Tyler Bender played at Spin this past weekend and it was interesting.

First, parking in Broad Ripple is ridiculous.  I had to park at my buddies office which was like three blocks away from the venue.  I knew Broad Ripple was the place to be, but there is no where to park.  All of the parking lots have been converted into pay lots, which is a joke.

The next hurdle was Tyler being sick…       again.  He takes too much hippy meds and claims they work.  Apparently he was on something stronger this time around.  We started doing our soundcheck and he decided he needed to get some change so he walked off.  During the soundcheck.  This is bad.  Fortunately he showed up right at the end of our run-through song.

Now, if you don’t know Spin, then let me try and describe it.  Spin was formerly the Patio.  I never went to it in it’s former incarnation, so I can’t say how it has changed.  It isn’t a very large club and feels like it is maybe half the size of Birdy’s.  Being a small club, it is loud.  It is loud on stage, it is loud off-stage.  Spin has more monitors on stage than any stage I have seen so far, and unnecessarily so.  Four monitors spaced out would have been fine.  

Another problem with a small stage is being crammed next to Brian, our drummer.  All I heard besides myself was a crash symbol echoing in my ear the whole night.  I definitely need to invest in some good ear plugs or I will be deaf by 30.  No matter how many monitors there are, if you can’t space yourself out, there is no change to hear anything.  Fortunately, as a bassist, I heard what I needed to hear and trusted that the rest of the band was in the same place with me.

Fortunately, I don’t think most of the people coming out to these shows are super critical about the sound and just enjoy hearing music and doing some drinking.  Overall, it was a good show from what I heard.  We stayed for a couple songs from The Randies and they were a lot of fun to listen to.

Tyler Bender will be at Birdy’s this Friday so come on out.  You can see videos of the Spin show on Facebook, add Tyler Bender as a friend to see them and all of our videos from previous shows.

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