Kicked my self off a stage yesterday

Leaving was probably your best move.  I hope the benefit was for a good cause.  

Team work is often hampered when I start thinking I'm the one that's in the right, and then throw my toys out of the pram when folk are not listening to me because they have valid ideas too.

It's a fine line.

Putting on an event should be a way of attracting more people to pass the hat round to.  Certainly if you can't manage that then give directly, then bless the rest of the team for managing a success without you.  If you only ended up ferrying gear then rejoice that your input helped toward that success.

If giving expects some reward or accolade then it ain't truly giving.

Jonbouy


If giving expects some reward or accolade then it ain't truly giving.

Agreed.


Now taking on the other hand (such as taxes and fees ), that's a horse of a different story, roight?

bapu

Jonbouy


If giving expects some reward or accolade then it ain't truly giving.

Agreed.


Now taking on the other hand (such as taxes and fees ), that's a horse of a different story, roight?

Ya, that's dues.  Although you should still give freely and without question.

Thanks Starise.

I do like those cookies!

:-)

Mooch4056


Bapu charges tax just for his benefit 

Maybe you should hold a benefit concert for your Foundation?

mike_mccue


I was feeling good and satisfied that this old guy (me) had kept the event moving along on time... and then the "sound guy" shows up, late of course, and does that "I'm a sound guy" horse's arse stuff that I've heard people say that all "sound guys" do.


best regards,
mike

Excuse me - is this correct? A sound guy who just "show up"? He didn't rig anything? He was just late? He came to work and just started fiddling with the knobs and making stuff sound alright? He didn't have to lift anything? Especially not anything heavy? He just "shows up" - late - like a rock star? 










Can I work for you? 

I was a regular sound guy at a venue here in Oslo some years ago. A decent but small PA installed, a mixer in place and not much to it. The bands carried their own stuff and I just set up the microphones. Paid in cash and plenty of free beer. That was pretty cool.

I've worked on hundreds of live shows elsewhere and it always involve carrying something, either in or out of the venue. When doing lights I can sometimes pretend to be too busy to help carrying the gear into the venue but I can assure you, I have to do some heavy lifting on the way out. Bah, I'd take the white glow thing any day

I'm happy to hear that the gig went well Mike. There's hardly any thing more satisfying than that even if there's a couple of ego's taking up too much space.

Every once in a while I play with the idea of going back to Live shows full time. I'm sick of working in a studio. I'd rather do that on my own time.

That's what forum's are for - isn't it?

Starise


 Yep, you can blow off just about anything here and get away with it.

Daryl blows off his arse steam all the time here. 

I was at Pigeon Forge one time listening to a very popular old timey trio. Forget their name now, couldn't have been too popular I guess. Heh. It was an old barn made in to a small venue. They do a quick sound check and I hear this low ringing fading in and out. I'm watching the sound guy, and halfway through the first song he walks out of the building. By the third song the ringing was so bad people started leaving and the sound guy was nowhere to be found. Never saw him come back in, and we left by the end of the 4th song because it was so bad. I told the wife I was going to go up and fix it and she freaked out and told me to sit down and shush. She doesn't like it when I make a scene.

There's something about sound guys. Reminds me of a scene in the movie Groundhog's Day. The camera guy is putting the moves on a babe at the bar. He says, "People think all I do is point the camera and shoot ..." as the girl nods her head yes and kinda shrugs her shoulders as she's sipping her drink and ignoring him. Then he finishes his sentence, "... but it's so much more than that." LOL!

I was in a band with a guy who was in a group that was all family before he hooked up with us. They were very popular in North Jersey, for the life of me I don't know why though. LOL! They didn't speak to each other for years when they split up because the lead singers husband (husband was the outsider) took the sound board and Elvis costume. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! True story! The argument was, even though the husband owned the Elvis costume (white jump suite with sequins LOL) the other lead singer (male) wore it and he felt he should get it because it didn't even fit the guy that took it, and even though the husband owned the sound board too, he could never figure out how to use it and the guy who ran it, which was also the other lead singer who wore the Elvis costume, felt he earned the right to take it because he wasn't paid extra to be the sound guy on top of the Elvis impersonator. LOL!! Good times man, good times. All true. Can't make this stuff up.

On a side note, I dated the lead singer after she split from her hubby, or there-abouts. ;) Oh my she was a lot of fun. Oh yeah, maybe that's why they were so popular.

No, but I have helped dress up a Senator in one... in a public bathroom... for a shoot where he was doing a gag for a fun times story we were doing.

A couple years later I worked with the same Senator, who was now Senate President and my client du'jour took great pains to coach me on how I was too address and speak to a V.I.P. such as a Senator. I was just some hired help. It's all true. I understood where the client was coming from.

Said Senator walks up to our location set and I step up and modestly put out my hand in greeting, then I let loose a low rumbling "hello ELLLLLLLvisssssssssss!!!" and the the V.I.P and I had ourselves a big ol barrel belly laugh while the client looked at us like we were crazy.

:-)

Good times!

:-)