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From: Mike Curtis
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: need for earplugs

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, James Rossen wrote:

> ITS THOSE DAMN GUITAR PLAYERS!!!
>
> Around here, even the good ones blast.
>
> The blues jam setting seems to promote gratuitous volume excess. I
> hypothesize that the guitarists' brain operates on a riff time x volume
> product, so that with limited stage time during a blues jam they riff
> constantly at volume 10.
>
> Make them use Champs.

As a guitarist as well as harmonicist, I'll agree - but only partially.
Part of the "blame" has to go to drummers who use ten pound sticks and
whose idea of dynamics is loudest, and LOUDER THAN LOUDEST. I've
literally had drummers (good ones) who played so loud that I couldn't be
heard. I won't use a drummer who doesn't have brushes.


-- IronMan Mike Curtis
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