[sdiy] testing 1, 2, 3

[Peter Grenader]

Hey ---we're tryin' to get some sleep here...would ya MIND??????


WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> 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.