I just found out that our band has been invited back to perform again on the "Morning Show" on KOLO TV in Reno, Nevada. If you have ever seen these types of shows, bands usually show up with acoustic instruments and the drummer ends up playing a tamborine or conga drum other something. The last time we performed for them we took most of our set up, including my full E-drum kit. We scared the &^#%# out of the producer, but we set up in under 30 minutes and sent their control booth 1 line out with a total mix down of the band. Drums, vocals and all. It blew them away in the TV studio and they heaped on the praise. We used 1 Bose LP1 system for a monitor (turned down considerably). We would not have taken acoustic drums into this situation. Just the set up (15' from the news desk) would have been too noisy. E-drums make it possible to let the band performance shine.
This kind of advertising is priceless for your band. If you get the chance to do it, don't pass it up. A couple xtra hours work at 6:00 AM filled our venues at night for a couple of months. If you do this, the key is being prepared and quick. TV stations are on time schedules and there just isn't any mucking around. This performance is scheduled for June 3rd during our next tour through Nevada. I will post a link to the TV performance the next day. KOLO TV kept our last performance up on their web site for 6 months and was viewed by several hundred thousand people.
This kind of advertising is priceless for your band. If you get the chance to do it, don't pass it up. A couple xtra hours work at 6:00 AM filled our venues at night for a couple of months. If you do this, the key is being prepared and quick. TV stations are on time schedules and there just isn't any mucking around. This performance is scheduled for June 3rd during our next tour through Nevada. I will post a link to the TV performance the next day. KOLO TV kept our last performance up on their web site for 6 months and was viewed by several hundred thousand people.
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