[Harp-L] Re: Why Charlie's Cruncher was backwards, and other stuff

[Greg Heumann <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I emailed Charlie and asked him. Here's what he said:

"They picked up the band at 5:15am. When we got to the studio they had  
it all set up like they wanted. A Times Square TV studio like that  
with an audience and all is a very busy and complicated place. I was  
curious about why they had my amp turned around, but there was no time  
to even discuss it. We just had time to get straight to work. When it  
was over the crew started breaking everything down with the precision  
of a drill team while they hustled the band out to a waiting van. Next  
week when I fly back to meet Cyndi in Cleveland to start the tour,  
I'll get to discuss it because I'm curious too about the amp  
placement. Another thing all those folks should know is that whatever  
sound I was getting from my Cruncher, it was at the mercy of the  
studio before it reached the TV listening audience. I have no way of  
controlling that and they can change your sound dramatically and the  
player has no way of knowing about it.  A professional that's backing  
somebody up plays what's appropriate for who they're backing up and  
what's appropriate is what the artist that hired them wants. If you  
ignore what they want and just play what you want.....you ain't going  
to last long in that line of work. It's not a difficult concept to  
grasp. If you hired a guy to paint your house and he decided to paint  
it his favorite color instead of the color the homeowner asked  
for.....well that'd be plain stupid.  That shouldn't be so hard to  
understand unless you're the kind of person that just likes to look  
for something negative to say. If you come to hear me live, you would  
hear something very different. But, no matter how hard you try and no  
matter how much you care, there's always some sour puss out there just  
waiting to jump on you with something negative and they are, for the  
most part, clueless - they weren't there; they don't know what all  
went on behind the scenes, but they're not going to hesitate from  
blabbing a bunch of baloney as if they're some kind of authority.  
Personally, when I see anybody getting any kind of work at all in this  
business - I'm pulling for them. All that negative baloney is just  
plain silly."

I couldn't agree more.




/Greg

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