-CAROLINE BLUE played their first show in the Eastern NY area at the legendary Northern Lights Club in Clifton Park, NY! It was a great time and also was a reunion of sorts, cause also on the bill was Untaymed-featuring former CB bassist Johnny Sniper! LIVE PICS 2006-2010 are now up-as are pics of CB’s FANS, FRIENDS & FREAKS. Also, WWJ did a show recap on the CAROLINE BLUE MY SPACE PAGE in the blog under the show topic. Check it out and enjoy!
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WWJ Show Recap
CAROLINE BLUE Show-6/27/2009-Northern Lights-Clifton Park, NY
-Thanks for the comment MM! I’ve only been to the place once-to see the band of a friend of mine play-but that was years ago. I was looking forward to a place that has such a great history of rock bands.
-Things started off with me being late to the practice room. I know “what else is new? (Ha Ha), but earlier I was at a police checkpoint and thru that I found out that my front license plate was gone! Nice huh? So getting that all squared away before hitting the road took some time.
-Me, Doc & Mindy then got Joe and away we went. We arrived there early-we were the 1st band there. Since we were the 1st band playing, we were able to set up right on stage and get a good sound check. The sound guys there-I didn’t get their names-were great & very helpful. We had a good mix onstage and people said we sounded great out front. I heard myself pretty well although I have never heard bass drums that thunderous! I mean holy crap-the vibrations actually knocked our banner off the front of the stage while we were sound checking.
-This was a 4 band show and, as such, we only had 40 minutes to play. We were told ahead of time that the other bands were playing all original so we followed suit-with 1 exception. here’s the list
-I’ve Seen The Light Tonight
-Dead or Alive
-Slave to the Hourglass
-Won’t Be Home Tonight
-Pain
-Mine,Mine,Mine
-Love Me or Leave Me
-Out of My Life (I Want You)
-Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
-“Deny” was actually on the setlist as well but I totally forgot about it! I wasn’t really looking at my list. Overall, I think we did good. There was a decent sized crowd here when we went on and we got a great response from them. That was great to see-especially since this is the 1st time that CB has ever played in the Albany area. I was a tad sloppy on “Ace of Spades”-cause with Doc singing that I can actually move! In the past I used to move around a lot more on stgae but now that I used the boost on my amp during solos, I can’t be so carefree when moving. Plus with all the singing I now do, I can focus on the pitches and breathing more when I don’t move as much. Maybe I need to get a new headset mic….
-Unfortunately, due tot he distance we had to travel, we really couldn’t stay to watch the other bands. We did catch part of Coyle’s set-they were on after us-and they sounded good. And, of course, Mr. Johnny Sniper was here & it was good to see him again. I made sure to promote him and his “sniper diapers” (thongs w/ his face on them) a few times onstage. Kinda like the old days 🙂
-After unloading gear, I didn’t get back home till around 1 AM. To sum it up, we had a good time there & we look forward to playing in that area again in the future. Thanks to Nocturm, Coyle, Untaymed, the people & crew @ Northern Lights & Mr. Sniper for having us for this show and making things easy for us.
-Now I have to go to work 😦