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I worked with the Cramps for about 2/3 of their last album tour, “Fiends of Dope Island” in 2003, had a great time overall, and very sad to hear of Lux’s passing. That guy could twist about a mic stand like it was a piece of taffy. When he put on a show he gave it his all, and a hell of a show it was everytime. Getting his vocals loud enough in the monitors on stage? Absolute nightmare. Take the best gear, set it on warp 10, and your close. Take the not so great gear in many of the clubs we played and good luck. Mixing the Cramps from front of house? Awesome.
I send my deepest sympathies to Poision Ivy.
The Cramps - Warsaw - Brooklyn, NY
More shows added in April for the Relentless 7 -> Festivusis for the rest of us is. Otherwise enjoying 68º January weather whilst it lasts. See into the future by looking at the complete schedule here.
Please, correct me if I am stating incorrect information….
As of 2007
Average deaths of US citizens yearly from Heart Disease – 450,000
US Government allocation of money towards studying heart disease – $3 Billion
Average deaths yearly of US citizens from what the US government defines as a terrorist act – 70
US Department of Homeland Security Budget – $161 Billion
That’s the best thing we can find to do with our time here?
I see now that I must have been imprinted at a young age to be a sound engineer as revealed by the first 321 Contact episode. It’s also great documentation of when recordings were made with actual people playing the parts, compared to today’s computer edited and created methods. And dig that funky groove.
Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin get an introduction to the Relentless 7, a new group with Jesse, Jason, Jordan, and Ben Harper, as they joined the Get Out and Vote tour for four shows encouraging people to, you guessed it, get out and vote. Not necessarily for one candidate or the other, just to get out and vote, or as Ben put it “to give you the right to complain.”
In the live sound department, the Sheryl Crow tour basically turned into this tour, so I was mixing on their Clair provided Digidesign Profile, and Sheryls monitor engineer took care of us on a Digidesign Venue. Stacks and racks were “locally” supplied with Eighthday providing a V-dosc rig for the Ohio shows, and Audio Visions providing a Vertec rig for St. Paul and Milwaukee. And while all went well, all I can say is arenas are absolutely horrid rooms to mix a live show in (and waves plug-ins seem to take a really long time to load.)
It seems the plan worked, people voted.
Buy! Consume! Trash! Buy! Consume! Trash!
I find an apartment for rent and like what I find quite a bit, now we just pray for hot water. Gots me a balcony, and a fireplace, and some of them there hard wood floors, made of wood and all, and its hard, though I also gots me a bit of carpet to cover up certain sections of the hard wood floor. I thought I was all cool getting these low wattage lights, and then I hear that it takes more energy to make them and dispose of them properly thereby voiding out their current environmental friendliness…. hrmpf.
So I’ve moved in, unpacked a couple of things, and then off on the road again with Ben Harper. There is still a bit of furniture I need to ascertain upon my return to home at the end of the tour. Sofa, Dinning Table and Chairs, Desk, that’s my mantra, and some renters insurance, and a phone line, and DSL, and Electric, and door entry program set up thingy, and frame posters, and, and, and….
First Snow! Yea! My first warning was this, a good indicator of the weather patterns in Colorado.
Awoke on sunday to a couple of inches of snow as predicted, some sun latter that day but still cold, chilly on monday, and all the snow gone and warm on tue. There’s those seasons I was missing.
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