We had a fabulous Friday night, that is until Kelly Rae lost her voice. The guys had to pretty much cover the last set without her. In fact, Kelly is not feeling much better today so Kellye Huff will be joining us tonight. She's always great to work with.
Anyway, here's my set up. I didn't even turn the amp on because the band has started using the IEM system here at The Ranch. Art didn't even bring an amp this weekend.
Mark, the sound guy, left the floor wedges in place just in case we needed them. We didn't.
After our sound check we retired to the green room for a pleasant repast. I again had the fish tacos and some mixed greens with grilled chicken.
Here's my amp-selfie showing off my in-ears. I use my own earbuds, Shure E215, with the club's wireless IEM pack. It sounded fine. It just didn't have the "kick in your pants" feel that you get with a fully powered up back line. But everyone I talked to said it sounded great out front. Mark is a REALLY good sound guy.
Yay! Jeff is ready to put on the show. He also uses a wireless mic headset and his wireless key-tar.
Mario is happy he doesn't have to play a set of crummy old V-drums.
Art and Daniel join Kelly and Heather, the entertainment manager, for a picture just before Heather announces us.
I had the pleasure of showing off for a bass player friend of mine, Chris, from the Fab 8, and his wife. We had a great time hanging out for a couple of breaks. They were very complimentary of everything about The Ranch, the food, the atmosphere, the sound and light system, the band, and made me feel that I was doing a good job. It was great having you guys there.
Here are some pictures from the staff photographer, ripped from The Ranch's Facebook page. Kelly puts on the show, before she lost her voice.
She was the only one on stage who was not using IEMs. It must've been weird for her not hearing much on stage. Daniel still used his amp but no one else did. Kelly had to put all the instruments in her wedges.
Then there's this guy. What a goof. I suppose every band needs a bass player and since I was holding one, I played it.
Jeff was sounding really good last night even though is was a little under the weather too. But he's feeling better today.
Here we go again, putting on a show. Sometimes we have our fun.
Art and I used our acoustics for a couple of numbers tonight.
Here's a couple of action shots. Five, six, seven, eight!
Another one of the dozens of line dances that this crowd knows. I don't know how they keep them all straight.
This is Shelly, one of the dance instructors, taking part in the conga line while I sing "Love Train".
Do "The Wobble"!!!
Here's a few pictures from Saturday night. Like I mentioned before, our dear friend Kellye Huff filled in for Kelly Rae tonight. Kelly had lost her voice the night before and is on the mend. Here's my amp-selfie with Kellye.
This weekend the backline bass amp in The Ranch is only a camera stand. I didn't even turn it on tonight because the whole band was using IEMs. It's working out really well. Kellye has been using IEMs for a while now.
Here's our entertainment director, Heather, with Kellye just before Heather announces the band and we begin the festivities.
I took this picture through the plexiglass drum shield. I guess Mario thought I was having trouble seeing him.
We celebrated Art's birthday tonight. Daniel's wife had baked a pie for Art and we made sure he enjoyed it.
Heather took a few pictures with her phone and shared them.
Kellye did such a great job. Some of the tunes we never even rehearsed but we all kept our ears open and played off of each other and had a ball. Then the night was over. It seems I still have a lot of stuff to load out even though I didn't bring an amp or a PA.
It really was a fun night. We all felt like we were cheating on Kelly Rae. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!) But you know Kellye has worked with us several times before. We were all glad she was available and could do the gig. I think the crowd would've gotten pretty board listening to us hairy legged boys all night long.
I've got a few more gigs to get caught up with so I'll post them up as soon as I can. Thanks for looking!
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
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