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Anyone Ever Set a Band Leader on Fire?

#23
No.

But I have caught fire. Twice.

Playing guitar in a band. Bouncing around like a jackass. Long hair got pinned/stuck into a par light on the side of a stage. Wasn't sure if I was more scared of my hair being on fire or the beer being dumped on me next to all the electrical stuff. Not to mention the smell. Good lord, burnt hair smells SOOOO nasty.

Second time my shirt caught fire from some stage pyro.

Yeah, eventually I learned to breathe fire as well. Now excuse me I have to go play with a lighter.
 
#32
No, but some occasional electroshock therapy helps keep them in line.

A couple of items on the band member wish list

1. A remote switch that changes the BL's microphone polarity on demand. A Taser feature to adjust voltage would be a plus.

2. The invisible fence pedal; for those times when the BL won't let you enjoy a few seconds of limelight. You try to train them but they still feel the need to lean on you, pretend to play along or just do something to draw attention to themselves. Now, as you get ready to step out, hit the pedal and enjoy your uninterrupted moment in the sun. (the Green Mile pedal comes with speed, intensity and fried chicken control knobs)

They may not catch fire but they could smoke a bit :D
 
#33
No but we did set 2 school auditorium stages on fire, once with home made pyro and once with a flaming sword i was using to trash an amp, who knew tolex would go up like that , great effect , but the guys who hired us on both occasions damn near had an anuerism
 
#37
Casting Thunder said:
same auditorium?
Click to expand...

no , two separate schools, we used to play a lot of community association youth dances and shows in the 80's, we used fire quite a bit (i learned fire blowing in high school so we put it in the stage show) i decided to branch out into more and it kinda backfired (pun intended). The amp was a blown up silvertone half stack with the speakers removed. My folks had been after me to get it out of the house for ages so i decided to give it a Viking funeral. My buddy had given me a sword so I smeared it with a mixture of sterno and kerosene, which by the by makes for a great napalm substitute. the first few hacks with the sword went off swimmingly, real dramatic damage, then I decided to run the tolex through and WOOOOOF it went up like a grass hut. we kinda overlooked a fire extinguisher and our sound guy went on a frantic hunt, but the music didnt stop. He finally made it back and put out the half stack inferno. the organizers were going to pull the plug on us ( the stage floor had tolex and vinyl cover melted into it and scorch marks all over) but they feared what would happen if they cut us with 200 or so teenagers right into the show and cheering like crazy. we did end up getting paid for the show and still played a few more for that organizer ( whose insurance covered the dammage) but he made us sign a rider that no pyro was to be used again.

second time was a high school dance , I had just discovered flash paper but it did not quite give the effect we were looking for ( a lot of smoke and small flash , not much flame or color. So me being me, decided to add black powder, copper filing and iron filing to the mix. Show up to this point was going good and we were playing Helix's rock you and we had the pyro set up so the sound guy would throw separate switches during the drum beat on the "GIMME AN R..BOOM..O..BOOM C..BOOM K..BOOM what you gonna do.. ROCK YOU.. BOOM last 6 pots explode. It had worked great when we made the rig , but somewhere along the way a short had developed or a wire broke and got crossed because when the sound guy hit the first switch ALL 10 pots went up and i must have hot loaded the black powder because we were confronted with a 12 foot wall of flame and a Schmidt ton of smoke , it filled the auditorium. No reall damage done this time , save for a few pock marks left on the stage from the iron filings. they had to evac the place and air it out . They did allow us to continue after that and we did get paid, but we never did play that school again for some odd reason.

Kids loved it , but the adults not so much, we decided to nix the pyro after that, I did do the fire blowing thing after that but it wasn't quite the same, and I don't have the cajones or the lack of intelligence these days to do any of that again lol.

made for some great memories for us and for the kids at the shows ( I still have people come up and talk to me and ask if I was playing in the band when such and such was on fire or exploded, 30 YEARS LATER lol)
 
#38
Kinda, but i did have a special pan that i filled with barbecue fluid and set on fire at shows.

set it on fire right under a fire sprinkler, and nothing happened.
weeew lucky. owner was trippin because the system was not working.

use to set my cymbals on fire when i played drums. One night decided to fill my drum heads with a gallon of water to make water splash everywhere for a big drum roll intro for the first song.

the bass player refused to start playing because he thought it was lighter fluid....your gonna kill us all man!!!. cause it was really drippin everywhere. i was screaming over the feedback nooo noo its just water. i was getting mad because the water was vibrating of the heads and was going to ruin the effect if they did not hurry up.

guess they thought i was insane no way i would light up that much fluid.

that night the show was packed for cinco de mayo
there was a riot outside and when we left the show there was a car turned over and set on fire. crazy year
 

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