[Dixielandjazz] Band Playing a Gig

[Robert Ringwald]

I wrote:



> My dear friend Nick Fatool, Now unfortunately gone, once told me, “As a

> drummer, if you can’t hear the front line, then you are playing too loud.”





Andy Ling answered:





Someone once said you should only notice the drummer when they stop. :^)





BR- I heard the same comment about bass players. The person that invented a bass amp should be shot. Or have a bass shoved . . . . Well, you know where.





Andy Ling continues:



One of the things I find odd is that often when setting up the band will

say X can't be heard, so they turn up X. Then maybe the same for Y etc. But they

never turn down all the others so X can be heard without making them louder.





BR- True. Of course you have heard the following:



“Dynamics??? I’m playing as loud as I can now.”






-Bob Ringwald
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