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greg,
 
     didn't know curt was playing at T.T.s last  night.   I must confess I 
saw them a handful of times back in the day  and didn't think too much of them.  
I liked them a lot better on  record.
They always played well I thought, but their live sound was always a mess  to 
me.  they had the same guy doing sound for them for a long time (some  SST 
croney no doubt) and I always thought his sound was pretty bad.  It was  fun to 
do sound for bands that were opening for them because it was pretty easy  to 
sound as good or better than them, even without a sound  check.    
      Just for the record, didn't one of those  guys o.d. a few years back?  
As always,  an incredible waste of  talent.
       As far as T.T.'s goes,  that  place has been doing shows for 20 years 
now, and they still haven't made a  concerted effort to make that place sound 
any better.  When the place first  opened in 86, they had a drop ceiling and a 
carpet on the back wall of the  stage.  the sound equipment was lousy, but at 
least the acoustics were  relatively manageable.  At some point they took the 
carpet off and painted  the back of the stage wall which definitely looks way 
better but sounds a lot  worse.  Then they took out the drop ceiling and now 
it's loud as  f---.
The sound equipment is much improved,  but the sound of the room  without the 
pa even being loud is so much louder that it pretty much negates all  the 
improvements.
        It's not much different  than the Middle East Club next door.   the 
upstairs room is stupid  loud and no one cares enough to make it better.   
Don't get me wrong,  I LOVE loud music,
but it has to be GOOD loud.  For Boston, the best club sound system  had to 
have been the RAT up until about 1986 or so.  They had a killer pa  in there 
that hit you right in the chest, guitars sounded great without a lot of  effort, 
and ultimately,  it was loud and usually CLEAR.
Easily the loudest show I ever saw there was the swans in early 87 (I  
think.) They had 2 drummers at the time.  The show was so ridiculously  loud, but at 
the same time, the sound was clear as a bell.   While I  wasn't a die hard 
fan like some others,  the experience was truly  impressive.
                                                                        
Thanks, Carl P.
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