Re: bad night, or: instruments

[THusken@aol.com]

-maybe it would be a good idea to have some sort of fail-safe 'emergency' 
backup.  I have a loaded 16 space rack and my sound relies a great deal on 
looping and vortex related abuses; but should something in the system trip 
me 
up I just send the line out of my preamp into my Didgitech  RDS7.6 (which 
is 
outside my rack) and into an Alesis Nanoverb in the back straight into my 
poweramp. (...this is where you discover if it's your inst. cable or not!) 
 
    One of the coolest gig experiences I've had was watching Gavin Friday 
in 
concert.  Gavins band relies on a great deal of processing for shows (I 
think 
the keyboard rack stretched to the ceiling!)  but they were having 
problems 
with the power all night.  Anyway, at one point all the power to the stage 
cutout.  Without missing a beat, Gavin sat on the edge of the stage with 
his 
megaphone to sing, the keyboard player picked up his accordion, and the 
horn 
player kept playing-finishing the song with little bravado from them but a 
roar of excitement from the crowd.  That was cool! 
-and to finish this long message let me point out to all the unfortunate 
loopers out there that on two of the four times I've seen David Torn his 
sound cut out on him completely - leaving him scratching his head and 
twiddling knobs until his sound would return a minute or so later with a 
great and musical whooosh of sound.  See gang, it can even happen to the 
master looper himself so it can happen to you too.  Preparation is the 
key!