Thursday, March 17, 2011

                                        PAVEMENT BROOKLYN WATERFRONT 9.19.10
I got a gig at Brooklyn Waterfront  patching the mics and running monitors for the opener of the great slacker group Pavement. I was a big fan of Pavement in the 90's so I was very excited for this show.

Very simple PA on this one  9 VDOSC per side and 6 double 18's a side. Perfect PA for the act.

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 Pavement was carrying Monitors, snakes and FOH control from RAT sound from out west.
 They use DandB monitors and they are absolutely fantastic. Best stage monitor I have ever worked with. I believe this is the M4. See Factor just got the M2 series and they are fantastic...
Digidesign profile desk. I had to use it to mix the openers monitors. I had never used this console before but had to use it with a band I had never heard. The board was very user friendly and with the killer m4 monitors i totally ripped it....

 One of the roadies said that the kick drum had been sitting in the drummer's basement since they last toured 10 years ago. It was all water damaged and I believe had some sort of wildlife living in it...
Weird sidefills and Jarred. Easy gig for us. Once the rig was in the air and the stage was patched we had very little to do... The lighting guys had even less to do...



 The Union guys were pretty chill too...


Not to say I didn't join them............until Endless Boogie came on.... They were really cool... I told them they could only play 45 minutes and they were like "that's one song man" hehe they were far out.



Next up were Jenny and Johnny they were pretty good pop. She reminded me of Liz Phair...


And then Pavement. I thought they were great. Most of the stagehands and crew hated it. But I like indie rock so there you go...





 stage left monitor position

 probably my best pic. I do have some video which I will link to...

I shot some video with my crappy little canon 320. I just got a new camera so future entries should be better...This is pavement playing Box Elder and another song which I forgot the name of...

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