Baja Dunes bajadunes2010-10-23.sbd.flac16
2010-10-23 Bookwalter Winery
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Baja Dunes Live at Bookwalter Winery on 2010-10-23
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Set 1: 1. Blue Monk 2. Route 66 3. Black Orpheus 4. Cantaloupe Island 5. Satin Doll 6. Moondance 7. Pink Panther Set 2: 1. Summer Rain 2. Horse With No Name 3. Girl from Ipanema 4. Comin' Home Baby 5. Georgia 6. Every Day I Have the Blues Set 3: 1. Chittlins Con Carne 2. Spooky 3. Sleepwalk 4. Caravan 5. Rikki Don't Lose That Number 6. Stormy Monday Set 4: 1. Brown Eyed Girl 2. Mr. Magic 3. Evil Ways 4. On and On 5. Wonderful Tonight 6. Margaritaville 7. Your Mama Don't Dance 8. Kevin piano honkeytonk thing 9. Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone Cast of characters: Kevin B. Selby - Keyboards, Bass/Drum programming, Vocals, Guitar Lee Ford - Guitars, Vocals Greg Miner - Sax (soprano, alto, tenor), Flute Musicians perspective: Why is it that I always have to learn SOMETHING on every single gig? Why can't a single gig go by where everything absolutely goes RIGHT? Why? Sigh. Soooo...we got the bright idea to bring a slightly bigger PA, so I brought "the rack" which has my Behringer Xenyx 2442FX mixer, some amps, and my Behringer 12" mains and I fully separated the Front-Of-House (FOH) mix from the R16 mix (which is what the musicians monitored with). Well...you should ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS have SOME way of monitoring what "the people" are hearing. In this case, by the THIRD set, I finally had routed a stereo feed off the Xenyx into the Behringer headphone amp and I could easily switch between what the R16 was "hearing" and what the Xenyx was "hearing" (and thus sending out to FOH). Never mind that during Set 2, the audience repeatedly asked for my vocals and my keyboards to come up in the FOH mix. Seriously people...you should never make your audience help you correct your mix. Now...many of you musicians can probably identify with this: when you, the musician, are so "fiddly" with the gear, it interrupts your performance and actually hurts it a little. Thus, the first two sets are definitely not as good, tight, and energetic as they could have been. Sets 3 and 4 are pretty good though, so I'm happy we (mostly "I") got it all figured out. I'm selling off most of my big PA and going with separate individual Behringer keyboard amps and between two of those and my Hartke keyboard amp, that will be my "PA". It's plenty "good enough" for the venues and type of music that we play and it will keep the overall mix "simple" (simple is good!). Okay...all the technical junk behind us, there were some excellent versions of Cantaloupe Island, Every Day I Have the Blues, Caravan (listen to that Sitar and Fiddle! Yee haw!), Rikki, and Mr. Magic was pretty high energy. Until next time, Kevin B. Selby
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