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<blockquote data-quote="John Chiara" data-source="post: 85003" data-attributes="member: 53">Re: Outline GTO - Any Experience?I did a 4 band show a few weeks ago. The headliners were friends and were getting no soundcheck and were great. The 3 openers had 30 minutes for their sets. 1st up is a 2 girl act...kick/snare vocalist and acoustic guitar vocalist. They inform me while setting up that they need &quot;3 stations&quot;!now including a conga-vocal setup with separate vocal mic..monitor mix etc.2nd act is 2 guitar, bass, drums and lead vocal. 3 guitar amps are on stage. &quot;The bass player is playing guitar on one song.&quot;I ask if he can play through one of the other amps..a few minutes of time wasted fixes that.I knew I was in trouble when I saw that the rack toms were angled at about a 60* angle and had a big &#039;X&#039; on each bottom head.. Of duct tape!First act was like cats on a fence...2nd act..whose drummer&#039;s patents were sitting right behind me...played 2 songs..horribly... Drummer switched to bass..bassist switched to drums...worse than the drummer...guitarist switched to bass.. 2 more songs.. Drummer now on guitar and other guy on guitar. So bad it was excruciating. What a freakIn&#039; circus!! Then when I mentioned this to the rinky dink promoter he accusers me of not being professional! He cancelled my gig for tonight.. Thank God.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Chiara, post: 85003, member: 53"] Re: Outline GTO - Any Experience? I did a 4 band show a few weeks ago. The headliners were friends and were getting no soundcheck and were great. The 3 openers had 30 minutes for their sets. 1st up is a 2 girl act...kick/snare vocalist and acoustic guitar vocalist. They inform me while setting up that they need "3 stations"!now including a conga-vocal setup with separate vocal mic..monitor mix etc. 2nd act is 2 guitar, bass, drums and lead vocal. 3 guitar amps are on stage. "The bass player is playing guitar on one song." I ask if he can play through one of the other amps..a few minutes of time wasted fixes that. I knew I was in trouble when I saw that the rack toms were angled at about a 60* angle and had a big 'X' on each bottom head.. Of duct tape! First act was like cats on a fence...2nd act..whose drummer's patents were sitting right behind me...played 2 songs..horribly... Drummer switched to bass..bassist switched to drums...worse than the drummer...guitarist switched to bass.. 2 more songs.. Drummer now on guitar and other guy on guitar. So bad it was excruciating. What a freakIn' circus!! Then when I mentioned this to the rinky dink promoter he accusers me of not being professional! He cancelled my gig for tonight.. Thank God. [/QUOTE]

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