Re: attitude/"free" publicity

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

Oh my god. I'd have lost my mind...I'm sorry this happened to you...

but MAN would this be one HELL of a practical joke to play on a fellow 
musician. Maybe safest in rehearsal.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> I finally got up there and started to play.  Every every time I opened 
> my mouth to sing, my guitar faded away.  Mysterious!  It happened 
> again and again.  I thought it might have had to do with the batteries 
> in the preamp of my Renaissance.  I replaced them, right there on 
> stage with the dwindling audience looking on, and then - same problem.
>
> The young guy running the PA acted as though I was some combination of 
> stupid and self-important.
>
> Eventually I discovered that the sound system had some sort of "host" 
> feature that potted all the other channels down whenever signal was 
> present in the main channel.
>
> By then I was too pissed off to continue and most of the audience had 
> gone home anyway.
>
> So that's one benefit that wound up costing me something beyond dollars.