A friend of mine was playing a local festival in Milwaukee and getting no cooperation from the sound guys. They asked for a better balance between the guitar/vocals and fiddle and the sound guy said, "no one likes this kind of music anyway." He was wearing a leather jacket with the company's logo -Penetator Souund- on his back. Sounded like the name said it all... I agree that bad gigs make the good ones that much better. Don't lose any sleep about things you can't control.