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Could You Tone it Down a Little Bit?
- Thread starter Stingray5
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Exploiter8
Demons run when a good man goes to war
HA! Can you go home a little bit?
We had an older lady at a VFW gig once ask me if I could turn the drums down. Of course, they were acoustic drums played by a live drummer (not a drum machine). I wasn't even the drummer for the show. I was thinking, "Your at a bar with live music. You should go somewhere quiet--like home--if you don't like it."
We had an older lady at a VFW gig once ask me if I could turn the drums down. Of course, they were acoustic drums played by a live drummer (not a drum machine). I wasn't even the drummer for the show. I was thinking, "Your at a bar with live music. You should go somewhere quiet--like home--if you don't like it."
I can remember rehearsing at a place that was above a pub(bar) and the band was quite loud - drummer really hit them! So the bar asked us to turn the drums down - not that they didn't like the music, but the drinks were jumping off the bar and glasses were smashing, when the drummer started to really get going with the bass drum!
Hey, if enough people think you're too loud (and vote with their feet) then the band ain't going to get a call back!!.
I recall being in a pickup band starting a residency - 6 nights/week for as long as I needed and good money too - where the drummer's attitude to the club management's request to "tone it down" was - "I need to play that loud to get my sound/feel/attack". Well the bar staff needed to hear what drinks the punters were ordering, so we got another drummer who could get his sound/feel/attack at a volume the club management found acceptable, else we'd ALL have lost the gig!!!.
I recall being in a pickup band starting a residency - 6 nights/week for as long as I needed and good money too - where the drummer's attitude to the club management's request to "tone it down" was - "I need to play that loud to get my sound/feel/attack". Well the bar staff needed to hear what drinks the punters were ordering, so we got another drummer who could get his sound/feel/attack at a volume the club management found acceptable, else we'd ALL have lost the gig!!!.
I think your story makes sense, but I do think it's the exception. You know that usually when you are playing in a locale that sells alcohol, it's only going to be one person who wants to you "tone it down". Most of the rest of them are going to start yelling at you to "crank it up" as they drag someone onto the dance floor for some shuckin' & jivin'.
Yeah always gets me when I'm told to TONE down, what, do you want me to cuts the mids or something...?
JoshB
A great man is always willing to be little. -RWE
Yeah, regardless of the stupidity of her request , it's REALLY classy to flip someone off at a gig and post it on the internet.
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Who do you play for? Yourself? Then stay in the garage or mom's basement. If you're playing at being professional, and your audience is telling you that you're too loud (no matter the words they use to express it) and your reaction is to flip them bird, find a different game to play. Just sayin' ...
... Who do you play for? Yourself? Then stay in the garage or mom's basement. If you're playing at being professional, and your audience is telling you that you're too loud (no matter the words they use to express it) and your reaction is to flip them bird, find a different game to play. Just sayin' ...
