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the whole underplay v overplay thing leads me to believe that a great many of you have a lot of freedom to improvise live yes?
And some rooms just reflect the sound wrong if that makes sense? Again, it could be my state of mind.
I know what you mean where some places make you feel better than others..
but I never allow that to make a difference.. the people the paid to see you in a small backstreet venue are no different to the people that paid to see you in an arena or huge opener festival.. there's just more of them..
either way, they all paid and so they equally deserve the same level of effort and commitment..
so I just get out there and throw everything at it no matter what or where..
some places can be really surprising too..
you walk into a place thinking "hmmmm not sure about this" [even after soundcheck]
then you get playing, the audience are going nuts and the place is totally rocking..
in my lil' opinion it's the audience that really makes the gig [even if your monitoring is pretty challenging]
you'll have fun on the big festival stages then...
cos the monitoring is always difficult..
the stages are so big that you never feel like that band really glues together...
so you just crack on and put on the best show you can...
after you're thinking.. "that was ok I guess.. maybe a little sterile sound wise"
but you're not hearing what the crowd are hearing..
then one of our crew will come up and say "popped out front... you guys sounded massive.. it was amazing"
so knowing that this is often the case you just work as best you can with what you have
and assume everything out front is tip top.. and there's nothing you can do about it anyhow..
so just give it some and have fun
we improvise too.. so we have some sections of music that have no fixed length..
this is so that David Cross and David Jackson can have a good ol' shred..
those guys do a great deal of improvisation thought the set..
I on the other hand, play more than 90% set pieces [even in solos where I'm allowed and able to open them up and play longer if I wish]...
this actually came up when we were being interviewed last Friday just before we went on at HRH..
the two Davids love the freedom to improvise.. where I prefer the consistency and repeatability of set pieces..
so even within the same band... one size don't fit all... lol..
sound wise, the most difficult place I played was Lucca, Italy..
we were playing open air in a large oval shaped piazza.
we were surrounded by buildings on all sides [there were archways to get in / out of the piazza
when the snare hit, there was an echo thrown right back at you somewhere between 50ms and 100ms [sht guess on my part]..
the echo was almost as loud as the actual hit...
playing in 15/8 etc was a bit of a mare when this echo of the band was coming back at you...
when the place filled with people it helped a little to soak up the echo..
but the solution in the end of to have the monitoring cranked so it totally overpowered the echo..
so in the end we played a good tight gig.. but went completely deaf.. lmao
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.