The Mummy Debuts

Chuck and I were fortunate enough to find ourselves in a rare situation where we could finally play some WTH material for an audience.  Tap Jackson of Carbin was holding a 4th of July party at his house and arranged for a few bands to play.  Jeeves, also of Carbin, was good enough to join WTH for a set of 4 songs. 

As it had not been done before, Chuck and I decided to open up with “The Mummy”.  Equipped with our trusty Korg N5ex on an arpeggio loop, we started the song off.  Since the recording that we did last week calls for the keyboard to cut in and out over the duration of the song, I rigged up a channel switcher to help us out.  I gotta say, I felt a little like Geddy Lee out there, controlling the keys with my feet, playing the bass, and singing.  Anyway, Chuck was required to wear a headset so that he could maintain the proper tempo while the keys were directed away from the main speakers.  He does that with WIV anyway, so not a problem for him.  Jeeves contributed an amazing solo on a tune that he had not played before (quite good, considering his various hand injuries… knife wounds… jammed finger…).  The tune went over quite well.  I even heard that we had a dancer or two, a scarce event at a WTH show.

We continued with 3 more tunes to finish our set, “Phoenix”, “Reality”, and “Turn Around”.  Tap joined us on the latter two with some well timed keyboards.  In my opinion, it was a great way to send Chuck back home to California (on the 6AM flight this morning).  Props, fellas.  You sounded great. 

Oh… Did I mention that it was an outdoor show in the pouring rain?  Good thing we were under Tap’s tarp.