The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

[TJLitt]

....like the old commercial had it, has to be back to school time. This year, all 3 grandkids are off to school by 8:30am, leaving me until
around 3 pm or so to actually listen to LPs, or just music on any platform at 'normal' levels. Heck, I might actually be able to play host to any local folks(you KNOW who you are!) were they to be in the area during daytime hours. By 4 pm, chaos returns, full-on.

 

[MikeT.]

Pretty nice! No grandkids yet but the youngest daughter is in a pretty serious relationship. I predict it won't be long now.

But I do have one question, is "normal volume" Aerosmith volume or Ray Brown volume? 😄😄

 

[Hartge7]

I'll have to ask Mike if he can get away for a spell as he wants to hear the tritons and the AT. If not, I've got this info recorded. I need to get down there to pick up some KG4s a friend has done some work on. Need to put that water pump in the Jeep first. Gonna be hard to haul KG4s comfortably in a sedan.

 

[TJLitt]

Pretty nice! No grandkids yet but the youngest daughter is in a pretty serious relationship. I predict it won't be long now.

But I do have one question, is "normal volume" Aerosmith volume or Ray Brown volume? 😄😄

normally, more Ray Brownish. I am bad at guessing decibel levels, but think of the sound pressure of about mid-room in a moderate sized jazz club.
Having worked stage for Messrs Perry, Tyler et al, I am pretty aware of what Aerosmith Volume sounds like. My ears still remind me of the folly......

 

[TJLitt]

I'll have to ask Mike if he can get away for a spell as he wants to hear the tritons and the AT. If not, I've got this info recorded. I need to get down there to pick up some KG4s a friend has done some work on. Need to put that water pump in the Jeep first. Gonna be hard to haul KG4s comfortably in a sedan.

sounds like a plan!

 

[MikeT.]

normally, more Ray Brownish. I am bad at guessing decibel levels, but think of the sound pressure of about mid-room in a moderate sized jazz club.
Having worked stage for Messrs Perry, Tyler et al, I am pretty aware of what Aerosmith Volume sounds like. My ears still remind me of the folly......

Very cool job working stage for Aerosmith!! Sorry about your ears though. It doesn't take many concerts at those volume levels to cause craploads of issues as we get older. I'm lucky....just a bit tinnitus in the left ear.

 

[TJLitt]

about what I'm dealing with, and have been for years. Some hearing loss, mild tinnitus, wouldn't trade my misspent youth(worked some shows for a few bands, but Aerosmith and Mountain were particularly loud). Being good-sized, I got front of stage duty after setup, preventing stage rushes. That generally put you in the shadow of a rather large PA speaker array.

 

[Hartge7]

There is so much live music in the Phila area, Tom is that were you did your time working gigs?, that I have a few neighbors that have lengthy tales of all the groups they assisted and whatever else happened.

 

[TJLitt]

There is so much live music in the Phila area, Tom is that were you did your time working gigs?, that I have a few neighbors that have lengthy tales of all the groups they assisted and whatever else happened.

nah, I was up in New England getting edumacated at the time. My dad knew someone at Columbia, so I grabbed a short tour gig with Mountain out of this area(up and down East Coast for 4 weeks). The rest of my stage work was from my time on the Entertainment Committee in college. Aerosmith was a local band when I started at UNH, they played the student union every other weekend. I did the heavier stage work for them when they were at the end of the Get Your Wings world tour and returned to UNH and BU where it all started.