From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018091623553097675-email@nowherecom...   
      
      
   > My intention is to never do that again.  One thing was the pure mass of   
   > gear we had. Not a huge amount by some band standards, but far too much   
   > for my ( basically ) solo guy sensibilities.   
      
   Just enough to do the job, and unless it's a Huge venue, it doesn't take all   
   that much, is all that's Really needed.   
      
   > In my little van I took, 2 - JBL 15 and a horn cabs, and the new Peavey 15   
   > and a horn sub cab. 2 tripod stands for the jbls.  And two racks of pa and   
   > power amps and crossovers to make that work, a 6 space and an 8 space.   
   > And, wife's roland drum set ( plus pedals and a drum seat ).  And my   
   > keyboard. And my guitar. And my fiddle. And my keyboard stand. My mic   
   > stand.  And four bags of cables and mics and controllers.  And a milk   
   > carton of extension cords.   
      
   Sure seems like overdoing it ;)   
      
   > All in my Odessey.   
      
   Minivan! Better to have a cargo van ;)   
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   > Band girl brough 2 more JBL 15 and a horn cabs, and stands for those.  And   
   > a tub of things she uses, mics, cables, her wireless stuff.   
      
   > " other guy " brought his amp, a stool, an amp stand, and a mic setup.   
      
   But Why!   
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   > and all this to play a little outdoor gig.   
      
   An outdoor gig can be something huge like Ravinia, near my area, or   
   something as small as a relatively back yard ;)   
      
   > We basically had two complete pa systems.   
      
   In case one fails ;)   
      
   > All because of this constant drum beat of " we're not loud enough ".   One   
   > set of the JBL's was doing nothing but being side fill monitors.   
      
   It's more like insanity!   
      
   > Crazy, when we have in ears we ( band girl ) just won't use.  Wife on   
   > drums does use in ears and was happy as could be at how the job went.   
   > Band girl on the other hand, spent her time and effort worrying that we   
   > weren't loud enough out front. All based on that idea being planted in her   
   > mind weeks ago by ex band mates of hers. She'll never get over it.  Ever.   
   > I see that now.  She simply won't ever be happy, won't ever let it go. Pig   
   > headed comes to mind.   
      
   Or maybe a serious obsession.   
      
   > She did go out front and listen to us do a tune without her.  Came back to   
   > the stage, said to me that sounded great. It was fine volume wise. But,   
   > that must have had something to do with our mics, or something.  I told   
   > her, point blank, right then and there that she needs to let this volume   
   > issue go.  The pa works.  It always has.  There's nothing at all wrong   
   > with our sound. And then I added that she really needs to get past this   
   > and start thinking about the music rather than obcessing over her doubt   
   > about the out front volume.   
      
   > She won't.   
      
   That sounds a bit scary.   
      
   > I'm mentally moving past these people, planning on being just a solo guy   
   > again.   Can't really be helped.  Someone, I suspect, just keeps telling   
   > her our sound is messed up out front. Several possible people come to   
   > mind.  If their goal is to destroy this band, it's working.   
      
   That would definitely be a motive...particularly if they encounter No   
   Resistance to their Plan!!!   
      
   > I'll eventually just walk away.  For my own sanity.   
      
   Jim   
      
   If the Insanity doesn't stop, there's really not much of a choice.   
      
   I'm sick and tired of trying to get a *functional* as opposed to a   
   DYSfunctional band together myself...and I still Need to!   
      
   Because as of yesterday, I've already written the first verse and chorus to   
   my 42nd song, whose title had come to me in a dream months ago. A few other   
   songs had come to me in a dream with some Music, lyrics, or both, but this   
   one, this time, was only the title, and a seemingly strange one, at least to   
   me as I'd never heard of such words before. The title is "Honalei Hae", so   
   naturally, the first thing was to find out what it means.   
      
   Honalei, though spelled somewhat differently but pronounced essentially the   
   same, was the name of the land where "Puff The Magic Dragon" frolicked in   
   the autumn mist, but there's more, It's a feminine name that's Hawaiian in   
   origin and means "heavenly land".   
   Now to the second part. Hae is a word of Scottish origin meaning "to have",   
   so the new tune, "Honelei Hae" means "heavenly land to have", and that's   
   what it's about, this *once Free* *God's country*, and how it's been   
   Practically Destroyed and turned into a Monster more appropriately a Hell   
   Hole, which makes it, yet again, a sort of protest song ;)   
      
   And I intend all these Originals to be done right, so I really don't have   
   any time for Idiots...life's too short!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)