u/BusyBullet

My new band has a private party gig coming up and the guitar player wants us to use my Horizon monitor wedges.

Problem is, his PA puts out 800 watts and he says it doesn’t have a monitor out. Only A and B.

I haven’t seen his PA in a couple of years so I don’t remember much about it.

I’ve asked him to get me the specs. My wedges are either 140 or 190 RMS - I need to look at them to remember which one. Also, if I remember correctly they are 8 ohms.

He believes that since his PA “doesn’t put out 800 watts all the time” we will be fine.

My not completely informed opinion is that we’ll F up my speakers.

Assuming my numbers above are correct and assuming my worries are based in reality, how do I explain to him that it won’t work?

Or explain to me that it will work.

I met this guy many years ago when he wanted to work for me and get backstage at Welcome To Rockville.

I clocked him as a complete weirdo and noped out of that tomfoolery pretty quickly.

Two examples:

1. I bought a spray nozzle attachment for one of my garden hoses at a big box hardware store. It wasn’t the same as the one that I was replacing but it looked fine.

I took it home and it was anemic. The thing just spritzed water out in a weak stream no matter what setting I had it on. I connected my other working one and it worked just fine. I connected both sprayers to my other hose and the results were the same so I took the new one back.

The guy at the store tried to tell me that my water pressure was just too low. I explained that I tried both sprayers on both hoses and the new one just wasn’t pushing out a significant amount of water.

He stuck with his low water pressure explanation but refunded me anyway.

2. Playing a show and hooking up my vocal microphone only to have no sound.

I swapped the cable - nothing. Swapped two different mics and the cable in every possible iteration and still got nothing.

The guitarist we hired for this one show insisted that all three microphones and both cables must have failed since rehearsal two days prior.

Oh, and everything worked in another channel in the PA system but yeah, it was all of my mics and cables suddenly not working.

Look, I understand you want to help but please try to think rationally and make some kind of sense.

Five pieces of musical equipment are not likely to suddenly fail at the exact same time and my water pressure isn’t going to increase and decrease in perfect time with my swapping out spray nozzles.

I’ve been skeptical of AI music but seeing the massive support it’s getting here, I think the world is ready for an AI music festival.

I spent years working in the music festival industry and I’ve also put on live sci-fi and comic cons and other similar events.

I can get a decent sized outdoor venue and I have access to people on the music business.

We can get some financial backers if we can show them that this has a chance of this kind of festival succeeding.

Post videos of you performing your AI songs at shows in front of a live audience to show them how it can work and let’s get this thing rolling.

You’re watching a show or film that you enjoy but then something happens that doesn’t make sense or it’s just lazy writing or whatever so you say something like “Why do the Klingons suddenly look different?” or “Wait a minute…Connor McLeod and the Sean Connery character actually knew each other before and they’re from another planet…?”

Somebody will inevitably say “It’s just a movie”, like you’re just supposed to accept garbage writing, production limitations etc. that take you out of the story.

I understand when someone delves way too deep in Elvish philosophy and takes things to an extreme but when a show can’t get the basics right it’s puzzling.

Then someone else wants you to just ignore the fact that the writers have chosen to ignore every rule that have been working with from the beginning.

I guess they’d be totally cool with Columbo being a robot bounty Hunter from Mars with a sever peanut allergy for one episode and then never having that plot twist come up again.