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Matt Dillon and Sidekick Festus Appointed to New Federal Office
ETA: If you wonder about this post, see this. Even the misspelling of Martial is misspelled:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213107322
Arthur_Frain
(1,855 posts)Who gets to play Doc?
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)Wait, wut???
ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)I never got that except for looks.
Since the late 70s, major acts have been playing through world class sound systems with equally great monitor set ups. You would never need that to be heard or hear yourself.
The SR systems are a quarter million watts, so those 1,200 watts don't mean much to the house.
Monitor systems are 40 or 50k with over a dozen cabinets.
I wouldn't be surprised is 75% of those cabinets are unplugged.
If the guitar got that loud, the sound guy would kill the guitar player.
I know it pissed off our guy when stage volume got to high.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Said every band member ever...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Back in the day (i.e. 70's and 80's) though in house PA systems weren't nearly as good as they are now and plenty of the sound you heard was coming from the stage, and you needed a lot of wattage and speakers to move air if you wanted to reach the back of the hall or stadium.
Also ... valve driven watts are way louder than equivalent solid state watts, and most PA's are solid state.
ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)Our PA was 8 cabinets, 4 horns, and a bit over 12k watts. Our monitor system was 6 cabinets and around 2400. And we were just playing 300 to 500 seat rooms.
I agree that likely just 2 were hooked up, maybe 4 with 2 heads.
Also, the loudness thing is only when we're talking about 100s of watts. A 50 watt Marshall is louder, easily, than 50 watts SS. But, if the PA is running at average of 7500 watts, the Marshall isn't 50 times louder. That would be nearly 60dB!
I think we completely agree that this is essentially for show.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)And where it was taken. I think there was time when bands legitimately did hook up, say, 16 Marshall 4x12 cabs to 8x100W heads ... but of course the desirability of such a setup is long since past
ProfessorGAC
(65,136 posts)The age of the photo never occurred to me.
I've been using (well, I don't gig anymore) a Mesa Boogie, 1x12 or a Marshall combo with 2x12 since the late 80s.
And I'm the piano player! (Yeah, I played both on stage.)
maxrandb
(15,347 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)WWFD = What Would Festus Do? Vote the criminally corrupt and morally debased Republican Party into oblivion.
Love it!
3Hotdogs
(12,400 posts)Sons of the Pioneers
Beautiful voice.
Roy Rogers was also a lead for the Sons.
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)I remember Festus always arguing with the doctor. In this one episode, the doctor laments Festus never learned to read, and Festus advanced the argument that he never learned to read because how could he know if what he was learning was right or wrong. And, he continued, if he learned wrong, he'd be 'readin' wrong writing!'
Those are characters from better days. Seems like the world is moving on, now.
bubbazero
(296 posts)And just who will be miss KITTY? (I think that was her name)...............
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Mother Pence, too, I hear.
Doc and Miss Kitty?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I am waiting for Dense's profound and wise words on MARITAL law, next.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)0rganism
(23,962 posts)to be followed shortly by such legal grooves as
marshawn law
maralago law
marshmallow law
riversedge
(70,276 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)I'm psychologically damaged enough right now
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Especially Republicans like Marco Rubio.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)We always need jokes!
And Rubio is a prime example.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)gembaby1
(253 posts)spanone
(135,858 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Both, though, were something like this thread - comic relief.
Maven
(10,533 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Sorry, but there it is...
Maven
(10,533 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)This was triggered by a moronic tweet by Marco Rubio.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213107322
cwydro
(51,308 posts)They never lost their humor during that time.
Ah, the stories she told me...
JHB
(37,161 posts)bubbazero
(296 posts)Dennis Weaver, (Chester), later of movie "Duel", and TV; McCloud fame. Really, seriously cool dude. Check him out on-line over next weeks if stuck at home practicing social isolation. We could use more like him. A lot more.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Make sure to ask to see their badge first!
If they say, "Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' BADGES!" then run away.
riversedge
(70,276 posts)Initech
(100,098 posts)Siwsan
(26,288 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)demand US Marshal Raylan Givens of "Justified" be appointed.
"He is the only one we will follow (have you seen that butt)?" thousands cry.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)To each his or her own...
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)(intentional by the way)
maxrandb
(15,347 posts)But I think we better prepare ourselves for Marshall Jerrod.
You know it's going to come to that