Originally Posted By: JosieC
Just thinking, Danny , that is why I like playing on Streetjelly. People can listen at the level they feel comfortable. I am not forever asking "Is it too loud?" like I do when I play at the market on Sundays. Nothing worse that having somebody come and ask you to turn it down. I prefer people to come and ask mne to turn it up!


Josie,

Just FYI I suggest I never ask at a live venue "is it too loud" as someone will surely say it is, even if it's perfect.

I use to play (note the term "use to play") what might have been the perfect gig, a very posh high-end retirement community. This was the perfect venue, location, very nice hiring agent and a great paying gig . . . with only one problem.

You see there was this one guy who sat in the front row of tables who would always complain about me being too loud. I played this monthly gig for six years before this pain in the butt moved in taking it downhill from there.

The rest of my audience knew I was not too loud, if fact to your point some of the dancers would always ask me to give them a little more volume. But after my third song in the 1st set I would see this guy whispering into the hiring director's ear and I knew what was coming next, her dreaded walk to the stage to ask me to lower the volume!

Well half way through this gig the same director would use my mic to make announcements, so this time I purposely left the volume levels at the lower settings I had changed to because of the pain in the butt in the audience. Well when she was trying to make her announcements, having everyone's attention and with no one else was speaking, she could not be heard. Of course she would ask me to turn it louder, making my point that the volume as set was too low for the gig, therefore she could save the 300.00 she was paying me and just play some music through their in house system

I played the remainder of the gig standing "two feet" in front of a Bose Tower that could not be heard in the front row of tables. And while doing so determined in my mind anyway, that sometimes it is not a bad thing to just say as much as I used to love this gig I won't be able to play it anymore.

Sorry, two years later and I guess I am still venting.:>

Later,








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