RE: A poll--shoes off?

["Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net>]

I have seen performers bring oriental rugs into venues to avoid the kinds 
of
unpleasantness Travis refers to--
Using the same shoes is good advice--the guy I learned bass pedals from 
made
a point of always using leather soled shoes, and they have consistent
response.
I have tried shoes off in the home and they do help you find things
easier--at one point on Thursday (my fill-in at the Radisson playing to
drunken tourists) I missed the loop pedal, as it is dark under the piano 
and
I just couldn't see--but I was relaxed and didn't let it interrupt.  Shoes
off would have helped--and it was clean and carpeted.

I would like to remind everyone of Andre LaFosse's upcoming dates--they 
are:

Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Los Angeles, CA: Level One 
6311 Wilshire Blvd. (near Crescent Heights) 
8:00 PM | $5 
Playing solo and with Chris Opperman's band. 

:| NEW YORK CITY, MARCH 2005 |: 
Tuesday, March 15 
NYC: Galapagos 
10:00 PM | Free admission 
(with Triphazard and Sarge) 

Wednesday, March 16 
NYC: CB's 313 Gallery 
9:00 PM | $5 
(with Triphazard and Sarge) 

March 18, 19 and 20, 2005 
NYC: The Monkey 
Show times: 8:00 PM on the 18th and 19th, 
4:00 PM on the 20th 
$15 in advance, $20 walk-up 

Three nights of solo gigs at Dominic Frasca's Manhattan performance space,
using five Echoplexes simultaneously in a 5.1 surround sound environment! 

Best of luck Andre!  The entire future of looping live rests on your
shoulders!
Gary
PS  Andre wears shoes.
G