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Music Shit / Re: In opposition to the sound guy thread...

« on: February 22, 2009, 04:31:42 PM »

As a sound guy you get to deal with music for your money. You get to hang out and have beers and do sound. You never really have to work till nights. I mean life sounds good.

Truth be told, 90% of the time a complete amateur could do your job with 5 minutes of training, but you still get paid $$ and booze, fuckin' great.

But, fact is it doesn't pay the bills and interferes with the other job you gotta have.  It really sucks on those days where you work 9am-5pm then do sound from 9pm-2am, then work the next morning and do it all over again, uuugh.

My only pet peeve with bands is when they think I have control over EVERYTHING.  I can't give you more monitor, if I could I would have done it the last fifteen times you asked.

But the best part is all the folks you get to deal with and some great stories.

I remember at Operation Restore Maximum Freedom 1 -- a hobbled together 20-band fest with a real joke of a PA system-- seriously a production line of live music, 20 minute sets, 10 minutes TOPS b/w bands including load/unload, sound check, etc.---  this band Walking in the Neon had a total shitfest temper tantrum over the sound.  Sorry I only have one monitor mix, we picked up all this shit at 9am today and I'm really hungover, everyone else just rocked the fuck out and had a good time and ignored the occasional feedback squall, stop taking yourselves so seriously.  It's great cause then you can talk shit on all the bands who are assholes and egomaniacs.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Records in an Earthquake...

« on: February 18, 2009, 03:34:30 PM »

denkinger, my shelves are oriented the same way.  yikes.  I need to bolt the shelves to the wall and maybe use some old, shitty leather belts or something over the front to keep them in.

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Music Shit / Re: Gainsbourg reissues

« on: February 18, 2009, 01:05:35 PM »

im reissuin this right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXx3zRgTdLM

that is exactly what I was thinking.

what a drunk.

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Non-Music Shit / Your Records in an Earthquake...

« on: February 18, 2009, 12:48:43 PM »

Now that I'm living in earthquake country, wondering if anyone has horror stories, or maybe if they're just too heavy to shake out of the shelves.  Obviously I'm going to bolt my massive, tall shelf to the wall, but I'm wondering about the records.  Anyone old enough to have a large record collection weather the 1989 SF quake or the 94' Northridge?

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Music Shit / Re: What is everybody jammin' to? Part III

« on: February 17, 2009, 10:44:45 PM »

I discovered Carambolage, and spent hours downloading shit online, hahaha.

les rallizes, kleenex,  chrome 'the visitation', HARDCORE DEVO (yesss, finally).

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Music Shit / Re: Gris Gris Live at the Creamery LP

« on: February 17, 2009, 05:30:47 PM »

what's going on with them these days anyways?

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Music Shit / Re: Gris Gris Live at the Creamery LP

« on: February 17, 2009, 05:10:34 PM »

DJ Rick... remember that shit hole?

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Music Shit / Re: Gris Gris Live at the Creamery LP

« on: February 17, 2009, 05:08:29 PM »

oh man, had one nefariously drunken evening with mr. ashley after a show he played in town a few years ago, here's where we found him in the morning:

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Music Shit / Re: Mayyors

« on: February 17, 2009, 05:01:41 PM »

I'M NEVER IN ANY BAND!

What about the one-off Outer Zoning Committee?  that was baaaad news.

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Music Shit / Re: Gris Gris Live at the Creamery LP

« on: February 16, 2009, 06:51:31 PM »

I remember seeing them after digging on their album, and laughing that their set was essentially the record, IN ORDER start to finish, and possessed the same huge sound.

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Music Shit / Re: Best R'n'R Couplets

« on: February 15, 2009, 07:35:25 PM »

runnin from the pigs
4th of july

we'll never get away from them
but weeee gotttta tryyyyyyy.

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Music Shit / Re: French Garage/Punk Mixtape....

« on: February 15, 2009, 02:25:19 PM »

aaah, I see after a little research, Soriano, you're probably pretty familiar with a lot of these groups after traveling to France and working with Cheveu.

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Music Shit / Re: French Garage/Punk Mixtape....

« on: February 15, 2009, 02:18:35 PM »

Well that makes sense, but I still say OOP or super expensive limited stuff is fair game ethically speaking, not to open up a can of worms here.

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Music Shit / Re: records people hated now considered classic

« on: February 15, 2009, 02:15:52 PM »

Trans by Neil Young. Wait a min no likes that still

haha, I find it pretty enjoyable, but not in a totally sincere way.

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Music Shit / Re: records people hated now considered classic

« on: February 14, 2009, 05:14:58 PM »

The first Yoko Ono "Plastic Ono Band" LP... the one with the same front cover as the John Lennon one that came out at the same time.  Folks thought they were buying a new pop record by an ex-beatle but were instead treated to proto-contortionsesque primal scream therapy shit.  I love that record.