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continued from page 49 50 Anklebiter Annoyance Turns to Humor <strong>FOH</strong> There’s a point during every annoying gig where it just becomes funny. I don’t know if this just happens to me, but I find some requests laughable, to the point that I can’t hide the glee in my face or my voice! “El Grande Nutbar” had called to see if Tuesday was good for us for a full dress rehearsal with production! Did I mention this was a one-off at a pool that gets used every day? I just couldn’t help myself — I started laughing right in his ear. I thought maybe he was joking, and it would have been a good joke, but 30 seconds into my guffawing I realized that I was the only one who got the joke. Um, ah, awkward… “No,” I had to tell him, “Unless you want to double the budget, we won’t be out there on Tuesday.” Then he wanted just me to show up. Again, I told him that wouldn’t be happening. He did seem a little confused at my lack of donateable time for his event. And I was done explaining. “See you Saturday,” I said with my purest form of Company Page Phone Web fake enthusiasm. I clicked over to my friend, explained the call and enjoyed his reaction for a full five minutes as well. On to the gig! We arrived about 20 minutes early and started to load into an area where there were so many safety orange cables strewn about I thought the Irish Protestants must be doing the gig. We were going to be safe, underpowered, but safe! As we all do, I had resolved to keep my head down and just do my job. But the sound engineer had the two wireless mics dropping out and getting hit on a pretty regular basis. And not getting hit a little, but whammed to the point that I jumped a few times as my ears began to hurt. The cathedral reverb overly awash on these mics really only became evident during the three hours where the MC made announcements. You have to admire a guy who has a mains rig set up with seven mismatched speakers and no EQ. The sound check of the monitors was proceeding with the Elvis tracks — and I didn’t know they made retro MP3s. 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A Horror Show <strong>FOH</strong> The results are horrifying, but maybe we are doing a horror show… Remember, I wasn’t here for the full dress rehearsal production check. The resort guests, average age of 60, looked like they might enjoy an obnoxiously loud, smeary performance. Oops, there goes the wireless again. Sorry, I jumped. I wouldn’t do anything about it, like change the channel or try and raise it — it should be fine by show time! I was witness to this nightmare, which honestly made me feel better about my past sound screw-ups. There were two highlights of my day: the first being the scrawny, elderly guest who decided I was in charge and yelled at me for five minutes until the “producer” raced over. This guest was one Company Page Phone Web of those strange people who doesn’t enjoy painful audio. My lighting guy on the followspot tower, with a perfect view and close enough to hear the verbal bashing, almost wet his pants as I was berated. The surrealness of the moment was awesome as my grin almost caused this gentleman to come to blows, drawing up the maximum of his brittle, jumbo-shrimp postured, 140-pound body to the point where I was concerned for his health. The other highlight was the boss hugging me after the show, thanking me for my efforts. He also said, “well, I guess you get what you pay for” and “It was the worst sound ever.” Think he made a mistake going cheap? Do you think they got a gig or a video out of this? Did I badmouth the other sound guy? No. Did I earn the client’s respect and trust? Yes. Did I earn the client’s future business? Who knows… Sergeant Schadenfreude says, “Keep it civil out there!” (Cue “Hill Street Blues” theme.) 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