Went to see Buddy Guy last night. He was entertaining, but the sound was atrocious. The overall volume was way too high for the room and Guy's guitar was so loud in the mix, and its high end so pronounced, that when he played a lead the sound became a sheet of painful screeching agony. Mrs went out to the lobby after two songs, I stuck it out for another two before giving up. <\/p>\n
I've kindof stopped going to live shows, after wrecking my ears at the Feelies show last year. But I thought this would be fine, since it was at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, where they tend to keep the volume reasonable and the sound is usually pretty good (it's where the NC Symphony and Carolina Ballet perform). But nope. Not this time. <\/p>\n
Yeah, there are too many kids on my lawn, but maybe bands should hire sound guys who aren't stone deaf.<\/p>\n
Jonny Lang opened, and played about 45 minutes too long. He had the same sound issues, but I was hoping that was just because all opening bands get shitty sound.<\/p>\n
Had a good burger at Chuck's<\/a>, before, though. We split a five dollar milk shake, so we got to talk about Pulp Fiction for a while.
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