Practical Jokes before a gig

[mward69]

Ok, so I started one thread about routines before a gig...let's have some laughs.....
What practical jokes have you played on band-mates, or had played on you? I have done the following

* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck
* Put sardines in the cone of singers mic {he was pissed}
* Put clear glitter on drummers heads
* Loaded up singers IPOD with wham and other cheesy 80's pop songs when we provide house music, Sad thing on that one was the fact alot of the bar crowd liked it

Had done on me
*My bass case was completely wrapped in a whole roll of duct tape with bass inside
* Had cayenne pepper put in beer {very nasty}
* Drummer re-routed my power to a powerstrip by his kit, he had some laugh's in between songs as he turned off my gear and watched me scramble to fix...singer didn't find it too funny as the PA kept popping when he did it. That was actually a good one..I bought the drummer a beer for that one

Ok....what say you?

[Goatee220]

We've distributed 2 different set lists - one for one member, and another (the correct one) to everyone else.

[cableguy]

Put a big slapback type delay on the vocals through the monitors. Singer will think they're having a flashback. FOH won't hear a thing other than the singer being way off time and looking very confused & pissed off.

[mward69]

Originally Posted by cableguy

Put a big slapback type delay on the vocals through the monitors. Singer will think they're having a flashback. FOH won't hear a thing other than the singer being way off time and looking very confused & pissed off.

Oh thats a good one

[mrjim123]

I had a car with a knob that I could use to prevent the passengers from rolling the windows down. I was on my way to a gig with the guitarist and sound man when I passed gas and hit the button. Well, *I* thought it was funny.

[Mulebagger]

Took our rythm guitar player's cable and hid all our other 1/4 cables except a 3 foot one so he was stuck to his amp like fly paper for a set

[Dave Walker]

I work with a vocalist and he always likes to stand right next to a PA stack to hear himself. We fed his Mic through a Delay pedal, sending only the wet signal to the PA. We gradually over the set increased the amount of delay until he began to sweat and feel quite ill, he came off the stage complaining he must be coming down with Flu or something.

[MatticusMania]

Originally Posted by mward69

Ok, so I started one thread about routines before a gig...let's have some laughs.....
What practical jokes have you played on band-mates, or had played on you? I have done the following

* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck
* Put sardines in the cone of singers mic {he was pissed}
*My bass case was completely wrapped in a whole roll of duct tape with bass inside
* Had cayenne pepper put in beer {very nasty}
* Drummer re-routed my power to a powerstrip by his kit, he had some laugh's in between songs as he turned off my gear and watched me scramble to fix...singer didn't find it too funny as the PA kept popping when he did it. That was actually a good one..I bought the drummer a beer for that one

These would probably tick me off pretty badly.

Dont mess with my gear. OR my beer.

[walker rosewood]

IEM's are fun to mess with. I heard a story of a soundguy putting the audio from a porno into the Worship leaders IEM's during a service. He was looking around all disgusted, but the rest of the band couldn't hear what he heard and gave him the 'your crazy' look.

One time with a cover band I randomly picked a guy (the percussionist), turned everything else off in his IEM's and put 'eye of the tiger' in his in ears. He thought the band was playing it, and was confused because its not a song they do. He started playing along with it, in the meantime the band was playing something else.

[Exploiter8]

Originally Posted by mward69

Ok, so I started one thread about routines before a gig...let's have some laughs.....
What practical jokes have you played on band-mates, or had played on you? I have done the following

* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck
* Put sardines in the cone of singers mic {he was pissed}
* Put clear glitter on drummers heads
* Loaded up singers IPOD with wham and other cheesy 80's pop songs when we provide house music, Sad thing on that one was the fact alot of the bar crowd liked it

Had done on me
*My bass case was completely wrapped in a whole roll of duct tape with bass inside
* Had cayenne pepper put in beer {very nasty}
* Drummer re-routed my power to a powerstrip by his kit, he had some laugh's in between songs as he turned off my gear and watched me scramble to fix...singer didn't find it too funny as the PA kept popping when he did it. That was actually a good one..I bought the drummer a beer for that one

Ok....what say you?

After I read
"* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck"

I quit reading in disgust.
I'm surprised you're in a band, let alone have any friends, at all.

Just My Humble Opinion,
Maybe I'm just old,
X8

[Depth_Charge]

One time we were doing a country run and our drummer forgot his cymbals! All of them!! We managed to scramble some together for the gigs, and we were always hiding bits of his kit after that.

At another gig I was introduced to a local. When he hears my name he gives me this really weird confused look, shakes his head and walks off.

Turns out I was the last band member to meet him, and everyone else in the band introduced themselves using my name.

[cableguy]

Originally Posted by Exploiter8

After I read
"* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck"

I quit reading in disgust.
I'm surprised you're in a band, let alone have any friends, at all.

Just My Humble Opinion,
Maybe I'm just old,
X8

At least the thread wasn't practical jokes played on bandmates AFTER the gig when someone passes out.......... That could could just turn sick & wrong real fast.

[JimmyM]

i think there's nothing better than sabotaging your own band onstage.

[Guilherme Goula]

Originally Posted by Jimmy

i think there's nothing better than sabotaging your own band onstage.

Somebody disagrees...


YouTube - The Who My Generation (infamous explosion)

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by Guilherme Goula

Somebody disagrees...


YouTube - The Who My Generation (infamous explosion)

pete said that explosion went a long way to making him deaf. i stand by what i said.

[oldrookie]

Originally Posted by mward69

* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck

I was just surprised he didn't feel your hands on his neck.

[carlos840]

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

These would probably tick me off pretty badly.

Dont mess with my gear. OR my beer.

+1 to that!

I would smack you if you put vaseline on my bass neck!
Vaseline should only be used for one thing! Well, maybe two...

[AltGrendel]

I don't think I'd appreciate any of that.

[mongo2]

I got no time for childish BS like that.

[ToneFreak11]

Replaced the guitarist's Fender Telecaster for an Ibanez, the drummer's drum sticks for normal sticks, the singer's microphone for a pink one and put a tambourine in their cars so that they would listen to its noise during the trip. Oh yeah, long live gig jokes!