From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018030213140826203-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Our drummer was talking about a band he saw last week.  Liked them, they   
   > had a good drummer ... a bit young, but good.  Not a word about how the   
   > audience liked them, or the dancers. He did say they were a bit loud. And   
   > that's a lot coming from him.   
      
   Maybe he thinks only he's entitled to be loud ;)   
      
   > For years a bass playing friend of mine beat on me over my using backing   
   > tracks.  Then one day, he was in town, went to see an old musician friend   
   > of his playing some little place. The guy playing guitar and using backing   
   > tracks.  Since that day, my friend hasn't said a bad word about how I   
   > work. It took seeing someone HE respected doing what I do ... now it's all   
   > good.   
      
   Fake is fake no matter who does it.   
      
   > On the long road of wondering about life, trying to find meaning, to   
   > understand ... eventually you come to the end. A place of understanding.   
   > The road of wondering just stops. Maybe there's a gate there, or a big   
   > rock, but past that, nothing.  Grass or desert sand or trees, but no more   
   > road to understanding.   
      
   Interesting analogy.   
      
   > On that gate or rock, written in nice plaing english is the answer to the   
   > question of " why ? "   
      
   > and that answer is short and simple.   
      
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   > People are just stupid.   
      
   The vast majority of them aren't called homo stupidicus for nothing.   
      
      
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   > from that comes understanding of why. why musicians play too loud. why   
   > they don't care about audience.  why people believe lying politicians.   
   > why why why ....   
      
   > because a lot of people are just stupid.  To dazed, or busy, or stuborn to   
   > get out of their own way.   
      
   And to Magnify that, they overbreed to currently over 7 BILLION 600 MILLION   
   of the Troublesome Vermin...when as FEW of  them as possible would be a Much   
   better way to go!   
      
   > I'm done with two stupid things that have been bothering me for a few   
   > years. One, no, we're not routing the bass on the tracks out onto their   
   > own channel, exponentially complicating our pa setup.  And another ....   
   > I'm done with loud.  Period.  If my fellow band mates don't like that,   
   > then we'll part ways. I'll go back to being a happy solo guy.  They can do   
   > whatever, I don't care.   
      
   Get an SPL meter and keep the levels in the Sane range.   
      
   > Yes, I've arrived at the end of one of the roads to why ..........   
   > standing there now, looking around with my new found wisdom.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   But How to make Stupid Idiots understand is a major challenge.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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