More shows added in December for the Relentless 7 -> a late night show in NYC, an x-mass party in Asheville, and far away in April, some festival shows in Byron Bay.
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.
Next up on the agenda, mixing the Relentless 7 on an upcoming California club tour. Back to the small clubs, it’s been almost over a year now since I’ve mixed on anything besides a Digidesign Profile, and now back to the humble beginnings of dusty consoles in dusty small clubs.
To see the dates check out the ‘Upcomming Shows’ page here on the blog, and also check out the bands web site – www.Relentless7.com
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.
I’m “home” from a great first leg of a US tour with Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals. Playing fancy theaters across the country including the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Radio City Music Hall, the Chicago Theater, and 2 nights at Massey Hall in Toronto as seen in the picture. The PA was supplied by Rat Sound and I had a L’Acoustics Kudos rig with Arc and dv-Dosc front fills and Rat subs. At FOH I was using a Digidesign Venue, and on the next run I’ll be taking out the Digidesign Profile for a nice compact FOH package.
But before we go out on the next leg of tour, through the southern states and then up (and down) the west coast, I need to find myself a real home here in Denver. I was in the middle of searching for a place before I joined the tour, and now have just under 3 weeks to find/confirm/move into my new place. In the next couple of days I’ll be looking at some that might be it. I’m itching to get setteled in, but not necessarily enjoying the search. Their are many places available in my budget, but being the picky person I am I still think I’ll find a needle in the haystack. Wish me luck!
I hope to have more pictures up on the site soon. A gallery page is in progress, and I should have some pictures up of my trip out here to Denver to start, and then some pictures from the tour (though there are many great pictures of the tour available for viewing at BenHarper.net). Till then…
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