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Anyone following along is absolutely right, yes I am a crotchety old ****er when it comes to stage volume. I'm not holier than the next mother****er, I just can't stand it when it is so loud you can't hear anything but a messy blare.
I have turned down many, many offers to play in bands full of good players because they simply play too loud.
I can not stand being in front of any audience anywhere that people are grimacing in pain and putting their hands over their ears. That is not why I did all that practicing.
It's a HUGE pet-peeve of mine.
I apologize for being such a bitch, but I will never apologize for being asked to turn it up.
It's actually a fun game/challenge that I've had in a few bands I've worked with. We start the very first song ridiculously quiet and stay at that level until someone asks us to turn it up. If we get a request, we ask which of us needs to turn up, or all of us, etc. The one who is asked to turn it up wins, we all tie, etc. Just a game we kept amongst ourselves, didn't announce it or anything.
We usually got hired back everywhere we played.
Dinny
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