gig report
Dec. 31st, 2002 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbKimo's, 2002-12-30
Tonight was my first gig in San Francisco. I played a sideman set with Kristina at Kimo's, identified by sfstation.com as a gay bar, but the sexual identity of the bar turned out to be moot, because we played upstairs, at the other bar, and the only people there who weren't playing were the bands' friends. It was, accordingly, a friendly night.
I listened to Brad Mehldau's Largo all the way up. After "loading in", Kristina and M.G. and I had a tasty dinner at Chai Yo. Later I got to show off my new melodica to innocent passersby.
The first act was a guy named Jonathan (didn't catch his last name), who played acoustic songs about relationships, at least one of which I quite liked. Next were the jazz-folk stylings of Kristina, which I think went pretty well, although we should've asked to have the monitor levels adjusted, or, you know, done a sound check. It's the first time I've played melodica with Kristina since the old one developed tuning issues, and I'm never sure anyway about melodica volume.
Reportedly the evening was being recorded, by the sound man, whose name was Boom.
The last band was a highly enjoyable rock trio called The Audrye Sessions. (They sound less mellow in concert than they do on the web site.) Great songs, great vocals, tight sound. The only real problem was that the singer ended almost every song by saying "That's that song."
The booking strategy at Kimo's, I gathered secondhand, is to throw together acts that are pretty different and try to draw an eclectic crowd. I liked all three sets. I'd go again, especially if I lived, you know, in San Francisco.
I listened to Largo all the way home, in a downpour, reflecting:
Tonight was my first gig in San Francisco. I played a sideman set with Kristina at Kimo's, identified by sfstation.com as a gay bar, but the sexual identity of the bar turned out to be moot, because we played upstairs, at the other bar, and the only people there who weren't playing were the bands' friends. It was, accordingly, a friendly night.
I listened to Brad Mehldau's Largo all the way up. After "loading in", Kristina and M.G. and I had a tasty dinner at Chai Yo. Later I got to show off my new melodica to innocent passersby.
The first act was a guy named Jonathan (didn't catch his last name), who played acoustic songs about relationships, at least one of which I quite liked. Next were the jazz-folk stylings of Kristina, which I think went pretty well, although we should've asked to have the monitor levels adjusted, or, you know, done a sound check. It's the first time I've played melodica with Kristina since the old one developed tuning issues, and I'm never sure anyway about melodica volume.
Reportedly the evening was being recorded, by the sound man, whose name was Boom.
The last band was a highly enjoyable rock trio called The Audrye Sessions. (They sound less mellow in concert than they do on the web site.) Great songs, great vocals, tight sound. The only real problem was that the singer ended almost every song by saying "That's that song."
The booking strategy at Kimo's, I gathered secondhand, is to throw together acts that are pretty different and try to draw an eclectic crowd. I liked all three sets. I'd go again, especially if I lived, you know, in San Francisco.
I listened to Largo all the way home, in a downpour, reflecting:
- Cars should not slide.
- What a bizarre user interface cars have, where we have to teach our feet to calculate derivatives with the gas pedal.
- What kind of a moron tailgates on the freeway in drenching rain? (A: The kind that was in the car behind me around San Mateo.)
