early morning....................

So today was a little bit different than a typical day for us. We started the day a good 6 hours before we normally do. We were invited to play the Fox News morning show this morning --severally disrupting our normal routine of sleeping in until at least 11 a.m.

Come on, we are muscians in a band............so we’re supposed to sleep late!! Right??

But as hard as it was to get up before sunrise, it was worth it to get to play in front of potentially thousands of people as they got ready for work. I honestly don’t know how they do it that early in the morning, but the men and women who work at the station were there at the studio well before we were; and they looked like they had been up for hours. I guess that’s what coffee is good for. It’s funny seeing a place that you’ve seen on T.V. so many times and then seeing it in person. It kind of takes the magic away from it, even though it is just a news station. But you’d think it would have a kind of glitz and glamour to it, however, in actuality it was a very normal low key place with normal people just doing their job. It was smaller than you’d think and much brighter than it should be at 6’oclock in the morning. It kind of felt more like a large basement than a place where people tune in for the news.

Anyway, we had done this one other time, so we were kind of ready for the 8 second sound check and the "on the spot" 4 count from the production manager cuing us to play because that was all the time we had to prepare. We played “Static” to promote the release of the “Austin Unsigned” CD. We were kind of disappointed because we didn’t have time to play any other songs. We were hoping to play “Revolution” as they were finishing up but the show was over during what they call a “wrap”. So, by the time we packed up and got out of there we had spent a good hour or two setting up for a 5 minute “show." But all in all this was just another step in the grand scheme of things to prepare us for performances (hopefully not as early) in the future.
So naturally after the show we headed to eat like we normally do and then off to bed. I guess it was a real gig after all!