Looks like a mostly music weekend…
Tonight I'm going out to see one of my old bandmates play with his current band. Might sit in with them for a song or two, even though I've never played with them before. (Hey, everybody knows Mustang Sally and Comfortably Numb, right?)
Saturday I'm delivering and setting up (and eventually tearing down) a PA system for some type of outdoor DJ gig in the parking lot of the University of NM Sports Arena (known as The Pit). A drummer friend of mine runs a sound company on the side; he's playing in Oklahoma this weekend, so I'm helping him out with this gig. (I did something similar for him with a smaller system at the Hyatt Regency Hotel last weekend.) The system I'm supplying is a nice, compact combination of QSC and JBL components, with 2000 watts for the high end and 7200 watts for the subwoofers. It should be a pretty thumping rig. I'm just dealing with the racks and stacks…the DJ is flying in from Denver to handle the music part.
Sunday I'll be hanging at a local Irish pub with Donohoe and Grimes, the same guys I played with last Tuesday night, although I won't be playing with them this time due to space and volume constraints in this venue.
Monday, I'm headed to a nearby lake for my first Hobie Cat experience. I'll get to find out if my messed-up back can handle the fun.
The owner of the boat is Mike (the "Grimes" part of Donohoe and Grimes) and the other guy going with us is Donnie, the guy who runs the sound company (and who also plays drums with Donohoe and Grimes most of the time, except when he's gigging elsewhere). It's like everybody here is connected in multiple ways, lol.