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08-09-2008, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tyneside, UK | | | I have an idea for a drumming stunt- how to pull it off?
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I've had this idea for a while.
Basically I want to wait until I am gigging and then before a gig fill the drumkit with gunpowder or some sort of explosive charge.
Then at the finale of the song I would drum the final beats of the song and then set alight the charges, creating pretty pyrotechnics.
Anyone know whether this is possible? How could I do it?
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08-09-2008, 05:45 PM
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08-09-2008, 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Keith Moon. |
Awwwwwwwwwww...he stole my idea!
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08-09-2008, 06:57 PM
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08-09-2008, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings Only fifty years ago. |
I still want to do it........then if I have any arms attached after doing it I will post the story on Talkbass.
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08-09-2008, 07:19 PM
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08-09-2008, 07:22 PM
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08-10-2008, 12:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Indiana | | | Yeah Moon did it and took out Townshend's hearing lol. But I heard that was because he put in a lot more than he should have...
I'm sure you could find out how if you looked around online or something.
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08-10-2008, 12:42 AM
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08-10-2008, 12:49 AM
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08-10-2008, 01:23 AM
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08-10-2008, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till |
*shudder*
Maybe an outside gig then??
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08-11-2008, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by RedSubway Yeah Moon did it and took out Townshend's hearing lol. But I heard that was because he put in a lot more than he should have...
I'm sure you could find out how if you looked around online or something. | The story as I'd heard it back in the day was that Moon was hanging with the technician who was loading the pyro cartridge in the kick drum and giving him multiple nips from a hip flask ---IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE: DON'T WORK WITH EXPLOSIVES WHILE BEING GIVEN ALCOHOL BY ROCK STARS--- so he go tthe tech to WAY overload the charge, but he maybe didn't know that. And he saw where the tech put the gunpowder and got some omore on his own and further overloaded it, thinking it would make a great pyro effect. In stead it made sort of a drum grenade and Rock and Roll history.
Didn't he sever a major blood vessel in his arm with part of a cymbal? Or is that just urban legend?
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08-11-2008, 05:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht *shudder*
Maybe an outside gig then?? |
Regardless, if you really feel like doing something like this: Be BEYOND careful. I don't know if you watched The Who performance mentioned earlier on Youtube, but even that got a little out of hand with the addition of too much of the explosive. Regardless of whether cymbals did perhaps sever anything, it is true that Pete was deaf in one ear after that. My hearing is bad too, but I know if one ear is CLOGGED it drives me bonkers, to be permanently deaf in one ear... damn.
I would advise not doing it, but if your heart is set on it, seriously... verrrrrrrrrrry careful.
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08-11-2008, 01:35 PM
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08-11-2008, 01:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | I'd say go for it, I'd love to hear about this massive epic fail on the International news  |
08-11-2008, 01:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | There is no way I can express what a BAD idea this is. it has tremendous potential to get people hurt or killed.
And specifically, DO NOT USE GUNPOWDER in any form. it is an explosive and its effects are not predictable except by experts. It also can leave powder burns which penetrate the skin and last for life.
If you felt like hooking up some firecrackers a safe distance behind the drum set - OUTSIDE - and letting them go off as you finished a number, that's different. (Although you could get arrested if they're not legal in your area.) But be prepared for the potential for someone to panic at what they might perceive as gunshots. You could get people hurt just from that panic.
There is 'way too much downside to this idea!!
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