Getting Better!!!

Last week was a busy one for my band Morning Glory! We played the Eagle Rock Farmer’s Market on Saturday. This is a strange market that’s actually in the parking lot of the Eagle Rock Plaza. We hadn’t played live for a while & were pretty rusty, but we still had fun. Thanks to all of the family & friends for showing up – we’ll play better next time!
Actually, next time was pretty soon after that. We played a late night gig in Eagle Rock at Dave’s Chillin’ & Grillin’ sandwich shop. It was Dave (the owner’s) birthday, and he likes us, so he asked us to play for his party. Unfortunately, we still weren’t playing too great – too much partying with Dave probably! Plus the space was really small, so we should have played much quieter – I think we probably annoyed a lot of people : (

There were some nice moments, though. We did play pretty well at first! Plus it was also Doug’s birthday, so we had a band celebration for our wonderful bass player! We played until 2:30 in the morning, and we had some pretty good jams, but everyone was kind of grumpy at the end. Some people were really upset with each other for playing certain ways (loud), and of course the alcohol didn’t help much! It wasn’t a horrible night, but I think that everyone was a little disappointed with how we had done.

Fortunately, the next day was the complete opposite!! We played one of our strangest gigs ever – a benefit for the deaf! It was impossible not to make jokes about it, but it turned out to be a really great gig!! The good side of all of that ill feeling from the night before is that everyone was trying to play really nice and mellow – this could also be because of hangovers! But I think that we kind of learned our lesson, and really did learn from the Dave’s experience. You’d think that we would have figured this out by now, but it’s so easy to fall into bad habits when you have loud electric instruments. We’d probably be better off as a folk band!! Hopefully we can keep all of this in mind. Thanks to the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness, and to everyone else for a good learning week!

Of course I didn’t get any pictures of the good gig!