Enveloped Ideas

june 30 at the hard rock cafe makati. i gots to play there for the launch of the dawn tribute album, 'enveloped ideas'. the dawn is pretty much one of the bands i most respect; these guys are very forward thinking. they never want to do the same thing on every album, they experiment with their craft and they've came out with a lot of interesting tunes. and having buddy zabala formerly of the eraserheads as their bassist didn't hurt either.

i played for two bands this night; one for my band switch and the other as a session guitarist for playphonics. switch covered 'difference' while the latter covered 'tulad ng dati'. there were 15 bands who played that night and my bands were number 4 and 13 on the list. talk about unlucky numbers, eh?

playphonics was the first to play. everything seemed ok during soundcheck. even the tech guy gave me the thumbs up. but as soon as i played the intro lick, the aforementioned tech guy suddenly rushes to the stage and turns my volume down. now i can barely hear whatever i'm playing. i know the guy was only doing his job, but i still think he's an idiot.

nine bands later, it was switch's turn to play. was surprised that idiot tech guy didn't mind the grating levels of my guitar this time around. idiot. i think we played a decent set. once again switch was the rotten apple of the bunch. my friends noted that we were the noisiest band of the night. i consider that a huge compliment.