Whew, I am glad yesterday is gone. Crap started when I arrived mid afternoon to setup for a Gig at a Sports Bar for their Grand Opening. A two piece band was originally scheduled from 5.00pm - 8.00pm after which I was supposed to take over and do a combination of Karaoke and Dance music.
Well unknown to me the start hours for the band got changed from 5.00pm to 3.00pm so I arrive just prior to 3.00pm and the band is spread out all over the setup area. Now about a week and a half ago I specifically requested that the band meet with me so we can decide on setup area for them and I. Everything was settled at that time. So I arrived and they were trying to tell me they left space for me. "Where?" I asked. "Up in the air?" Needless to say I made them move things so i could put my speakers where we had originally agreed they would be. They were not happy but I could not care. You guys talk about untidy wires, you should have seen their setup with rat fur speakers and powered mixer balanced on a stool. There were some people there but not that many.
Fast forward to about 6.30pm, my GF comes walking in the door asking me why Idid not return her text (I had not checked my phone). She was in a panic state. Turns out the car could not shut off and the key could not come out of the ignition. I opened up the back area showed her the two battery terminals and told her to go home and take them off and the engine should stop. About 20 mins later she calls and said she did what I told her to do but the engine was still running. She drove back to the Club and the battery terminals were off (Surprised me that she drove and it did not shut down). I noticed that there was some sort of wires going to a connector that looked like an inline fuse. I pulled it apart and the engine stopped. So I sent her back home and instructed her to do what I did which she did.
Now I have to take the car to the dealer tomorrow. It is my fault to a point that this happened because there is a recall on that vehicle 2010 Chevy HHR for that ignition switch. I kept on putting it off so now I have to deal with this tomorrow.
Going back to the club now. The band finished playing at 8.00pm and they two guys said they were going to leave their gear where it was until the next day. I almost blew a fuse. I told them they were being very stupid for leaving band gear with unprotected speaker legs on a dance floor, sharp edges from cymbals exposed as a hazard to people if they decided to start dancing. They took down one of the speakers and placed it directly in front of one of my scoops. I said to one of the guys "If you don't move that speaker from in front of my cabinet, I will and you may not like where I may put it." He grumbled and moved it. What a jerk!
Fortunately, it was only 20 minutes at the end that got devoted to dancing with only a handful of people left after I announced Karaoke was over. 5.5 hours straight of Karaoke. There were about 10 Asian people there singing everything from Pop to Rap. It was hilarious. Over all, everyone had a great time, the owner said he now wished it was just me instead of the Band and I and they want me back on a weekly basis. I have played at this venue before under prior ownership. the place is exactly one mile from my home. I personally had a large group of people who came on my invite, about 35. Karaoke screens worked fine. They even had another TV screen daisy chained from their projector.
Well unknown to me the start hours for the band got changed from 5.00pm to 3.00pm so I arrive just prior to 3.00pm and the band is spread out all over the setup area. Now about a week and a half ago I specifically requested that the band meet with me so we can decide on setup area for them and I. Everything was settled at that time. So I arrived and they were trying to tell me they left space for me. "Where?" I asked. "Up in the air?" Needless to say I made them move things so i could put my speakers where we had originally agreed they would be. They were not happy but I could not care. You guys talk about untidy wires, you should have seen their setup with rat fur speakers and powered mixer balanced on a stool. There were some people there but not that many.
Fast forward to about 6.30pm, my GF comes walking in the door asking me why Idid not return her text (I had not checked my phone). She was in a panic state. Turns out the car could not shut off and the key could not come out of the ignition. I opened up the back area showed her the two battery terminals and told her to go home and take them off and the engine should stop. About 20 mins later she calls and said she did what I told her to do but the engine was still running. She drove back to the Club and the battery terminals were off (Surprised me that she drove and it did not shut down). I noticed that there was some sort of wires going to a connector that looked like an inline fuse. I pulled it apart and the engine stopped. So I sent her back home and instructed her to do what I did which she did.
Now I have to take the car to the dealer tomorrow. It is my fault to a point that this happened because there is a recall on that vehicle 2010 Chevy HHR for that ignition switch. I kept on putting it off so now I have to deal with this tomorrow.
Going back to the club now. The band finished playing at 8.00pm and they two guys said they were going to leave their gear where it was until the next day. I almost blew a fuse. I told them they were being very stupid for leaving band gear with unprotected speaker legs on a dance floor, sharp edges from cymbals exposed as a hazard to people if they decided to start dancing. They took down one of the speakers and placed it directly in front of one of my scoops. I said to one of the guys "If you don't move that speaker from in front of my cabinet, I will and you may not like where I may put it." He grumbled and moved it. What a jerk!
Fortunately, it was only 20 minutes at the end that got devoted to dancing with only a handful of people left after I announced Karaoke was over. 5.5 hours straight of Karaoke. There were about 10 Asian people there singing everything from Pop to Rap. It was hilarious. Over all, everyone had a great time, the owner said he now wished it was just me instead of the Band and I and they want me back on a weekly basis. I have played at this venue before under prior ownership. the place is exactly one mile from my home. I personally had a large group of people who came on my invite, about 35. Karaoke screens worked fine. They even had another TV screen daisy chained from their projector.
