Live techs have some pretty crazy road cases, incredible heavy, folding out like a transformer robot to reveal a multitude of stuff, from tools of the trade, supplies, spare parts, mementos of family or touring, and various other “stuff”, but I think this old one here wins the award for organization and style.
See more photos and the original post I found this on here.
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.
