Gig Recap: Danny’s On Douglas Elgin, IL

First gig of 2025!

Danny’s is always a great place to play with a big stage and welcoming management. This is Quest’s second time playing here and in many ways, the trouble that we had here the first time with setup mirrored the second time. It truly seemed like we were off to a great start when we had over an hour and all the equipment and mics setup in their proper places. We even ordered our pizza and were able to eat a bit prior to showtime. However, we had some major issues with feedback in the main room at Danny’s that took all the way until showtime to sort out. The band in general was in a bit of a frantic funk because of this so our first few songs were not as good as we are capable of.

All things considered we settled in and were able to get over ourselves. We had the privilege of working with John Kattke (http://www.johnkattke.com/) as our sound guy for the night. If you are in the Chicago music scene and don’t know John, you really ought to as he is the most talented yet humble musician we have ever met in person. We hired him in because we find that we are better when we don’t have a playing band member monitoring the mix. In general we try to get someone in to do sound when the venue doesn’t have a dedicated sound tech on staff. John was great and rolled with the punches really well.

All in all, the night could have been better but we are finding that even at our worst, our level of playing and showmanship has gotten pretty polished.

Pack it up and do it all again tomorrow night at Dock’s Bar & Grill in Wauconda, IL!

Anyone coming along for the double dose of Quest this weekend?