I didn't pick the movies, but it should be cool. With The Lowlights out of town, there are quite a few bands out a member. Here's your chance to see the other members make fools of themselves in a desperate attempt to find something to do. Or at least me. If you are into that kind of thing, you fucked up assholes.
The Dark Crystal is one of those movies that was amazing when you were a kid and then you watch it when you're older because you remember it being awesome, and it's totally not. That's what happened to me, anyway. Labyrinth still rules though. This sounds like it'll be crazy--one of those nights where goth kids, permafried ravers & indie nerds unite in their common interests.
what timing, just saw both these movies back-to-back the other night, cuz i got an itch to see them again after not checkin them out in fuckin years! Rock On! Gotta love the tribute to Jim Henson. This sounds like this shows gonna be a blast!
Yeah, it was lots of fun. There was also people from Feels Like Sunday and Shoulder Voices and...others? Maybe? It was kinda dark. I can't wait to hear the recording, so see if I was at all right about it sounding good, or if that was just my imagination.
My memory tells me the show was good as well. Bobby (U7D, SV) got a recording and I'll it will most likely be available to give to people pretty soon. I don't know if Bobby is going to get Harry a copy and he'll give it out, but you can request one in the SV forum and I'll make sure you get it at some point. It might have to be 3 or 4 CDRs. It was darker, musically, than I imagined it would be. Mostly steady beats from drummers throughout the night kept things from being ambient or spacey, and it stayed mostly steady-rockin'. Did anyone get any instruction or suggestions at all before this? I didn't, but that's how I would have had it if it were up to me. I don't know how much everyone who participated improvises, but overall I was impressed how it held together for two full movies. Cheers!
The first movie was more like one long track, with "movements" at scene changes, but yeah, very dark. The second one was more like songs kinda. The first seemed to follow the movie more and the second seemed to be more improv with each other.
There were very few "bad" moments. I'd say maybe ten minutes total spread out of train-wreck, maybe 20 minutes total of places where one or more people were so dominating that others got pushed out. Maybe 20 minutes of semi-boring shit (and that's fine for a "score" as opposed to a "soundtrack" so I think we totally pulled it off). Of course, you have to be into that stuff; I'll bet some people in the crowd thought it was all noise. Most of the vocals were too quiet!
I don't know about anyone's improv experience. I've only ever done that kinda stuff with people I've played with a lot and never on a stage. The nice thing about being a bass player/vocals is that you can step back if you have to. I left melodies and leadership to others most of the time. I think we all have experience following other players, so that was cool. There were some moments where it really clicked and I could see real songs coming out of it.
I would have picked maybe, say, one key for the skeksies scenes and another key for the hero scenes. I didn't get any instruction though.
