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Re: bad night, or: instruments

Gee, this thread is really creeping me out right now! After 20 or so years
of gigging, Saturday is my first EVER solo improv show. And I'm pretty much
doing all electronics (Nord Modular, sampler, PC-1600 controller,
Vortex/JamMan/LXP-5, and a few sundry noisemakers). I guess if something
fails, the audience can be treated to seeing me smash a lot of gear in a
fit of rage, hey, it worked for Pete Townshend and Nirvana ;-)


>-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!

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