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Les Mizzell

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  1. Al talks about a larger version... I think I'd rather it keep the small footprint it currently has and use two 10" vertically mounted speakers instead of a single 12. It would be almost the same size as now, just 12" or so taller. Just my 2 cents worth! Aspen seems PLENTY busy keeping up with demand at the moment though... Does anybody have TWO of these? What happens when you stack them? Also, has anybody tried playing a binaural recording through one? What does that sound like?
  2. After reading a number of messages about the side speaker causing folks to the left of the cabinet thinking it's too loud, I wonder if there should be a option to switch the side speaker from left to right? Or, is this when you just turn it upside down?
  3. So, if you're going to use a sub with the SS, optimally you'd look for a sub with stereo inputs and a crossover on the outputs to patch up to the SS. Otherwise, you'd need a external crossover to get optimal performance, yes?
  4. It's a quiet electronic soundscape kinda day. Playing right now is: Steve Roach - Possible Planet Cued up next is: Robert Rich - Outpost Cued after that: Tangerine Dream - Phaedra After that: Pogo - Texture Box and Wonderpuff ... and that pretty takes up the rest of my afternoon
  5. Slowly working on a new CD of ambient sound-scape material. Here's a rough mix of Timmy's Tinfoil Hat Timmy's Tinfoil Hat Is there a way to embed Soundcloud here?
  6. So how do we feel about Cameron Carpenter's interpretations of Bach? [video:youtube] Virgil Fox pissed a lot of purest off too, but in my opinion, if Cameron can get some new folks listening that wouldn't have bothered before, then a little (?) bit of flamboyant isn't such a bad thing.
  7. OK, I'll kick in. Probably totally different that everything else in the thread! http://soundcloud.com/les-mizzell/cest-ici-lempire-de-la-mort Performed completely on the system here, minus the keyboard: http://www.cyndustries.com/gallerypix/gall_les.jpg
  8. Dude thought it did! I'll stick with a tall glass of ice tea please. Other odd things said at one point or another: (some guy speaking to someone in the horn section while looking at the keyboards which didn't quite fit on the stage) - "Do you REALLY need any of that stuff sitting over there for this gig? I'd just put it back in the truck. Takes up too much room". (We're sitting at a table getting ready to start. I'm only 5'3") Someone - "What do you guys do with the hobbit?" Someone else looking at whatever I had stacked on top of the B3 - "You can reach the keys all the way up there?" Yet some other idiot - "Must be great walking around with boobs right in your face all the time!!!" Luckily I have a pretty good sense of humour about such things. Otherwise I'd have kicked his shins!
  9. The only reason I could ever come up to explain the comment was that I didn't drink beer!!! Hmmm - still don't! Guess I'm still a pervert!
  10. I started playing in clubs when I was around 15 or 16, so legally I guess I wasn't actually supposed to be there. I dunno! Anyway, I was around 16 and during a break I was sitting at a table with the rest of the band. Some guy came up to us "WOW!!! You guys are GREAT!!! Let me buy everybody a beer"!!! The certainly made everybody happy for the moment ... he started at the drummer sitting next to me a worked his way around the table. When he lastly got to me ... "I'll have a sprite please" "Sprite? SPRITE?" "Sorry, I don't drink beer. Not legal age yet." He stood there for a second and looked at me, then exclaimed loudly "F*CKING PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!" and walked off, not buying a beer for anybody. Rest of the band didn't speak to me for the remainder of the evening.
  11. I'll go one better.... Yet another band I was in took a gig in Jacksonville, NC. I was still underage at the time. We knew nothing about the club except they were putting us up in a nice hotel, covering all expenses and paying pretty good money too. We made the drive to Jacksonville in plenty of time to get to the club early, set up the gear and even rehearse a few numbers before going to the hotel to get a shower and rest. Drove back to the club, walked in through the stage entrance - and it was TOPLESS!!! - with Go Go dancers on either side of the stage!! Our poor (?) sound guy had to spend the entire night looking between some girls legs to see the stage. For the first hour, I probably hit more wrong notes than the entire previous year. Then it started getting like, "OK, breasts - so what?". I hardly even noticed the second night we were there. We talked to a couple of the girls backstage during a break. The club was very strict! They all had to be married, they couldn't associate with the patrons, and were watched like a hawk whenever they were at work. Patrons were strictly forbidden to even *think* about touching them, and the bouncers that worked the rowdy military crowd were more capable of turning even the toughest guy that got out of line into hamburger. All the girls had full health benefits, including dental, and were making anywhere between $1500 and $2000 PER WEEK. Sheesh, I wish! One of the girls we talked to was finishing up medical school and said that even after she graduated that she was going to wait a few years before going into practice as she could make more at the club than working in the hospital. To be honest, this one weekend really shaped my opinion about nudity. It just doesn't seem to be a big thing. OK, nude ... so what??? Most females I know are sexier with something on. Guess I'm just an old-fashioned guy, huh?
  12. O man, showing my age, uhhh, 1970's. Yea, somewhere in there....
  13. I started playing bars way before I was legally old enough to actually *be* in a bar... We're taking a break between sets, and this guy walks up and says "You guys are great - beer for everybody!" and goes around the table asking what everybody wants. I'm only 15 at the time, and I've already seen how beer can make idiots out of folks, so I've no reason to want to even try one - so when he gets to me I just say "Thanks, but I'll just have a Ginger Ale if that's OK with you". He stops for a second, gets this weird look on his face and then declares "PERVERT!!!" and walks off without buying beer for anybody. Bandmates didn't speak to me the rest of the evening. ######## Few years later I'm playing with the 12 piece group out of Georgia. We could do big-band jazz charts, funk - you name it. We took up a good bit of space when setting up, and the two stacks I was using with Hammond B3 on one side with more crap on top and Fender Rhodes 88 on the other side with crap on top of that didn't help. The owner of the club walks in after we set up - "You're taking up too much space. You've got to get rid of something"! Then he points to the keyboards - "What's all that crap? Why would you need that? What good is it? Pack it up, I don't want to see it"! I quietly sat back and let our manager handle that one. I ended up playing the gig... ############ I was playing with a pretty slamming 8 piece funk group. We got booked for the Jr/Sr for a private school in Orangeburg, SC (School isn't there anymore). We showed up, set up the gear, and did our sound check. We hit the stage right on time - and before we played our first note the headmaster of the school comes up, points at our drummer and ask "What's that black guy doing up there?" "Playing the funkiest drums you're gonna hear this year. Why?" "Sorry, this is a private all-white school. We don't allow any blacks." "You hired us. You had the press kit. These kids don't care, they just want to dance. What's the problem?" "Sorry, you're not playing." "That's just wrong. You're going to ruin this Jr/Sr because *you've* got a problem? Look at the kids out there. They're ready to get down! Besides, we've got a contract with your signature on it that says you're paying $2500. You're not going to stiff us. We've got legal grounds here if you want to push this. Just let us do the gig. Won't be any problems." "I'll pay. Just get the hell out of my school". ... and he hands us an envelope with our cash in it as we start packing. The students almost rioted. What an idiot.
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