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View Poll Results: How to keep other bands sitting in from using your rig?
Tell the owner for third time not to let anyone use it and wander off while the other bands set up. 2 4.55%
Do nothing. People should know better. First 2 times were a fluke. 0 0%
Stick around while other bands set up and make sure nobody uses your amp. 31 70.45%
Other. 11 25.00%
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I just unscrew the fuse from the back of my preamp. Works every time!
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I like to flick the mute switch when I walk of stage the switch is really small.... (I rubbed the lettering off where it said mute too ) It's fun to watch them sweat while they think they broke something expensive.
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For the record I voted no. 1 because I don't think Brad will vote!
We're not against the Electoral College here, I'm sure you faithfully executed your duty....

For the record, I haven't voted yet. Didn't want to prejudice the jury. Besides, still trying to make up my mind... None of those options seems clearly better than the rest....

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OK, it's no mystery why you posted this thread and, while I voted to hang and watch, I'm with Brad on this one. I don't think you get it, possibly because you would plug into someone else's gear without permission. You seem to be defending the reprobates and tortfeasors who actually are to blame for the situation: the owner/manager and the pinhead band members.
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OK, it's no mystery why you posted this thread and, while I voted to hang and watch, I'm with Brad on this one. I don't think you get it, possibly because you would plug into someone else's gear without permission. You seem to be defending the reprobates and tortfeasors who actually are to blame for the situation: the owner/manager and the pinhead band members.
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Munji, not you too!!!! I've always enjoyed your wit and contributions...

The last thing we need is another thread about this!!! LOL

I'd never use someone's stuff without permission. That's icky.

I'll never defend the scum that do nor the bar owners who don't bother doing what they say they are going to do. They're always at fault. They're both scum.

But after getting burned twice you should stop expecting scum to act unscumlike. Yet its still not your fault even now.

But having been burned, twice, THEN given an easy, simple step you can take to avoid the problem altogether, and you simply refuse to lift a finger to protect yourself when your're the only one facing any consequences????. Sorry. That's a clear Darwin violation. Driving without proper self preservation instincts. You just became partly responsible.

Still, I'm not trying to let the scum or the Bar owner off the hook. They're still at fault. But after 2 strikes, Brad's in the bonus round now, he should know better, his portion of blame and the bonus is enough to make him pretty much fully responsible, call it negligence, lack of due diligence whatever. Three strikes you're out. How many times are you gonna run into the same pothole before its on you?

It sounds like a mother that keeps leaving her kids in a crack house (or Micheal Jackson's) unsupervised over and over when suddenly, for the third time, totally out of the blue, something BAD happens!!! They agreed to watch the kids. The crackheads aren't "supposed" to do anything bad to them. (Weren't supposed to do those bad things to the kids the first two times either). Oh, my, not her fault, how could she have known???? Riiiight. They're at fault. She's responsible. Brad's responsible.

What did I tell you when I came out of the bathroom? "Don't go in there, go across the hall". Twice. You go in anyway. The smell is my fault. The fact YOU are smelling it is YOUR fault. I made the bomb. You lit the fuse. You chose to immerse yourself in my s*ituation. Dove in with both feet.

Brad lost his innocence after the 2nd time it happened. Contributory negligence.

WARNING: This rule does NOT apply is if your wife "finds" the toilet seat up in the middle of the night for the third time. I recommend NOT telling her its her own fault for not checking before sitting. Still true though.

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Old 06-20-2005, 08:12 AM
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Q: "Can I use your rig?"
A: "No."

Unless I'm playing it, my rack stays closed. In my experience, people will plug into an amp that's not otherwise occupied - but very few people will crack the seal on a closed-up rack without at least asking around first.

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I'd go ahead and tear it down and put it away. It only takes a few minutes. The only exception would be if I knew a bass player in another band and they had *previously* asked to borrow my rig. For which, they would owe me the beverage of my choice.
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put a sticker on it that seays protected by smith and Wesson on it and leave a box of cables lying around and leave a box of ammo that is missing 6 shells in it. most people shoooood get the point. and if not stick a candy bar in your hand walk up behind then stick it in their back and say "thats some nice gear I have dont F*$K with it."
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another way

Add one circuit and one remote.

Go out into the audience with your new remote and start messing with the volume, the on/off, and really get their goat by changing channels!

I really don't have any more flashbacks, i, uh, ... hey, do YOU see that giant bug there!??!

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I'm like a (good) mother and her children when it comes to me and my rig.
I will defend it with my life from lowlifes even trying to touch it. Anyone I catch playing with it without my permission has just signed his deathwarrant (not that I actually leave my gear out of my sight but hey, nature's call can be quite strong sometimes and I don't wear diapers anymore)
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Add one circuit and one remote.

Go out into the audience with your new remote and start messing with the volume, the on/off, and really get their goat by changing channels!

I really don't have any more flashbacks, i, uh, ... hey, do YOU see that giant bug there!??!

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