SUMMARY: Good rehearsal, but pay particular attention to these three notes:

• KING OF THE ROAD: …this song is not ready to be performed in Doug’s opinion and is unlikely to be fixed with one rehearsal.
• WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN: Improve: Harmony should be much quieter. BIG PROBLEM.
• WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN: Improve: Consistent ending with the lyrics “before love came to town.”

TECHNICAL: I did not adjust the mix after fine tuning Work It.

Here’s the zip file with all the MP3s:

WORKIT:

• Works: Intro
• Works: Rhythm guitar sound and playing.
• Works: Modulation for Work It
• Improve: Solo guitar and guitar sound (should be louder).
• Improve: Drums, be ready for the end.

CAN’T GET NO GRINDIN: likeable because its the only pure blues songs and the stop work.

• Works: Form with the stops.
• Works: Glens vocal expressiveness.
• Works: Backing vocals.
• Works: Fast tempo.
• Improve: Ending was not right even. Got it right after working it.
• Improve: Dead air in the intro and I recommend editing out the “and pretty much everyone else…”
• Improve: Rohn should be ready
• Improve: Glen lead vocals are a bit too loud but they were adjusted for Work It.
• Improve: Glen lyrics 2^nd verse.

KING OF THE ROAD: likable song, Rohn’s vocals are good when on key. But, this song is not ready to be performed in Doug’s opinion and is unlikely to be fixed with one rehearsal.

• Works: Rohn’s voice sound great when on key.
• Works: Hit the last “man of means” on key.
• Improve: Rohn needs to jump out of the drum area right away. Reduce dead air.
• Improve: Glen needs to provide the note. I recommend finger picking. Guitar came in clashing with Rohn’s pitch.
• Improve: singing be on pitch when the guitar comes in. For 1^st “Man of means”. King of the read end of verse 1. And every handout…
• Improve: Glen’s walk up to first modulation clashes with Rohn’s final phrase: King of the road.
• Improve: Acoustic guitar sound is not good enough. Mic’ing it would be better.
• Improve: Guitar should let the end be accapella?
• Improve: Doug’s finger snapping isn’t loud enough. Even the clapping could be louder. Give him a recommended percussion instrument. Or sit him down at the drums and tell him with single drum to it.

WHEN LOVE COMES TO TOWN: Works when done well (or even close to well). Probably the audience pleaser.

• Works: Intro with crowd voice.
• Works: Opening solo.
• Works: Rohn continuing to play
• Works: Rohn’s singing was almost loud enough.
• Improve: Harmony should be much quieter. BIG PROBLEM.
• Improve: Everyone remember to Yay in the middle.
• Improve: Guitar solo should be louder for V4 call and response.
• Improve: Consistent ending with the lyrics “before love came to town.”

GET THE LOG OUT: Likeable song. Close enough to be performed.

• ISSUE: Intro talk: Longish if no one is listening.
• Works: Outro.
• Improve: When Glen gets used to using the foot pedal he won’t have to noodle between songs.
• Works: Guitar sound and volume on the Intro.
• Works: Backing vocals.
• Improve: Reliable sing backing vocals.
• Improve: Bass reliably play good notes at the end of the verse. Bad on the first verse. 2^nd verse was ok.
• Improve: No backing vocals over the solos.

BEAR THE CROSS: Nice alternative with its own unique sound compared to other songs in set.

• Works: Guitar sound.
• Works: Fast tempo.
• Works: Drums fill the song (despite a minor miss hit).
• Works: Drums when there are 8 beat pauses.
• Improve: Add backing vocals in some future performance.
• Works: Solo at the end.
• Works: Accapella ending.

GO TO RIVER: Would be nice to compare with the studio version.

• Improve: First two bars.
• Improve: Rhythm guitar is too busy on 2^nd verse.
• Improve: Add harmony someday.
• Improve: Reliably sing back vocals that aren’t “Go To The River”.
• Improve: Guitar solos are consistently inconsistent. Opportunities for inconsistent guitar solos should be shortened and minimized with our current line up.
• Improve: Reliably sing “Go To The River” during the solos.
• Improve: Get used to only two solos.