TheJackAttack

So last night I drove four hours to surprise my wife (the good kind not the country song kind) and up early to drive four hours back to work this morning. You have a lot of time out here in Montana between lamp posts so I popped in a CD of the Gershwin songbook. The singer in question does not normally perform songs remotely resembling Gershwin so the incongrous nature of the personality helped keep me awake.

Ironically it wasn't the vocal quality that kept my brain housing group ...

The fun part of our training now began. After the crew had set up their mock gig, I would send them away for ten minutes. Then I would proceed to unhook, miss-patch, swap a few cables with a special set I had that were not soldered in the connectors, change settings on the EQ's and compressors, and other amusing things.

Now when the crew came back from break they performed a second sound check. In this manner they got to learn all about trouble shooting in the most methodical manner ...

As the Sound Chief NCOIC of Marine Band San Diego it was my job to continually train/retrain myself as well as to train all new Marines on my crew. We had several big dang whiteboards that we would utilize. I would give out a reinforcement scenario and then the first board listed all the gear, cables, power center, etc that was needed. This board also gave specific assignments to members of the crew-FOH, MON, amps, mic's, main snake, gig liaison, etc. Some folks obviously might have more than ...

No this isn't a post about a 12 step program!

I guess I don't understand some of my own generation and not many at all of the younger generations. When I want or have wanted to learn something or start a new endeavor, I read and studied on that subject until I was ready to puke. I'd try to get my hands on whatever and take it apart. I took a tv apart at age 10 because I wanted to check it out. (Lucky for me it went back together! My Dad had big old a$$ whippin hands!)
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I'm not sure how I feel about a personal blog. I guess we'll see how this goes. At any rate it was suggested my morning rant start this shebang off.

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So this morning I'm assigned a task by the SgtMaj (my beloved wife) to orchestrate some string tracks of some of her favorites from yesterday. Specifically the Carpenters. First off let me say the music itself is not necessarily my cup of tea ...