From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017072023550575711-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It seems to be a common belief that the big name bands play screaming loud   
   > onstage.  I think that comes from the 60's druggie bands, doesn't it ?   
   > It's really loud in the audience, and so it must be loud onstage ?  Right   
   > ?   I've no doubt that some of those 60's / 70's bands were crazy loud.   
   > You can look up Townsend and read how he's practically deaf now.   
      
   Getting too deaf ENDS the Music, but I do know of two bands, the first being   
   Deep Purple, and later, Foreigner, who were said to be the loudest band.   
      
   > So people just think that's how it's done.  Loud is loud. And as loud as   
   > you can stand it is best of all.  Hey, I went thru that.  Drink enough and   
   > amp volume won't bother you, nothing will.  It's only years later you   
   > realize how stupid that was.   
      
   I tend to believe that the extreme overcranking is the exception rather than   
   the rule, or at least I hope it is ;)   
      
   > It's a pick up gig for me. I don't expect anything to come of it. In fact   
   > I don't want anything to come of it.  I don't want the job on a regular   
   > basis.   
      
   Must be a real Bummer then ;)   
      
   > Someone who likes the blues can and should play it.  I've nothing in   
   > particular against the blues.  That said, if it was so diffcult, then how   
   > is that every highschool in the country has some kid who knows every blues   
   > lick there ever was, and can play them flawlessly ?   If it's so hard, why   
   > is that ?   
      
   > Because it isn't :-)   
      
   And they take the 'easy' way out ;)   
      
   > I mowed, shouldn't have, but did. It caused me to be rushed and tired by   
   > the time I did my evening gig.  All because it was supposed to start   
   > raining today and not stop for a week. Well, today came and went. Not a   
   > drop of rain.  Oh well.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Similar to over here - it's been a CRAPPY summer - too much rain and too   
   much humidity!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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