Pepper, I have heard a few bands that actually use that as their style, why I don't know. But if the drummer was on an acoustic set (as I assume he would be) they often have a very difficult time hearing others just from their own noise. Only a decent monitor would be able to fix that problem. Then of course the other issue may be is the sound Tech had no idea what he was doing and just threw some stuff on stage to get some sound going. :D
Yeah, the sound techie was only called to it the day earlier, late in the evening so he was quite unprepared, we only had one monitor for 5 people
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