Really great performance! Hope to see slc added to the tour
Emery Dora
May 7, 2010 at 5:07 am
Just got back from The Hold Steady at the Fillmore. Wow, this was a disappointing show.
Actually, not much about the show was disappointing, except for the fact that the house sound guy was completely inept.
I bailed during the first encore – it was just so unsatisfying to hear this music mixed so poorly. Everything was completely high-end and shrill, keyboards and bass barely came through on the mains, and you couldn’t understand one word of the lyrics (really? At a Hold Steady show? That’s a crime for a lyrics-driven band).
I don’t understand what the deal was. The opening band was mixed cleanly – very weird. The Hold Steady seemed to have added another guitar player, so that might have thrown everything out of whack. Two Les Pauls plus Craig’s guitar may have caused the treble onslought, but it was bad even when Craig wasn’t playing.
Lot of material from the new album, but there were some gems played as well. But, damn… so unsatisying.
I did notice that Portugal. The Man. is playing next month. Maybe that’ll be mixed decently.
Some good tunes, though – Swish, DJs, Massive Nights, Hornets, Stations, Constructive Summer, Sequestered, Banging Camp, Stevie Nix. Too bad I couldn’t understand one word of vocals through the mains.
It was some fucked-up, repugnant shit. No one should have to hear a band that way. I asked some people outside their thoughts – people agreed. One dude: “did it sound like he was screaming the entire show?” Um, yes. Yes, it did. Not by choice, I’m guessing.
I wandered through that entire room trying to find a sweet spot and was unable. Three feet in front of the center of the SBD was still really, really bad. Wow. If that was their tour sound guy, they need to put an ad in the paper (well, many papers in severeal major metropolises).
How was this mixed so cleanly at the Wiltern in L.A. during the “Rock ‘n Roll Means Well” tour? Damn, DBT is so fun as well.
Really great performance! Hope to see slc added to the tour
Just got back from The Hold Steady at the Fillmore. Wow, this was a disappointing show.
Actually, not much about the show was disappointing, except for the fact that the house sound guy was completely inept.
I bailed during the first encore – it was just so unsatisfying to hear this music mixed so poorly. Everything was completely high-end and shrill, keyboards and bass barely came through on the mains, and you couldn’t understand one word of the lyrics (really? At a Hold Steady show? That’s a crime for a lyrics-driven band).
I don’t understand what the deal was. The opening band was mixed cleanly – very weird. The Hold Steady seemed to have added another guitar player, so that might have thrown everything out of whack. Two Les Pauls plus Craig’s guitar may have caused the treble onslought, but it was bad even when Craig wasn’t playing.
Lot of material from the new album, but there were some gems played as well. But, damn… so unsatisying.
I did notice that Portugal. The Man. is playing next month. Maybe that’ll be mixed decently.
Some good tunes, though – Swish, DJs, Massive Nights, Hornets, Stations, Constructive Summer, Sequestered, Banging Camp, Stevie Nix. Too bad I couldn’t understand one word of vocals through the mains.
It was some fucked-up, repugnant shit. No one should have to hear a band that way. I asked some people outside their thoughts – people agreed. One dude: “did it sound like he was screaming the entire show?” Um, yes. Yes, it did. Not by choice, I’m guessing.
I wandered through that entire room trying to find a sweet spot and was unable. Three feet in front of the center of the SBD was still really, really bad. Wow. If that was their tour sound guy, they need to put an ad in the paper (well, many papers in severeal major metropolises).
How was this mixed so cleanly at the Wiltern in L.A. during the “Rock ‘n Roll Means Well” tour? Damn, DBT is so fun as well.