Re: Did they just let you crank amps back in the day?
In all honesty in the late 60's and 70's, we played a lot of teen dances at teen centers, colleges, gyms, small town civic center, and you were only limited by the P.A., which you usually supplied and run yourself from the stage, it was usually column speakers in a powered mixer, so it was pretty lame. In clubs, they griped about the volume, so the trick was to start off at a low volume and eek it up every song, so they didn't notice, when more people hit he dance floor it soaked up more sound, so you could eek it up some more, as the bar got busy, they were making money, so you could put it up some more. Non-master volume amps ,you had to hit them pretty hard in the front, this was easier with a Les Paul than a Strat, or use a fuzz box. It was a lot of fun, music was THE thing, you were a local "star" if you were in a aband, no video-games to compete with, many fewer bands, No tabs, so it wasn't that easy to learn. You had to slow down the record and go over it million times, but you remembered it after all that.. That was pretty much what it was like being "Local Hero"..hahaha . I wouldn't have traded those times for anything. It was amazing......you had to have been there..............
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