#soundperson
Tonight’s soundperson
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Me every time the soundperson tells me to turn down my amps
I just love loud guitars so much.
March 3, 2026 at 8:04 PM
June 1989, East Village, NYC, My Bloody Valentine. MBV were on short US tour, & took J. Mascis along as their FOH soundperson. The shows were LOUD, even by MBV standards😲📸Pat Blashill
May 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
For the record, I would prefer to live entirely without a car, but if I’ve gotta use one sometimes, I want it to be electric and fit a couple cellos, some merch and a soundperson.
June 8, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Whenever the soundperson is on stage during Burn Bright
February 23, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Thanks to everyone who came out to see Bitchin Bajas and Eli Winter & Tyler Damon at B-Side last night! What a fantastic show. Special thanks to the artists, our hosts at B-Side, our excellent soundperson Rachel Meirs, Tim Furnish for the poster and ticket design, Surface Noise, and Kris Abplanalp.
September 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nobel Prize to every soundperson who says “You guys know what you’re supposed to sound like”
April 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Master electronic musician William Basinski played a scintillating set at the cavernous Knockdown Center last night. Then, when he was done, he had the soundperson crank Counting Crows' "Spaceman in Tulsa." The place cleared out in a trice.
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Now the music this soundperson played between bands, would you describe it as “10 times louder than it should be”?
March 4, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Claire is Claire Shearsby, who went from F Club DJ to a career as a soundperson for various bands. She was something of a pioneer in a male dominated profession
April 11, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I only remember making this happen a few times. Once at Olympia's Voyeur w/ Glass Goblins, once at Rain City Rock Camp w/ Trash Panda Go Kart. You need the right soundperson (or ideally none) & the right space & the right number of people etc...

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May 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Bass player: [completely overpowers the room]

Soundperson: Hey, you’re completely taking over the room, come down to about half that level.

Bass player: [doesn’t]

And that’s how the story of The Inaudible Vocals began and ended.
November 17, 2024 at 4:02 AM
a drummer named tom
a soundperson named mike
December 31, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Got laid off from my coding job after contracts with the federal government were cancelled by Billionaire Dipshit.

Lemme know if you need a record mixed or are a legacy Indie Rock band in need of an FOH soundperson.

Or if you need a javascript coder.
February 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Somehow Devo escaped the Congress Theater curse. They sounded.... completely wrong. The guitars were mixed louder than the synths which I feel has to be an indictment of the soundperson and not the room or the system. But they overcame it by being so good at Devo-ing.
May 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM
It's gotten a lot better tbh, espcially if it's relatively full. Also sound has a lot to do with the band's soundperson than the venue. There's some decent metered parking on second Avenue between 4th and 3rd Strrets that I use when there is no event at Target Field or Target Center.
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
And finally, in two weeks, I will be playing this hilariously mismatched night at the Monkey House, where I will be playing a death industrial set opening for a solo indie power pop act and a venerable pre-Nirvana punk rock band from Olympia Washington. I expect the soundperson to be... unhappy.
February 20, 2026 at 3:56 AM
appreciate you. our longtime bud and former soundperson is putting on that show. he's in the coffee biz now and i promise that show will be wired af
February 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Bass player: [brings 8-speaker double stack to small bowling alley lounge gig]

Soundperson: How loud are you planning to get with that? The louder the amps, the shittier the vocals.

Bass player: Oh, not that loud. Just let me know if I’m too loud and I’ll do whatever you need.

(Cont below)
November 17, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Stereophonics in a small club, when I was a soundperson.

The band tech made use of every db of that system. Only time I've ever been scared as a tech. I could feel the sound in my hair.
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM