[Dixielandjazz] Loud Bass

[Patrick Cooke]

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well!
     Pat Cooke
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David W. Littlefield" <dwlit at cpcug.org>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Loud Bass


> At 07:30 PM 9/12/2004 -0500, Thompson wrote:
>> Jim and I were in Fritzel's in New Orleans one night the bass player (not
>>Pat!) had his amp turned up so loud that it hurt our ears.  If any of you
>>have been there, you know the venue is small and really no need for the
>>music, especially the bass, to be that loud.  We attempted to tell the
>>player and he would "play" with the controls, but never brought the sound
>>down so that it didn't interfere with sound coming from the other players.
>>
>>Do you think musicians loose their hearing and just don't realize how loud
>>they are playing?
>>Rebecca Thompson
>
> That certainly happens, but there are other factors that are probably much
> more important.
>
> 1. They're so focused on what they're doing they close the world out,
> sometimes even the other musicians, often ignore the volume/sound, all too
> frequently ignore the band's stylistic. Often their ears/heads get used to
> the sound around them and they lose their focus on their own sound,
> therefore keep turning it up, unconsciously.
>
> 2. They're self-centered and think they know it all. This may include
> contempt for other musicians, particularly those less skilled than they
> are, and all too frequently the leader--and they get offended when even 
> the
> leader asks them to do something different from their usual.
>
> 3. They have contempt for the opinions of non-musicians, especially
> guests/clients who express concerns for some aspect of what's happening or
> going to happen on the bandstand. The audience is so consistently ignorant
> and capricious, and so often makes stupid and/or snide assumptions about
> musicians, that over the years it gets progressively harder to take 'em
> seriously. Someone other than the client or party coordinator may complain
> that the band is too loud; with a small band, no member may be available 
> to
> go out into the audience to hear the sound or find the boss.
>
> --Sheik
>
>
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