Like the music, worried about the culture 254

You can pick 'til your fingers bleed (and, believe me, I have), but it won't make a bit of difference if there's a Control Freak Egomaniac at the mixer out to strangle your sound.

Like the music, worried about the culture 257
But if it doesn't mesh well with the music currently getting played (at least by the majority of those in attendance - the guitar player's lengthy excursion into an 11-8 polyrhythm against 4-4 in Orange...

What I'm describing is a problem with any "organ"ized, participatory, musical event in contemporary culture, whether amplified or otherwise, blues, folk, bluegrbutt, rock, jazz, or whatever. I'm talking about all the totally unnecessary horsepoo, hierarchical, hoop-hopping of ALL these events - - - as predicated by the abject psycho-spiritual oblivion of most of the participants. One does not go to a recreational activity to be abused by the nearest jack-butt, and entertainment venues should stop paying such people for such poor service.

What would be so terrible about simply advertising an "acoustic jam night" without preconception of what style might emerge on a given night or an "electric jam night" where it would be understood that one would be responsible for one's own amplification (if one played an instrument where that was necessary), which usually guarantees everyone his own monitor, anyway? No hosts are necessary - - -unless one wishes to inbreastutionalize injustice.As bad as most of the PA mixes I've gotten have been in such settings, it could not possibly have been any worse utilizing decentralized amplification (or none at all) in these small to average-sized rooms.

Like the music, worried about the culture 255
Not at all. I merely recognize that, in the settings you seem to seek out for your jamming (by excluding picking parties and other far more inclusive avenues and instead going...

The advent of the electronic mixer has, sadly, for all the good it has done, tilted the *politics* of the jam most decidedly and decisively - - - from democracy to dictatorship.

"!!!DOWN WITH ALL privatesWIT DICTATORS!!!

AM -- *************************************************** "Oneness is not achieved through conformity or subordination, but through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle." --AM, the Synthesist ***************************************************

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