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Practical Jokes before a gig

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mward69

Jan 20, 2007
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Conyers, GA
#1
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 :rollno:

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 :D

Ok....what say you?
 
#5
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. :)
 
#7
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.
 
#8
mward69 said:
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 :D
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These would probably tick me off pretty badly.

Dont mess with my gear. OR my beer.
 
#9
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.
 
#10
mward69 said:
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 :rollno:

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 :D

Ok....what say you?
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After I read
"* Vaseline on the back of guitards neck"
:rolleyes:
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
 
#11
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.
 

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