Pranking other Bands Thread

vagus · #1 05-04-2009, 10:53 PM

I've done a lot, but I'm sure I haven't done it all.

I have done some in poor taste, and some down right mean - but I'll try to keep them harmless here...

Couple quickies to get the ball rolling...

1. Remove the handles and casters from all the cabs and cases
2. Wire car horn to bands van/bus brake light (i actually keep spare car horns on hand for this

)
3. Ridiculous large bra/panties tossed on stage ( dirty whitey tights from time to time)
4. Play a loop of baby elephant walk through the monitors just loud enough between songs

What do you got?

nsmar4211 · #2 05-05-2009, 06:13 AM

Nothing......if anyone touched my equipment or messed with my show , well

:eyebrow :

The only one I'd find funny is the tossing over oversized underwear on stage....

tom once dead · #3 05-05-2009, 06:27 AM

the ones you've listed sounds f***ing hillarious, especially the underwear

tycobb73 · #4 05-05-2009, 06:30 AM

Having sex with the wife/girlfriend of the guy who tried one of these:

1. Remove the handles and casters from all the cabs and cases
2. Wire car horn to bands van/bus brake light (i actually keep spare car horns on hand for this )
3. Ridiculous large bra/panties tossed on stage ( dirty whitey tights from time to time)
4. Play a loop of baby elephant walk through the monitors just loud enough between songs

theunknowndude · #5 05-05-2009, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by tycobb73

Having sex with the wife/girlfriend of the guy who tried one of these:

1. Remove the handles and casters from all the cabs and cases
2. Wire car horn to bands van/bus brake light (i actually keep spare car horns on hand for this )
3. Ridiculous large bra/panties tossed on stage ( dirty whitey tights from time to time)
4. Play a loop of baby elephant walk through the monitors just loud enough between songs

hahahahaha awesome

Phalex · #6 05-05-2009, 06:39 AM

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Originally Posted by tycobb73

Having sex with the wife/girlfriend of the guy who tried one of these:

1. Remove the handles and casters from all the cabs and cases
2. Wire car horn to bands van/bus brake light (i actually keep spare car horns on hand for this )
3. Ridiculous large bra/panties tossed on stage ( dirty whitey tights from time to time)
4. Play a loop of baby elephant walk through the monitors just loud enough between songs

Your pimp hand is strong Mike!

phatbass · #7 05-05-2009, 06:59 AM

When I used to do live sound, when a vocalist gave me any grief I would be sorely tempted to give him his foldback pitch-shifted a quarter tone flat (courtesy of my trusty ol' Yamaha SPX-90) and watch him go crazy trying to sing in key. Fortunately professionalism won out, but I'd still love to try it one day.

tycobb73 · #8 05-05-2009, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Phalex

Your pimp hand is strong Mike!

Which one? I'm ambidextrious (sp?)

Pullman? · #9 05-05-2009, 11:43 AM

i used to play in a funk band, horns and everything, and me and the drummer got into a row, so i fiddled around with the electronic part of his kit. Every time he hit the snare it made the sound of a cat being hit. mean yes, but the crowd thought it was a great gimmick!

PBass101 · #10 05-05-2009, 11:53 AM

There's nothing funny about any of these. And if my band played a gig with another band whose members screwed around with our gear, they'd either be cut from performing or we'd walk.

Blueszilla · #11 05-05-2009, 12:01 PM

I think they are plenty funny. I might have something to say if they break something. If I don't know them, then totally inappropriate, but otherwise big deal.

And tell me again how you're gonna get the prankster's gal in bed? You must be quite the stud...

RTL · #12 05-05-2009, 01:01 PM

I used to play with a keyboardist who had, to say the least, an over-enthusiastic left hand. Never left me any room. I had talked to him about this constantly, but he just wouldn't have it. Once I realized things weren't going to change, I had informed the band of my intentions to move on, which were met with more than a little hostility, mainly from the keytard. Insults, threats, that sort of thing.. It wasn't pretty.

So, on my "farewell" show, I decided to leave him with a parting gift. You see, he had one of those 300 pound "Workstations" (ie: a fancy sampling synthesizer which he never took the time to learn how to use properly). One of the features on this thing, was the ability to split the two halves of the keyboard into two different instruments. So what did I do?

I had an old disk kicking around from my immature high school days (yes, disk, not disc) full of weird animal noises, cuss words, various moans, groans, and the like. His keyboard had a disk drive on it, so I figured I'd give it a shot and see if I could turn the bottom half of the keyboard into a trigger for the sounds on the disk.

It ended up working perfectly. Every time he'd bring the left hand down, he would fill the room with "F**K--F**K - $H*T - MEOOOOOOOW -- UNNNGH".

It was beautiful. He was absolutely mortified, and he had no idea that anyone had done this on purpose

The best part? Since he never read the owner's manual, he couldn't figure out how to change it back!!

tycobb73 · #13 05-05-2009, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Blueszilla

And tell me again how you're gonna get the prankster's gal in bed? You must be quite the stud...

First of all, you read and learn about sex from a female perspective. Then you have lots of practice. Always make sure they finish first. If they don't finsh you have failed. Then you let the ones you were with brag about you to the ones you will be with.

Phalex · #14 05-05-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by tycobb73

First of all, you read and learn about sex from a female perspective. Then you have lots of practice. Always make sure they finish first. If they don't finsh you have failed. Then you let the ones you were with brag about you to the ones you will be with.

I read about that in a magazine once!

Dear Penthouse:

I never thought that it would happen to me................

vagus · #15 05-05-2009, 01:51 PM

Oh man, quite a few uptight arse wads in the group eh? Sounds like the lot of you need a good pranking to get your egos in check.

None of you are above being screwed with

I tend to keep my pranks from interrupting their performance, but I am not above it if they have it coming.

And if it happened to you pimps and tough guys, there isn't anything you would do except laugh at yourself and plot your sweet revenge.

Blueszilla · #16 05-05-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by tycobb73

First of all, you read and learn about sex from a female perspective. Then you have lots of practice. Always make sure they finish first. If they don't finsh you have failed. Then you let the ones you were with brag about you to the ones you will be with.

Good advice.

I still don't see how this puts you at gate of the man in the boat, whose boyfriend 'pranked' you. While that might be the ultimate response, my point was these 'pranks' are harmless.

Maybe you didn't mean to a hardliner, but I took it that way, my bad. I'm one that has learned to take a joke (wasn't always that way!), so it just seemed like a few were reacting a little severely.

My apologies.

Oh and believe me, I have had way more than my share of 'practice'. I may be old, but I sure as hell ain't dead.

Blueszilla · #17 05-05-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by vagus

And if it happened to you pimps and tough guys, there isn't anything you would do except laugh at yourself and plot your sweet revenge.

That's what I'm talking about. I have a boatload of retaliatory gems that would have me in trouble until 10 years after my funeral.

Joe Nerve · #18 05-05-2009, 02:12 PM

I don't mess with other bands. Don't think it's cool, plus I believe in Kharma.

BUT... one long time ago a band got in my band's face about something (don't remember the details), but one of our guys said, "OK. Let's go buy some cigars." When the band went on we all got up to the front of the stage and had a big fat smokey cigar fest.

Good clean fun.

Smoking ain't allowed around here anymore.

wingnut · #19 05-05-2009, 02:33 PM

Well....here in Vegas, someones gear is like someones significant other...off limits. There was a guy who covered a guitar players cab handles with vaseline. Thought it would be great fun to watch. Yeah, great fun, he just got the cab off the ground and started to take it off the stage. As he stepped forward the thing slipped out of his left hand and dropped to the left. This of course created torque and added weight to the right hand causing the brace of the right handle to break the small bones in his hand. Of course the cab fell to the stage and fell over onto the drummer's kick drum snapping off some of the bolts that hold the ring on and cracking the shell. The culprit was merrily beaten to a sobbing heap. The drummer took his guitar and said he could have it back when he paid for the damage to his kick drum. The kid who broke his hand couldn't play for eight weeks and they had to cancel several gigs. Yeah, real effin' funny...

jgsbass · #20 05-05-2009, 02:33 PM

I was in a band of pranksters. We trashed each other often and creatively on the road. Once we split a bill at a small nightclub on LI. To save space on the stage, we shared equipment using the house bands drumset. After their drummer was an a$$h0<e once too often for our tastes, we decided to retaliate. Their last set involved a drum solo. During our last set, we started to loosen every screw and bolt on the drum hardware so a stiff breeze would collapse the kit. Their drummer started playing, went into his solo and the drums just started to fall apart. Floor tom fell, cymbal stands shrank, the ride tom started to hang. We loved it. We were not asked to come back. No big loss.