That's what ya get when ya put too many cooks on the same pot of soup. Every time you set up a bands rig you have to know what the booth is giving you. You should have never been left hanging on a system hookup.

I was at Pigeon Forge one time listening to a very popular old timey trio. Forget their name now, couldn't have been too popular I guess. Heh. It was an old barn made in to a small venue. They do a quick sound check and I hear this low ringing fading in and out. I'm watching the sound guy, and halfway through the first song he walks out of the building. By the third song the ringing was so bad people started leaving and the sound guy was nowhere to be found. Never saw him come back in, and we left by the end of the 4th song because it was so bad. I told the wife I was going to go up and fix it and she freaked out and told me to sit down and shush. She doesn't like it when I make a scene.

There's something about sound guys. Reminds me of a scene in the movie Groundhog's Day. The camera guy is putting the moves on a babe at the bar. He says, "People think all I do is point the camera and shoot ..." as the girl nods her head yes and kinda shrugs her shoulders as she's sipping her drink and ignoring him. Then he finishes his sentence, "... but it's so much more than that." LOL!

I was in a band with a guy who was in a group that was all family before he hooked up with us. They were very popular in North Jersey, for the life of me I don't know why though. LOL! They didn't speak to each other for years when they split up because the lead singers husband (husband was the outsider) took the sound board and Elvis costume. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! True story! The argument was, even though the husband owned the Elvis costume (white jump suite with sequins LOL) the other lead singer (male) wore it and he felt he should get it because it didn't even fit the guy that took it, and even though the husband owned the sound board too, he could never figure out how to use it and the guy who ran it, which was also the other lead singer who wore the Elvis costume, felt he earned the right to take it because he wasn't paid extra to be the sound guy on top of the Elvis impersonator. LOL!! Good times man, good times. All true. Can't make this stuff up.

On a side note, I dated the lead singer after she split from her hubby, or there-abouts. ;) Oh my she was a lot of fun. Oh yeah, maybe that's why they were so popular.

Mike you didn't wear your Elvis costume did you?

No, but I have helped dress up a Senator in one... in a public bathroom... for a shoot where he was doing a gag for a fun times story we were doing.

A couple years later I worked with the same Senator, who was now Senate President and my client du'jour took great pains to coach me on how I was too address and speak to a V.I.P. such as a Senator. I was just some hired help. It's all true. I understood where the client was coming from.

Said Senator walks up to our location set and I step up and modestly put out my hand in greeting, then I let loose a low rumbling "hello ELLLLLLLvisssssssssss!!!" and the the V.I.P and I had ourselves a big ol barrel belly laugh while the client looked at us like we were crazy.

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Good times!

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