*** Quoting Terry Smith to Joe Beels dated 10-22-96 ***
> 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.  
> 
Sounds like a punch list would have helped your situation.
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