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10-27-2009, 05:05 PM
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My band is playing a show on Halloween, it's an outdoor gig in a field behind this guys house. He's throwing a huge party and likes metal. My band plays first and then another local metal band and then they've hired some DJ to play at the end of the night. This guy has spent a lot of money on this party and is paying us pretty well so we want to pull all the stops and put on an epic performance. My band is already known for being a little over the top, we're always very animated on stage and tend to be very interactive with the audience. We've pulled some pretty crazy stunts in the past but we want to take it up a notch for this show.
Any one have any ideas for some really outrageous stage antics? Remember, it's out doors, there's going to be a lot of people and the idea is to blow people away. The more grandiose the better.
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10-27-2009, 05:13 PM
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10-27-2009, 05:31 PM
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10-27-2009, 05:34 PM
|  | mercenary mathematician | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Philadelphia | | | Load up some pumpkins with some explosives and blow them up. |
10-27-2009, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by kander  Load up some pumpkins with some explosives and blow them up. | +1 |
10-27-2009, 05:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Winston Salem, NC | | | oh, go look at some of the GWAR or Alice Cooper antics- plenty of ideas, there. Or get some blood spliffs- those things they use in the movies to simulate getting shot.
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10-27-2009, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by azureblue get some blood spliffs- those things they use in the movies to simulate getting shot. | "squibs" ...spliffs are something else... trust me
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10-27-2009, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Sharko "squibs" ...spliffs are something else... trust me | HAHAHAHA
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10-27-2009, 06:35 PM
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10-27-2009, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by kander Load up some pumpkins with some explosives and blow them up. | Just talked to my band about this suggestion. We're going to do it.
We have explosives already, we're going to go get some pumpkins the day before the show.
Any more suggestions?
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10-27-2009, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by yem A bloody spliff sounds over the top. | a SQUIB! ...if your spliff has blood in it you've really done something wrong
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10-27-2009, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Sharko a SQUIB! ...if your spliff has blood in it you've really done something wrong | No, he's right, that would be over the top. It sounds perfect, smoking blood would be hardcore!
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10-27-2009, 11:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Campbell, KaliFornia | | | I got a suggestion. Practice blowing up a few pumpkins BEFORE the show. Pete Townsend lost part of his hearing to a stage explosion that was pumped up by both Keith Moon and a stage hand, though neither knew what the other was up to.
You don't want to turn the pumpkin into shrapnel, now do you?
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10-27-2009, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by guitar ed I got a suggestion. Practice blowing up a few pumpkins BEFORE the show. Pete Townsend lost part of his hearing to a stage explosion that was pumped up by both Keith Moon and a stage hand, though neither knew what the other was up to.
You don't want to turn the pumpkin into shrapnel, now do you?
edg | +1. Also, if you have one, smash an instrument onstage.  That is NEVER forgotten.
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10-27-2009, 11:29 PM
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10-27-2009, 11:57 PM
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In theory, it's really simple. Hold the liquor in your mouth, get a flame, spit and (IMPORTANT) keep exhaling until it's all gone.
I've never tried it but I really, really want to. It's dirt cheap and apparently simple. Every time I bring it up, though, somebody goes nuts about how I'll screw it up and burn my lungs. I think they're full of crap, but they've always been able to talk me out of trying.
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10-28-2009, 12:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Think along the lines of Jason vs. Freddy and just massacre the entire crowd...let the cops figure that one out.
Probably as over the top as you can go. Yeah, it's a little extreme but it's Halloween, right? |
10-28-2009, 07:15 AM
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10-28-2009, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: dayton Ohio | | | Think of a few little things that will help set off anything you do that's going to be over the top.
Add a fog machine and strobe lights into your show.
That makes anything over the top look much better.
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10-28-2009, 07:36 AM
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