How Will You Respond?
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Never no play,,, I carry a bunch of extension cords,,, run to where I have to.... worse case, I play and hope for the best.... If that means not using subs and only having 1 light, so be it.
My feelings also but if your using a 3 way system your kind of limited in your ability to adjust and compensate for unforeseen events.
By the way, I have another private residence, in a barn gig tomorrow. 82 miles (one way) from home. No, I have not gone and done a site survey and I've been assured by the client that power has been provided as specified. Does that make me "patently unprofessional"?
I want you to tell me how I had to adapt. At my Site Visit, 2 Circuits were promised to me. That was what I got to use. Where did I have to adapt?
you had to settle the situation and have the alternate idea abolished. You solved it by standing your ground. I salute you for that but you had to alter what your site visit had presented you cause it was no longer as you assumed it would be. If Rick had shown up its likely he would have done the same as you did. I would have also.
You just don't get it do you.
Lete try this one line at a time.
I did the site visit, two circuits was pointed out to me for my use.
Day of the gig I arrived, one of the two Circuits was being used for two Christmas trees.
I literally made them take out the Christmas Trees and they had to run their own Extension Cord to the Kitchen.
Now both Circuits are free and clear for my use, which I did.
Now tell me where in the above do you see me having to adapt. I got what was promised me, plain and simple.
Now do you comprehend?
Now I will tell you what i think a lot of others would have done. They would have been afraid to tell the Venue to take out the Christmas Tree Lights. They would have been busting their azz looking for another circuit.
Nope you dont get it. You asked at the site visit for two circuits for your use and when you got there it was ignored and you had to ask them to remove the tree lights and trees so you could set up. You didnt just load in set up and go. HELLO EARTH TO HOUSTON!!! Even with your almighty repetative comments about others and your sure fire methods rubbed in cause your the king you still had to alter your process plain and simple. You got end results that you wanted but had to make adjustments to what you were promised. You know I pretty much follow your methods in this regards but on the odd occasion a site visit doesnt remedy every last issue plain and simple. Admit it you stubborn geezer lol.
oh and on your site visit two circuits WERE pointed out to you for your use! When you arrived two werent available you had to make them available. Get it?
You call that an adaptation!!!!!!!!!!!! So if a chair was in my way and I moved it that would be an adaptation too, eh?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL LMFAO
I will give you and example of an adaptation. If I was the one that had to run my extension cord to another area such as the Kitchen, then THAT would have been an adaptation. It was the venue who made the adaptation you silly boy! Why is comprehension such a hard thing for some????
and yet again your bull headed Im always the superior attitude is omni present. You had to do something other than what you expected from your site survey. Argue it down to the minimum. You had to have it changed it wasnt as promised even though you did your professional site visit...........JESUS Canute your truly a class act. You walk on Water you turn water into wine but you didnt magically have your room as you expected and it had to be changed. You didnt blink your eyes and magic removed it all. You had to do something other than you expected.
I want you to put up or shut up. Read all my posts and tell me what did I have to do that was not expected. Before you answer, remember this, YOU said I had to adapt. I went to the venue tow use two specific circuits. I used those two specific circuits. I did not have to unplug the Christmas trees, the Venue did. I did not have to run any extension cords, the venue did. Now tell me what something other than what I expected from my site visit did I have to do? Please answer the specific question and quit the name calling and labelling. People do that when they realize they are loosing an argument.
Canute, hate to tell ya, but he's right. Yes, YOU did not physically have to unplug the Christmas trees, but it was an un-expected situation that YOU had to initiate changing on the spot. Now for what it's worth, YOU have succeeded in getting me to do site surveys wherever it's reasonably possible. You're right, they're invaluable and I thank you for prodding me in that direction. However, in the discussion here, you're wrong. Despite site surveys and our best laid plans, there are always going to be situations and problems that come up at the gig that we have to take care of. The question becomes, do we handle it ourselves, quietly (where possible) or do we make a stink and require the venue, the planner or the client to take care of it? That part is a biz decision and we all may come to different conclusions on that.
You guys make me laugh. So if a lamp was plugged in to the circuit and had to be unplugged, that is considered an adaptation, eh? I asked for something, I got it, where is the adaptation?
Yupper.
If yer walking down the sidewalk, and some kid comes up behind you on a bike, and rings the bell, and you step to the side -- that is called adapting. Asking somebody to unplug tree lights is adapting.
That's how it works Justin Bieber...
From the book of Webster. Definition of "adapt" to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification The circuit was not modified or changed! If a Power strip was added to the Circuit so that it's use could be shared between my use and the Venue's use for the Christmas tree, then that would have been an adaptation. What I saw at the site visit and requested is what I got. From where did the change come?Yupper.
If yer walking down the sidewalk, and some kid comes up behind you on a bike, and rings the bell, and you step to the side -- that is called adapting. Asking somebody to unplug tree lights is adapting.
That's how it works Justin Bieber...
It was already suitable. By someone plugging in the Christmas tree lights that did not change the circuit. It was their job to make the circuit vacant which they did. It could have been done before I got there but so happens it took place while I was there. Same difference. Does that mean that for EVERYONE when they go to a Gig that everything is adapted? I think not. It is part of the requirements.