From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019081910045340802-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I'm not dead yet, although this group looks to be. haha.   
      
   That's because we the only ones who keep it alive ;)   
      
   > My trio played a odd gig yesterday, a function for a association of   
   > musicians.  Nice full room, about 100 people.  All of them studying us   
   > ....   
      
   An association of musicians sounds like some kind of concert, or at least   
   should ;)   
      
   > It was different than playing for actual normal people. As in, people who   
   > want to be entertained, listen or dance. These people were just looking at   
   > us trying to pick us apart. Ha, funny kinda. One person said afterwards we   
   > were singing  karaokie cd's and just pretending to play our instruments.   
   > Oh well.   
      
   In other words, you were using 'tracks' again ;)   
   But I don't know if I'd want to play for those just waiting for their chance   
   to 'pick apart' or otherwise be critics - doesn't sound like much fun that   
   way.   
      
   > Lots of interest in out pa. They were coming up on breaks and asking a lot   
   > of questions. Funny thing, the important differences, why our system   
   > sounds so much better, they didn't even notice. It's in the basic setup,   
   > the mixer, the lack of amps onstage and our monitor setup.   
      
   Sounds like they'd be more useful picking themselves apart then ;)   
      
   > No one even noticed that. They ask about our pa cabs, what kind of power   
   > amps we had, totally didn't even get the " why " we sound good.  Well, ok,   
   > on person did, the guy from the hall this was held at.  I talked to him a   
   > bit. He agreed that the main problem with most bands they see is their   
   > total inability to control volume levels.   
      
   That's the brainwashing effect - CRAP in *any* form, continued long enough   
   becomes STUPIDLY 'accepted' and on those all too rare occasions when things   
   are finally done Right, they can't figure out why there's such an   
   improvement.   
      
   > We doing a road trip gig this weekend, the WV bluegrass thing.  Then next   
   > month the square dances start back up. Got hired to do those again, three   
   > saturdays a month until next May.   
      
   You're going to WV?   
   I'm sure bluegrass is a lot of fun. I was listening to some on youtube, and   
   since I'm kind of a hillbilly myself, I enjoy it...but it sure does need   
   keyboards ;)   
   But if anyone insists that a resonator or other kind  of slide guitar,   
   guitar, upright viol bass, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin are enough, I can   
   always arrange a keyboard part and prove that only then is the sound truly   
   complete ;)   
      
      
   > That's about it. Still playing, still enjoying it.   
      
      
   JimD   
      
   That's what it's all about. And I'm working on song #43 "It Could Happen To   
   Anyone", about reaping what one sows, and that gets me more than half way   
   through the 4th album.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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