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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 12:46:02 GMT
To Bluehighway. When performing at a professional level in a large venue (as opposed to a pub!) How loud is it on stage? I've been to some concerts where it was literally deafening (Page Plant Glasgow 1995🔊🎛🎤🎸) Do you have hearing problems now? Cheers. Once again it depends, if I'm doing a really big venue or festival we normally have earpieces, which although give really clear sound I actually hate as it deadens the audience and I love hearing them sing. Also it's an age thing that alot of my career we only had monitor cabs and I'm used to working with them and getting the right levels. Plus they're great for putting your foot on and playing the rock star In the old days though it was terrifically loud on stage, down in part to the bands I was in being heavy rocking bands. Luckily I'm fine hearingwise, but I haven't toured as relentlessly as some people as a major part of my career has been writing and producing other people and I like to do alot of solo concerts, just me and a grand piano and the audience so it's not so bad.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 28, 2017 13:25:00 GMT
I have heard tell by people in very small bands that real hearing damage is often caused by something other than the performances ... like, eg, walking in front of a bass cab at the wrong moment (a friend of mine), or having Keith Moon blow something up (Pete Townshend) or joining the school army corps and messing around with guns (Bruce Dickinson) or hanging around loud engines too much (Brian Johnson) or going to raves (teenagers). The interesting thing is not so much how many musicians seem to have hearing damage, but how many don't. I have a bit of tinnitus in one ear which I attribute to standing too close to a stage cab throughout a performance in the 80s. The (very young) specialist said that would not be so, or it would be both ears, but SHE wasn't the one standing next to the cab. I had reduced hearing the following day, and went to the doctor, who said my ear was blocked with earwax. It wasn't the day before. The earwax had melted down overnight, and possibly saved me from worse damage. Thanks, earwax. And to this day I STILL have to lever myself physically away from the cabs if I have a good standing position. It's hypnotic.
PS Monitor cabs are great for Bruce Dickinson to stand on so that he can see over them. (Ducks!)
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Nov 28, 2017 13:27:23 GMT
Thanks for all the comments and I agree Jon Lord was a supreme talent, I was in total awe the first time we met in the 70s but regard myself as truly lucky that we went on to be great friends and played together on many occasions. As for Ritchie with a "t" I guess he's gone back to his lute. Better lute than never, or something! Not sure about that, and I've been doing some reading on them. There must have been someone who could make those things rock, but I don't think he's alive now. "Dour Dutchman stymied by inefficient instrument", remember. And then there's Sting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 13:35:47 GMT
Better lute than never, or something! Not sure about that, and I've been doing some reading on them. There must have been someone who could make those things rock, but I don't think he's alive now. "Dour Dutchman stymied by inefficient instrument", remember. And then there's Sting. Not wanting to be controvertial but Sting bores the pants off me, so did the Police
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Post by dennis on Nov 28, 2017 14:16:36 GMT
Not sure about that, and I've been doing some reading on them. There must have been someone who could make those things rock, but I don't think he's alive now. "Dour Dutchman stymied by inefficient instrument", remember. And then there's Sting. Not wanting to be controvertial but Sting bores the pants off me, so did the Police I remember seeing the Police at Reading '79 - that lad could sure dodge a bottle! Wifey dragged me along to see him in Brighton about 15-20 years later. Thankfully the support band was Paul Carrack &, in all fairness, Sting was man enough to do a duet with him.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 15:00:47 GMT
dennis I always think how bad a band/singer is can be judged by the amount of bottles thrown. Paul Carrack has a great voice and is a great keyboards man, one of those real talents who slips under the radar apart from to those in the know.
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Post by poetry1 on Dec 11, 2017 14:24:05 GMT
I think Francis is more like Pete Townshend - both have a big mouth, and both are pretty domineering, except that Townshend is not as insecure - I still think all that contradictory remarks of his concerning the style of music he wants/wanted to do vs. the admission he made in the liner notes, diminishing the FF including his own work in those years (even if only implicitly) is based on the fact he was /still is not sure about his decisions from the past and subconsciously he is not at peace with his legacy as a musician in general - I mean both the FF era as well after - and what he had signed off on doing to hold a contract. I think he would have probably been most satisfied if he went full time solo in the mid 80s - I think he would have been reasonably successful but nowhere near as he was under the Quo moniker, (the same with other members, IMHO). There was a drift with what a large percentage of old Quo fans wanted him/the band to do and what he wanted - or at least he thought he did. I am not sure he knows/knew what he wanted to do musically after the mid 70s - it seems to me he knew what he did not want/that he was not satisfied but not the opposite. And the grumbling and big mouth may be a way to cover it, even before himself. He might say he is satisfied for the most part know, having money and control, but I do not think he really is satisfied, even now. An it is not about others and having to control them - but about FR himself - although he may not really admit it/know it fully.
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