Confession Time - First Live Gig & First Record Bought

[Barry]

Rammstein concert last night at the MEN in Manchester - what a f*cking riot that was!!

Simply awesome musically and as a performance spectacle in itself...

And my God it was painfully loud! We were sat pretty high up overlooking the stage and I could feel my trouser flaps flapping and chest cavity vibrating with the sheer intensity of the bass impact from the PA system - those amps must have been kicking out quite a few kilowatts of power

Marco.

Hi Marco,

Trust you and Del were wearing ear plugs. Wouldn't want your enjoyment of the occasion to be spoilt by hearing damage.

Regards

[Marco]

Hi Barry,

At one point I thought that it might be necessary, as the SPLs were literally shaking the foundations of the structure we were in, but surprisingly our ears weren't ringing afterwards!

Fortunately for the sake of our hearing, we don't go to many of these types of gigs.

We got back home though and (nearly) replicated the same effect with 'Du hast' blasting through the Tannoys!!

Marco.

[John]

I think Marco needs earplugs for his home sysytem as well Lol

[Haselsh1]

It'd be no good Marco coming for a sesh at our house...! I'm in the middle of listening to Rebecca Pidgeon very quietly...!! These days I seldom do anything noisily... well, almost anything...

[Marco]

Lol.... Rammstein must be listened to at ear-bleeding levels - it just doesn't work any other way!

I also like Rebecca Pidgeon. Barry knows how varied my taste in music is - I can go from Rammstein to Frank Sinatra all in the one sesh!!

What was really funny though was that before the concert started I got chatting to a guy sitting next to my wife who had come all the way down from Lennoxtown, just outside of Glasgow, to go to the gig.

Anyway, It turned out he was also a Celtic fan, so we were chatting about football, and when I get talking to someone else from Glasgow, my accent changes somewhat and I start using Scottish slang.... So the vernacular was, shall we say, 'rife'....

Next thing, two girls sitting next to me turned round and asked "Where are you from, Germany or the Czech Republic"?

I giggled to myself and couldn't resist replying: "Naw, hen, am fae Glesga!"

The look on their faces was priceless!!

Marco.

[Barry]

Hi Barry,

At one point I thought that it might be necessary, as the SPLs were literally shaking the foundations of the structure we were in, but surprisingly our ears weren't ringing afterwards!

Fortunately for the sake of our hearing, we don't go to many of these types of gigs.

We got back home though and (nearly) replicated the same effect with 'Du hast' blasting through the Tannoys!!

Marco.

Hi Marco,

Glad to hear that both you and Del survived the ear hammering.

Without wishing to come across an insufferable nanny, you do have to be careful when attending loud performances. It only takes a single exposure to a very loud noise to damage your hearing; either loosing a few KHz off the top end or inducing tinnitus.

Our ears have a natural protection mechanism and a certain amount of self repair, however this ability falls off as we get older. Be warned!

Regards

[dave2010]

Am I in the wrong place? If so, sorry!

Paul Lewis playing Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K540,Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17, Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann and
Beethoven: Piano sonata no 21 in C minor, Op 53 (“Waldstein”) with the shortest encore imaginable.

[Barry]

Am I in the wrong place? If so, sorry!

Paul Lewis playing Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K540,Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op 17, Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann and
Beethoven: Piano sonata no 21 in C minor, Op 53 (“Waldstein”) with the shortest encore imaginable.

Where did you hear that Dave? Quite often if the soloist has not been happy with his performance the encores can be short, regardless of audience appreciation.

Regards

[jon1]

Well going back a few years...david bowie ziggy stardust days manchester..and it was mint




jon

[dave2010]

Where did you hear that Dave? Quite often if the soloist has not been happy with his performance the encores can be short, regardless of audience appreciation.

Regards

Claygate - see http://www.ocms-music.org.uk/OCMS-20...aul-Lewis.html Difficult to say how Paul felt about it all. He seems very serious, as though he doesn't like encores, unlike some - Stephen Hough for example, and from a bygone era and now now longer with us, Shura Cherkassky. There weren't any major problems as far as I could tell, though there were some extraineous noises/resonances which he might have found disturbing from some instruments (cymbals, drums) left nearby.