From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019041612524735507-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > Yes. She can't really be as dense as she's acting on this issue.  There is   
   > something at work here I don't see.  Perhaps it is a desire to go back and   
   > relive those glory days.   
      
   To me, those would be GORY days that I'd NEVER want to repeat! ;)   
      
   > We did a duo yesterday. Measured audience levels in the high 80's low   
   > 90's.  Yes, I'm doing that now :-)   
      
   That's cool. I'd like to get an SPL meter and do that - it's the best way to   
   go.   
      
   > Afterwards her and I  went for a bite and talked. She said we were   
   > absolutely too quiet at that gig. It was a smallish room in a retirement   
   > place. Said she just can't sing at those low levels.  Said she can't hear   
   > the music.   
      
   If it was too quiet, there'd be complaints that you couldn't be heard.   
      
   > So she's just crazy.   
      
   Or at least inaccurate.   
      
   > It's been her all along, using an endless stream of " someone saids " as a   
   > difflection from herself.   
      
   If 'they', the 'someones', really do say such things, I wonder why they only   
   tell it to her.   
      
   > Like I said, we're about done.   
      
   Does she know that? Is that what she wants? To play Crap 'gigs' and go deaf   
   doing it?   
      
   > She simply doesn't want to adapt to playing better gigs, where being   
   > overly loud just isn't acceptable.   
      
   We all know there are all kind of motives for getting into Music, many of   
   them being less than pure...like being a 'chick magnet', 'rock star' of the   
   drunk bar, getting away from the house for a while, being able to brag about   
   being in a 'band', being with the boys, hitting on the girls, drinking,and   
   other assorted Nonsense. What are her motives?   
      
   > I told her yesterday that she absolutely has to stop considering the   
   > opinions of out of work musicians .... people who could never do our gig   
   > because they would constantly rebel against what OUR customers want.   
      
   Since I'm always taking the scientific approach anyway, I'd just ask her to   
   PROVE what she's saying.   
      
   > So that's it.  Some people play music for themselves, the audience be   
   > damned.  But usually they don't do it for long.   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   Or they can find booze soaked / anesthetized deaf audiences in the drunk   
   bars who demand dangerously high sound levels...but I hope I'll NEVER have   
   do deal with such Idiots ever again!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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