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   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019012012240267094-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Not being able to easily get on usenet is slowing down my rambling and   
   > navel gazing ... isn't it ?   
      
   That sucks!   
      
   > Big snow last night.   
      
   Had it here too - who needs it!   
      
   > As ususal the weather stations wildly over hyped the storm.  That's   
   > normal, that's for ratings, to get people to watch.  Who'd be excited and   
   > tune in for constant updates if they said " yeah, it might snow a few   
   > inches, nothing unusual for winter in Ohio ".  That'd get people talking   
   > fer sure.   
      
   Yellow Journalism is the name for it and it's Disgusting and Shameful!   
   All it ever makes me excited to do is find out the Truth!   
   As for what would get everyone talking, I'd Love it to be that so-called   
   'global warming' was something we could actually Feel!   
      
   And right now, we're in the middle of the 'woods' - as far in as it's   
   possible to get in before getting back out, and thermal inertia is right on   
   time - we're exactly one month past the winter solstice and it got Miserably   
   cold because the one month lag has caught up with us - BUMMER!!!   
      
   > So this morning we shoveled and played with the snow blower(s).  Oh, and   
   > some old geez got his car stuck in the yard across from me.  Spun the   
   > wheels and stuff until it was truly stuck. Some buddy of his with a big   
   > truck finally came and pulled him out.   
      
   The Horrors of that totally useless season!   
      
   > We cleaned the ice off our cars and cleared the driveway.  Despite   
   > tommorrow being some political holiday, both of us work.  Just another day   
   > to us tax payers :-)   
      
   There was some snow on my ride, but I decided to let the  sun clean it off,   
   which it did, very nicely - the dark finish absorbed the infrared and in   
   several hours, no more snow ;)   
      
   > I have a duo, plan on going unless it really does snow enough to block the   
   > roads. No county road plows out clearing the roads due to the monday's   
   > political holiday. No school, no plows.   
      
   There really wasn't much plowing around here but everything seems passable   
   now.   
      
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   > Went as watched a competitor ( haha ) band friday. Three piece. Use to be   
   > seven.   
      
   Easier for everyone to get along now, maybe ;)   
      
   > Now they are a singer, a keyboard guy and a drummer. Talking to the   
   > keyboard guy was like having a conversation with myself. They went thru   
   > the same band problems we did, found the same solution, get rid of the   
   > problem people, get rid of the problems they cause.   
      
   It's a common though no less disgusting problem.   
      
   > They are a perfectly fine band as a three piece. The keyboard guy had four   
   > keyboards and a bass pedal thing. Drummer knew the right beats for the   
   > songs. Singer could sing.  That's about all dance band needs, eh ?   
      
   All that just for dancing?   
      
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   > Our old drummer called, came out and met me at that event.  Band girl   
   > suspects he's regretting his quitting. Oh well.   
      
   If his quitting was an improvement, you could always  tell him that you   
   don't regret it ;)   
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   > Thinking about pruning a bunch of songs from our list.  Not sure how many   
   > songs is a reasonable amount to keep active. Sure, we can have a huge   
   > list, a few thousand, and limp thru the outliers, but why ?  Wouldn't it   
   > be better to have, say, 80, or 200 or so, and focus on really playing   
   > those cleanly ?   80 is a number I hear pro bands talk about. 250 is   
   > something I read a guy online say was the minimum a band should know   
   > before they go out in public.   
      
   That's a LOT...and  all of them someone else's material!   
      
   > I'm thinking somewhere in between.  Or slightly more, like 300.   
      
   Who wants to go through that many tunes?   
      
   > Counting the songs her or I know, going by our OnSong setlists, each of us   
   > know around 1000 tunes.   
      
   You actually Count through that many of them?   
      
   > There is some overlap, songs each of us does, but even then, that's just   
   > too many songs to keep track of in a band setting.   
      
   Or any other setting!   
      
   > If we were just doing acoustic jam gigs, that wouldn't be a problem. Just   
   > whack thru the tune, do the arrangement however we happen to stumble thru   
   > it. When using backings, that's not as easy. Forget the arrangement, and   
   > you're in trouble.   
      
   With so many songs, getting through them is about the best that can be hoped   
   for, unless many Days of rehearsing are also in the works.   
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   > I've been reconfiguring the XR18.  Getting rid of all the weirdness   
   > associated with the old drummers needs, channels and aux busses tied up   
   > for monitoring.  It's simpler now.  There are a lot of things, busses,   
   > routings, in that mixer, but everything has limits.  I really like it,   
   > very flexible.  Don't think I'll ever go back to a non digital mixer.   
   > Thinking about yet another case for it.  Perhaps a 4 space shallow one,   
   > put the mixer ( 3 spaces ) and my in ear transmitter in .... eh, probably   
   > won't.   
      
   The ability to control it remotely is what's really COOOOOL!!!   
      
   > also thinking about buying some more stage lights.  That three piece had a   
   > really nice little light on the kick drum front head. It was a multicolor   
   > disco thing. Colors swirled around, not to fast, only lit the drum head,   
   > looked great.  Couldn't cost much. It looked like something you'd see as   
   > an effect on an episode of the original Star Trek.  Maybe that's why I   
   > liked it ?   Really did look nice.   
      
   > hey, gotta run.   
      
   JimD   
      
   I never saw anything like that on Star Trek ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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