GA misinformations (was Re: triphop, garggggg)

[Jeremy David]

On 2/22/06, manny at telerama.com <manny at telerama.com> wrote:
> Quoting Jeremy David <epistemology at gmail.com>:
>
> > > Garfield Artworks has ALWAYS had a bathroom. I
> > > remember it since the first time I spun there several
> > > years ago. it is in the downstairs.
> > Eh. I'm sure it did when you were there. But the last time I was
> > there, it sure didn't. I havn't bothered to go back.
>
> GARFIELD ARTWORKS HAS ALWAYS HAD A BATHROOM. Regardless of what you say.
> There WAS a bathroom when you were there. There is a bathroom now. You are
> wrong. Period. End of story.

Hey, maybe there was one when I was there and I just missed it. I
asked a couple people and they said there wasn't one. I would have
asked you personally, Manny, but by that point in the show you had
already cut out of the place. I guessed it was another attempt to
avoid paying the bands after the show.

> As for 'avoiding the joint' Eric, you may not want to take Jeremy
> David's word for everything because he obviously has some kind of > problem. I don't think he understands the concept of doing a show > in an 'art space' (that is, a venue that is not a traditional
> 'nightclub').

I'm all for doing shows in nontraditional places. I've played some
shows myself in some pretty strange places, from art houses to the
middle of a forest. But anyone with a cursory knowledge of acoustics
knows better than to perform amplified music in a long and thin
rectangular brick room. If anyone is curious, here's a couple quick
links I found about it:

http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/tech_background/TE-02/modes/Modes.html
http://www.wilsonaudio.com/technotes/roomacoustics.shtml

The reason why nightclubs are often, but not always, better venues for
shows than long and thin rectangular brick rooms, even if they are
"art spaces" is because nightclubs are built with good acoustics in
mind. I hardly think that it makes me a bourgeois wimp for caring that
music actually sounds as the artists intend, and that you hear the
instruments and voices instead of random droning waves bouncing
between walls, or that you don't hear the non-sound of waves canceling
each-other out because the walls are too close together. That to me is
far more offensive than a couple pieces of silverware clanking around.
Maybe that's not true for everybody, and that's fine, but it sure make
a huge difference for me.

> Poor sheltered boy....

Yes, Manny. I'm just too sheltered to understand your superior taste.
I'm so glad you're here to tell us all what we should like and not
like.