>> On Saturday, September 01, 2007 10:44 PM [GMT+1=CET], >> Guy Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> > I think the first thing is to wonder whether there needs to >> be "big" >> > entertainment in the evenings at all. It costs quite a bit and >> > genertaes no direct income. I don't imagine any boater or camper >> > comes just because there are bands on in the evening. >> >> I remember when the entertainment in the bar in the evenings >> was impromptu, >> with no stage, no lighting and no amplification,just a few >> people sitting >> around at one end of the bar making their own music. The >> people involved >> usually included David Blagrove and Peter Thompson. I'd love >> to see a move >> back to that sort of arrangement. > >Oh God! <shudder> > >You can't organise impromptu sessions. Trust me on this, been there, >done that, got the T-shirt (both in company with Messrs. Blagrove & >Thompson and many others). Yep, 15, 20 and more years ago if you put >Blaggers in a bar there was probably going to be folk music and you'd >have to get the ferrets in but it didn't always happen, it didn't always >work when it did happen and hardly anybody could actually hear it >properly when it worked. > >I'm also convinced that decades of pushing his voice trying to make >himself heard without PA is why David's voice has deteriorated as he's >got older. (It's why I simply will not play in anything larger than a >small bar without PA. It wrecks the voice and my vocal cords have enough >to put up with as it is) > >Bru
There is a great difference between having a microphone so you can be heard in the bar and being able to be heard clearly on the campsite Sue nb Nackered Navvy
