I have a very specific strategy for 9volt battery rotation that insures my in ear monitor pack never dies in the middle of a set, while not wasting batteries. I have a practice battery pile and then a live set battery that is only used for 3 live sets, then rotated into the practice battery bunch. Well on this particular Sunday I got distracted and forgot to take out my practice battery and replace with the set battery.
Our opening song has a loop and about 30 seconds into it my monitor pack dies. I then start weighing the pros and cons in my mind for trying to soldier on through the song or stop it now before it gets too late or try and awkwardly replace the battery without messing up the song. I ended up deciding it was better to just stop the song.
So I gave an abrupt, “ok stop stop stop” and explained the situation in a light hearted way and everyone had a good chuckle as I replaced the battery. I explained that now that the Holy Spirit had left we’d have to pray again and ask him to return. It was actually nice to have a good laugh with the body, sometimes with so much focus on preparation things get a little too tense and uptight. So that was nice.
After the set I led the church in a time of prayer for our Pastors and presented them with our humble gift for Pastor’s Appreciation month, but then right after all the elders were surprised to hear the body pulled together and got all of us a gift as well. It was such an unexpected and cool blessing, so thankful for everyone at LCC. It’s not often things happen in the church I’m not aware of so it was cool to be totally surprised, well done LCC.
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Lead Me To the Cross – Hillsong United (loop available)
- Live or No Longer Live – Kyle Campos
- How He Loves – John Mark McMillan
- Who You Are – Desperation Band
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Awesome Kyle! I'm glad you were able to solve the battery problem and still get a laugh. That is very hard sometimes. God keeps us in check doesn't He!
We had a similar situation a few weeks ago where our guitarist forgot to take his capo off and started the song a key up. It took us a few seconds to realize what the problem was. We explained to the people. They laughed. We started over. We were humbled. Haha.