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re: Scary Situations
stage jumpers
--- Kevin <kevin@TheNettles.com> wrote:
> At 07:38 PM 4/11/2006, Rick wrote:
> >A young man walked up to me in the middleof the
> song as I was
> >juggling the loops (warning sign already)
> >and said. "I dig your beatboxing", I"m a
> rapper, could I do a
> >piece with you?...
> >It was really pretty ugly quickly and I just gave
> up and beatboxed
> >until the festival leaders aske me to quit playing
> (half an hour
> >earlier than I was supposed to).
>
> This is totally Monday morning quarterbacking and I
> wasn't there but
> if something like that happened to me, I think I
> would develop
> equipment trouble. Especially if there's a sound
> guy. When the
> sound guy came over, I'd quietly ask him to go get
> Security. When
> the cavalry arrived (okay, a fat guy in black with a
> walkie-talkie)
> I'd say something like, "Gee, I'm sorry it didn't
> work out for you
> all. Catch you later, okay?" The sound guy, the
> security guy and
> you would probably be enough to convince people to
> go. But then
> there's teardown and the guys waiting in the parking
> lot. Oh,
> heck. That's a time when it pays to have friends.
> Big
> friends. Biker friends. Who don't like hiphop.
>
> >I, unfortunately, have experienced similar
> situations a couple of
> >times since then enough to have developed the
> prejudice that
> >freestyled rappers are the most aggressive and
> insensitive musicians
> >that I've ever played with.
>
> Well, freestyling is a macho blood sport.
> Freestyling is to singing
> what boxing is to ballet.
>
> >If someone is insensitive enough and pushy enough
> to come up right
> >in the middle of a show it's an automatic 'no'
> reply from me now...
>
> Ah, what about the folks who ask to come up when you
> take your break
> to play _while_ you're taking your break? That's a
> subtler thing
> that I've been running into lately. I'm at the
> point where I don't
> like having someone on stage unless I know them or
> someone I respect
> vouches for them.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> The Nettles: Progressive and Exciting Celtic Music
> www.TheNettles.com
>
>
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