anyone have an "endearing"
DMX stories that i can commiserate with/laugh at. i need stories right now...
Endearing? not at the time but funny now -Some years ago I was producing a large scale outdoor "picnic style" Shakespeare show in the grounds of a large manor
house here.
As you may have discovered with these sorts of venues, they are reluctant to have you over long seasons and usually
book other more profitable 'in their eyes' stuff in around you that you have to deal with.
Anyway, so i'm at home and I get a phone
call at 7.30am on one of the
Sunday's we have a show on from the guy we hired our gear from -par cans long
DMX runs, racks, trees
etc. He says "I think you need to get up here - we've got a problem"
So I
take off asap and arrive at the
venue about 20 mins later to find the hire guy sitting between two of the twelve Norfolk Pine trees we had slung our 100 metre (338 feet)
DMX run through - At about 4 meters (13 feet) in the air.
He was holding one end and the other was streched out to buggery and flopping around against the tree trunk.
Huh? I hear you ask - seems the function
load out on the Saturday night saw some idiot try to turn a truck around between the two trees in question - strech the
DMX to the
point of no retun and finally
snap it!
And here's the really scarey
bit - the
driver wasn't going to say ANYTHING! He only did in the end because he is employed sometimes by the hire guy!! (small city is ours)
So - we made do with a lengh of suitably rewired audio lead until we could get a new length of
DMX on the following Monday.
Oh, and testing showed that the streched lead was completely screwed!. Cutting off 1 metre (3
foot) lenghts and testing yeilded 100 or so short lenghts of CLOTHESLINE!!! (no signal ever again)
Like I said - funny story now - but then with 500+ booked in for the
Sunday Show - Svinkter puckering material I can tell ya!