Post by skynetrp on May 18, 2006 23:57:06 GMT -5
(Hello! I live in Memphis and I was on the 4th row at the Memphis In May festival for the Lovehammers concert. Now, don't get angry at what I am about to say, because I love this band and I followed Marty all throughout the Rock Star INXS competition.But their concert left me feeling empty and unsatisfied here in Memphis, and let me tell you why before you kill me. They evidently didn't get a good sound check because their volume was so darned LOW that I could easily hear their stage monitors over the actual PA......no kidding.
I went to the sound man and asked him why they were so low, and he told me that all they had to do was ask and he would have given them a good sound check and turned the volume up.......I just don't understand that. It made them sound "thin" and it just didn't ROCK like it should have. You could barely hear Marty until he started screaming all the vocals so he could hear it I guess, which hurt his performance.
It wasn't just the Lovehammers who sounded bad, one of the main Memphis attractions "Egypt Central" was thin and weak too, but not NEAR as weak as the Lovehammers sounded. As a matter of fact, the only band we heard that sounded right
was "Buck Cherry"........man they sounded GREAT.........obviously got a great sound check because they were VERY loud and clear and heavy without killing your ears.
BUT......BUT......BUT.....the lead singer had a very hard time hearing his monitors for the first 3 songs, and we a hard time hearing him too. But after that it was perfect. The sound just moved your soul and you had to jump up and down and clap....it was ROCKIN!!
I want the Lovehammers to know about this problem so it won't happen again to them. I am a professional musician, so you can trust what I just said.
Marty, I still loved you guys, but man, did they hose you!! I still want to work with you on your solo album.
Ricco Pollan/SECOND SEASON
