How did your Easter gig go?

tubaman5150 · Post by **tubaman5150** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:49 am

Mine was slow. Two services of a very long winded minister. The congregation was mesmerized by me emptying my slides. Other than that, it went off with out a hitch.

dunelandmusic · Post by **dunelandmusic** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:39 pm

Mine went terrificly. Played at a very large church in Chicago's Western suburbs, a Tuesday rehearsal, two services at 9 and 11, which involved 4 Prelude songs, 6 service songs, and a Postlude. There was also a guest college choir there. Everything went very smoothly, the message was great, and everyone was so on their toes, each service ran about 1 hour 15 minutes-seemingly faster than a normal service, and with more packed into it. We had a good 20 minutes between services to chill-usually unheard of. A great Sunday indeed.

Mudman · Post by **Mudman** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:21 pm

bloke wrote: - three superb brass musicians, one very good one, and one who managed to keep up

Glad to hear you managed to keep up

I had a good gig that involved a runthrough of the music on Sunday morning. Two services, and we were allowed to leave to go hang out during communion.

Grits, eggs and bacon between services. What the heck is the difference between porridge and grits? Tastes the same to me.

Matt G · Post by **Matt G** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:30 pm

Mudman wrote:What the heck is the difference between porridge and grits? Tastes the same to me.

Blasphemer.

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:55 pm

Rained out. Now to be "celebrated" next Sunday. Talk about it not being about the holiday! It's all the same to me though, I get paid the same, nuttin, no matter when it is.

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:41 pm

Mine went okay...a couple of flub-ups in Prelude No. 7 for brass quintet but everything we did with the choir was great. Plus I got $200 for playing whole notes and half notes (w/ the exception of the Prelude No. 7...basically all sixteenths).

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:22 am

We had a good time.Earlier in the week,we took our small P.A. to a supper club gig.We agreed to turn the tuba channel up a bit and blew one of our 10 inch speakers-tore the paper cone and the magnet was blown away from it's containment.80 bucks to fix it.
So we brought the "big"system with the JBL 15's to the yacht club party.
With all that power we could run the system low and still part people's hair.
The crowd was much larger than we anticipated and the six speakers placed inside and out lit up Fly Creek all the way to "Devil's Hole".
The crowd was in a great mood and so was the band.We lined up about 25 kids,gave them all kazoos and had them play and dance the "Hokey Pokey".
Later on the dancers were really getting motivated and the manager asked us to "turn it up".No problem.When we tried our new arrangement
of "Hotel California"with all tuba solos,we were rewarded with several folks hollering,"That's a keeper".They also liked "Seafood Love" and "Trailer Park in Heaven".
Fun night for us!
tubatooter1940

adam0408 · Post by **adam0408** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:24 am

my easter gig was driving a long ways and picking up my tuba!!!!!
YAY I had to pay for it but it was worth it:

Miraphone 1291 5VC WOO HOO

Carroll · Post by **Carroll** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:12 am

Easter job was fine... two services, free pancakes and sausage in between, brass quartet - two trumpets, two euphoniums. But I was still a little sore from Saturday when my euphonium quartet recorded our Christmas album (planned on doing it during August, but life got in the way)