Re: [microsound] fan reaction to laptop

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This has also happened to me.  It was bad booking.  There was a blues band
after me and about half way through the set they started tuning over me. 
I yelled at them and it didn't register so I put myself between the singer
and the mic and started telling the crowd that someone was playing music. 
I said it about 3 times and pointed and told the guys to stop tuning over
my set and all I got were blank looks.  Later, some people who were
farther back in the bar came up to me to tell me they liked my set.  Go
figure...

One time, I was spinning records, no laptop, old-fashioned vinyl, at a
party and there had been a band before the DJs.  The guys from the band
started unplugging us.  They would unplug, plug back in, unplug, plug back
in.  Me and a friend went to see what was happening to the power and they
were all hostile.  One guy got in my face and I put my hand up and said
"No prob, buddy" or something like that and he grabbed my hand and started
bending it back.  I just walked away (not a fighter).

I've never had good reception to a laptop set.  Turntables have brought a
little more interest, but not much.  I really don't understand it.  Music
is music.  People don't have to like what I do but they don't have to be
hostile. I think it's sort of a clique thing.  People tend to be
pretentious about their music.  I think pretentious musicians should have
their fingers cut off or at least permanently duct-taped.

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:08  PM, Kurt Ralske wrote:
>
>> the subject line reminded me of one of the first laptop performances i
>> ever
>> saw: jim o'rourke, in 1997 or 98, in a warehouse/gallery type space in
>> Chelsea, NYC. there was no stage, jim was set up at an ordinary table
>> with
>> his G3.
>>
>> halfway through his set, a young woman made her way through the
>> audience to
>> jim's table, and began talking to him as he performed:
>>
>> girl :  hey, when's the next band on?
>> jim : [distracted] .....uhhh, they're on right now
>> girl : [confused] really? who are they?
>> jim : ...it's me!
>> girl : [looks confused; walks away]
>
> Heh.  A similar thing happened to me, but it was back in 1994 and I had
> an Amiga and some other gear on stage.  A handful of people who knew me
> just walked up and started talking.  I *think* I at least had a guitar
> on me at the time.  Stage...Gear...Guitar...Noise...  You'd think they
> could put it all together....
>
> Then again, maybe they were used to me being sound-guy at most of these
> shows and thought I was just setting up for someone else.
>
>
> Good times.  I really wish I had a tape of that show.
>
> J.Shell
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