a forum just for trading horror stories? oh i think i'm gonna spend a lot of time here.
well to jump on the "stupid actors" bandwagon, sorta, i have got to complain about a guy in a band i did sound for this friday. i'm the only sound guy, no assistant or anything, and usually i'm the only employee that's even in the theater itself before a show (they all hide in the
lobby). so i'm up on
stage, setting up the mics for the first band, as usual, and when i come back to the booth i see one of the guys from the other band standing in front of my board pushing up random faders. i ask what he's doing, and he tells me he's trying to figure out how to turn on the music. so he had switched around songs on my
mp3 player (i guess my choice of music was no good for him), and was just pushing up random faders and fooling around with the
gain. this is a digital board..so i can recall the
preset and his changes will go away, but the
gain isn't included in that, so i get real mad when anyone touches my
gain knobs (and it seems everyone does).
of course, without the
power amps on, this guy isn't gonna hear anything. the annoying part was that i just told him 10 minutes ago that we cannot
play any music at all until the movie in the other room was over since the walls are so thin....and he still was trying to get some music playing. and then anytime we had a
changeover and i was up on
stage, i'd see him creeping around back there checking things out. i hate to be so accusatory, but naturally i was a little worried he was scoping out my gear, seeing if it would be worth breaking in to steal. i don't think he was though...i think he was just some stoned musician fascinated by all the pretty lights.
i still cannot figure out why people attempt to do things they aren't supposed to do, or don't know how to do. i've noticed evidence of other people trying to use my sound rig for events that i didn't get hired to do sound for...which naturally makes me mad. ironic...none of them can find the one
button on my rack that turns on everything (except the amps). when i first started working at this place, i didn't even turn on any of the
stage lights until i knew the
system well. of course once i did figure it out, and did turn on anything, the always drunk/stoned TD would get on my case about how only he is allowed to turn on the lights.
whew....that felt good. got 2 more shows this week......so i imagine i'll be back by the weekend, hehe.