Rabbit on the Radio
Played and interviewed live on KRFC radio in Fort Collins today. Super nice people up there, but we had some major sound issues that probably weren’t obvious to the listeners – but definitely one of those situations where you go into ‘survival mode’ and just try and push through it.
Radio works on a strict schedule in general, and for this 1-hour show, they always want the band to play right at the top of the show as it starts. We were all set up and ready to go, and as the ‘canned’ intro music and narration started to introduce the show, my (Russ) vocal mic stopped working… so we’re listening to this ‘countdown’ to start the show, when we’re supposed to start playing right away, and as far as we know, the lead vocal mic doesn’t work – and we’re planning to start with “September.” All of us were looking at eachother wondering what the song would sound like as an instrumental (yikes). Not exactly a great way to start the show and calm the nerves… BUT… Beers counted us in, we powered through it, my mic “popped” on a split second before I started singing, and despite some nasty pitchy-ness at the top of the song, the rest was okay. Throughout the show our headphones were all broken (we were warned as we were setting up earlier)… sometimes there would be no vocals in them, other times the vocals were ear-bleeding loud. Sometimes there were drums, sometimes no drums. Sometimes no electric guitar, other times screeching loud guitar… varying throughout the songs. Yep. Energy bubble. Focus. Listen. Settle in. Breathe. And just jam and enjoy it.
They gave us a CD of the show when we left, so I was able to listen to it later this afternoon, and I was shocked that we actually sounded half-decent/passable. Good times. Here are some pics from the studio before we went on-air. Thanks to all of you who were able to listen to it… we’ll get some of it up here on the Backstage for download later.
Beers setting up for the radio show.
Setting up for the show
Anton prepping for the radio show