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Saturday was LMS6... The 6th installment of the Renegades's Loud Music Symposium. With our particular knack for bad timing, this performance happened to be right smack in the middle of when we were supposed to finish up our music cues for Death Ride. We managed to squeeze in enough rehearsal time during the previous week, and when Saturday came around we set the
picture aside for a day and cruised up to San Francisco for a Festival of Decibels.
Rain was threatening, so the drive up to SF under interesting-looking cloud formations was sort of inspiring. Mark and I arrived at the Herbst Theater in plenty of time for load in... Rich was there already, having to perform triple duty at LMS with not only MI, but Mini Corps and the Renegades. The Herbst Theater is a wonderful 900-plus seat venue with an immense stage (or at least more immense than we ever get)... And after a few moments spent checking the place out, we were allowed the stage and began setting up. Sound check proved a little stressful... More bass rig problems (but no where near the problems I had back at the Edge a while back) but once I got those ironed out, everything ran quite smoothly. LMS marked the first performance I was using Reason as opposed to my hardware samplers, so I was a bit leery of that... But everything worked just as it should. The big draw back for the evening was having to strike everything after soundcheck. As big as the stage was, it wasn't going to be big enough for our stuff AND all the acts that needed the stage that evening, so down our rigs came.
We had several hours before we were due to hit the stage (our slot in the lineup was first after the intermission), so it was off to Chevy's for dinner... Then back again to catch the opening of LMS6 - specifically the Phenomenauts. Sci-Fi Rocket Roll indeed. I spent the rest of the first half of the show back stage in our dressing room, basking in the luxury of actually having some time to warm up and prepare - as opposed to our normal routine of hastily setting up, playing the set, then feverishly tearing down. As intermission came upon us, we readied our gear, rolling things into place behind the big red curtain... making the appropriate connections, loading the appropriate samples, and testing the appropriate instruments. Curtain up... We rolled.
The set went off great - no major train wrecks, at least. Though I did catch a drumstick to the head during JPTN. We'll have some video and photos to post soon... So check back shortly.
Set List:
Intercepted Entropy
Ghost Curve
Icarus Aspect (new)
Accidental LoFi
Jack Palance the Ninja
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