From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018022410580021975-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > and there was light :-)   
      
   Or might that now be that there were lightS, as in Plural?   
      
   > The new DMX light stuff arrived yesterday.  Now I can look like a   
   > Christmas tree :-)   A Chauvet Obey40 controller and 3 Par56 LED fixtures.   
   > Just that set me back a few coin, but I like them. More lights can be   
   > added as I can afford it.   
      
   Isn't that a bit overdoing it? ;)   
      
   > Compared to all the older lights various bands I've been in had, these are   
   > different.  In the old days, lights were heavy, clunky, and HOT.  But you   
   > know the biggest thing I'm seeing ?  Something I just realized. Now, each   
   > light can be any color I want.  Yeah, that's stupid obvious. SO obvious it   
   > goes without notice UNLESS you've grown up on old PAR lights with gel   
   > filters to set the lights.  Back then, each light had a color depending on   
   > the gel you put on it.  So it took a lot of lights to cover a stage if you   
   > even thought you wanted to change the color / look during the show.   
      
   > Did you catch that ?   
      
   > I called is a " show ".   
      
   A light show? ;)   
      
   > Not a jam, or a gig, or whatever other self referencing word musicians   
   > might use.   Lights are for the audience.  They don't help you play   
   > better, or sing on key, or know the right material for the gig. They make   
   > things look better.  Guess it's kind of like dressing up nice to go out.   
   > Clothes matter.  Looks matter.  Lights matter.   
      
   Light shows Distract from Sound, i.e. Music shows.   
      
   > Yesterday I managed to get them lit.  This whole DMX thing is new to me.   
   > Have to learn it all from scratch.  YouTube is good for that. It's not   
   > rocket science, but it is a bit different from just plugging them in and   
   > starting in on Brown Eyed Girl :-)   
      
   > Ha.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   If you're going to play something as Stale and Boring as "Brown-Eyed Girl",   
   I guess you'll need all the lighting Tricks you can muster ;)   
      
   Otherwise though, as on the other hand, if your Music is Original and FRESH,   
   the Sound IS the show!   
      
   And speaking of which, I'm getting around to demo recording the 4 tunes I've   
   written for the 4th album, and I'll probably 'expedite' i.e. record first,   
   the 4th one, "I Wanna Know Why", because it's a total jam, with a bossa nova   
   120 bpm beat.   
      
   Carole King's Latin style tune is "Corazon", and Ouisie's is "I Wanna Know   
   Why"   
      
   And I need to start demo recording the tunes anyway.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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