Japhet

Times have changed (thankfully). Back then he (and Saville) could get away with all sorts because they were surrounded by aging DJs who also groped and leered at young girls on Top of the Pops and most likely TV executives who liked a bit of workplace sexual harassment which wasn't reported. The most shocking thing about the whole celebrity paedo thing for me though was that Stoke Mandeville Hospital knew all about Saville but allowed him to carry on (and even facilitated some of his behaviour) because he raised a massive amount of money for them. That is truly grotesque.

Not just drummers needing to learn that. I've always worked on the principal that if you never turn it down, you can never turn it back up again and that's a big mistake.

Deer Prudence - The Beatles

Danish Boy - Muddy Waters

Roll Over Beethoven - ELO

East River - The Brecker Brothers

No surprise that I'm way behind the curve (as usual). However, that gig looks surreal (and sterile) to me. Audience didn't look too engaged in it either.

I can't help but wonder whether there will come a time when audiences too are supplied with headsets at large gigs. How surreal would that be? Huge crowd, band silence in the arena as they jump about and sing out of tune. I wonder what the reaction would be if you told potential punters that this is how a gig would work. I'd hazard a guess that many of them would be horrified and would much rather prefer the rawness of soaking up a conventional gig at normal volume.

I play in a 3 piece rock covers band and have 2 drive pedals on my board. Ampeg Scrambler as an always on for a bit of grit. I also have an EHX Battalion (maybe changing to a Joyo Orange Juice) for when the guitarist is soloing. That boosts the mids a little bit and fills the sound out a bit more without making it sound mushy.

Probably in a tiny minority here judging by some of the stuff I've read, but I've played a couple of gigs with IEMs and absolutely hated it. Just feels like you're in some sort of cocoon where you're shielded from everything apart from the band. No connection with anything else and also I found them uncomfortable and irritating. Give me an amp and a cabinet any day.

Come On Baby Light My Fire, primarily because of the God awful intro played on what I assume was one of those plastic Bontempi keyboards. Either that or a Stylophone.

Tiger Feet - Mud

I think it's more genres of music that I can't stand. For instance, the pseudo operatic wailing of Bruce Dickinson just instantly boils my pi55. I don't mind a bit of heavy music but don't go all 'Pavarotti' on me, please.

My Favorite Things - Julie Andrews

I Can't Gopher That - Hall & Oates

The one in our setlist I dislike at the moment is Bad Moon Rising. Not that it's a particularly bad song, but there are so many great CCR songs and everybody plays this and Proud f'ing Mary.

Wake Up Boo! - Boo Radleys

Ava Drink On Me - AC/DC

I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King

Engineers generally like as clean a signal as possible which means pre EQ. That's all well and good until you run into a sound engineers who doesn't know what a bass should sound like.

Used to really enjoy playing You Oughta Know - Alanis Morrisette when I played in a band with a girl singer. Great stuff from Flea on that one and nice dynamics in the song too.

Rolling and Tumbling - Muddy Waters