heard in days of old. I thought about trying to overdub some of my guitar parts, but that’s a lot of work that I’m not sure I really want to do. Not to mention it would probably lose a lot of its live-ness. Anyway, the MP3s should be available before too long, and we’ll probably get the threedaysunder.com site going in a little while too.
Music is a really awesome thing, and one thing that people kept telling us was that it was pretty impressive how the five of us were able to come together, practice for a day, and be just as tight and together as we’d ever been. I guess it’s just that we have really come to understand each other and it always makes it easier when everyone understands the songs too. Plus, we’re all pretty good friends anyway, which just makes working together that much smoother and lends itself to having a lot of fun playing together, and that makes everything sound better. We all speak a universal language of music, and that’s a link between us that stays just as strong no matter how long we’ve been apart.
