Ha, yeah well... what are you gonna do? I understand that most sound guys deal with pissy teenage bands spilling beer on their gear and whatnot... but also, I don't appreciate being treated like a little shit. Even if I am one. If you care to find out where that happened, go right ahead. I didn't even care to ask his name, so I couldn't name him if I wanted to. We've played about everywhere of that size here in Columbus, but hadn't played there before. We've had soundguys be short with us, for reasons I don't presume to fully understand (but would probably appreciate). It's not often that a guy is just a total prick to us. The way I see it is... we busted our asses to promote a show with a few days notice at a venue with no visible sign or address to people on an off day.
We do bring a lot of gear, and we try to have almost all of it set up off-stage before the first band starts. If possible, we put it on stage. Wanna give us an attitude? Or we can just take 30 minutes to set up and tear down, so you can run around in the dark looking for things without the inconvenience of having to treat the ones who are paying you with any sort of respect.
We were happy to play the show, played well, and some people came out that don't normally. I have no issue whatsoever with any other aspect of that experience but what I'd mentioned. While I stand by what I said, I don't want it to be misconstrued.
And our pictures were taken by Paul w/ Cool World Photography. We hired him twice, we liked him so much. I'd definitely recommend him. He's affordable, dependable, flexible and being in a touring band himself is happy to offer advice. Even if it means staying a bit later than he would have liked.
I'm gonna have to dig up a link for him....
http://www.myspace.com/coolworldphotographyIf no one cares... then I guess I won't be reading any replies to this. But yeah, nothing's perfect. Even with the in-ears. You can only try to make things better. I guess we'll just spend the cash on DI's. We SHOULD hire our own soundguy though! How would that work with these types of places? Normally they don't like that do they? And would I still have to pay the house guy while he waits for our set to be over. Or would my soundguy work the whole night and basically let the house guy take the night off? If someone knows, I'm listening.