The first thing that was noticable for me was that the orginazation wasn't as good as I thought it would be. The first three years of 80 DB when I was a student at Laar en Berg was visited by me. From a specators point of view it seemed a very organized event, as technical and other difficulties seemed unnoticable. However this 80 DB I experienced the stress that occured most of the time behind the scenes. I think that this stress was mainly caused by the nerves and the small room for the contestants or players. It didn't seem to matter, because everything went ok, but I sure was sweating like a dog sometimes running through the narrow and packed hallways for two songs that that required different types of guitars. which leads me to the second limitation.
I, as a guitar player, needed to bring two types of guitars: semi acoustic and electric. I didn't think it would be such of a bad thing, but it turned out that there were only liek 5 stations on stage to put your guitars. The first five guitarists coudl just keep it on stage. But the unlucky ones (me) had to bring them to the stage and return them every time. Especially for me this was a pain in the back with carrying both guitars at a certain moment to the stage while the hallways were packed.
Though I do not remember 80 DB as a negative experience. 80 DB was very fun to do, the songs list was allright and I played around 8 of them. Next to that the crowd was also pretty active. But the factor that made 80 DB so enjoyable for me was the people that were playing. We were playing with a very close group and we were all friends so that was great.
Overall 80 db was a lot of fun, and I'm sure to play again for sure next year and maybe try to sneak a little solo in somewhere.
PS: Andrew and I already have plans for 80 db next year, this awesome song by chriss cornell
xx
Jelle Hin t4a
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