A guy I work with recently got some of those and looks for all the world to have developed the palsy in his neck. I gather it's tough to decide which lens to look through.
________________________________ From: mistertaterbug <taterbugmu...@gmail.com> To: Taterbugmando <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 3:05:59 PM Subject: Re: To stand, or not?? Val, Just got trifocals....HELP. Putater On Jul 2, 7:52 pm, Val Mindel <vmin...@gmail.com> wrote: > The sheet flat on the stage for prompting purposes is a good tip for > songs that have lyrics that are easy to screw up, but it seems like > learning the words is a fairly early and necessary step along the way > to getting on top of a song, getting it performance ready. I too have > failing-memory issues at times, but going over problem words > immediately before a gig seems to work, and I'm much happier not > having to try to read something while on stage...particularly since > the advent of trifocals, which do really disturbing things to lines of > type, especially at critical moments. I do better with my aging > memory. > On Jul 2, 1:42 pm, Pat Murphree <phreem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Our band chose the name "The Foggy Memory Boys" so we can get away with > > things like forgotten lyrics and other screw-ups. It also excuses the use > > of stands. > > > Murph > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "The Holstein Kid" <st...@senatorgroup.com.au> > > To: "Taterbugmando" <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:58:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > > Subject: To stand, or not?? > > > Thought I might throw this out there. The new group I’m in is having a > > little trouble remembering lyrics to our tunes at this stage, and > > we’ve got a performance on Sat night. Because we’re only doing up to > > six tunes, I suggested we shouldn’t have a music stand in sight. I > > think it looks more professional not to have a stand and you should > > know your music. Right or not so? > > > Perhaps if we were doing several sets it might be a different story. I > > noticed a photo of EC and Co. on his recent tour with music stands on > > stage. It’s obviously acceptable to do this and I wonder if that was > > for a full show which is what it looked like. > > > Any opinion or rule of thumb you guys go by? > > > HK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
