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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jim & others</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am reminded of a set that the late John Pickering
did in Australia. The sound man/thing/person/whatever would not listen to the
band saying how they wanted to be heard.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After the first number the band walked off the
stage and played on the floor of the hall where the sound-object could not get
at them. This was in a beautiful old hall designed before electricity
so the natural sound had to be good.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil O'Rourke<BR>Australia</FONT></DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF"> Paul...aren't we going from silly to sillier
on amplification. Amplification is here to stay. Of course there
are abuses of it everywhere. I have found that every gig setting is
different and adjustments have to be made on the spot. This applies to the
bass volume, the mikeing of the piano and guitar/banjo plus the horns.
Usually the reed instrument is the only horn that can use some amplification
but this is always a variable. It really is up to the leader to balance the
volume of everything in the band and this is not always easy.<BR></FONT><FONT
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">.<BR>Paul, one of the most disapointing gigs I ever played
was at Carnegie Hall. <B>Yes, the Carnegie Hall. </B>Some
years back, the New York Jazz Festival had a Chicago Night and brought out 6
Chicago bands with a wide range of styles, from traditional to avant
-garde. This was an exiting event as most of these bands and musicians
had not played at the NY Jazz Fest. New Yorkers were really looking
forward to it. Mama Yancey, Art Hodes, Wild Bill, Jimmy McPartland Cy
Touff a leading Avant Garde group etc. were all on this. We got there in
the afternoon for a sound check and were shocked to find that the venerable
Carnegie Hall had hired a rock sound system...and a half assed one at
that. With the usual totally clueless sound
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