Live and learn

So the other down side to letting people touch stuff they don't really understand, is that then you have spend another night making sure it didn't get screwed up. Everything is working perfectly, thank goodness. I have have all day Sunday to cover eight performers.  It helps to read the manuals before you start screwing around. I honestly have had enough bad sound to last me a lifetime. That could be a couple of chapters in this book about doing music at sixty. I should have just shooed her away and fixed it myself. 

SoulDogs.com

Dan-

I am very sorry but I don't know what you're talking about. I have no idea what was going on with your sound system. When Sharon and I left your vocal and banjo were coming through the mains. What happened after we left I don't know. There was also a problem with my mic when we played and I was told my vocals were barely audible and very reedy sounding. The sound system appeared to go in and out as if there was a short. Again I am very sorry. We did not intentionally leave you with no sound because you did have sound when we left. I don't know what else to say. Thank you for the opportunity to play but blaming your sound problems no us sounds a bit absurd. It is your system and we did the best we could for you considering the problems it seemed to have. We're not electrical engineers. Guess you're pissed but I don't really understand why you're blaming us. 


Steve Kaufman

This is a lie. I have a video of myself, with no sound for the entire evening. The redhead was fixing my sound. They left and waved at me. I assumed that if I could hear myself through the monitor, it was going out the mains. If she didn't know how to fix it, all they had to say to me was you have no sound through the main speakers. But I assumed they had taken care of me. So, when my wife came over to tell me there was no sound out the mains, I thought she meant it was just weird sounding. So, I want to rule out purposeful screw up, I assume no one is that crazy that they would purposefully screw you. I'm just assuming that they were embarrassed because she didn't know how to work the sound board. I would have confessed. Here's the thing, they threw people at me, like I was going to accomodate them and their friends. Now I get this response. "We're not electrical engineers." You don't have to be an engineer to know if sound is coming out of a speaker. I really don't like being fucked with. Beware of these people. They are just old people playing old music and they even beat out the worst prima donnas I've encountered so far. They also cost themselves and their friends a paying gig DTLA next Sunday. 

Where I'll Be Tomoroow Night

Sorry, but I can sound bad with my friends

Dawn,

I'm a heavily rehearsed performer. I don't do pick-bands any more. I will only perform with people I have rehearsed with. I've been burnt too many times. I've had people show up to play with me that don't know the songs. It sounds awful. I'm also doing my own songs and covers of more current things. I'm just not willing to do it. Sorry. Be more than happy to split the time with another performer.

Dan

On 3/20/2014 10:39 AM, Dawn Vallin-Flores wrote:

yes or you could play together.  they both are blue grass and folk 

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Dan McNay <mcnay@mosis.com> wrote:
Dawn,

Splitting the time? Probably ok. Like two hours each?

Thanks

Dan

On 3/20/2014 9:29 AM, Dawn Vallin-Flores wrote:

Ok,,,looking forward to working with you again.  Also, would you be willing to play with an additional 2 players?  

Dawn

Having Fun

One of the fun part of doing this whole thing is getting to play around with doing flyers. I'm good at it. Thank you USC for playing for my training.

 

What I did Today

So's I get photos from these folks and I make a flyer. Steve emails me back three days later, 'Oh, its Soul Dog "s", so I say ok, And correct it and send it again. Then, Rianna, sends me another pic of herself and wants to know if it can be switched out. I said I'd try Then I get this from her late in the day, after I swapped out the photo:

i just noticed you put Rianna llamas

mu stage name is Angelina Llamas

thats my middle name but thats okay lol

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 3:43 PM, Rianna Llamas wrote:

thank you

So guess what I'm doing in the morning. I'm really a lucky man. I'm doing this at work- - I'm also incredably quick at Photoshop these days. I only print enough to distribute to the stores on the street, so its not a big deal. But you gotta be right up front with your potential markets, right?

This is what I got on the Motor Street Farners Market Site:

Dan McNay has lived in LA 25 years and for a lot of that time has worked at USC. He has been active in numerous writing workshops and studied in USC’s Masters of Professional Writing Program. He has written "It Knows You By No Other Name" available at Amazon and has produced his first demo CD “Where Are You Going?”

This was a photo they took off the Melrose Trading Post Site from three years ago, after I complained because they put up a picture of Dan McNay, the bass player from Montrose, that lives in Sacramento. I only play there maybe every other month. And I do solo these days, have for the last year.

I was breaking the law

No more tips, endless playing of Saturdays, no more eggs, no more favorite egg guy. We were breaking the law. They like things quiet in Dana Point. They told the Farmer's Market Manager no music.

NOISE STANDARDS

Noise Zone	Noise Level	Time Period
1	55 dB(A)	7:00 a.m.—10.00 p.m.
	50 dB(A)	10:00 p.m.—7:00 a.m.

In the event the alleged offensive noise consists entirely of impact noise, simple tone noise, speech, music, or any combination thereof, each of the above noise levels shall be reduced by five (5) dB(A).

        (b)    It is unlawful for any person at any location within the City to create any noise, or to allow the creation of any noise on property owned, leased, occupied, or otherwise controlled by such person, when the foregoing causes the noise level, when measured on any residential property, to exceed:

        (1)    The noise standard for a cumulative period of more than thirty (30) minutes in any hour; or

        (2)    The noise standard plus five (5) dB(A) for a cumulative period of more than fifteen (15) minutes in any hour; or

        (3)    The noise standard plus ten (10) dB(A) for a cumulative period of more than five (5) minutes in any hour; or

        (4)    The noise standard plus fifteen (15) dB(A) for a cumulative period of more than one minute in any hour; or

        (5)    The noise standard plus twenty (20) dB(A) for any period of time.

        (c)    In the event the ambient noise level exceeds any of the first four (4) noise limit categories above, the cumulative period applicable to said category shall be increased to reflect said ambient noise level. In the event the ambient noise level exceeds the fifth noise limit category, the maximum allowable noise level under said category shall be increased to reflect the maximum ambient noise level. (Added by Ord. 92-11, 11/24/92)