From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2016111411231430055-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > At least that's the plan.  I spent last evening attempting to do some   
   > tracks for a tune, completely from scratch, using only a guitar. No half   
   > baked file of the net I could start from.  No keyboard, no midi guitar.   
   > It was eye opening.   
      
   > That sent me looking at, using, features of Logic not often dusted off.   
      
   Aww, for a moment there I thought you meant the song was completely from   
   scratch ;)   
      
   > What is apparent is I need a written out chord chart before I start. Or, I   
   > need to make a rough scratch vocal / rhythm track right away.  The " midi   
   > " thing of doing parts of the song, then eventually piecing them together   
   > before deciding on a key sig or tempo just doesn't work in audio world.   
      
   Wouldn't it be easier to just use a multitrack recorder?   
      
   > Band girl is due here any time, it's about 11 am as I type this.  We're   
   > going to work on a few new old songs.  Some classics we've never gotten   
   > around to.   
      
   Adding to the setlist is always cool, and prevents it from becoming boring.   
      
   > After a a chat with her last night, the idea of going after a gig in the   
   > hot new " country " ( old southern rock ) bar here in town is back burner.   
   > She wants to go there, see just what it is.  She used the phrase " burnt   
   > out rockers " even.  We don't do that. Don't want to.   
      
   Burnt out? I'd say more like  burned out CopyCats, because that really is   
   Boring!   
      
   > Not interested. We've enough work playing music we like to spend two   
   > months or so putting together a setlist of songs of the 70's.  Not that   
   > that's a bad thing. If you like that, and you WANT to play that, then do.   
   > Someone should. There's apparently an audience out there for it.   
      
   Drunks tend to be somewhat more tolerant, at least at first, so there   
   probably is an audience for it ;)   
      
   > Or, as I told her, maybe there isn't. Maybe those bands will sink this new   
   > place the same way they drove all the customers away from their previous   
   > employers.  Could happen :-)   If it doesn't, we'll think about playing   
   > there in 6 months or so.   
      
   The solution is ORIGINALS!   
      
   > Oh, and we're going to some sort of a wedding party over the weekend. As   
   > invitees, not musicians.  Interesting tidbit there. The happy couple, when   
   > booking the room, were told " no bands ". As in " we don't allow bands at   
   > our events ".   
      
   Unless those renting the room also don't want a band, they should consider   
   booking a room where that won't be a problem.   
      
   > Wanna know why ?   
      
   > The answer is easy.   
      
   > Management said it right out.  Said ........   
      
   > wait for it .....   
      
      
   > Bands are too Loud.   
      
   Maybe, or maybe ANY Music they don't like  is *Conveniently* 'too loud', or   
   any other excuse for not allowing it.   
      
   > WOW.  Yep, it's a hall in a big motel, and apparently the management has   
   > had enough complaints from the non partying people who want to lodge there   
   > for the night.   
      
   That's  why it looks like it might be that ANY sounds above the  level of   
   those lodging there for the night might be 'too loud'.   
      
   > ha ha. ........   
      
   > Dj's, I'm assuming, are ok as the place rents the space out for parties   
   > and weddings.  Dj's know enough to turn it down. Bands, not so much :-)   
      
      
   Jim.   
      
   Djs are plenty loud, at least the ones I've heard, and maybe this motel is   
   more like something from "Mayberry" - particularly portrayed in those Andy   
   Griffith Show episodes in which the Dillards, playing the part of the   
   Darling family, were also accused of being 'too loud' even though every   
   instrument they played was acoustic with no amplification whatsoever.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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