A Barking Dog

With a new year we’re finally back up. We’ve been offline for three months and i haven’t written much in the last six months or so. That will change as I just had the next couple of months open up so as I find new work and wait for the next tour cycle to begin I’ll be able to write some. The Roaddog forums are back up at http://forum.roaddog.com/. I’m still very active at the LAB both participating and moderating.

There are a couple of new things and I’ll keep you posted over the next week or so.

Some things have changed a great deal in the nearly quarter century since I started in this business. Other things have not changed. In 1980 the business of sound reinforcement was one of proprietary gear, music stores and regional providers having to design and fabricate much of the system. Formal education was limited primarily to the “School of Hard Knocks” from which many of us sucessfully graduated, though not without damage to our egos or psyche.

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