OFF: Dumpy & Co: short review

[Dave Berry]

At 13:54 16/04/99 +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>     Haven't had these problems at either of the two Bedouin
>gigs I'be been at.

Oh good -- reviews here made them seem near the silly side of loud.

>But otherwise, I agree.  Loud enough to
>kick you in the diaphragm is good; loud enough (and badly mixed
>enough that you might as well be standing in a jet engine is
>pointless.

Somehow I exempt Motorhead from this.  Maybe this is because volume and
lack of restraint are their defining characteristics, and I know what I'd
be letting myself in for.  Anyhow, I don't go to Motorhead gigs any more!

>     (I apply this test to all musical genres.  I think it's
>genetic :)  I inherited a large chunk of my grandfather's
>classical LPs, which he always played at stupendous volume :)

You have to play classical music loud, otherwise you can't hear the quiet
bits ;-).

I read recently of a professor of music who developed tinnitus after taking
his 12-year old to see Smashing Pumpkins.  Apparently he's now suing
everyone in sight.  There's been a spate of scare stories about how modern
PAs are so good that people are putting their hearing at risk without even
realising it.

Dave.


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