A Gig At Last...

hello everyone...

after letting go of Apple last October and getting Carissa, thanks to Celene (Candy - Vox), during the first week of November, it has always been next to impossible getting things for Soft Pillow Kisses organized... Jann Paul's very busy with his Racket situated somewhere down Southern Luzon, Me and Dennis on the otherhand was always pre-occupied with work, even Rene had his own little rackets and during the first few weeks of Carissa's being an SPK member, she was in some sort of a "Cinderella" situation making it very difficult for me to properly orient her at how things are done... Buzz Night was a very good choice for her debut gig but our participation wasn't really that sure because of the nature of my work...

i was able to assume that we'll be able to make it only a week and a half prior to Buzz Night but things got a bit bleaker since Jann Paul had to go to the province by the 28th... i had Gilbert (Ex-Pillow Drummer) as the first choice to session but i had a hard time reaching him only to get a chance talking to him the night before the gig... it was a good thing that Jeff (Candy - Drummer) was always helping us out in times that Jann Paul wasn't around and inspite of not being able to really practice, he agreed to play for us and was ble to pull it off quite nicely during gig time...

so on to the gig... well, it was fun... and we even fooled around with Carissa on stage poking fun at how she talks which was a bit similar to how Celene was during her first few Candyaudioline stints... it was a bit funny really... Carissa brought along with her on stage her lyric sheets - full sized coupon bonds, and everytime we moved on to the next song, she had to go through them finding the right sheet for the right song... Dennis even poked fun at her bracelets telling her to shake it ala-maraccas stlye while singing... me and Jeff made audible side comments everytime she spoke on the mic... Rene commented at how pa-cute her voice was... well, it was defenitely her first gig and it was understandable... at least she took it all in stride and was a real sport... reminds me of Apple... so there we were, all seriously poised to play and after Carissa made her first speech we all...

the first song was sort of a disaster really... Rene's Bass was out of tune and there were annoying low rumbling feedbacks coming from the mics which really made it difficult for us to sing... i also forgot to remind Jeff not to do the rim shots since we already ditched that approach... we paused a bit after the first song and let Rene tune his bass while the rest of us fooled around with Carissa... after Rene was done, i decided to introduce the second song and started playing... by this time, everything was starting to sound good... i guess we were back again... we got settled down and was really comfortable with everything and started to play the way we usually do not being concerned that it was Carissa's first gig or that it was not Jann Paul playing but Jeff... there were still quite a few misses during the set but over all it was really good...



just can't wait to have practice and play again...