From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018052121585529712-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Yep. I got a stupid high quote to replace the muffle last year.  Chose to   
   > have a lesser priced place fix it.  Now, I'm reaping the rewards of the   
   > short cuts they took :-)   
      
   More like it's time THEY start reaping the rewards of their Crimes!!!   
      
   > I have it mostly repaired now. Going in and fixing that hanger disrupted   
   > other parts ...   I have a general rule on plumbing.  If you touch   
   > anything, be prepaired to replace a whole lot :-)   Car exhausts are the   
   > same.  The parts rust together, and so are a disaster to work on in any   
   > way other than just end to end replacement.   
      
   That's a good rule any time something is made like JUNK! And not considering   
   Corrosive substances on the roads and thus not preparing for it by using   
   impervious materials for the  exhaust or anything else exposed to them is   
   making Junk!   
      
   > sloppy tolerances.  I bought an exhaust expander at Harbor Freight.  $14.   
   > Went back at the problem this evening. The expander worked, sorta.  I   
   > broke it right off. It has some pretty cheap cast metal parts.  It still   
   > worked well enough to let me put the pipes together after a few tries.   
      
   There's a Harbor Freight Tools store near me...usually their stuff is a   
   pretty good deal, or at least, I haven't had any problems YET.   
      
   > in a sense it was.  The muffle pipe is just ever so smaller in diameter   
   > than the pipe leading to it. Original setup was a welded flange, one that   
   > only comes on original muffler.  The size difference is just enough to   
   > make connections with stock size parts a problem.   
      
   They should instead be made more robustly and more reliable, as in, to   
   last - but that's a matter of Ethics and they're into the Root of  All Evil,   
   and so they have None.   
      
   > I ran into an old gentleman at the tool store today. Retired, used to own   
   > some local company. Goes to some of the same private clubs my band plays.   
   > He was complaining to the check out girl about the crappy music the store   
   > was playing over the speakers.  Ha. How weird.   
      
   That's not weird at all. They either play Stale Worn Out Old tunes, or new   
   Mindless, Soulless Zombie Crap, and that's definitely something to complain   
   about.   
      
   > I talked to him a bit.  Tried to find out what he liked, or didn't.   
   > Without any prompting from me he said that biggest problem with club bands   
   > in town was they all played too loud.   
      
   He's right, particularly since louder is Not better, only more Dangerous to   
   hearing.   
      
   > It seems everyone knows the bands are too loud ( for the places ), except   
   > the people in the bands.   
      
   Mostly because they're Immature Clueless Idiots.   
      
   > I can only control my life.   
      
   Yep, and they can, and Should, control theirs, and if they're not Mature   
   enough to do so, BYE BYE!   
      
   A *real* band is about Cooperation...like my church band Sunday. We'd been   
   working on 4 tunes plus 2 more for offertory and Communion, so 6 in all, so   
   when we started one of the tunes Sunday, the other keyboard player got a bit   
   lost with the introduction, from being distracted with all that other   
   material - it sounded like a long intro until I figured out  what was   
   happening, and fortunately, I remembered how the intro was supposed to go so   
   I just  started playing into it, and everything smoothed right into it and   
   all went well. That is the advantage of a band - if something like that   
   happens, it can be fixed seamlessly as it's happening....IF the focus is on   
   performing well, and Not on stroking egos!   
      
   > She's a lot of the volume problem. I didn't realize this at first, but   
   > it's becoming more and more obvious as she invents ever more reasons not   
   > to go the in ears, or do anything else to get the levels down. She's   
   > letting her fears freeze up her ability to grow.  We can't sound any   
   > better as long as we're stuck in a volume war onstage.   
      
   I remember you mentioning that - sure seems strange.   
      
   > We're doing a duo gig tomorrow.  That will be fun.   No band, no monitors,   
   > not volume headaches.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   I still have to get whet I need to get the sound I'm looking  for, for a duo   
   band!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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