On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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Too many to mention. Here's a couple:1. I used to play bass for the band that eventually became The Circus of Horrors. I did a UK tour of every toilet in the country - for no pay, Christ knows what I was thinking of - and on one memorable occasion the paper lids of one of the pyro pots landed on my very-hairsprayed hair, which then caught fire. I played on oblivious, whilst the audienced gawped. "Wot a show - that guy's got his head on fire!"
2. Depping for a mate's band, I got to headline the Marquee club at the height of its glory. I had a brand new effects unit for my bass, and the energetic singer kept jumping on the pedals by mistake. But everything still sounded fine to us.
It wasn't until we heard the playbacks that we realised that I'd played almost the whole gig with the digital delay turned on, resulting in out-of-time bass noises bonging away over everything. We couldn't hear it because the bass didn't go through the foldbacks.
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