Nice shot of Pete, Monica, and I on stage. Unfortunately as is always the case whenever there's a really good photo of the band playing live, our drummer Dave is nowhere to be seen.
If I had only taken one step back and Monica was better illuminated this could have been a really good shot too.
A nice picture of Monica. Lots of pictures of Monica on my camera. Boy, you'd think Joe had a crush on her or something. Unfortunately most of them are either too dark or out of focus. My camera has a hard time auto focusing in the dark.
Here's a good shot of Monica and Pete. Monica is belting the living crap out of some note Opera Style. It was probably taken during Tentacle Monster or Tune those are two songs where Monica really cuts loose with the Opera Fu (Opera Fu + Punk =
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A rare photo of our elusive drummer Dave. Poor dave. All the shots of him are like those blurry bigfoot photos... him and Elvis sitting together in a Missouri Burger King.
They certainly heard Dave though, and people went freaking nuts during his drum solo in Spy Number Seven. He really freakin' rocked out. I wish we had run a line off the mixer into a digital recorder and made a live recording of the night because that song would have been freaking gold.
And of course, your pal Uncle Ghastly.
The show was pretty good although I heard from some people that the guitar and the keyboards wern't loud enough in the mix, particularily the keyboards. A lot of soundmen don't realize that I'm basically the band's lead guitarist. They assume I take on the typical keyboardist role in a band and just pad some chords in the background so usually we tell them ahead of time to make sure I'm upfront in the mix because I'm the lead. Unfortunately we didn't this time and I appearently got mixed into the basement. Those closer to the stage might have got to hear the keyboards directly from my keyboard amp. Oh well, live and learn, lots of people still came up to us after the show saying they really loved our sound.
One of the coolest moments of the night was when we closed with Tentacle Monsters and I looked out and there were these people sitting at one table singing along with the song! Not just the "tentacle love" bit but the entire song. They knew each and every word so they'd obviously downloaded the song off the webpage. People holding up lighters, cellphones, and even digital camera displays and waving them back and forth during the end of that song was hillarious too.
