Sunday, September 18, 2016

The Virgin Run

Veering off the topic of religion/politics for a bit, my new band did its virgin run in front of 40 or 50 screaming metal-heads last Friday night, along with two bands from Atlanta. No bugs to work out in our set, really, well, except for our guitar player coming unplugged from his pedal board for about 15 seconds, which of course seemed like 15 minutes at the time. Whatever...bass and drum solo.

But anyway, the only real challenge now, is, a) finding places for us to play that welcome non-top 40 acts(acts that are all original), and b) finding places for us to play that will accommodate our drummer's monstrosity, albeit, badass, drum kit. The rest should fall into place, at least, according to the feedback from our local fan-base.

Here's a shot from Friday night.....







Notice bass drum heads illuminate our album artwork and logo. Ah, technology.





Here's our group photo taken from the back of our new EP entitled, "Encipher"....











If anyone's curious, yes, that's an inverted cross, but no, I/we don't worship "Satan" = )







5 comments:

Robert said...

It was about as flawless "dress rehearsal" as you could ask for. Hearing the music live REALLY brings it to life - very "in your face" and downright captivating :) The recorded work is great but to hear it live ... just WOW.

I hope you know I don't say things like this unless I really mean it and believe it to be 100% truth

boomSLANG said...

"I hope you know I don't say things like this unless I really mean it and believe it to be 100% truth"

Yes, I know that you don't blow smoke, and I appreciate that. And yeah, the consensus is that the live performance brings something to the table that can't quite be captured on a recording. I'd frankly rather it be that way than the other way around. Nothing worse than a CD really growing on you and then when you finally see the band live, you're like, "Meh".

boomSLANG said...

"Cool"

Thx, Alice. 'Glad you likey!

Anonymous said...

The comments are good ,so DM sounds even better live then on the cd ^_^ I'll be waiting over the pond. Stay save keep your feet dry :p (Hurricane Matthew) and take care !

boomSLANG said...

Thx for your thoughts, Anon. Luckily, DM & Co. are on the West coast of Florida, whereas, Matthew is hitting the East coast. Upwards of 95,000 without power. We have them in our thoughts.