Friend's band playing in Salem, NH Saturday

BinFrog

My buddy's folk/groove rock band is playing a show Saturday night up in Salem, NH if anyone is interested. Info can be found on their website (which I created and maintain):

http://www.doctormalcolm.com/

The 3 song demo on their site doesn't do them any justice. Of course I may be biased because one of the guys is my best friend, but they are pretty fun live. It's nothing out of the ordinary, but you can tell they love doing it.

Oh, and I'll be recording this show for them, so no running up to me and yelling

There's a slim chance me and my friend will be opening up with a few songs of our own. We need to practice a few more times, and I don't think we have enough open nights to get a decent set together by then, but who knows. If not this show, we'll definitely open for them the next time they come to Sayde's or anywhere else.

transplant

wouldn't mind hearing a couple live tracks if you ever get them up on the website.

BinFrog

transplant wrote:

wouldn't mind hearing a couple live tracks if you ever get them up on the website.

I recorded their last show, but unfortunately one of the mic cables was messed up and thus half of the first set went to mono in and out. Sets 2 and 3 came out ok (with minor issues) as far as an audience recording goes. The only problem is that I don't have permission from them to post any samples unfortunately. I have an mp3 of one of the songs on my computer here, but I wouldn't feel right publishing it without their consent. Aside from a slightly botched ending, it's a decent example of how they sound live.

BinFrog

It looks like my jam buddy and I will be opening for them. I am SO psyched.

transplant

I went out to their site and got the 3 tracks, haven't listened to them yet but wanted to point out that once I was on the page to download the songs, I couldn't get out of it. Tried clicking on the options at the top, like Blog, Merch etc... but it kept going back to the page I was on. I eventually had to start over from scratch.

I use Safari as a browser so perhaps it may be related to that? who knows, perhaps I had a hiccup on my broadband. just wanted to point it out.

have fun opening up. sounds great.

BinFrog

transplant wrote:

I went out to their site and got the 3 tracks, haven't listened to them yet but wanted to point out that once I was on the page to download the songs, I couldn't get out of it. Tried clicking on the options at the top, like Blog, Merch etc... but it kept going back to the page I was on. I eventually had to start over from scratch.

I use Safari as a browser so perhaps it may be related to that? who knows, perhaps I had a hiccup on my broadband. just wanted to point it out.

have fun opening up. sounds great.

The server is messed up and has been down all morning. I don't even know how you got on the site to begin with!

BinFrog

It appears to be back up now.

BinFrog

The show went pretty good all things considered! Once I loosened up we did pretty darn good for our first time out.

imspinnin

Congrat's...glad you had a good night!!!

BinFrog

imspinnin wrote:

Congrat's...glad you had a good night!!!

All things considered I was psyched with how it turned out. My buddy had played open mics before, but I had only ever played at parties and with friends. We had our fair share of screwed up transitions, and a few real sour notes, but for a 45 minute first ever set, I was thoroughly happy with how it turned out. I knew we wouldn't be perfect. There was 0% chance of that happening. We've only jammed together since like mid December, and some of the songs we played we've only tried maybe 3-4 times in practice. But we gritted through it and aside from the sour notes and transition biffs, we did pretty good.

transplant

ok, so are you going to throw up some mp3's of YOUR performance ? Glad you had a great night.

BinFrog

Sure. Like I said, you have to brace yourself for a few errors, but cut us some first-show-jitters slack. We've jammed together like once a week for a couple of months: we can only get better.

http://www.dreamt.org/spinfrog/MarcAndBrian-MrsRobinson-NoRain.mp3

(Yeah I know, the f'd up note to kick into No Rain *kills* me but it was the first song we played and I was not into the flow quite yet. We're gonna save that for later in the set the next time we play...when it works it is really cool how the songs flow into each other)

http://www.spinners-web-design.com/MarcAndBrian-Coventry.mp3

http://www.spinners-web-design.com/MarcAndBrian-Porch.mp3

http://www.dreamt.org/spinfrog/MarcAndBrian-MovingOn.mp3

I'm on electric for all of these, and he is on acoustic and singing.

transplant

BinFrog wrote:

(Yeah I know, the f'd up note to kick into No Rain *kills* me but it was the first song we played and I was not into the flow quite yet. We're gonna save that for later in the set the next time we play...when it works it is really cool how the songs flow into each other)

I was wondering about that transition, then about 1 minute before you do kick into No Rain, I definitely felt it. Pretty cool. Nice clean recording also.

BinFrog

transplant wrote:

I was wondering about that transition, then about 1 minute before you do kick into No Rain, I definitely felt it. Pretty cool. Nice clean recording also.

I dig how they flow together. I just sort of listen for when he throws in the D chord and I slowly start teasing No Rain.