Re: [Harp-L] LOWER VOLUME FOR LIVE MUSIC

[Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Reminds me of a gig where a guy sat in front of our p.a. for the whole 
> set. During the break we found out he was profoundly deaf and wanted to 
> feel the music. Jim the B.

That is extremely moving.  In fact it may explain the guy with his head in 
the horn, though he looked like an irresponsible head banger, so we just 
presumed he was trying to make himself deaf, not that he already was.

There's something I didn't mention about the Plasmatics gig.  It was so 
loud that the friend I brought tried to shout something straight into my 
ear and I still couldn't hear him.  After two tries he yanked me away from 
where I was standing.  His eyes were big and quite alarmed.  I turned to 
see what he was looking at, and became alarmed myself.

A guy had a big nasty knife out at arm's length and he was spinning in a 
circle, his way of celebrating the joy of the Plasmatics.  There was a 
great deal of blood as this moron cut people while he performed what he 
assumed was a socially acceptible punk dance.  The biggest bouncers in the 
place didn't want to get too close, but he finally slipped on blood on the 
ground.  I learned later that thought several people had been injured 
nobody was actually killed, at least nobody worth mentioning.

We left at once.  My friend told me that the guy came within an inch of my 
neck twice, and the second time my friend may have even saved my life, and 
I like to think of myself as someone worth mentioning.

Nowadays I prefer acoustic shows where, if someone is whipping a knife 
around you can actually hear the warnings.

Schmucks with knives: yet another reason to tone it down.  -K