Good luck with the audition.  At least this one isn't out in the middle of nowhere.

Dude, you're gonna f*cking kill it at your audition! I have faith in you bro!

Well, i finally got to audition. It was ok. I definitely fretted over it too much. Threshold band was a nice group of folks. Guitarist was super quiet. Bass player had an extremely dry humor about him.  The woman singer was nice and sang well.

The audition was way unbalanced in sound. Guitarist got loud at times. I really didn't hear much of the bass player. He was sitting in front of his own speaker. The singer was a little too quiet. She should have turned up. I plugged directly into their mixing board. My levels were ok. In hind sight I should have brought in Tony's PA.

 I played well.  I did fret before hand and practiced what I could. I was prepared. I delivered, I think.

Funny thing. The first song was Gel. I'm going to nail this. Half way into the song, I lose the snare. No sound. Come to find out, I didn't have the connector all the way in. D'oh!!!
I played without a snare dammit.

The rest of the songs go well, but as I said, I thought the kit sounded lame.

They told me "good job". And we know that could mean nice little pat on the head... Or they liked me. I couldn't tell. As I was packing up, the next audition guy was a huge, huge man. Kinda looked like Paul Sr. from American Chopper. His breath smelled of heavy smoke. Kinda wished I stayed and heard. Not sure that's a good idea.

The band is going through heavy changes. They lost their keyboard player to bad, bad health. The guitarist just lost his job. And their drummer was done.

That's all I got. I'm glad I experienced it. I don't think they are what I'm looking for. The song selection was fun, but unfocused. They are all over the place, chaotic, and not seeing the overall entertainment direction. I might be to harsh I judgement. I just didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling. Then again I might not be even considered... Too much ego?

I might have another audition Sunday. We'll see.

You're right. I've discovered, doing anything with 'confidence' makes my life easier and fun.

I've got some good news. It's official. I'm part of a band. After about a month of auditioning and waiting, the band informed me I'm with them. I didn't want to say anything until I found out for sure.

I'm pretty excited. I like all the folks. I like the music, but I especially like the direction. The band is called Sunset Park and that does sound like it reflects the sound of the band. It's classic rock and pop.  Lot's of dancing music to get the people out.

I think some bar work is in the plan but it's gonna be more outdoor venues, maybe weddings, and special engagements.

It's a guy and his female friend starting the band. She wants to sing lead about half the time and back up. We have a bass player about my age that's been doing this for awhile. A younger guitarist with interest in altenative and jazz material. He seems to be good with the material we have. A sax player who I have worked next to at Boeing. Nice guy and like what he can bring to the band. And just introduced the other guitarist who will mostly do rhythm and he sings (high) as well.

I might be jumping the gun about my enthusiasm, but I excited and hoping for the best.

Absolutely

Don't you have any music stores that offer rentals? We have them here and you can rent the equipments (PA Systems, Guitars and most importantly Kits). I think this would be a great way to demo either options and use them in a real world environment and see what each has to offer. This way you will get a better idea of what they can and can't do before shelling out the bucks. It's one thing to try them out in a store, but it's another thing to actually try them out with a band under your own terms and for the duration of the rental. Nothing worse than trying them out in a store and only having a few minutes to play before you start getting the evil eye from one of the employees that wishes you just just buy the f*cking thing already.  Just food for thought.

Things are still progressing at a snails pace. Still trying to find another singer (male).

We are tentatively penciled in for a private part June 27th. Small informal set we can get a kick off and figure out some sound concerns.