----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Heutte" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:37 PM
Subject: (313) festival first day
"The weather is pretty good although a little humid during the day. Decent
crowd
so the economy doesn't seem to be a big hit of attendance."
RE: --the bad economy should boost attendance slighty as people need a
great escape from the real world and unemployment checks are flowing. I am
not there for that reason (bad economy even though I have a job), none of my
west michigan friends have accepted my offers to carpool as of yet. Strange
for me as I remember us going by the car loads in the early 2000s. I think
I will go regardless for the Jeff Mills homecoming, great line up and
cheaper than the plaza. I am bummed about missing Jay Denham today but this
should cheer me up.
Paxahau keeps increasing the stage budgets and so the stages are getting
bigger and bigger, to the point of being bloated. I mean, this is not a
good thing.
The underground (Real Detroit) stage is a disaster. They built a huge
elevated
square platform in the middle of the floor and constructed an elevated
walkway
from the side so the DJs and techs can get to the platform. Stacks of bass
bins all the way around on the floor under the platform, highs hung from
above.
Well, it might have been a good idea outside, but it takes up way too much
space and makes it sound like you're inside a garbage compactor. The mids
are blasting and everything else is slapping back against the walls, floors
and ceiling just like always except moreso. Huckaby said afterwards it was
horrible playing in there, I think he cut his set short.
RE: the Dutch brought in the best sound system I've seen for the space
for the +31/313 thing they did a few years back--hats of to the
etherlands! --that stage can be creepy too, I've been video taped dancing
with a girl by a voyeur and seen some shadey stuff go down when its packed
like sardines in a tin can.
