Thursday Night in Sandy Springs Takes a Stormy Monday Turn of Events

It was perfect weather until it wasn't anymore.  That's how these things can go.  A tent wouldn't have even been much help with these tornado-like winds, blowing trees over and dropping dime-sized hail pellets on our mid-spring soiree.  The band was Martay and Brent, our 2nd of 3 jobs this week.  If only we could be busy like this all of the time!  We played on the topmost level of the JE Dunn parking deck.  Our stage was in full sun, while all of the employees hung out in the shade across the lot from us.  Interesting.  On the plus side, they served us some most excellent southern barbecue, chicken and pork, along with sides of excellent cole slaw (my favorite kind, without the mayo and with pepper seasonings), baked beans, and corn bread muffins, plus some good sweet tea!  It was a great meal!  We played a good generous 75 minute set before our break: mid tempo stuff like Tequila Sunrise, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Sitting Waiting Wishing, Deacon Blues, Sweet Home Alabama (I think at this point I've played that one more than any other tune!).  Sounded good and strong.  The PA was nice and loud, using Martay's Peavey power amp instead of the Mackie powered mixer for the mains. The powered mixer just doesn't have the headroom when we start getting fancy and miking up the kick.  This was very clean.  I got there before Martay returned from his afternoon gig and dialed it up.  In "Bridged Mono", those power amps typically only receive the input signal from 1 side (channel A).   Care must be taken to connect everything correctly.  The storm came after our break.  We got a couple of songs into it and then big raindrops started splattering around us.  That was that!  Pack it up fast!  I managed to stop and take a couple of pics - always ready to report to you faithful readers!

Batten down the hatches!