wait, so are you saying there are 80 year old fish?

Right? I've heard other people sharing that they let the proper people know about things like this and the people never came to get it.

Again, you are correct, as am I.

Correct, but I'm also correct. Cohen paid it, and then trump paid him back. Ultimately trump paid for this out of his own pocket, not with "campaign funds" . People down voting this simple statement of fact... I don't know. Maybe they aren't actually reading this, or haven't been paying attention to how this all worked.

He did use his own money.

I'm a commercial audio installer and ultimately have been able to solve every hum and noise issue I've come across so far. DM me if you're still working on this. I'd prefer doing a phone call to quickly resolve rhis.

I had a similar problem with a roland trigger. If you're still trying to fix this hit me up and I'll explain how to solve this permanently. With the proper wire type and silicone rubber sealant

It's actually pretty easy to get gigs as a drummer. Sure, you're in back, but if do nice work and play well with others, people will want you. It's common for good drummers to be in multiple bands. I am. $100 a night is kind of the unofficial musicians minimum wage. I still do some of that. I've moved up the pay scale a little, but it's hard. I'm typically making about $200 a night. Sometimes on private events and weddings it'll be 300-400. On rare occasions it's 600-700, but that's like once maybe twice a year tops. I still play open mics and private jams for free. I played one today.

I said it as a joke, but honestly, back in the day, I would make money. I'd make $70 to bring and setup a drumset and play with the house band and anyone who came up. That was in 1990 dollars, so like $160 in today's money, which is a sad commentary on erosion of earnings.

I usually tip the open mic host 20% of what I make that night. So, normally, nothing.

Nobody else is answering, so I'll throw this in. I've been very happy with bundled rods (brushes) of dense fiberglass filled plastic. It's kind of brush like. I can get a delicate crispness and articulation that can pass for high hat work. You can also whack them flat against the sound board and get a deeper and sharper bass drum thump than you can get with your hand. Maybe the right kind of brushes could get the sounds to pull it off without cymbals or other things.

Yes. The flight. The rental vehicle. Then not having all my stuff, just an abbreviated set of my stuff. So inefficiencies of making due with what I had and working slower, and then the cost of going to home depot and buying the missing tools and materials I really needed. It depends on the what kind of work you're doing, but it didn't work that well for me. I've done IT work and it was fine to show up with a laptop and small tool kit, but for the kind of installation work I do now, I need all my stuff. Stuff just comes up and I need things that weren't planned on. My arsenal of stuff got built up based on history of needing things to overcome problems. When I try and not bring it all, it just bites me in the ass. I bring the whole kit to every job.

I was in situations where my company tried flying me out instead of paying me to drive my well-packed van. It was always a losing situation. So many hidden costs.

Why do you figure they needed that? I've heard of that for radio broadcast towers.

Listened again. If it's the same part at exactly 2:29, it sounds like simply a held guitar cord that is blended by turning up a fader or volume know and then the drummer comes in with a crash cymbal roll in intensity the crescendo. You could do similar live using a volume pedal, maybe rolling up the volume knob on your guitar would work, but that would change your tone as things would overdrive differently.

Kind of half talking out my ass, but I've heard similar sounds with playing a sound backwards or reverse reverb which is kind of the same thing. In a normal sound with reverb, the original sound is sharp clear and impactful then disseminates into a weaker wash of indistinguishable sounds. When you play that backwards, you get a wash of sounds that crescendos and gets louder and more distinct. I honestly just listened to the clip once, but thats my initial guess. Maybe some synthetic patch that does similar. My bigger question was what time signature(s) that was in. Lol.

It's not just about answering the OPs question. It's also about the several hundreds of people coming through, reading the stories and examining their own journey. This man had a successful journey. His story is relevant.

I did this too. But then transitioned to IT because the money was better. Then when I was financially more secure, went to commercial audio systems installation and then started filling out with more music performance.

People should be able to look at you when you walk in and know you're in the band.

My grandpa "was" the man. He ran a farm by himself at age 13. A quiet and humble badass. He grew up in rural poverty and fishing was entertaining, but more importantly, it was food. And he kept score by the weight he brought home. He'd fish legit if that was working well, but he was know ro spear, net, snag, etc.... he shot northern pike in shallows with a deer rifle. Dynamited a fishing hole on the river. When I knew him, he had clawed his way out of backwoods poverty, but he did have a little trouble shaking old habits.

My grandpa used to catch carp , smoke it, and feed it to all the other fishermen snobs at work who would be horrified to eat a carp. He called it lake trout or something. They loved it. He did a good job with it. He loved watching them eat and love the carp they so despised. He never did fess up and ruin the joke. It went on for years.

There wasn't much I could really do. They all denied it. I had to make the job happen, somehow. There were 6 of them. I had wanted to join the union, and I still think it's a good thing. Mostly.

It was disappointing. I had actually applied to that union in my 20s when I was trying to start out and they ghosted me. I had to find my own way. Now at 50 this guy was complaining they needed more really sharp guys to do more technical work. I was that guy at 20. They blew their chance. I have since had some great experiences with unions, but have also run into other pockets of toxicity.

I was a non union low voltage installer on a union site. It's a very specialty kind of work that involves installing thin copper tape in exact arrays on the floor ( audio frequency induction loops). They of course had no experience in this and couldn't do it. Of course I wasn't allowed to do it either. The compromise was that I would be a consultant and they would do the work. Fine, that works. It was very important that the floor be dust free. So while they were working, I grabbed a broom and started sweeping ahead of them. Their supervisor grabbed the broom out of my hands and started yelling about me stealing bread out of the mouths of his brothers. He started sweeping and pulled in yet another electrician and they furiously sweep the floor. They punked themselves. While I was out of the room, they dumped my kit of electronic test equipment on the floor, breaking my laptop. They denied it. Someone also peed on the passenger seat of my van. I didn't even bother asking if it was them. They eventually tired of doing my job for me and left me in peace to finish myself. At the end of the job, the supervisor asked if I would consider joining their union as they would like to have someone with this expertise. I asked if they would just let me in, as I already knew what I was doing, had years of experience and an electronics degree. No, I would have to quit my $60 an hour job and start my apprenticeship at $15 an hour. It just didn't seem that appealing. Edit: So yes, I actually caused 2 electricians to almost fight me over the right to sweep the floor.

The heavy garbage bags, and a bone saw, and a jug of bleach will solve even more nasty problems.