so this is kind of out there, but stick with me while i lay it down for yas. be warned, i'm'a get as detailed as i can, 'cause that's how my dreams are sometimes.
I have many dreams. Most of them involve me touring with either Shania Twain or Jennifer Lopez and, while enjoying the "best seat in the house", I discover that the sound man's being a total jerk and screwing up my in-ear monitor mix, so I can never hear the bass player and I have way too much bgv in my right ear (and it's usually some fat white chick's voice that's way out of tune and stuff, too).
So while I get to stare at Shania/JLo all night, I have to put up with a butt head of a soundguy, so the experience is less than optimally enjoyable.
Then we're backstage, and I'm joking around with the band members, and Shania/JLo walks over to us and says something to the tune of "You guys sounded great, as usual! I just wish I could get to know you all better!" And I'm like "Okay. What's that mean?" And she's like "well, this is my first tour with you guys, and I think it would be fun to get to know you better."
So we all drop everything we're doing, and play mini golf.
And I beat everyone.
And because I beat everyone, the guitar player calls the cops, and the sirens are usually the noise that wake me up, because they're caused by my alarm clock going off.
And the reason this dream is so great is because I stink at mini golf. But for some reason, I get to beat everyone. My brain's being very generous to me.
It's cool that you can remember that much detail into your dreams. I can never remember any details, except for which diva made a guest appearance in my dream (I'm crazy like that, but what do expect from a guy who secretly wishes to be a Nashville touring drummer?). That's going to be my gig; I swear.
P.S.: I just realize I dropped lots of "music nerd" terms in your LJ. So I'll explain.
In-ear monitors: really fancy headphones that go down into your ear canal and block out outside noise (sort of a cross between headphones and a scrunchy ear plug that you waer at night because the fridge's motor is too loud).
(if you see the pack on Shania's butt, that's where the in-ears plug in)
(you can clearly see it in Dave's ear; I was trying to find one of JLo, but she has long hair, so they're harder to see)
Watch Leno, Letterman or any music concert on TV. Singers and musicians almost always wear them. They also cut down on stage noise, or the noise of the guitar amps and whatnot.
Mix: how loud all the instruments are in my headphones. For example, I'm a drummer, so I'm going to want to hear the bass guitar, and I won't really need the acoustic guitars to be very loud. Different musicians need to hear different things, because their in-ears keep them from hearing outside noise.
BGV: short for "background vocals". Singers need to hear the bgv's, musicians don't. In fact, we don't even need the lead vocalist/s if we have a good emough mix, because we've memorized the music and we're feeling each others' ideas and stuff (we're listening to what others play and react; nothing dirty:)
(in this picture, you can clearly see the bgv's)
Sound man: the guy who operates the soundboard, which is a really technical name for the volume control board.
(sometimes these guys can be jerks; look at his face!!! He's probably plotting some evil scheme right now!)
If you have any more questions, let me know. I'll be glad to help.
She has a butt. She has a nice, petite butt. But the only reason I posted the pic of her butt was because of the pack for the in-ears. Do you think you have a better butt than Shania? No, I'm not going there. Never mind.
I know you probably weren't all that confused; but I had some time to kill, and I love pictures!!! Plus, when I stumbled across the sound guy pic, I knew it had to be posted.
I also have lots of dreams where I beat really hard video games and tell all my friends and they give me money. Then I wake up and I don't have any money:( But at least a guy can dream, right?
So while I get to stare at Shania/JLo all night, I have to put up with a butt head of a soundguy, so the experience is less than optimally enjoyable.
Then we're backstage, and I'm joking around with the band members, and Shania/JLo walks over to us and says something to the tune of "You guys sounded great, as usual! I just wish I could get to know you all better!" And I'm like "Okay. What's that mean?" And she's like "well, this is my first tour with you guys, and I think it would be fun to get to know you better."
So we all drop everything we're doing, and play mini golf.
And I beat everyone.
And because I beat everyone, the guitar player calls the cops, and the sirens are usually the noise that wake me up, because they're caused by my alarm clock going off.
And the reason this dream is so great is because I stink at mini golf. But for some reason, I get to beat everyone. My brain's being very generous to me.
It's cool that you can remember that much detail into your dreams. I can never remember any details, except for which diva made a guest appearance in my dream (I'm crazy like that, but what do expect from a guy who secretly wishes to be a Nashville touring drummer?). That's going to be my gig; I swear.
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In-ear monitors: really fancy headphones that go down into your ear canal and block out outside noise (sort of a cross between headphones and a scrunchy ear plug that you waer at night because the fridge's motor is too loud).
(if you see the pack on Shania's butt, that's where the in-ears plug in)
(you can clearly see it in Dave's ear; I was trying to find one of JLo, but she has long hair, so they're harder to see)
Watch Leno, Letterman or any music concert on TV. Singers and musicians almost always wear them. They also cut down on stage noise, or the noise of the guitar amps and whatnot.
Mix: how loud all the instruments are in my headphones. For example, I'm a drummer, so I'm going to want to hear the bass guitar, and I won't really need the acoustic guitars to be very loud. Different musicians need to hear different things, because their in-ears keep them from hearing outside noise.
BGV: short for "background vocals". Singers need to hear the bgv's, musicians don't. In fact, we don't even need the lead vocalist/s if we have a good emough mix, because we've memorized the music and we're feeling each others' ideas and stuff (we're listening to what others play and react; nothing dirty:)
(in this picture, you can clearly see the bgv's)
Sound man: the guy who operates the soundboard, which is a really technical name for the volume control board.
(sometimes these guys can be jerks; look at his face!!! He's probably plotting some evil scheme right now!)
If you have any more questions, let me know. I'll be glad to help.
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I know you probably weren't all that confused; but I had some time to kill, and I love pictures!!! Plus, when I stumbled across the sound guy pic, I knew it had to be posted.
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that's neat that you stumbled across that picture of the sound guy. serendipitous.
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I also have lots of dreams where I beat really hard video games and tell all my friends and they give me money. Then I wake up and I don't have any money:( But at least a guy can dream, right?
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