From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018102219295684878-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I have sympathy for him.  We I in his position, what would I do ?  Muffle   
   > the drums with internal padding.  Or buy some electronic drums.  Lot's of   
   > choices.   
      
   Whatever will best enable hearing the band rather than washing it out.   
      
   > A friend of mine still has a Standel amp. Doesn't work, but he has it.   
      
   I remember this thing was BIG, and amazing light, and Powerful and sounded   
   great - it's what immediately sold me on solid state amps!   
      
   > It's a business problem.  How long can you hold onto outdated methods ?   
      
   Depends on the Nature of 'outdated', because sometimes such things also get   
   other  names, like "Classic", and "Legacy".   
      
   >  I guess that depends on the market you worn in. If there is little to no   
   > competitions, then rock on.   
      
   But if it's inconvenient, i.e. heavy, underpowered, fragile, etc., and   
   there's something far better, then Why endure the inconvenience?   
      
   > Problem is, there is competition.   
      
   Problem SOLVED when there are Originals in the set list, or better yet,   
   playing an entire Album of  Originals...then there's NO COMPARISON, much   
   less COMPETITION!!!   
   The CopyCatfish Clown Crap band vs the Outstanding Awesome Serious band!   
      
   > And it's not all just pie eyed musicians who want to live in some pure   
   > idealistic world.   
      
   Nothing wrong with that.   
      
   > Sometimes it's a DJ that has rent to pay.   
      
   A band has got to be pretty Crappy to have that for competition ;)   
      
   > Or some old musician who's tired of having his ears fried.   
      
   Once his ears are fried, they stay that way, so the time to get tired of it   
   is as soon as it begins rather than so many years later when the situation   
   is hopeless and has been that way for many years ;)   
      
   > Bottom line. When somone out there is willing to do your job better than   
   > you do it ... you've got a problem.   
      
   Yep, and the problem is Laziness, Deafness, and in general, Stupidity!   
      
   > please explain,   
      
   It's a regular situation at church for something to happen during a   
   performance, that could turn into a train wreck unless there's enough   
   attention, much more than usual, to spot the problem and deal with it while   
   it's beginning to happen so that it never happens, so that no one listening   
   is the wiser...takes a   
   lot of effort...more rehearsing is a far better use of effort!   
      
      
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018102219295684878-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I have sympathy for him.  We I in his position, what would I do ?  Muffle   
   > the drums with internal padding.  Or buy some electronic drums.  Lot's of   
   > choices.   
      
   Whatever will best enable hearing the band rather than washing it out.   
      
   > A friend of mine still has a Standel amp. Doesn't work, but he has it.   
      
   I remember this thing w as BIG, and amazing light, and Powerful and sounded   
   great - it's what immediately sold me on solid state amps!   
      
   > It's a business problem.  How long can you hold onto outdated methods ?   
      
   Depends on the Nature of 'outdated', because sometimes such things also get   
   other  names, like "Classic", and "Legacy".   
      
   >  I guess that depends on the market you worn in. If there is little to no   
   > competitions, then rock on.   
      
   But if it's inconvenient, i.e. heavy, underpowered, fragile, etc., and   
   there's something far better, then Why endure the inconvenience?   
      
   > Problem is, there is competition.   
      
   Problem SOLVED when there are Originals in the set list, or better yet,   
   playing an entire Album of  Originals...then there's NO COMPARISON, much   
   less COMPETITION!!!   
   The CopyCatfish Crap band vs the Outstanding Awesome band!   
      
   > And it's not all just pie eyed musicians who want to live in some pure   
   > idealistic world.   
      
   Nothing wrong with that.   
      
   > Sometimes it's a DJ that has rent to pay.   
      
   A band has got to be pretty Crappy to have that for competition ;)   
      
   > Or some old musician who's tired of having his ears fried.   
      
   Once his  ears are fried, they stay that way, so the time to get tired of it   
   is as soon as it begins rather than so many years later when the situation   
   is hopeless and has been that way for many years ;)   
      
   > Bottom line. When somone out there is willing to do your job better than   
   > you do it ... you've got a problem.   
      
   Yep, and the problem is Laziness, Deafness, and in general, Stupidity!   
      
   > please explain,   
      
   It's a regular situation at church for something to happen during a   
   performance, that could turn into a train wreck unless there's enough   
   attention, much more than usual, to spot the problem and deal with it while   
   it's beginning to happen, so that no one listening is the wiser...takes a   
   lot of effort.   
      
   > is that like socialism ?   
      
   A Gift Economy? NO WAY! Socialism is replete with the Root of ALL Evil!   
      
   > as in, it doesn't work in the real world,   
   > never has ... never will.  Ah, but they say all socialism needs it the   
   > right people in charge :-)   
      
   The problem with Socialism is THAT there are people in charge, which means   
   Everyone else is Guaranteed to Suffer Miserably, but that's the price for   
   Not Resisting it in the first place!!!   
   And ONLY WRONG people preside over the Depersonalization of Socialism, so   
   it's a guaranteed Failure.   
      
   I wrote a song about it on Through The Eons, the third album:   
      
   6. One-Sided Nothing   
      
   verse1 (a)   
   goin' on your way through life believin' what they've always told you   
   that it's all a game of give and take   
   but they're not sayin'that they're really tryin' hard to mold you   
   into a sleeper who'll never awake   
      
   prechorus1 (a)   
   to discover the truth of how things really are   
   that it's all an illusion and not up to par   
   going on for so very long and too far   
      
   verse1 (b)   
   but yet sometimes you just might get to learn it all the hard way   
   that it isn't like it's made to appear   
   no matter how they try to sell it with the lies that they say   
   the true message comes through loud and clear   
      
   prechorus1 (b)   
   it's just a horrible fraud with so many being scammed   
   brainwashed propagandized conditioned and programmed   
   and equality and justice be damned   
      
   chorus1   
   I'm not into livin' for a one sided nothing   
   there's better things far more worthwhile   
   than playing the fool for a racket of deception and guile   
   don't want no part of any one sided nothing   
   cause a rip off is all it can be   
   a conflict of interest for cheating those who don't see   
      
   verse2   
   hearing all the useless drivel that you're freely interacting   
   as though you actually have something to say   
   when in reality your Freedom is what they're redacting   
   until it's finally all been taken away   
      
   prechorus2   
   and you're left with only the fond memory   
   that this once was a land of sweet Liberty   
   long since replaced with ever increasing Tyranny   
      
   chorus2   
   forget their lies cause it's a one sided nothing   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)