Live gigs: 2012

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Gosh, you're taxing my memory. It's been about 10 years ago. Seems like it was shortly after Perfectly Good Guitar, if memory serves.

I got into John and Bonnie, around the same time. Both are the same sort of cool, if that makes sense!

Yeah, my job was pretty much finished by the time sound check was starting, although I hung around for it. Big bands carry their own "distro"(power distribution unit). Not to be too technical, but they're almost always "3 phase"(instead off being, for example, 220 volts, which is two legs of 110 volts, it's 3 legs of 110 volts). The problem is that unless a venue has 3 phase service(which many smaller ones don't), you have to "whittle down" wires as big as your thumb, to fit into a hole the size of your pinky. But since it's 3 phase, for one pinky hole, you have to fit TWO thumb size wires into one pinky hole. It's a f*cking bi*ch! Quite time consuming, and unless you bring heavy leather gloves, twisting around on the wires always leaves your fingers bloody!
How was that, for too much technical info!?

I'm such a freak, the strange things that I remember. I'd never seen it before, or since. John had his own personal air conditioner....a SMALL cube that sat right it front of his mic stand, blowing freezing a/c on him. I want one!!!! I've never seen one anywhere else. I'm.a.freak.

Not too technical at all. I'm a big geek.

I got into Bonnie a couple of years before John but as I said, I knew of John because of Thing Called Love etc. I'd say that although I do like John, I love Bonnie! Her stuff is just brilliant. All those 70s records are just effortlessly cool, not to mention her great run of records with Don Was in the late 80s/90s. I still like her most recent stuff, including Slipstream from earlier this year.