Gretsch content, I'm playing my '54 Country Club.
We played the Blue Monday at a local high-end restaurant. Every time we play this place, after the first song the owner asks, no...demands that we turn down even though we start at a low level so as not to curdle anyone's soup. When people get up to dance we turn up, or maybe we turn up and then people get up to dance...I'm not sure which, I've been playing professionally for a long time...I can read the audience's mind. Then we'll be playing away with everybody dancing and the owner is dancing and smiling even though we're twice as loud as when he asked us to turn down. I suppose it has something to do with the cash register at the bar ringing up all those sales of overpriced booze. At any rate, in this video the owner can be seen stepping outside to demand of Ogre, our soundman/roadie that he turn us down. Ogre tells him to shove it. Ogre is a scary looking dude with big muscles so the owner backs down. In the next scene we're playing the first song after our opening instrumental and there is the owner in the foreground, happily dancing to the music even though we are about 6 or 8db louder than we were when he demanded the volume to be lower. What is really sad about this is that a lot of club owners pull the same power trip even though they've got next to no experience with live music and the musicians working there have decades.
The video is called Mojo Blow Out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnHQJLQC-I8
