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08-27-2007, 06:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Secret Service gives me &%$# !!!
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Today I played a fund raiser for a person running for President. I don't want to get political, but let's just say the Secret Service was there. I was told to get there at 4PM. I show up at 3:45 and get in the line to get in. This was after carrying my gig bag and pedal board 1/4 mile plus. (parking sucked) So I tell the people at the door I'm with the band and they tell me that the band is already playing. I say I'm with the second act and I'm told there isn't one. Now I know the rest of my band is already inside, because they called me and told me they just got their picture taken with the VIP. So I stand at the door for 35min while they check things out. As you can imagine, by this time I'm pissed. No make that extremely pissed. A woman then walks up to me and tells me that she checked it out and I'm supposed to go bring my stuff to the band room. (dressing room) I half heartedly say thanks and make my way through a wall of people to try to get to the stage area. I'm 10ft away and a SS agent stops me and asks where I am going. I say to the dressing room and he says no your not, you have to wait. He then tells me with a smirk "Next time why don't you get yourself here on time" Finally I have reached my boiling point and reply, "What is your problem, and why are you giving me %$&@!!!!!!!" I say to myself I've had enough and make my way back towards the door to leave. The woman that was in charge stops me and pleads with me to stay. By this time my band is on stage and I'm in the back of the room with no way to get up there. Reluctantly I give it another shot and try the other side of the room. After 10 min, I'm up there. Just then the VIP is escorted out the back door and the remaining 600 people leave out the front. We play 5 tunes to a handful of people and call it a night. Was this just a bad dream?????? 
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08-27-2007, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | ouch....sounds crappy. |
08-27-2007, 08:05 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | | They have a file on you now, bud. Believe it. You better watch yourself from here on out. See that sedan with the shaded windows, parked across the street? Sshh, you didn't hear it from me!
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08-27-2007, 08:13 PM
| | TB's resident Rush freak | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | I've dealt with the Secret Service a lot as a sound engineer. Most of them are decent folks, but as with any law enforcement agency there are certainly a few power-tripping morons. Sounds like you had the latter, and they are a royal pain in the butt when they have that amount of power.
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08-27-2007, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: WI | | | I love the Secret Service. The FBI too. And the CIA. Did I mention the DEA. I love them all. All of them. Can you guys see how much I love you?
Now quit watching my damn house.
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08-27-2007, 10:36 PM
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08-27-2007, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nashville, Tennessee | | | I'd have to think that either you caught someone on a bad day, or (for some reason) you got on their bad side... I've done a few shows where the Secret Service was working, and I've never had anything like you're describing happen to me or any of the other folks I was playing with.
Umm, I should make one other suggestion - be polite to people carrying guns. It doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong (and really, it doesn't matter if they're law enforcement, private security, or deranged bikers or rap singers) - if they're armed, be nice to them.
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08-27-2007, 11:51 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonny B I love the Secret Service. The FBI too. And the CIA. Did I mention the DEA. I love them all. All of them. Can you guys see how much I love you?
Now quit watching my damn house. | All that love is for nothing if you don't love the IRS.
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08-27-2007, 11:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Bay Area | | Just because your paranoid.....don't mean they are not after you. 
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08-28-2007, 12:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho | | | Yeah, political stuff can be a nightmare. I did gig once where not only did we have to all pass background checks, but once we arrived on site I had to load all the equipment into a pile outside the loading dock (I was also providing FOH and monitors as well as a modest backline) and let the bomb dogs have a go at it. It all went well as I allowed plenty of time for all the unforseen delays. After all it takes forever to get your tax refund, why should this be any different? |
08-28-2007, 01:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazylion They have a file on you now, bud. Believe it. You better watch yourself from here on out. See that sedan with the shaded windows, parked across the street? Sshh, you didn't hear it from me! | Doubt it highly. Hell they didn't even know who I was. Without going into detail, the security there sucked in my opinion. Come to find out, the reason everyone else got in so easy, was they walked in the back stage entrance. If you knew who the VIP was, well, let's just say I would have expected security to be WAY, WAY tighter.
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08-28-2007, 01:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Martin Umm, I should make one other suggestion - be polite to people carrying guns. It doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong (and really, it doesn't matter if they're law enforcement, private security, or deranged bikers or rap singers) - if they're armed, be nice to them. | Having a license to carry does not give you license to be an asshat. 
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08-28-2007, 06:44 AM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Ziarko Doubt it highly. Hell they didn't even know who I was. Without going into detail, the security there sucked in my opinion. Not once did ANYONE look into my gig bag or pedal board case. Come to find out, the reason everyone else got in so easy, was they walked in the back stage entrance and NO ONE searched their stuff either. If you knew who the VIP was, well, let's just say I would have expected security to be WAY, WAY tighter. | Did they confiscate your sense of humor, too? I believe that post was probably a joke.
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08-28-2007, 06:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | So who was the VIP? |
08-28-2007, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by xgabriele So who was the VIP? | I'm going to guess . . . http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...0338/1002/NEWS
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08-28-2007, 07:14 AM
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08-28-2007, 07:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nashville, Tennessee | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Ziarko Having a license to carry does not give you license to be an asshat. | No, it doesn't. But - it doesn't matter who's right or wrong when you're the one who's bleeding....
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08-28-2007, 07:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The Great White North | | | hahaha, that sucks dude.
I would probably have said something extremely dumb that would have gotten me tackled. Sounds like you did the only thing you could do.
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08-28-2007, 07:39 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | Ahhhh, another facet of law enforcement at it's finest. 
People on a power trip make me want to puke, and speaking solely about the area I live in, that's essentially every douchebag that wears a uniform.
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08-28-2007, 07:45 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | | Sounds like suckage, mon frere.
Least you didn't get shot.
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