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At 7:38 AM -0700 4/12/08, samba - wrote: > > Yeah people will say free publicity,then fail to put the >musician's name on any of the promo for the event. At the gig, as >soon as you have the crowd warmed up, some attention seeker, will >grab a mic and say "Is this thing on? ( translation: Listen to how >big my voice sounds)We're going to do the raffle now." Which ,if >you're foolish enough to allow it ,will drag on and on. Oh man, ain't it the truth. A couple of years ago I was invited to perform at a benefit in a beautiful crunchy liberal town north of San Francisco. I was VERY happy to oblige, since I love the town and support the cause wholeheartedly. I got there well before my scheduled start time, only to discover that a couple of other acts had been inserted into the program ahead of me. High school kids from the community, that sort of thing. My start time was pushed back by an hour or so, by which time the event had been going for several hours and the crowd had thinned considerably. I finally got up there and started to play. Every every time I opened my mouth to sing, my guitar faded away. Mysterious! It happened again and again. I thought it might have had to do with the batteries in the preamp of my Renaissance. I replaced them, right there on stage with the dwindling audience looking on, and then - same problem. The young guy running the PA acted as though I was some combination of stupid and self-important. Eventually I discovered that the sound system had some sort of "host" feature that potted all the other channels down whenever signal was present in the main channel. By then I was too pissed off to continue and most of the audience had gone home anyway. So that's one benefit that wound up costing me something beyond dollars. -- David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730 Blog: http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com Web site: http://www.dgans.com