Re: attitude/"free" publicity

[David <tremendous@gmail.com>]

As I was reading this I was convinced you were going to say the sound  
guy was being an as*h*le and fading your guitar down as a sign of  
disapproval.

I feel your pain. On stage problems that seem totally illogical and  
will not be solved are the worst.

d.


On 12-Apr-08, at 5:44 PM, Daryl Shawn wrote:

> 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.
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