So, how did it go?
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Thanks for asking !
we survived 
A few songs were good, some were OK, a few were disastrous but our drummer / singer covered the mess by his excellent performance !
All in all a great time and a lot of fun for our friends …but I don’t promise we’ll do it next year for my 50 birthday
will share more details later
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So all in all good fun.
The list of sings was as planned.
WWW (What Went Well)
- We made it to the gig with no family drama, my 4 sons have strong characters and we manage to work together for several hours without clashes and as a band we have shared a great time
- We can go through a list of songs without our teacher in the middle helping us recover from misses
- My wife was absolutely happy, she keeps on reviewing the videos from the event and wanted to share all songs to her friends (the great, the good … and the ugly)
- Great #3 - Singer and drummer - outstanding performance on drums and great vocals (people were asking if he was taking lessons) . Even if I’m a bass player I can testify a great vocalist and drummer can make it rock !
- Lovely #4 - Sax - my youngest son (8 yo) had a lot of girls from his age that felt completely in love and wanted to stay as close as possible to him during the whole show
- Overall great energy from the crowd, lot of my cousins were with us and most of them really like having fun - We owe them a large share of the success
- We enjoyed it and the oldest 2 sons are determined to come to our Sunday music lesson more often and are creating set list of songs they want to learn as a group
- So fun to have great equipement (what we rented was great quality and great fun), I have never felt my bass this way (same applies to people leaving >500m away from our garden )
- First experience of a gig with lot of things to organize and a lot of learnings
- Lights - we bought a few very cheap amazon lights and the outcome was really great
- Weather was absolutely perfect ! this was a bet as the date was set a chile back
- Police didn’t show up to ruin the party
EBI (Even Better If)
- Transitions - we were not 100% ready (to say the least) to move from one song to another (I won’t finger point anyone but some were more ready than others )
- Overall balance of sound - It was great during rehearsal but we modified a few things by accident - the song was too loud, the bass was too low (of course), the sax was too low… and we had low volume for our “return speaker” not helping us
- Recording - we have iphone videos but they don’t give credits to the singer who was praised by the crowd - we should have tried to do something better for this event
- Tune - Some issues in some songs were our guitarist was a little off in tempo and notes but nothing really problematic
Thank you all for your support !
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Just saw this thread- well done.
Some of those songs are a bit tricky too
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That. Is. Awesome!
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Congratulations!
That’s amazing.
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I had simplified version for some of them
The ones I played following the original bass are
- Sunshine of your love (instr.)
- Trouble
- Another brick in the wall
- Hey Jude
- Please come home for Christmas
- Baby can I hold you
- Begin’
- Zombie
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Is that Begin the Beguine by Cole Porter with the great walking bass line? haha
No - Maneskin one
I might have misspelled it
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