My first, and one of few live performances was on Friday 13th August 2004. A really shit night to be honest.

It was one of the hottest days, and I have very little heat tolerance. Nobody except the other bands turned up.

Considering I have Asperger's, when I was on that stage behind my Prophet-5 you couldn't get me away. I just played for hours through everyone's soundcheck.

My synth killed it. The glide you can get when you stack all the voices is incredible. I hit the lowest key, turned the glide, and held the highest key. Once it glided up all the way to that note, I turned all the frequencies way up, and laughed as the death metal/hardcore/whatever band looked really uncomfortable.

The synth just didn't want to stay in tune though, so I hit the A440 button and thats when it all went wrong. The microphones picked up on it, and before I knew it there was insane feedback. The drummer from the other band begged me to turn the synth off, but it was already too late. In the end he managed to get to the mixing table and shut the mics off.

So my mate (the guitarist) comes back, and as a joke we set the microphones so high they almost touched the ceiling (because the lead singer of the other band was tall we took the piss)

The singer comes, laughs his head off, walks past my synth, hits the low E, and he shat himself.

When it was time to play though, the fun stopped. We couldn't get the monitors to work, so we couldn't hear eachother on stage. His guitar was way too loud, and instead of turning his volume down, I turned mine higher.

As we performed the first song, I came in with my synth riff, sounded perfect. When his guitar came in, I couldn't hear a thing, panicked, and started messing up. I've never hit so many wrong notes in such a short amount of time, lost my timing completely, and put me off for the remaining 3 songs.
Synthesizer Man Reviewed by Synthesizer Man on . MUSICIANS. How was your first gig? My first, and one of few live performances was on Friday 13th August 2004. A really shit night to be honest. It was one of the hottest days, and I have very little heat tolerance. Nobody except the other bands turned up. Considering I have Asperger's, when I was on that stage behind my Prophet-5 you couldn't get me away. I just played for hours through everyone's soundcheck. My synth killed it. The glide you can get when you stack all the voices is incredible. I hit the lowest key, Rating: 5