<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22815"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22814">ha...awesome story Joost :-)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22816"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22818">mohsen</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22819"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22837"><br></div><div>p.s. "Mo Recommends" list coming soon :-)</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22841" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22840"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22839"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22838"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22842"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joost Schuttelaar <joost@joostschuttelaar.nl><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Music-bar <music-bar@lists.music-bar.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 4, 2018 1:48 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Clan Of Xymox<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22844"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22843">On 3 Nov 2018, at 22:03, Ron West <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ronwest@gmail.com" href="mailto:ronwest@gmail.com">ronwest@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Not too much live these days... all prerecorded tracks with bass and guitar.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Not much has changed then in 15 years :) from the archives…<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Begin forwarded message:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> From: "Joost Schuttelaar" <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:joost@greenskin.net" href="mailto:joost@greenskin.net">joost@greenskin.net</a>><br clear="none">> Subject: My gig<br clear="none">> Date: 14 September 2003 at 14:16:34 CEST<br clear="none">> To: <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:music-bar@ampfea.org" href="mailto:music-bar@ampfea.org" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1541347018458_22845">music-bar@ampfea.org</a>><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> So, friday I had the gig at ATAK, Enschede. We were the first to play, Clan<br clear="none">> of Xymox the last.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> It was terrible.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> We came at 18:30, Clan of Xymox was soundchecking. The first thing: Yeah,<br clear="none">> Clan of Xymox will leave all their stuff at the stage, so you'll have to<br clear="none">> find a place to fit in between. Hmm, we are a band of 6 people and we had to<br clear="none">> bring our own drumkit (Clan of Xymox doesn't use one). The stage was not<br clear="none">> very big so... quite a task. But we managed.<br clear="none">> We had a _very_ short time for sound check. For vocals, less than 10<br clear="none">> seconds. During the first song (in the soundcheck) we played we couldn't<br clear="none">> hear anything. It didn't really get better.<br clear="none">> And then the sound-engineer (major ass, don't care if this is archived) came<br clear="none">> to us saying:<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> "The stagevolume is already too loud."<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> We have to be more quiet than the second band. Well, that's kind of a task<br clear="none">> since we make quite fierce metal, and CoX makes electro-gothic (which is<br clear="none">> sweet as honey compared to us).<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> On stage, the only sound we had producing was the drumkit and one bass-amp<br clear="none">> (excluding monitors of course). The guitar player even used a modelling<br clear="none">> effect straight into the PA. The drumkit itself, unamplified was already too<br clear="none">> loud in the hall. So, we were asked if the drummer can play a little bit<br clear="none">> softer (WTF?!). No, ofcourse a drummer can't play any softer. There's no<br clear="none">> volume knob you know.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> "Ok, then you might just as well go home."<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> WTF!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??*^$*&^$*(censored) really professional.. yeah.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Ok... to make a long story short. The sound just sucked. It sucked so much<br clear="none">> and the sound itself dripped of arrogance. I don't care if the sound sucks,<br clear="none">> if the people try at least to make it something (the monitoring guy did,<br clear="none">> thanks man), but we were treated really like garbage by that guy (rest of<br clear="none">> the people of ATAK were very nice, have to say that too).<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> So, our performance sucked. Again, good response from the crowd, but we knew<br clear="none">> what happened. So many errors... really sloppy playing. Worst gig ever...<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> But the people still liked it... We even had to do some signing on the towel<br clear="none">> I used on stage... hah-hah :) (terrible, but secretly I like it) ;)<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I didn't really like the gig of CoX, the music was nice but most of the<br clear="none">> music came from DAT. Jay, that just does not rock. Even a computer on stage<br clear="none">> rocks so much more than a DAT.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Ok, thanks for my rant. It was friday and I'm still a bit pissed about the<br clear="none">> way we were treated. It seems they don't know the words: 'support your local<br clear="none">> bandscene'.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> --<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Joost Schuttelaar<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:joost@greenskin.net" href="mailto:joost@greenskin.net">joost@greenskin.net</a><br clear="none">> Check out www.endymaeria.nl, Dutch doom/black/gothic-metal<br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hah! :) young me.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Joost Schuttelaar<br clear="none">The Hague, NL<div class="yqt7687882232" id="yqtfd95388"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">music-bar mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org" href="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org">music-bar@lists.music-bar.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar" target="_blank">http://lists.music-bar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/music-bar</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Listen to Music-Bar Radio! <<a shape="rect" href="http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html" target="_blank">http://www.music-bar.org/radio.html</a>></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>