Lou Kohley: May 2015

Portland

I like Portland a lot. There is so much coolness happening.

I did a successful geocaching run 4 for 4. Later I went over to Ground Kontrol. A retro arcade with lots of great old games and some killer pinball.

I remember playing Burgertime on the InTelevision. I had no idea there was an actual arcade version.

Simpsons and Pinball? I'm IN!

Gig pic.

A fair stage. Notice the lack of audience. My Rio stagebox shit the bed and I had to repatch the entire console.

Here's the culprit. The board popped out of it's slot while we were getting the cases on stage. I found it rolling around inside while I was checking it out.

I texted Mike about it and we had a nostalgia for analog gear as it was tough. He dropped some wisdom to which I made a meme.

Everyone who texts me be prepared to have this image with various wisdom attached.

LOU

Thanks

I had yet another birthday. (I thought I did this like 12 months ago.)

Mel made a sign out of some stick on letters. She filled in what was missing. I couldn't even tell.

In addition to the texts and emails from the family,
Kate also sent

LOU

The Cone Of Shame

Dae's dog (Mattingly...yes the baseball player) at Mike's house.
He had a gouge in his mouth and needed surgery. He was so pitiful.

LOU

Flowers. She Broke My Heart

I was out walking Phoenix and this girl comes up to us.
She was running around the park by herself. I sent a picture to Paul. He gave me the name Flowers. I wish I could have kept her but Phoenix would not get along with her.

She was so thin. I fed her everything I could. I posted an ad to Craigslist lost and found.
A guy named Walker messaged me and said he found a Dachshund. He offered to take her as I had her on the back porch.

Walker took them both to the shelter the next day. I had two different "owners" contact me the next day. I'm hoping one of them went and got her. She was such a sweety.

Good luck out there Flowers.

LOU

Couch Cats

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Gig Pic

Pink Floyd tribute band at the Deville. This is as close as I'll get to mixing Pink Floyd.
The show was great. I thought it sounded damn good too.

LOU

The Animals

Phoenix hanging in his room.

Miss Kitty sleeping on her chair.

Charlie relaxing in my (his) lap.

LOU

Travis Music Fest

So the base commander at Travis wanted to have a music festival on base. 5 bands with Smashmouth headlining. So it falls to the band audio crew to make it happen.

We needed a lot of gear to make this show go. Here's the audio truck.

My view from monitor beach early in the day.

Here's from FOH.

We put up our "dash" array and a pair of CQ boxes off to the left 4 double 18's in the middle. This rig was killing. I was running 105db A weighted and the subs were vibrating my clothes from FOH. I was told to turn it up even louder.

Any other time I want to keep it reasonable but our rig was topped out. I thought it sounded great.
This was a big audio weekend for me. I setup the PA from 7am until about 3 and then went to mix a punk rock show at the Deville.