Based on what people I know who saw other shows told me, there wasn’t much repeated between gigs.
There didn’t seem to be any organization.
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During that show (the second set in a five-show run he did at the Walker’s Point club that weekend), the legendary comedian, writer/director, actor, and celebrated subculture figure delighted an intimate audience of about 80 people with a loose “performance” chock full of tales from his vast, varied, and incomparably crazy career that spans 40 years. I still make it out to see comedy from time to time though, and one recent stand-up show helped to remind me of Punky, of the Comedy Stage, and of the time that music and stand-up somehow managed to clumsily exist in tandem at Summerfest.īack in April, I saw the aforementioned Bobcat Goldthwait at The Laughing Tap. Since that afternoon I spent with Wastak, six years have passed, I’ve written thousands of other articles, I’ve recorded hundreds of other interviews, and I’ve found myself-once a voracious consumer of all things stand-up, sketch, and improv-gradually backing away from comedy as the planet quickly became a decidedly less funny/more tragic place to exist. I recall him having a ton of interesting stories and humorous anecdotes from his Comedy Stage tenure, and I was humbled that he took the time to tell me those tales about an extinct and under-publicized stage that managed to brings laughs to a festival known for music. Wastak about that prosperous epoch of Summerfest comedy that long-predates both my move to Milwaukee and my time attending The Big Gig. In the early 2000s, the laughs began to die down as the stand-up presence at Summerfest ground to a halt, which spelled Punky’s departure. Much of that Summerfest stand-up was thanks to David “Punky” Wastak.Īs the longtime stage manager of Summerfest’s so-called “Comedy Stage,” Punky booked an astounding list of comics, such as Jon Stewart, Dave Chappelle, Tracy Morgan, Jay Leno, Louie Anderson, Drew Carey, Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, George Lopez, Frank Caliendo, Emo Philips, Lewis Black, and Bobcat Goldthwait. Yet the fest’s rich comedic past seems to be largely forgotten. However, nowhere near as many people know that for roughly 40 years, Summerfest also used to double as one hell of a comedy festival.Įven when ignoring George Carlin’s infamous 1972 Summerfest arrest after performing his “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” routine, The Big Gig annually offered up an impressive list of comedians who performed on the grounds. That’s no secret to anyone who lives in Milwaukee or, really, anywhere in the Midwest.
What a difference to my Logic 5.5.With hundreds of bands playing on 10 stages (plus a bunch of small side stages) over the course of nine days, Summerfest‘s claim of being “The World’s Largest Music Festival” seems to be accurate. Seems a great way to get into Macs The cpu meter just about shows 1 tiny bar. For my sort of stuff it's blisteringly quick. Is there a way of seeing that info? I believe (but haven't tried yet) that I can jump between markers. I use this a lot in rehearsing the band - to do a chorus again or whatever.) (When I use Logic live I have all the song markers and "dummy, named sequences" across the top to see instantly where I am.
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When I build my small setlist I just have a patch for each song I guess? Now, I'm not interested in playing s/w instruments or effects at all - just playng back my logic songs. I've opened up some sample patches and dragged an audio file in between the ch strips, brought up the playback window and pressed go and got the audio to play. I'm a guitarist and use hardware pedals happily so probaly won't go there. As you say, now I see MS is a way of accessing EXS's, effects etc easily for live usage.
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