From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018101812240169590-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > goggling ( duck duck go really ) about loud drums, excessive stage levels.   
      
   Duck Duck Go seems a LOT like Google, doesn't it? It's *supposed* to be   
   private - I only hope it really is, because I sometimes use  that one. I   
   mostly use startpage, also known as ixquick, also GIBIRU, all of which claim   
   to protect privacy.   
      
   > There's a lot been written on this. A lot.  The more relevant to me are   
   > the churchie articles.  Seems some in the church world have tired of   
   > letting musicians have a free hand as to playing levels.  I know this   
   > personally from talking to my relatives that go to churchs.  They are my   
   > age or a little past, and will often skip the " rock concert " music by   
   > showing up late for services.   
      
   I think you'll find that problem everywhere from the same kinds of Idiots.   
      
   > Back to stage levels.  It's the drums.  It's the acoustic instruments (   
   > drums ) onstage tha mainly drive the level there.  Simple really.   
   > Everything else can go thru the pa and leave the players mostly happy. The   
   > one's willing to us in ears, that is.  If you have some throwback   
   > guitarist who has to have a Marshall, and has to crank it, then well,   
   > there's no fix.   
      
   Sure there is. Give the guitarist an acoustic guitar and mic it ;)   
      
   > An there is our LOUD drummer problem. It's not that he's a particularly   
   > loud drummer, it's that the rest of us have moved to playing thru the pa.   
   > Tying this to band girls issues, the imbalance between acoustic and pa-ed   
   > instruments is a lot of what fuels her issues.   
      
   Don't the acoustic instruments get mic'd into the pa too?   
   The parlor/conservatory grand piano I play at church is mic'd.   
      
   > If she's like Ouise, she's longing for some perfectly balanced sound on   
   > the stage, and that ain't ever gonna happen set up as we are. On the   
   > stage, the drums will ALWAYS be too loud compared to the amps that aren't   
   > there because I'm playing thru the pa.   
      
   If electronic drums is what it takes to fix that, then so be it!   
   Because if even ONE instrument, or vocal is  too loud, the rest will follow.   
      
   > This is the same issue the churches are dealing with. How to get some   
   > control on the last acoustic instrument on the stage, the drums ?   
      
   One church actually had a plexiglas cage around the drums...and it pretty   
   much worked.   
      
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   > I would like to get a flu shot before it's snowing.   
      
   I wouldn't get Any shot - not only because I Hate needles, but because I'd   
   rather let my immune system have some exercise and handle it. Besides, who   
   knows what's in those shots, who put it there, or why?   
   And I have very little trouble with the flu - back when that constantly   
   hyped 'deadly' H1N1 strain was out, I  got it, and before a week was over, I   
   was over it...but as for a Cold, That is the bad one! A cold can last me   
   anywhere from two weeks, if I'm Very fortunate, to well over a month! The   
   media Hype several years ago compared a cold to a model train and the flu to   
   the full size one, but for me, it's the other way around...the cold is the   
   nasty one!   
      
   > Thought about that today, but changed my mind. Early evening solo gig, so   
   > eh, the shot can wait till tomm.  Or, better yet Monday. Wife will be home   
   > that day, she can go along to watch me whine :-)   
      
   Memories of going to the pediatrician to get a shot, what horror.   
      
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   > Other than that, not a lot doing.  Solo today, tomorrow off, then a band   
   > gig.  eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww   !!!!   
      
   Enjoy! I sure can't wait 'til it's my turn!   
      
   > Black Mtn Rag is out. I listenend to several versions of that online and   
   > decided its some sort of traditional folk song thing. That there is no   
   > solid version of the song. The melody, if you can even find one, is pretty   
   > vague.  Sara and Maybelle Carter played the thing without a melody, just   
   > rhyhmic chording. Gonna pass on that for now, unless I hear someone   
   > playing it in a way I can grasp.   
      
   That tune, at least the examples I heard on youtube, is too sedate...but of   
   course, considering the title, I was kind of expecting sort of a Flatt &   
   Scruggs lively style ;)   
      
   > It seems one of those regional, hand me down things where everyone has   
   > their own version, with darn little in common with the next version save   
   > the basic chord structure. And, Chet playing his version of BMR on Austin   
   > City Limits throws even that common point in question :-)   
      
   > I feel like making some toast.   
      
   JimD   
      
   Does that mean there's a lively version of it?   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)