The Milwaukee performance has past. It was a nice time up there. We had the main stage, and I'm told it sounded great in front, even though they didn't have my pedal-triggered backing samples in the mains, which sort of makes me cranky, since I put a lot of fucking work into getting the coordination down. The samples are a new thing I'm trying, rather than playing with a prerecorded backing track. It gives us a little more control and flexibility, even though I have to work twice as hard onstage. But it's over and I have to let the fact that people couldn't hear them go. If nothing else, we looked fabulous up there! I'm going to try to get video from the show posted later this week or early next week.
It was also Jon's birthday today, so that was cool. We had some friends with us and we hung out at the fest for a while.
Roger Kuhn was playing on another stage, and after we finished our set, one of the stagehands came up to me and said there's a guy at the gate wondering if he could borrow some guitar strings. It turned out to be Roger, who'd broken a string onstage, and then broke his last replacement string as well. I just let him borrow my guitar, rather than strings. We wandered over to the stage he was playing on and got the hear the rest of his set. He's got a big voice, which was well suited to a big stage and sound system.
For the last few songs he did, he dedicated them to me. All of them. So for four songs, he said, "I'd like to dedicate this song to Timmy..." before each one. It was super cute and made me blush. He was definitely having fun with it. Afterward, he gave me a copy of his cd, which was very sweet. I'll get a chance to listen to it tomorrow, because right now, I'm just vegging, with no music whatsoever.
I finally got to meet David, the guy who organized the whole thing. I was surprised, since he looked like he was no more than 22. He totally had his shit together. The whole thing was organized very well, from the band's perspective. I don't know what the other bands thought, but I thought he did a great job. And he's a cutie to boot.
Speaking of cuties, I had the first model in the studio yesterday morning to shoot the first images of my abstract physique series. He did a great job, and was a real sport. The first pose was him sitting on his knees naked, and he had to stay like that for, I guess it must have been around half an hour at least. He's a former football player, and I noticed him fidgeting a bit and I asked him if he had bad knees. Of course, having played football for 12 year, he had bad knees. I felt pretty bad, so I tried to finish up those shots as soon as I could. The rest of the shots he was able to sit down on a stool.
Anyway, I am very happy to have the first shots in the can, and I can't wait to build more in the series. I might start putting them up on my site right away, since I have at least four great ones of Tim (his name is also Tim), and probably one or two good ones of myself from the test shots I did. I might have one other model in later this week.
