tonite in rome, we are playing as part of a 3 day festival, much like summerstage in nyc, a beautiful outdoor setting for the megahertz festival. dego from 4 hero is here, as well as omino stanco who
played an amazing set. trouble started early for me as i was mildly being electricuted and the mpc was shutting off…crazy. a bad grounding problem with this electricity and transformer. finally had seemed to correct everything. soundcheck went fine. skip to showtime: mpc running for our intro, and as i began to play – no sound!!! two of my devices were off including the preamp powering my guitar!!! show promptly halted as i had to figure out a work around, but not before i was electricuted again touching audio cables…really bad grounding here…and it freaks you out, let me tell you. finally, the show went on without a hitch although not up to our usual high standards. people loved it though, especially supa sista….a bad show for us, but not as bad as rotterdam. tonites performance was upsetting and off balance. the sound on stage was bad, not full. a disappointment for our first concert in rome. fucking hell.
dego was on after us, and spun for 10-15 minutes until the rome polizia shut him down. a very weird day here…afterwards, paolo and i got lost in rome taking in all the historical ancient landmarks. unbelievable. tomorrow to catania, sicily.