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From: Phildo on 18 Oct 2009 11:00

"DougD" <me(a)here.com> wrote in message
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> Not that it was that unusual, but just a pain, was the old FOH (for lack
> of
> a better word, perch) at the Whisky.. This would be around the early
> 80's and it was a pain to get in and out of, and not the best place to
> be trying to get a handle on the mix..

Wasn't so bad when I was house engineer there. Nice recall by Langley board,
the only real trouble I had was climbing over the rail as they had forgotten
to put a door in.

Phildo


From: geoff on 18 Oct 2009 16:48
Phildo wrote:
> We've all come across some strange places to mix from in the past. A
> friend recently told me about one in Greece

"Greek' and "position' hold unfortunate connotations , no ?

(_)*(_)

geoff


From: Phildo on 18 Oct 2009 19:28

"Richard Webb" <Richard.Webb.my.foot(a)116-901.ftn.wpusa.dynip.com> wrote in
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> NOne that strange, but was the bandstand another moving
> truck on that last one?

No, it was the same truck. Notting Hill carnival. I'd put a rig on the back
of a truck as a favour to a friend. I had about half the gear most trucks
had on them but their systems were home made junk, all subs and motorola
tweeters with nothing in the middle. I'd put in several boxes from a
well-known manufacturer, two subs for every top box (one loaded with 18"s,
one with 21" drivers but the 21s were fed off an aux and via my dbx120XDS).
one top box and two subs on each side of the truck and another pair at the
back While all the trucks were lining up several of the black guys running
their home made systems came over and started taking the mickey at the size
of my rig saying that nobody would ever hear what I was putting out as they
would drown me out. Just for a laugh smiled, walked to my desk and I
switched it on, giving them a quick blast of some psy-trance with plenty of
low end and the subharmonic synth at full power. I've never seen black guys
go pale before !!! ;-)

Strangely enough that was the night that the cemetery wall collapsed. It had
been leaning quite badly for decades but this year the carnival route took
it right past the cemetery wall:

http://www.ktra.co.uk/Projects/Cemetery%20Wall/Cemetery.html

Phildo


From: Eeyore on 18 Oct 2009 20:47
Phildo wrote:
> We've all come across some strange places to mix from in the past. A friend
> recently told me about one in Greece where the mixing desk was suspended in
> the ceiling and you had to crawl across a piece of metal to get to it from
> where you couldn't hear much or see the stage. The lighting guy had already
> fallen off and broke his leg. They did offer to suspend him up there and
> lower him every few minutes but he turned that down.
>
> I think mine was at a club called Pilot in Moscow. The lighting rig was
> mounted on a jet fighter suspended in the roof, the DJ mixed from the turret
> of the front half of a tank on the corner of the stage, the posts at the
> bottom of the stair handrails were rocket launchers (similar to the ones on
> the left in this picture -
> http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Ut6QSSeWVEs/RZFlyfher-I/AAAAAAAAAN4/CHNLjOphGuQ/IMG_0278.JPG),
> there was military hardware all over the club and the mixing and lighting
> boards were at the back in the shell of a Russian military helicopter
> (similar to
> http://www.armyrecognition.com/Russe/helicopteres/Mi-8_Hip/Mi_8_Hip_Helicopter_Russia_03.jpg)
> with the windows taken out so you could hear.
>
> Another one that comes to mind, also in Russia, was in the Metro club in St
> Petersburg where the mix position was inside a fake front of a train (a bit
> like
> http://www.freefoto.com/images/23/22/23_22_6---First-Great-Western-High-Speed-Train_web.jpg).
> I've also mixed from a turret in a medieval castle, a platform out in a lake
> and on the back of a moving truck.
>
> Anyone got any more?


How about on the plinth of Nelson's Column ( in Trafalgar Square, London
for the non-Brits ) ? There's a 240V 13A socket on it btw which has to
be turned on in the pump room in the Underground ( Tube ) station there.

The original Marquee Club and Rock Garden also had some 'interesting'
elevated mix positions, although it was simply a convenient option at
the Rock Garden.

Graham
From: George's Pro Sound Co. on 19 Oct 2009 08:45
The green Man in asheville NC, mix is in a closet in the opposite corner of
the pub faceing away from the stage
you have to exit the closet to hear what you are doing
as the mix position is level with the stage but there are 350 folks in the
way you can not see anything except heads
George


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