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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1184 Location: Rhode Island

Not a big deal, here. It's just my feeling on it and one thing I know for sure about SL is that no-one knows for sure what 'live' really means - lol
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Fyrm Fouroux · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject:

This is kind of interesting. We've more or less got a gender split, with the girls being sensible and nurturant (some might almost say a tad maternal).

The lads, on the other hand, seem much more foolhardily up for it. Under the circumstances, I've decided not to take up Jo's kind offer to cancel the show and, like Silas, DD and Zak, I shall sing on regardless. But I might take Silas's advice and slip in the occasional canned number if I need to go refill the hot toddy. Wink

Indeed, I have just assembled my toddy ingredients downstairs in the kitchen, ready for the show: whisky, lemons, honey, whisky, whisky, whisky.... Should just about do it, I think.
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Zak Claxton · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2008 Location: Podul/33/243/154/

If it matters at all, in retrospect, I was stupid for soldiering on with pneumonia. I wouldn't do it again.
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ticious · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 2085 Location: Chicago

/me nods, yes, Zak. That matters. It's very much to the point that I was getting at that you're better off to stop performing and get the rest you need. It's better for your voice and it's better for YOU. You ended up cancelling, what? Two weeks, a month, worth of shows?

Now, Fyrm IS talking about a head cold, not pnuemonia, but hey, lots of cases of pnuemonia start out as stubborn head colds such as the one you're describing, Fyrm.
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ticious · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 2085 Location: Chicago

BTW, I think this post is misclassified. Instead of being inlcuded in the topic "Performing LIVE in SL", shouldn't it be "Performing HALF DEAD in SL"?
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Silas Scarborough · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 1184 Location: Rhode Island

Fyrm, I'm guessing you're prob'ly half in the bag by now but I was misunderstood I bit. I just keep on because it won't make my problem any worse; the bones are already busted. In your situation, you may very well make it worse. I've successfully parlayed a cold into six weeks or so of bronchitis of such radical coughing that the only way they could break the cycle was with truckloads of steroids. Being an ironman hardly ever impresses the chicks and it prob'ly won't do you any good either. You've got the first part together with the whiskey but the second part is pulling a comforter over you and checking out for about twelve hours. If the world still sucks when you wake up, repeat! lol
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Zak Claxton · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2008 Location: Podul/33/243/154/

ticious · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 2085 Location: Chicago

Zak Claxton · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2008 Location: Podul/33/243/154/

You know, that's part of the problem: I really didn't sound that bad. I record every show, as do several of us, and when I listen to those mid-December shows, other than sounding a little less perky than I usually do, my voice was okay. Not perfect, mind you, but okay. Maybe a few extra coughs between songs, but that's all. Therefore, I was still able to bring a good show to the people.

So that's part of how I deluded myself into believing it was cool to perform.

Your second point (people really do die from things like pneumonia if they don't get rest and relaxation) is right on the money, though. And that's why I won't be being Mister Superman anymore if something like that pops up again.
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