[NewMusic] Marco Eneidi's Animal Farm

[Damon Smith]

I am not pointing the finger at you, I am just saying that part of that 
situation is that each individual is responsible for what they do and 
don't do.
A guy I ran into today who was in the audience said all he could hear 
were horns anyway, so there you go.

Damon


On Mar 1, 2007, at 4:15 PM, weasel walter wrote:

> ook, we were not set up in a way that would even allow the drummers to
> work as a section! i couldn't see spirit at all and tim and peter were
> off in their worlds, being "The Only Drummer in the room". I like both
> those guys, but you hit that one on the head. honestly, i didn't really
> NEED to work with them as a section. it wouldn't have changed shit. if
> they wanted to overplay, what the hell would i be able to do about it?
> wasn't it enough that i told the entire rhythm section to shut the fuck
> up during the second rehearsal? i guess not. BTW - the drummers had NO
> PARTS. tim told me that he would try and "stay out of the way" when i
> played, which showed a certain amount of sensitivity on his part
> (appreciated), but honestly, that didn't really solve anything. 
> basically
> you had peter and timmy freaking the fuck out the whole time on the 
> right
> side of the stage and it pretty much demolished the entire horn 
> section.
> i can't teach people how to be sensitive, but i can NOT book them in my
> big band, that's for goddamn sure. that's how i solve that one!