[sdiy] testing 1, 2, 3

[WeAreAs1 at aol.com]

Check, one, two.

Two, two, TWO, TWO, TWO.  TWO.  TWO.    TWO.      TWO.              TWO.

Just checking to see if this creaky old mailing list is still working.  I 
always see the replies, but never see the original post to which people are 
replying.  This seems to happen every six months or so.  Why???  What am I being 
punished for?  (please don't answer that...)

On another note, I don't know about you guys, but it bugs the hell out of me 
how today's live sound engineers are always saying "two, two, two" during 
sound checks.  Just "two, two, two" -- nothing else.  They always pronounce it 
"tee-you", like some badly programmed Simmons drum, over and over -- as if 
they're somehow trying to get the pronunciation JUST RIGHT.  And by "just right" I 
mean "more annoying than Fran Drescher on coke".  Whatever happened to 
"Testing, one, two, three"?  It's as if all these guys care about is how the "t" 
sibilant sounds.  Oh yeah -- that, and the kick drum.  The kick drum has got to be 
able to drown out every other instrument on stage, including the bass guitar.  
Keyboards?  Fuggedaboutit!  I'm sure there's a special place in hell for 
these guys:  they get to spend eternity as the bass drum in a junior high school 
marching band.  The song that the drummer plays on them only has one beat, and 
it repeats forever.  The beat goes "two, two, two, two, two...."

Michael B.