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Re: sale! (was. switcher)
>The more expensive a band's gear is, the worse they are.
>
>turns out to be true surprisingly often. It's either the weekend warrior
>thing where they have a good day job, plenty of disposable income to buy
>toys, and no time to practice, kids with rich parents and no particular
>dedication to anything, or what we might call the
>"guy-with-small-penis-and-really-fast-sports-car" syndrome.
>
>The people who are really confident in their music skills seem quite able
>to
>get on stage with really simple gear, and they are the ones that usually
>end
>up impressing hell out of me. I'll never forget the time I saw Max Roach
>play with the bare minimum of a drum set, and keep an auditorium full of
>jazz musicians fully entertained for an hour and a half.
>
>That should be your goal, not the impressive list of gear.
Whoa! On a list with the high Klein-density of this one, we might want
to tread carefully! :-)
Travis Hartnett
"I'm just a cord-straight-into-the-fridge kind of player"