Black Out Day?
lambert
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I was wondering if anyone was planning on celebrating this. My uncle told me about it a couple weeks ago and it entailed shutting off your electricity for an hour or two in the evening at a set time to help conserve what would potentially be a large amount of electricity equaling monetary millions.He was kind of shook that I hadn't heard about it. Is it a strictly Canadian thing? Anyone throwing a "Black Out" party?
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A.M. or P.M.?
Edit: I'm an idiot. Disregard that.
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I am in a band which is playing a show at a decent-sized theater at 8pm on March 29. Damn if I am going to cut the juice to my amp or my guitar will be drowned out by the trombone and drums (selfish)*. Also I feel if the theater were submerged into total darkness that the crowd might panic and people would get hurt.
If I were going to be at home at this time I would totally go dark but woulda shoulda coulda you know.
*Buddy Rich:
"You afraid you won't be heard? Everybody can hear your fuckin' clams out there. You don't need a mike for that. You're takin' up too much fuckin' time blowin' what? Shit!! You stand out here all night tryin' to blow your fuckin' brains out; when it comes time to play, what do you play? Clams!!"
I know it's asking too much, but I wish the whole city was getting the plug pulled (not hospitals, etc.)...the city was so amazing when we had that black-out a few summers ago. It's only for one hour!