Comments on: Choirboys http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/ Providing a permanent record of Australian bands, musicians, recordings and technical crew no matter what the musical genre, both current and past. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:18:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jeff White http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/comment-page-1/#comment-3369 Jeff White Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:19:38 +0000 http://australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/#comment-3369 no worries. no worries.

]]> By: Rick Scutts http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/comment-page-1/#comment-3190 Rick Scutts Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:07:06 +0000 http://australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/#comment-3190 I was just kidding mate, just a little sound engineer to sound engineer humour!...am sure your mix was fine...LOL! I remember that room at Dapto, and yes it was hostile! I was just kidding mate, just a little sound engineer to sound engineer humour!…am sure your mix was fine…LOL! I remember that room at Dapto, and yes it was hostile!

]]> By: Jeff White http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/comment-page-1/#comment-3149 Jeff White Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:09:33 +0000 http://australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/#comment-3149 no my mix didnt suck at all - they just didnt understand the band at Dapto. The venue was big on Thurs/Fri/Sat night as a disco and a band was out of place there for a while at the time. no my mix didnt suck at all – they just didnt understand the band at Dapto. The venue was big on Thurs/Fri/Sat night as a disco and a band was out of place there for a while at the time.

]]> By: Rick Scutts http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/comment-page-1/#comment-3048 Rick Scutts Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:45:28 +0000 http://australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/#comment-3048 Audiences in different venues can be hostile...and often its a test...if the band ignores the hostility and just plays their best the audience can often turn their initial hostile reaction into adulation...I guess the lead singer just didn't understand this...or maybe the mix just plain sucked... Audiences in different venues can be hostile…and often its a test…if the band ignores the hostility and just plays their best the audience can often turn their initial hostile reaction into adulation…I guess the lead singer just didn’t understand this…or maybe the mix just plain sucked…

]]> By: Jeff White http://www.australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Jeff White Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:40:45 +0000 http://australianmusichistory.com/the-choirboys/#comment-3013 I had the pleasure of doing FOH sound for the guys on 3 separate occasions but two of those gigs stand out as classics. The first was at the Sylvania Hotel around 6 or so years ago and if any sound guys know that place it has a DB metre about mid dance floor that would cut the power when volume thresholds were exceeded. Well it didnt take too long. About three strums of Marks guitar on the first song and whammo no power for a few minutes. Back on and they started the 2nd song and you guessed it - same thing. This went on for a while until the guys got gradually quieter and quieter and played accoustically and we got thru the gig. Well untill they played run to paradise. Well this time the crowd singing their heads off tripped the bloody thing!!! They just couldnt take a trick that night. We packed up and got out of there quick. The second gig was a Dapto Leagues and I have a desk mix of that gig. During the show no one would dance at all but as soon as the DJ came on they hit the floors in droves. At the end of the night, Mark made the classic statement that "music is like a marriage. Each person has to give a bit and seeing as how the audience didn't do their part then they weren't gonna do theirs and play run to paradise - so goodnight" and with that he walked off. Just a classic moment in rock. I had the pleasure of doing FOH sound for the guys on 3 separate occasions but two of those gigs stand out as classics. The first was at the Sylvania Hotel around 6 or so years ago and if any sound guys know that place it has a DB metre about mid dance floor that would cut the power when volume thresholds were exceeded. Well it didnt take too long. About three strums of Marks guitar on the first song and whammo no power for a few minutes. Back on and they started the 2nd song and you guessed it – same thing. This went on for a while until the guys got gradually quieter and quieter and played accoustically and we got thru the gig. Well untill they played run to paradise. Well this time the crowd singing their heads off tripped the bloody thing!!! They just couldnt take a trick that night. We packed up and got out of there quick.

The second gig was a Dapto Leagues and I have a desk mix of that gig. During the show no one would dance at all but as soon as the DJ came on they hit the floors in droves. At the end of the night, Mark made the classic statement that “music is like a marriage. Each person has to give a bit and seeing as how the audience didn’t do their part then they weren’t gonna do theirs and play run to paradise – so goodnight” and with that he walked off. Just a classic moment in rock.

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