We did a gig at a meeting of the national association of summer session executives (one of our members is a past president) and were greatly pleased by the fact that the hotel provided a great sound system with an engineer: it was a disaster. We spent a half hour or so with the engineer setting the balances of nine microphones, five vocal and four instrumental--and promised to make a tape for us. We thought while we were playing that we weren't getting a whole lot of attention, but--after all, we were just background music for a cocktail party so we didn't think too much of it, until we got the tape: It sounded as if there were microphones in the crowd--on the tape we were definitely background, deep background.

--seed