Why is it that Theory of a Deadman had the best live mix I've heard from a band, ever? I don't care for them. I was not there to see them. But still, I could hear every single syllable out of that man's mouth. This was sometime last year. Since then I've seen one terrible sounding show after another. Vocals are but an afterthought to the rock engineer.
Last night, I had Equalizers floating through my head through the entire concert. If only I could turn the mids down on the guitars! If only I could boost the vocals at 4k. All would be well in the world.
Still, under the muddy mix, Finger Eleven were fantastic. As always.
As always, we gathered around their tour bus like birds of prey. Like teen girls, eagerly awaiting the band's emergence. Others gave up, but not us.
Guitarist extraordinaire, James Black recognized Jeremy from The Robert Cake straight off and we talked that for a bit. He does in fact love Adam Wekarski for his Bruce Campbell-esque lovably bad but good acting styles. He even paraphrased one of his lines, I can't remember which.
Also, he asked about the progress of Orbiting Ethan Oort, which was shocking and obviously something Natalie must have mentioned to him. Then we talked about current movies for half an hour and all the other fans left; bored.
Story-short... He unloaded mega compliments for actually getting out there and DOING things. For just making things happen for ourselves. Because no one else is going to make a movie for us. Then he gave us his personal email address and told us to contact him if we ever need any music for a film. That he'd really like to score a film someday too. It was fucking surreal.
Fucking surreal.
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