Well, it was amateur hour at the studio today
You see, we have this thing called "Monday Morning Musical". It's essentially a free performance from local classical musicians that folks attend (well, when I mean folks I mean like 40 seats get filled in a 350 seat venue). And, the problem is that the city where the studio is located is a rather well off city (Scottsdale). So, you get every millionaire retiree thinking they are some sort of Renaissance person or the guy who minored in the Oboe before becoming an executive at Solomon-Smith Barney coming out to perform.
And they all think they're the BEST FUCKING PROS ALIVE!!!
It's not that the music is bad... oh no. It's quite enjoyable. Not pro symphony stuff, and Danny Elfman isn't going to be signing them to any performance contracts. But still good. What gets me is that they boss around the engineer working the gig like he's some sort of servant, thinking this is how pro 'musicians' are supposed to treat the 'help'.
I get snapped at, called 'boy', and told to "do" things that really make no sense. I have one musician telling me to turn OFF the A/C when it's over 30% humidity, then is bitching why he can't stay in tune on his Cello. DUH!! Then I get the old guy trying to record the event on the digital function of his point-and-shoot Cannon he picked up at Best Buy telling me I need to turn my lights down.... and he's NOT EVEN A PERFORMER!! Then there's the amatures who bitch and complain that our Baldwin Grand is just some "Low rent thrift store quality" piano while I'm standing RIGHT THERE, not realizing that it's the same piano that has been performed on by the likes of both Marsallias Brothers, James Lewis, Ben Folds and even Robert Picardo and they never once complained how it made them "sound bad". I think the problem lies in the performer, not our GENEROUSLY donated Baldwin Grand serviced by the factory trained tuner for 15 YEARS who is so hard to book we need to allot times 3 months in advance of performances!!!
I guess they make me appreciate my job alot more when the REAL pros come in!
Oh, and I might be taking the plunge on the Suicide Boys portion of the site. I'm hardly in shape, and I'm still self conscious because I'm not a "pretty" boy by any stretch, but I might just try. Who knows: I may get more readers to this blog that actually contain interesting stuff .... if only from folks who are morbidly curious about the ugly duckling in the rest of the boy sets.
You see, we have this thing called "Monday Morning Musical". It's essentially a free performance from local classical musicians that folks attend (well, when I mean folks I mean like 40 seats get filled in a 350 seat venue). And, the problem is that the city where the studio is located is a rather well off city (Scottsdale). So, you get every millionaire retiree thinking they are some sort of Renaissance person or the guy who minored in the Oboe before becoming an executive at Solomon-Smith Barney coming out to perform.
And they all think they're the BEST FUCKING PROS ALIVE!!!
It's not that the music is bad... oh no. It's quite enjoyable. Not pro symphony stuff, and Danny Elfman isn't going to be signing them to any performance contracts. But still good. What gets me is that they boss around the engineer working the gig like he's some sort of servant, thinking this is how pro 'musicians' are supposed to treat the 'help'.
I get snapped at, called 'boy', and told to "do" things that really make no sense. I have one musician telling me to turn OFF the A/C when it's over 30% humidity, then is bitching why he can't stay in tune on his Cello. DUH!! Then I get the old guy trying to record the event on the digital function of his point-and-shoot Cannon he picked up at Best Buy telling me I need to turn my lights down.... and he's NOT EVEN A PERFORMER!! Then there's the amatures who bitch and complain that our Baldwin Grand is just some "Low rent thrift store quality" piano while I'm standing RIGHT THERE, not realizing that it's the same piano that has been performed on by the likes of both Marsallias Brothers, James Lewis, Ben Folds and even Robert Picardo and they never once complained how it made them "sound bad". I think the problem lies in the performer, not our GENEROUSLY donated Baldwin Grand serviced by the factory trained tuner for 15 YEARS who is so hard to book we need to allot times 3 months in advance of performances!!!
I guess they make me appreciate my job alot more when the REAL pros come in!
Oh, and I might be taking the plunge on the Suicide Boys portion of the site. I'm hardly in shape, and I'm still self conscious because I'm not a "pretty" boy by any stretch, but I might just try. Who knows: I may get more readers to this blog that actually contain interesting stuff .... if only from folks who are morbidly curious about the ugly duckling in the rest of the boy sets.
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Ok, now HOW do make a link to the photoset?!?! All I can find is how to put an image into a post, but not how to turn a basic word into a URL without just posting the whole URL!
then go to edit your blog and choose the URL insert (the links above the smilies) and paste the URL from your photoset in the box. it'll then prompt you to title the link, where you can type "naughty bits" or "naked time" whatever