I am a music recording engineer by hobby, and for me it was obvious that some threshold had broken. I was embarrassed for the sound team. (They had flubbed a Jo

I am a music recording engineer by hobby, and for me it was obvious that some threshold had broken. I was embarrassed for the sound team. (They had flubbed a Joan Jett appearance the day before.) I did not expect it to play so bad nationally. A big piece of context missing from the media is that before Dean came on stage, the room was full of the loudest hooting and hollering group of Texans I’ve ever been with. We had all bussed up from Austin to volunteer. So he probably made a tactical error to try to go over the top of the crowd’s energy instead of coming in calming.