I no longer need to learn from Al Schmitt on Mic'ng!

My great uncle was Mike Mancini was the manager for Duke Ellington Orchestra. I remember before he died, he would tell me all these stories, about life on the road with the band, people he met, working with just about every big name there was, all this crazy stuff, it was what started my life in music. He owned a little music store across the street from the local highschool in the town I grew up in his late years, everyday after school I would go over and help clean up, lift things for him whatever he needed, but we would always sit and talk for a few hours everyday about music. There was one time, I don't know why I remember this, but he was talking about this engineer, named Al, and he would talk about how Al would scramble around the Orchestra moving things... putting his ear right beside horned instruments, and he said when they would go into the control room after he'd done all this the sound that came out when the orchestra played sounded like you were sitting in a theater listening to a movie score. Sometimes, I honestly think that some parts of this business simply can't be taught or emulated, some of it is just being able to process all those different placements in your mind kind of like an arranger does with instruments in a score. IMO I don't believe there will ever be another Al or an app to do the things he could do.

Sorry for the ramble, but I just remembered that story and at the time I had no idea who the heck Al Schmitt was, and I just remembered that little story. What was crazy, Uncle Mike had shelves from the floor to the ceiling filled with these extremely old Saxophones, trumpets, violins, guitar amps, guitars, you name it, if it was in that room you better believe it's age wasn't above the 70's. No one had any idea that was all in there but me...... I came really close to getting an old Fender Bassman from him once, but he told me I was too young to own an amp like that

Jesus, how lazy is society when the guy who sits in a chair all day can't be arsed to move the f*cking microphone?

Where is my self chewing McBurger? God, this super sized coke is so heavy.