IDM Mailing Archive

hey y'all, MEAT BEAT, was a big disappointment. However, it was beyong Jack's control I think. The venue (American Legion Hall), where I think Banco de Gaia also played, has the most god awful acoustics ever! Want a review of what it sounded like?: 209u5ng3oiohihggvh (STOP MUSIC)= I AM ELECTRO, MY BRAIN IS BIGGER THAN YOURS= (MUSIC RETURNS) kv injj vvkn.>C<L>.cKFPKEPKW1 vkmvfnfo get my point? Couldn't hear crap! and I went to the front and the back rows. Terrible. The stage lights/visuals no big deal. One good thing, many people warned me that it was going to be a show off DAT however this night was all live too bad you couldn' hear it! Loop Guru on the other hand were worth my money! For those who have seen them, I think they do put on a good show dancing all over the place, banging their drums. They too were hurt by acoustics. However no one left the building when they were on stage. Once Jack Dangers got on, a number of people were headed for the door. DJ Spooky, uh well I think he went to sleep for 20 mins of his set as he let a Reggae album play itself. Then his records just stopped. There'd be 30 sec time outs between records and stuff. Finally towards the end of his set he got back in the swing of things playing "weird" shit on top of dope MO' WAX style breaks. Cool, but not nearly enough. ONE LAST NOTE: Hello to the girl from UCLA who recognized me wearing my IDM shirt! later gil gmv500@earthlink.net

Hey gonz, It may be a good place, but I am sorry the acoustics are terrible. I hope future shows do have good acoustics. I'm telling you, I could barely hear Jack sing, I couldn't hear the synth leads/melodies for sh*t, all you could hear where the backbeats and the BASS (in your chest of course). I don't mind bass at extreme volume, I love it! This time however you just couldn't hear enuff of the highs to hear it all! It would take me a minute or two too see if I recognized the song, but I would have to recognize the beat 1st, that is how bad it was. Gonzi (Fresh) wrote:

quoted 15 lines The venue (American Legion Hall), where I think Banco

> > > The venue (American Legion Hall), where I think Banco > > de Gaia also played, has the most god awful acoustics ever! Want a > > review of what it sounded like? > > What?! This is my favorite venue in LA. I've seen The Orb, Portishead, > Massive Attack, Luscious Jackson, The Charlatans, and the Prodigy (I > know, but it was free) all at the American Legion hall and everytime the > sound has been good to incredible (Massive Attack and The Orb's fucking > awesome sound equipment). If the sound was bad it was surely the fault > of the boys behind the desk that night. BTW, they used to hold meetings > for the Directors guild there back in the 40's. It's where where John > Ford stood up to C.B. Demille during the blacklist and said "I'm John > Ford, I make westerns..." History and a cool place, what more do you > want?

Good point on the flick history!!! -thanks you film buff! gmv500 gmv500@earthlink.net