"Food was fine, a little expensive but well prepared. Service in the bar area was kind of spotty. It wasn't peak yet but it was Saturday night. I was there to see some friends in a band. Hey sound guys, I've been doing sound in some capacity since I was a fetus. You don't have to smash everything up against the ceiling. Bleeding eardrums is not the goal, is it? I love it loud, and I love it powerful, but there's a balance always. If the screaming guitar solo, is smashed up against the kick drum, and the snare, and the bass guitar is at maximum, and then we throw the vocals all the way to the top, nobody really gets heard and it's just loud and unpleasant. I suffered through a couple hours of that in the big room. I realize I am grinding an axe here. Baron mine, I just dropped $1,500 on an 18 inch powered subwoofer that will lacerate your spleen. And I realize that the sound guys who are doing this consistently will not listen to me, but perhaps upper management/owners will, and solicit some third-party help when it comes to live mixing. There are a lot of phenomenal engineers in this town and with a couple hours of instruction, some really nice adjustments could be made. Just my two cents, and thank you everybody for listening! Long live live music!"
