Last nights rehearsal was awesome. It was with the 8 piece band I sub for.
We knocked out 30 tunes in 2 hours and everyone knew exactly what they were doing.
The CD's were all mailed out, everyone was told to have it ready for the rehearsal. We played about a minute of each tune and only went over the trick parts and mystery chords. The grooves all fell in to place because everyone did their homework and there was no need to play the songs all the way through. A few tunes have "fade out" endings so we worked up the most obvious way to end it on one of the signature riffs in the tune and progress was made like never before!
So, Saturday night I'll be playing a bunch of new tunes I have never played all the way through with the band before and yet, I have total confidence it will come off without a hitch.
I love it when people show up for rehearsal with all their homework done and ready to play. I'm glad I got mine done or I would have really stuck out as a loser! dah!
As far as gear goes. Everything was crap. I brought a Crate GX20M SS amp, the bass player went through an old Univox, the drums were crap and so was the PA. But we walked in, played, and left without taking an hour to set up and get our "precious tone." LOL!
I guess I'm excited about this because until recently I have not had the pleasure of playing with people who were responsible enough to practice at home and play at rehearsal. These guys really know how to rehearse.