This is the sign of a true musician. When Keith Jarret showed up to the gig in Köln, he played one of the best solo albums ever even though the piano was a hunk of junk. Sorry for the stressful experience, but I have no doubt that the audience was vibing more than ever! Praying for safe travels on the rest of the tour Adam!
8 months ago | 255
When the band (regardless of genre) starts to play Djurdjevdan, you know the rakija has taken full effect.
8 months ago | 1
I was at this concert! I could not believe the energy, it was amazing, really glad yall liked it.
8 months ago | 5
Damn. I'm a musician, but I'm not even a professional and just hearing that made my heart stop. I can't imagine losing an entire shows worth of gear, that is some kind of horrible nightmare. Glad you got most of it back (and your bass! Thank god!), I hope you didn't lose anything too irreplaceable. You're an absolute beast for managing to still pull off the show!
8 months ago | 0
My band's best gig, by far, was the night everyone fucked up royally in the first set. Missed entrances, playing in the wrong key, botched endings, forgetting lyrics, wrong tempo--everything that could possibly go wrong did. The cuss words flew freely in the green room. None of us were going to be blamed for anything else that night. The rest of the sets were gold. Even 50 years later it remained one of the best moments in each of our lives. We were a late 60s FM rock cover band (Cream, Zep, etc) playing for college age crowds in NYC and the audience stopped dancing a couple of times to just listen. It happened to be the same night that Iron Butterfly skipped out on an appearance in uptown Manhattan, and a bunch of disgruntled attendees somehow found us (we were playing at NYU). The organizers had us play an additional set to accommodate them. Knowing the situation we worked out an organ-free arrangement of in-a-gadda-da-vida during a break and opened our bonus set with that. Long guitar, bass, and drum solos that started with the familiar parts and went on from there. So yes, that kind of stress and adversity forces the musician to transcend the infrastructure. You're improvising on everything, and you know you really need to pay attention.
8 months ago | 1
The show was incredibly epic. My ears are still ringing two days later XD
8 months ago | 3
Adam, the gig was so great it would’ve been impossible to guess you didn’t have all as planned. Thanks for great performance, energy and a lot of nerdy stuff))
8 months ago | 48
That first photo better be the cover to the bootleg recording of this gig or else
8 months ago | 171
Glad to read you could do it and kick it!! Hope you can recover the 3 left
8 months ago | 0
In the flamenco world. We live for those moments. It's those that make the evenining have duende. Congrats bro! Life should be analog to gigs
8 months ago | 15
Seeing you guys in my country, drinking our beer, after like a decade of watching you on yt felt so surreal! And the gig was freaking awesome as well!
8 months ago | 5
We are hoping to have you (and your bags) over in Romania for a gig or several soon!
8 months ago | 2
Adam Neely
Lufthansa lost all 8 of our bags on the way to our gig in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸, including my bass ☹️.
We were only able to recover 5 of them in time for the gig (including the bass, thankfully), which was jussst enough to jerry-rig a show together. Fueled by adrenaline and rakia, our first show in Serbia turned out pretty damn epic! Two encores, lots of clapping, dancing and general nerdery. Thanks to all who came out to rage, it’s an honor to be able to do this.
I vlogged a bit during the meltdown, fingers crossed there is enough footage to cut something together!
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