Club owners are nuts..... see Photo

Tim McCulloch said:
At a ribfest last year we had a "pretty boy" country act comprised of college students. Not bad musically but the singer had a mic technique that could only have come from "worst of youtube." After about 3 songs it became evident that he wasn't going to "get it" no matter how poorly he heard himself in the wedges or the FOH feedback that resulted when I tried to pull him up in the mix, I took my TB mic and, between songs, said something to the effect of "put the mic to your lips when you sing or talk. Do not remove it until you are done." The look on his face was priceless, but he took the advice and the rest of their set was actually pretty good.

Fast forward a month or so to a big doctrinal and administrative church conference. I'm freelancing for an AV shop (lots of music, much of which was from international delegations). The music leader was a college professor and we were discussing how to handle the audio for the variety of musicians. In the course of that conversation the ribfest came up (he was a barbecue fan) and he asked if I remembered a student band that played.... Oh yes. His students, my stage. The professor related the singer's later-told story of great surprise when a "voice from nowhere" talked to him. He did figure out it was FOH, eventually, but in his short experience he'd never had a non-performer's voice in his wedge. "He actually TALKED to me during a show!" The professor told him "be careful, talking about hearing voices, look what it did for Joan of Arc."

I used to label my TB channel "me". I now label it "god".
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Tim, I will forever picture you as Morgan Freeman now.

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Also, it should read Canada Day in the quoted post. My bad.
 
Re: Club owners are nuts..... see Photo

So I have to ask, what was the end result of the gig? Did you get called off the golf course or did they nix the show?
 
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BJ James said:
So I have to ask, what was the end result of the gig? Did you get called off the golf course or did they nix the show?
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Well, judging by the photos on the facebook looks like the gig went off without the OP. HOwever, if you look closely at those photos there are no mics on cabinets and no mics on drums. Guess it was a vocals only PA.
 
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