So, we played our set at the Midsummer Music Festival last night. This is what we’d planned for our set list:
EBCB (Because those are the first four notes) – original
Right – original
Shopping Blues – original
Bad Bad Boy
Keep On Lovin’ Me Baby
Distance – original
I Want to Break Free
Won’t Get Fooled Again
I think it went well, despite a technical fault on my part. I forgot to plug in the power supply for my wah wah pedal so, when I tried to use it in the middle of Right, my guitar went silent. I had to take the time to plug it in before the last song because it was essential for that one.
The title of the first song, including the bit in parentheses, got the expected laugh, which seems to be a good way to start a show. Shopping Blues was the song that really got them up dancing. I usually play it in A in normal tuning but I used the old hollow body electric for it this time, tuned to open G, using the slide for the flourishes and solo. This was our first time trying it that way and it seems to have been a bit of a hit.
Because of one thing and another, we ran out of time and didn’t get to do our whole set. We got the five minute warning near the end of Keep On Lovin’ Me Baby so we skipped to the end of our set list.
They say you’re only as good as your last song and we had a great response to ending the set with Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who. I meant to fall down after my big jump at the end. Really I did (not) — but people liked it. The guys in Blind Vinyl were in the audience and they made my night by joining in on the big scream, which just might be the best part of the song. I thought that was pretty cool. Made me smile.
– Brad