• Iraq and America • Johnny Lang concert Iraq and America I would like to comment on the article you published on the front page of Thursday’s paper about the GI home from Iraq, talking to students at Hanalei elementary
• Iraq and America
• Johnny Lang concert
Iraq and America
I would like to comment on the article you published on the front page of Thursday’s paper about the GI home from Iraq, talking to students at Hanalei elementary school.
You mentioned that the GIs are in Iraq “protecting America.”
I would like to remind everyone that the United States is the aggressor in that war…Iraq never attacked or threatened to attack us.
There has been no connection made between Iraq and the events of 9-11-01. Iraq was going along with the U.N. weapons inspections prior to the US invasion and since the invasion, no weapons of mass destruction have ever been found…so what are we “protecting America” from?
Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say “protecting the American way of life.” If we can control the middle east, we will be assured (at least temporarily) of an abundant oil supply to feed our thirsty cars, trucks, plastic mills and power plants.
I wish more than anything that all the GIs in Iraq and Afghanistan would be brought safely home and we would develop our own plentiful resources of solar, biomass, wind and ocean power.
These technologies could be shared with the whole world and we could all enjoy a more secure and abundant lifestyle. What are we waiting for?
Johnny Lang concert
In simple terms the volume level need to cause that system to distort due to excessive volume is beyond the threshold of pain, you would have left the building long before any perceived distortion due to volume.
I’m sure your years of experience with your home stereo and car radio qualified you to make a diagnosis and judgment call over an experienced and trained engineer and state of the art sound system. The sound engineer can only work with what he is given and spends most of his time running damage control over things he has no influence over and often cannot even see, people tromping around backstage kicking out wires, human error by the performers, normal failure of components in a complex system, unstable electrical supply, radio frequency interference from anything from radiosto cell phones, budget constraints put in place by the management.
Why are they perceived as being incompetent rather than highly trained as they solve unpredictable and wide ranging problems on the fly in front of thousands of people while trying to mix 30 or 40 inputs into music.
If you hear problems in the sound, its most likely something the engineer is already aware of, has no control over, and has done everything he can to minimize and has moved on to solving other problems you haven’t even perceived yet.
Nearly all concerts on Kaua‘i are done at near zero to negative profit margins out of love for music, Kaua‘i, and its people. Tourism and conventions pay our bills, not local public events, those are a labor of love…well they used to be anyway.
- Seth Wallace
Founder and former owner of Major Show Productions
