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Pranks on band mates

#82
When I was in high school, I played in the pit orchestra for the local community theater in Portland, Oregon.
The reed players once took our mouthpieces and stuck the end into cork grease and put them back in the instuments. We almost blew our eardrums out trying to play the first note. This was rehearsal, so no big deal.
Our response wasn't until the next day because we had to go to the store to get what we needed.
Reed players always lick their reeds before they start playing so they are moist. We just dipped their reeds in cinnamon oil.
 
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#83
Squid-TEGH said:
THANKYOU!!!
I use IRC a lot and one of the channelbots keeps the room "fun" buy uttering weird phrases that have nothing to do with anything. One of which is that^^^!

I even did a search on the internet to find out what grey poupon was, and nothing came up except a load of channel bot quotes :p.
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Grey Poupon is a brand of Dijon mustard. They used to run TV commercials where they would show a guy making a sandwich in the back of a Rolls Royce. They would pull along side another Rolls and the guy would put the window down, look at the guy in the other car and say "Pardon Me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?"
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Kmonk said:
Grey Poupon is a brand of Dijon mustard. They used to run TV commercials where they would show a guy making a sandwich in the back of a Rolls Royce. They would pull along side another Rolls and the guy would put the window down, look at the guy in the other car and say "Pardon Me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?"View attachment 636780
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Yeah I read about that earlier in the thread :D.

To illustrate my example, here is one of the channelbots doing his usual nonsensical random statement making...


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#85
10cc said:
Some bands actually stick around a long time. With that being said there is always some funny stories while out and about. I'd love to hear some funny things that have happened to some of us either on the road or on the stage.

One time I found a old fog machine in a green room and it actually worked so when the guitarist wasn't looking I put it behind his stack and waited till about the third or forth song and triggered it for a second. I nodded at him to take a look at his amp. The smoke was coming up through the gap between the cab and head. Man it looked like he was frying his amp, his face was priceless.

Always had fun with the our light engineer too.
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My band has a terrible tradition of "the tuck." If you've ever seen silence of the lambs you know what the tuck is. It's basically an ongoing joke by the guys to get *** reaction.
 
#86
Nephilymbass said:
...If you've ever seen silence of the lambs you know what the tuck is...
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Slightly tagential...Jason Mewes does a hilarious homage to The Tuck in "Clerks 2". Say what you will about Kevin Smith's films...that little scene made me almost pass out from laughter.

Unattributed trivia: "The idea to have Jason Mewes do his The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dance to "Goodbye Horses" came straight from Mewes who apparently does this on a regular basis to the director."
 
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Once, in a band I was in when I was younger, one of our guitarists was rather feminine looking, (not intentionally, just that way naturally), and us being like 15, we used to give him grief about it. We went to play this one show, and we knew the sound guy, and found out that he had a CD player hooked up for downtime in between bands. We gave him a burned CD with "Dude Looks Like a Lady", and told him any time the guitarist walked on stage during set up, play it loudly just long enough for Steven Tyler's main chorus line. Sound guy loved the idea, and every time the guitarist set foot on the stage, you'd hear "DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY!" blaring through the PA. Finally the guitarist just walked off and wouldn't come back on the stage until time to play, at which point, you guessed it, the sound guy played it again.

In my last band, our singer had a terrible habit of leaning on his mic stand while singing. We wanted him to be active, and even bought a 100 foot mic chord for him so he could move around and no just stand there swaying, since he wasn't a very entertaining person for a front man, despite being a good singer. So one show, we confiscated his mic stand entirely. Brought the stands for miking the amps, but left his at our practice space. We thought it was hilarious, but he nearly quit over it. Oh well.
 
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Kmonk said:
Grey Poupon is a brand of Dijon mustard. They used to run TV commercials where they would show a guy making a sandwich in the back of a Rolls Royce. They would pull along side another Rolls and the guy would put the window down, look at the guy in the other car and say "Pardon Me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?"View attachment 636780
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I finally captured our beloved channelbot being a grey-poupon flavour of random in chat the other night.

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#94
Just recently I attended a BBQ (band members only, no spouses, friends, etc) The idea was to get together in a non studio environment and relax, drink a little, eat a little and try to figure out our next step as a band. We have been struggling as of later - really struggling-with the direction our band needs to go (the ratio of covers to originals being one of the biggest hurdles)
After a short "cocktail hour" we sat and had our meal. Conversations were mostly about the weather, politics, TV shows, sports, etc...nothing relating to the band...yet.
When dinner ended we all grabbed whatever we were drinking (me, ice water and lemon) and sat around a large fire pit (with no fire lit) to get down to the business at hand.
There was a rather lengthy pregnant pause once the chattiness of moving to the backyard from the dinner table subsided.
As we all sat avoiding eye contact I finally started:
"Do you remember that scene from the God Father, the one in the Itailain restaurant, where Michael Corleone comes out of the restroom and is suppose to start blasting away but instead sits back down?"
*nervous laughter from the band*
I continued, "He just sits there looking at the two people he is suppose to have killed by now....a train goes by outside the door, it's as if it is going right through his head, getting louder and louder".
*Yeah,oh that was intense, blah, blah,blah from the band.*
"Well, that's how I feel right now. There's a freaking train in my head and it's getting louder. I should have come into this party "blasting" but instead I sat down"

My next words were, "I'm out."
And with that, I got up and left, flat out quit right then and there.
No joke, no prank. I just quit. I had had enough bull**** and walked out. (grabbed my PA and went home )

yeah, I know that's not what the thread is about but I thought it would make a good entry here anyway.:cool:
 
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Frank Tuesday said:
Driving down I-80 through Nebraska, the guy in the passenger was dozing off. The driver came up on a semi being towed facing backwards.
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He pulled in behind it by about 30 feet, and screamed at the top of his lungs. Passenger woke up staring at the wrong end of a semi, which he assumed was milliseconds away from crushing him. Oh, the sounds that came out of him. I've never heard anyone scream like that since.
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That's mean. Really funny though.
 
#97
Not exactly pranks, but...
A couple weeks ago I was playing live with one band whose singers like to roam free on stage, sometimes joining us in the mid-stage to dance. On that day, I had a bit of flatulence going on, caused by the terrible dinner we had in a previous gig. To help my cause, there was a fog machine right behind me, and a fan right in front of it to spread the haze, and unfortunately, my farts. One of the singers approached us right after I had to release some air, stops immediately and walks to the front stage, looking back at us with a finger covering his nose. Next time he approached us he sniffed the air to make sure nobody had had any accidents.

In the same week, another gig and another band, I just had my IEMs set up during sound check, and was listening to the keyboard at reasonable levels. While setting up my bass, the sound guy jumped on stage and flicked the attenuation switch on the DIs connected to the keyboard, immediately saturating my in-ear volume and blasting my ear drums with some extra 20dB. Everybody stopped and looked at me as I screamed and swore loudly, jumped to the side and turned the volume down on my mixer, laughing after they realized what happened! On the other hand, I need a limiter...
 
#98
Kmonk said:
Grey Poupon is a brand of Dijon mustard. They used to run TV commercials where they would show a guy making a sandwich in the back of a Rolls Royce. They would pull along side another Rolls and the guy would put the window down, look at the guy in the other car and say "Pardon Me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?"View attachment 636780
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Not to necropost, but I was watching Family Guy the other night. All of a sudden, this happened and after laughing hysterically for a few seconds, I thought of this thread :D.

 

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