on, do you have a warmup routine that you we shout it out to get hyped to get onstage on out there than the arena shows where it is
personally run through? Or do you just run out and play. a little bit harder to be intimate with the crowd.
Not only that, but arena sound is usually not a
and play?
[WM] That’s awesome! Do you have a place you want to go to listen to what's going
[BJ] I mostly try to do my warm ups and preference giant on in the music. It's usually a place that you
rehearsing during the middle of the day. I have a stadiums versus the more intimate kind of go to experience the energy of a big show.
little Boss ME-70 that I don't use on stage, but theater venues? The smaller venues are usually more built for a
between
playing,
the
quality audio experience.
it is pretty awesome. It’s got an Aux-In that you
can use to plug in a metronome or your iPhone [BJ] I actually prefer the smaller, intimate if you wanted to play along with songs. I just venues. I mean obviously the excitement of the [WM] They are built with the listener in
get on there and put on my headphones, play arenas and having all the people there... that’s mind oftentimes.
to a metronome, and work on trying to develop an experienced that I enjoy. But I love being better picking, form, and more efficiency. able to play the more intimate venues. We [BJ] Right, right. Exactly. Or even if the venue
played some smaller venues on the southern is not the best acoustically, it's still easier to get
Often the whole band gets together right before California run of the tour, some places where those musical messages across and to have
we get on stage and do what's called a hand the audience is pretty much right up on you. It a more intimate time with the audience on a
wheel. Someone calls out a word, and on three makes it a lot easier to relate to what's going whole. I actually enjoy that a little bit more than
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