Re: talkative audiences

[mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I have a totally different issue.  I don't care if people are talking 
during my music.  A lot of the time it's ambient and meant to be part 
of the enviornment.  If it's dancy, it's usually loud enough that I 
can't hear people anyway.  No, people talking to each other isn't my 
issue.

My issue is that people talk to me.

Now, most of you know that I'm so nice and friendly that it's hard to 
resist having a nice chat with me.  I'm a prince of a guy, what can I 
say?  But while I'm playing?  It's pretty incredible.  Pretty much 
every show someone will come up to me and actually start to engage in 
conversation right in the middle of a piece.  So very weird.  At my 
last gig I actually had to turn my back on a guy and pretend I couldn't 
hear him over the music.  I'm thinking of starting to wear DJ 
headphones partially for the monitors, but also to stop people from 
asking me about what synth module I'm using while I'm using it.

Does anyone else have this problem?  It never used to happen when I was 
doing group orientated pop/rock type music.

Mark Sottilaro

On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Chris Richards wrote:

> <<<maybe people just won't pay any attention
> unless the dB's generated from the PA can
> exceed the ones from their all-important
> conversations.>>