From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018030623242490688-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It's how it has to be.  We don't have any good pics with the correct line   
   > up.   
      
   So it's only for the pictures? I thought it was the new actual band line   
   membership.   
      
   > there is an investment phrase, some thing like " on a long enough time   
   > line .... we're all dead "   
      
   Which means they can't spare their *lives* to *waste* *Idolizing* Filthy   
   Lucre...when they should be investing in Eternity instead!!!   
      
   > I'll give that a look tomm.  Too late now, and I have a dentist checkup in   
   > in the morn, so need to go to sleep.   
      
   It was a Great show...like the kind I dream about and aspire to!   
      
   > We have some HotSpot monitors. Bought them, then never used 'em as they   
   > will only do about 117 db max.   
      
   OUCH! Those poor ears!!!   
      
   > How you gonna hear those next to a drummer or bass player who idle at   
   > about 114 db ?   
      
   More like HOW ARE YOU  GOING TO HEAR if you don't get away from such   
   Dangerous levels!!!   
      
   > I simply refuse to blow them up to prove a point.  Our problem is a simple   
   > one. Either get some us to crank it WAY back, or break the band up.   
      
   Crank it WAY back!!!   
      
   > Band girl and I talked today about using those monitors this week. Even   
   > went online and looked up the specs to see if they will work. That's   
   > instead of just hooking them up to a 2000 watt amp and letting them crank   
   > it.  I know how that will end.   Ok, if the stage level doesn't get too   
   > out of hand, then they would work.  But it will.   
      
   Maybe 2 kW of audio would be okay at a venue like Toyota Park, but that's a   
   STADIUM for gosh sakes!   
      
   > Wife said, make the bass guy use in ears. I said, what ? give him my spare   
   > pair ?   Not gonna happen.  $100 ... fried in minutes.  Then " oh, sorry.   
   > "   I say that because of the two sets of headphones the drummer fried   
   > before I quit loaning those to him.  Burn up your own gear, not mine.   
      
   Yeah, really. Or they could do the Right thing and get what's left of their   
   hearing tested so they can be fitted with Hearing Aids.   
      
   > How can they do that ?   Easy ....... they're nearly deaf.  Deaf people   
   > can't hear much.  They can, and will, crank this stuff way up and not even   
   > realize. That's the sad part. They apparently actually don't realize how   
   > loud it is to people who can still hear relatively normally.   
      
   And they're TOTALLY ***STUPID*** for doing that to themselves!   
   WHO NEEDS 'EM!   
      
   > Not sure how we'll do monitors this week.  I'll talk to band girl, see   
   > just how scared she is of the IEM's.   
      
   I'm not scared of them, it's just that I have a Limited tolerance to their   
   being in my ears.   
      
   > It's the same ol' story.   Excuses .....  but we keep falling back to just   
   > crazy stage level.   
      
   The crazy stage levels are Inexcusable!!!   
      
   > What I could have done, had I more foresight, was to order some ear plugs   
   > for myself, then just let them have at it.   
      
   That's what my Soulmate and myself have done.   
      
   > Of course, we'd probably lose the gig. But, hey, it may take that to break   
   > us up. Then I'll NEVER, EVER, EVER get in a band again with hearing   
   > challenged people.   
      
   Same here, I REFUSE to Waste my life with Mentally Challenged Idiots who've   
   Lost their hearing!!!   
      
   > The plan is ... it gets loud ... I'm gonna say on break ... dial it back,   
   > really, a lot, or I'll pay you now and you can just leave or sit the rest   
   > of the night out. I'm done with this.   
      
   HEAR HEAR -  literally ;)!!!   
      
   RIGHT ON!!!   
      
   > Dance music.  She liked that simple song she could dance too.   
      
   Some Airhead Zombie Bimbo would do better with a drum machine and various   
   kinds of Noise!!!   
      
   But the guy was Awesome on the piano!!!   
      
   So the 'take-home' message presented in the  video is what I've been saying   
   all along, that dancers don't care about Music, only their stupid   
   dancing...WHO NEEDS 'EM!   
      
   All they need is a DJ at most, NOT a band of accomplished musicians to Waste   
   their time playing for those who couldn't care less!!!   
      
   > Not everyone wants to just listen to the most complex music the musicians   
   > can manage. Musicians want to show off to themselves and other musicians,   
   > fine.   
      
   I'm ONLY interested in Hearing them show off the Music!, NOT themselves!!   
      
   > But it's hard to get paid for it. And it's way harder to get paid and have   
   > an audience that likes it, if they came to dance.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Then it's a matter of the WRONG VENUE!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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