Since I'll be starting my November gigs in a few days it's probably a good idea if I finish blogging my October dates first. Thanks for putting up with me.
I'll make this quick. This is the second corporate event we've played at The Ranch this week. On a recent Friday night we played a 50th anniversary party for Westbond Inc, a local Orange County manufacturing company. We played on the sixth floor of the Extron building, where The Ranch is located. We had to take the service elevator to the top floor.
The "great room" is a nice event venue and was decorated nicely when I arrived.
But there seemed to be a mess getting everyone on the small stage.
Between Art and Mario you see our favorite sound guy, Mark, doing double duty tonight setting up sound for us and also taking care of his regular duties downstairs in the saloon. I don't think he's had a day off in two weeks.
Here's another shot of the room and the AV presentation.
It looks like we are just about settled on stage.
We retire to our "green room" which is actually the bridal suite. There have been several weddings here at The Ranch and the bride always needs a special place.
We are served supper before we play the dinner set for the corporate attendees. We had a nice spinach salad with apples, walnuts, cranberries, and a selection of hot sandwiches, burgers, sliders, buffalo chicken, etc.
It looks like the attendees will be treated to a nice buffet of their own.
There is a nice sunset from the sixth floor. You can see Disneyland off in the distance. We could even see the fireworks later at 9:30.
Here's a view from my mic just before the doors were opened.
We start the evening by playing some jazz standards for the dinner set. Mario, Kelly, Hal, and I had a good time playing fakebook stuff like "Foggy Day" and "Girl From Impanema".
After our dinner set we were back in the bridal suite waiting for the company to finish dessert and speeches. Here's a glam shot of the whole band. (Jeff couldn't make this gig so Hal was subbing for him.)
Art had a couple of Diet Cokes tonight and the caffeine made him pretty hyper.
Since we were in the bridal suite waiting to go on, the magazine selection was fairly limited.
We went back on after the speeches and played a long dance set. The crowd had a good time and were pretty lively for a corporate event. Then it was time to pack up.
I had actually forgotten my Rock-n-Roller cart so Art let me share his. We loaded up all of our stuff and headed back downstairs. And since we were at The Ranch we stopped in to see our friend Kellye Huff and her band.
We got to visit with the band on a break. Here's Kelly and Kellye.
The boys in the band hassle Mark at The Ranch FOH. I had to leave soon after because Mario pulled Art's finger. Poor Mark had to stay.
All in all, it was an enjoyable evening. Thanks for looking!
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
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