>>12046568>the faders get a bit 'tired' over time) they started to go out of phase, thereby creating this spaced-out effectOne of our bands consisted of two guys playing guitar with me singing lead. As Ronnie liked Big Sound, all the other 'effects', be they bass, drums, violin, horns, or intermittent fills such as my favorite kettle drums, tuba, or, jeje, tubular bells etc...our sets were cued to an adat playing in the background.
>Which brings me to the point of this comment.One night, shortly after the music starts and I begin singing, it becomes quite apparent to me that the background tracks are somehow throwing me off. I can stay on cue, yet, the music had weirded out in a surreal way. Mind you, the music itself in that particular song was a somewhat aetherial blend of East Indian sounds because the content was based on the spiritual awakening I had had as a teen after being introduced to comparative religious tenets.
>WHOA!! It felt as if I had totally become enveloped in a different dimension, almost a waking dreamlike state of being.Transcendence!!
I can only imagine, though, that I must have looked perplexed while trying to stay in perfectly in tune and in tempo.
All of a sudden the music stopped, Ronnie having jumped off stage to fix whatever Jamie, the engineer, had fiddled with.
>Before we begun again, I wasnintroduced to the concept of what out-of-phase means. Something which, thankfully, never happened again.Also, thank God this happened at CBGB, where "normal' was a mix of strangeness to begin with.
I simply sat down on stage, lit a cig, and drank my beer while watching the equally-perplexed audience smile with me.
>it was the spaciest spaced-out effects for certain. Kek. 