The Wellspring:Gallery of Creations show at WestGate went off spledidly. It was nice to have a "relaxed" set up and sound check... for once not having to worry about being rushed off the stage for whatever reason. I say "relaxed" (with the quotation marks) only because it really didn't turn on exactly that way.
Load-in was peaceful enough. WestGate's stage is HUGE relative to our normal fare. Mark and Rich arrived a little later, roadie-less, and therefore a tad behind schedule. Still had plenty of time though. Its was only when I got everything situated and powered up that I realized my powerbook G4 wasn't charging up. Seeing how my pbook runs all the samples and synths for MI, we were going to be in quite a situation with only %50 power (and falling). Hmmm. No Time to go to the Apple store and pick up a new adapter, nor was there time to go home and grab a spare... Luckily, some fast dialing over to Design Reactor and I was able to catch my friend Jason before he left. He brought over his AC adapter and we were back in business.
The cool thing about this show was the fact that we got to use WestGate's Aviom monitoring and in-ear monitoring system.... And we quite possibly had the best mixes EVER. What a difference in-ears make. Too bad we can't count on IEMs for every show.
