slingerland755
Silver Member
Bad gigs are bummers and leave you feeling pretty hollow. But my thing as Tutin said, is to record the gig.
You want to be a good gigging musician? have have to record yourself every time if you can.
Not so much for its acoustic clarity but a reference point of who was doing what and when. It really a working tool.. work in progress if you will.
It separates perception from reality, " How good you played..." from "...how good you actually sounded"
But here'sthe interesting thing I've experienced over my years of gigging. There are times when I thought we really sucked and were rushing or not musical enough, and then you hear the recording and it all sounds great and the people come up to you and surprise you by saying "hey, you guys sounded incredible" etc..
AND VICE VERSA...
So many times we though we were in the pocket and smokin', and then sure enough, the tell tale tape recording clearly told us a different story...
moral of the story; get yourself a little tape recorder.
So true.......and when in doubt, use more duct tape.