> The one time I ever had the chance to see Frank Zappa live, I couldn't > a 
word of what he said intelligably, and I was some kind of pissed. If
 JB> heh heh heh....thats a shame, I got to see him once 
 JB> also, with Flo and Eddie. Fortunately the sound was 
 JB> excellent.
    I still have that 6-71 Mothers Live at the Fillmore East album.  
It's a real goof with Turtles songs by Zappa.  (I was one month from age 14 
then.)  
I got to see him once totally by surprise.  Walking down one of the suite 
floors at the NY Hilton when AES was there, I was staring at signs looking 
for exhibitor rooms, and he was absorbed in a discussion with some very 
straight laced guy in a suit, and we almost collided in the hallway.  
It's good to see things livening up in here.  As to restrictions on time 
setting up a show, I'm reminded of one gig with the Rhode Island Symphony 
Orchestra, a 40+ person choir, and some herald trumpets on a rooftop, 
performing in the center of a town on a Sunday afternoon.  The police imposed 
a 2 hour time limit on setting up a 48 channel sound system, as to any 
aspects of final staging, electronics, or anything else that projected into 
the street from post office steps and sidewalk.  Even the 2 hours they gave 
us was a substantial interuption in a town with heavy returning local and out 
of state beach traffic.  The mixing location was in the middle of a large, 
curved 3-way intersection.  
Some basic test gear was used, but there were a couple of details that 
weren't quite right when the show started (mostly minor, but awkward).  Even 
when the union clock isn't running (we would have been more than willing on 
that event to spend 2 more hours), the option to not meeting a schedule, even 
with slight audio compromises (who was it who forgot to turn on the U-87 
phantom power?) due to "trial by fire" testing, would be no show.  
That 2% rule sounds like an easy schedule by comparison.  
Terry
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