On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, steve wrote:
quoted 9 lines not a laptop or totally live performance but Did anyone catch Richie
> not a laptop or totally live performance but Did anyone catch Richie
> Hawtin's Decks/FX and a 909 tour? I heard him at Simon's in Gainesville, FL
> and was blown away. His djing is one thing but he had beats flying all over
> the room. all sorts of panning shuffling delays that would just chase each
> other into the corner then bounce back out...courtesy of a DP4 I think. He
> played/spun for like 7 hours. it was one of the best live/dj sets I've ever
> heard...any recordings I've heard of this tour just don't come close to what
> I heard on the spot.
>
Richie played here (Iowa City) on that tour, and yeah, it was massive.
I know my way around a 909 and the way he was caning it was great. And the
setup we had, in a woodwalled ballroom with giant video screens made it
even better. Since it was a university event there was no smoking which
really made it even better. It wasn't hot and smokey -- imagine that!
The sound by Scott Rexroat (
http://www.rexroatsound.com/rex/introx.html)
was phenomenal as well, and I'd recommend him to anyone who wants the best.
Imagine your living room held 1200 people, and you could afford the best
stereo money could buy -- it was like that.
His cabinets wouldn't fit the freight elevators, so we slid them up
the stairs on custom-built ramps. I felt like I was building the pyramids,
especially when we had to clean and jerk 600lbs 8 feet in the air.
In a group discussion before the show, Richie said that he wasn't really
interested in recording those shows, because it seemed more special if
you had to be there. Well, you had to be there ;-)
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