From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017071710042545776-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I don't see how pointing the amp at myself will help.  Once the stage   
   > level is so high I don't want to be in the same building as the band,   
   > pointing my own at at my head to hear it would be pointless.   
      
   That's hearing Damaging levels, so that would mean you'd have to try to blow   
   your head off with your own amp rather than let the overcranked Idiots do   
   it.   
      
   > Hey, on that, heard something interesting last week. A band I know ( wink   
   > wink ) just recently started playing out again after the small   
   > rearrangement of finding a new chick singer.  Played a local lakeside gig.   
   > A guy who's freinds with the band and whom we went to school with ( so   
   > he's my age ) reportedly commented they sounded good, but he didn't want   
   > to get up close.  The volume bothers his ears. Seems he has tinnitus from   
   > years of loud music and has finally realized that loud does in fact damage   
   > your hearing. Ha, what an insight. His comment reminded me of one time I   
   > saw this same band, with the earlier singer, at an outdoor country club   
   > gig. In that case, the help, barmaids, waitresses ... were using hand   
   > signals to take drink and food orders. And this was OUTDOORS.  We lasted   
   > one set, then as we were leaving, I realized the band actually did sound   
   > pretty good, from about a 1/4 mile away in the parking lot on the other   
   > side of the clubhouse :-)   
      
   They won't sound so good when they're all completely Deaf!   
   Who needs that?   
      
   > This has me remembering an outdoor park gig we played in the 80's. There   
   > was a local big deal blues band that played after us. We did the warmup,   
   > the afternoon when no one was there, few hours.  Then the big deal boys   
   > showed up late and played the whole act of being a big deal.  They are   
   > still around here. Still working their day gigs at some factory or   
   > business their brother in law owns.  Hey, maybe they are writing tunes and   
   > getting famous and I just don't know it .... ha, right.   
      
   Maybe they're not going anywhere if they're still working 'slob jobs'.   
      
   > A blues band write new music ?   Blues is where old rockers go to die.  Or   
   > at least that use to be the case. Now they buy some plastic cowboy hats,   
   > don a ripped tee shirt and learn some Luke Bryan songs :-)   
      
   New blues ;) A 'new' way to play 3 or 4 chords over and over ;)   
   Perhaps the lyrics could be new...well, not really ;)   
      
   > No plan for today.  I don't have a gig until wednesday, so today and   
   > tomorrow to work on some newer music. It looks nice out, but weirdly   
   > cloudy. Maybe I'll get a bike ride in this evening. Maybe not.   
      
   Jim   
      
   At least it sounds like more fun than working with bothersome plants i.e.   
   mowing, etc. ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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