I used to be the roadie for The Fourth Dynasty, a hard rock band back in the 1960's. Built a neat box that the drummer could use to flash various colored floods with his foot. Built an ultraviolet strobe light (this is in the 60's). I even played an audio oscillator on certain tunes. We had so many high-powered amps that it's a miracle that I can still hear. At the Music Dome (an old geodesic) we shook the dust out of the building. The bass player and I used to grab a Hammond B3 organ and put it up on the stage. The B3 wasn't a home organ, but a truly huge, heavy beast. Coupled with the Leslie speaker, it was an awesome sound. I wonder where our Fender Telecasters are today. The bass player used to build custom 15 inch speakers; he was super at leatherette. It was neat watching the blue glow on the 6L6s.
The only time we lost a "battle of the bands" was at one school where they gave it to the hometown band. The crowd wasn't happy and the contact guy was apologetic, but we wound up playing for free that night. There were some nice places, and some real sleazy ones; a couple that almost needed the chicken wire. We made a couple of 45s, but never got famous. It was interesting learning about human personalities by observing the band members and the crowd. Mike - AA8K David Forbes wrote: > At 12:16 PM +0000 10/11/08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> As former sound technician... > > I used to do that stuff too, being the bass player/sound guy in a > cheesy bar band. Loads of fun! > > Any more time nuts with sound reinforcement experience? > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
