Re: Screw it...
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:34 pm
Dude, I've been agreeing with you about Morse and the Dregs for as long as I've known you. That was always one helluva riduclously good band and yeah, it was always the pinnacle of Morse's playing too.
I've yet to hear him do anything in Purple or Kansas that approaches his playing in the Dregs.
As for YJM's volume, seriously, it was just plain stupid. It's not like I haven't been involved in plenty of over-the-top-loud situations, both as a player and a spectator.
Zeppelin at the Forum in '77 was pretty crushing.
Believe it or not there was one synth part during a Heart concert that literally vibrated rivets out of the seat in front of me. The sound pulses were pressing on my chest.
The last G3 show I attended in Reno had moments of sheer volume induced pain, again during YJM's set.
I've gone through many hours of preamp and power tube testing with a Legacy 100w 3/4 stack where I stupidly didn't wear ear plugs. I managed to shake shit from shelves in my living room. Broke one of my wife's family heirloom pieces of china that way.
That was deathly loud, but at least I controlled it. I could roll back on the guiitar and give myself a needed break every now and then.
That last YJM show though, in that little club, I've never been involved in anything like it. I've seen tons of people in small clubs. They usually make some effort to be room appropriate, volume wise. Not YJM. His show was the first time in my life where sound waves coming from his cabinets were literally moving the hair on people's heads, twenty feet away. My t-shirt was being pressed against my body, like I was facing a slight breeze.
We were quite literally being physically assaulted by the volume.
When he would hit the B or high E string above the 15th fret it would ratchet up the pain. Somehow though it became much worse when he'd then grab the tremolo bar. Dunno why but when he'd tremolo on top of a high note everybody, and I mean everybody, reacted negatively to it.
I've been to shows where my wife and some other women in the crowd would occasionally cover their ears due to the volume. That YJM show was the only show I've ever been to where the whole crowd did it, and they kept having to do it over and over.
Keep in mind, this was a rock/metal crowd too. Everyone there was well used to loud, guitar driven concerts.
Didn't matter. That one was just freakishly loud. There was no regard whatsoever for the audience. When it was over a lot of people milled around afterwards and most of the talk was about how everyone's ears were ringing and what an asshole these people were for pushing that much volume in such a small room.
We all felt like we were under water, for a good day or two.
I've yet to hear him do anything in Purple or Kansas that approaches his playing in the Dregs.
As for YJM's volume, seriously, it was just plain stupid. It's not like I haven't been involved in plenty of over-the-top-loud situations, both as a player and a spectator.
Zeppelin at the Forum in '77 was pretty crushing.
Believe it or not there was one synth part during a Heart concert that literally vibrated rivets out of the seat in front of me. The sound pulses were pressing on my chest.
The last G3 show I attended in Reno had moments of sheer volume induced pain, again during YJM's set.
I've gone through many hours of preamp and power tube testing with a Legacy 100w 3/4 stack where I stupidly didn't wear ear plugs. I managed to shake shit from shelves in my living room. Broke one of my wife's family heirloom pieces of china that way.
That was deathly loud, but at least I controlled it. I could roll back on the guiitar and give myself a needed break every now and then.
That last YJM show though, in that little club, I've never been involved in anything like it. I've seen tons of people in small clubs. They usually make some effort to be room appropriate, volume wise. Not YJM. His show was the first time in my life where sound waves coming from his cabinets were literally moving the hair on people's heads, twenty feet away. My t-shirt was being pressed against my body, like I was facing a slight breeze.
We were quite literally being physically assaulted by the volume.
When he would hit the B or high E string above the 15th fret it would ratchet up the pain. Somehow though it became much worse when he'd then grab the tremolo bar. Dunno why but when he'd tremolo on top of a high note everybody, and I mean everybody, reacted negatively to it.
I've been to shows where my wife and some other women in the crowd would occasionally cover their ears due to the volume. That YJM show was the only show I've ever been to where the whole crowd did it, and they kept having to do it over and over.
Keep in mind, this was a rock/metal crowd too. Everyone there was well used to loud, guitar driven concerts.
Didn't matter. That one was just freakishly loud. There was no regard whatsoever for the audience. When it was over a lot of people milled around afterwards and most of the talk was about how everyone's ears were ringing and what an asshole these people were for pushing that much volume in such a small room.
We all felt like we were under water, for a good day or two.