Yes, it's true, I am clueless.  I missed the last two practices due to business travel (and will miss next Monday's as well), so I don't have anything approaching a set list.  There was a MercyMe song mentioned but I don't remember the name, and I can remember only 4 of the 6 we attempted last night.  It doesn't look like the "Songs" page here has been updated - no new postings and the ones marked as current set list are from the performance a month ago...  a little help please?

Guys, I spoke with Jeremy about holding a practice tonight and I think the consensus is just to take the night off.   It looked like it was shaping up to be myself, Jeremy & John only in attendance so Jeremy just figured we'd have a rest.

I won't be at next week's practice as I have test after test after test, but will be able to play Sunday morning.

Have a good week all and see you Sunday!

Andy

Alrighty, first...tonight was awesome.  I thought we had an excellent sound.  The volumes were great, the music flowed fairly smooth, and the vocals were much tighter than they have been.  And....to top it all off, I was absolutely blown away.  I am SO blessed to have a group of friends like you guys.  I appreciate everything you all do, and I look forward to a long time of sharing music and friendship.  I will talk to Pastor John Burr this week and see if we can arrange our next performance at the Onley Baptist Church.  I think we have a wonderful opportunity to really share our message to other.  John, thank you for all your hardwork today, and for keeping me moving.  Allen, and John, thank you both for working hard to make sure that we had a good sound tonight.  Matt, thank you for stepping up and playing with us, I appreciate everything you bring to the group.  Andy, you have an awesome sound, and we are blessed to have you as part of our group.  Tim, Heather, thank you for bringing you spirit of worship to every service, and being an example for others as to what it means to worship in music.  And keyboard, thank you for playing your drums for us, we appreciate all that you do.  You really stepped up for us tonight!!  Love you guys!!  Oh, and Krista, thanks for nothing....loser :)

So love the stage set up... but also didn't like that fact that youth group was vary quiet tonight. No worry's though I only use it for game music and tonight's game was outside so it was cool with me and I loved the proactive move by John and Allen last night. however I do say it may present a problem to the FNL kids program tomorrow.

Thoughts?

Allen and I worked on the sound setup last night and I think we have an improved arrangement.  Allen brought in a 100 ft. snake that gives us some extra mic inputs and really helped clean up the stage. 

I will need to do some fine-tuning and set the recording levels Friday night, but the Fender speakers are now run from the amp at the back of the sanctuary, the piano is mic'ed, the bass is now plugged into the sound board, and we have a mic hookup for the mandolin (I'll bring a mic on Fri.)  .  Matt will join us for practice Friday and performance Saturday if that's OK with all.  He would prefer to play the piano, which takes the pressure off Jeremy to play keyboards on every song, but frees him up to do so as the spirit moves.

THANKS , ALLEN!