waynehoskins
Active Member
I have a light in the shop labeled "bad, dancer kicked it off stage during LA show"....
Well it is well labeled, i am just not to happy about it......
I thought it was funny. And useful. It doesn't tell you about what particular item(s) inside it is in need of repair or replacement, but it tells you about the nature of what caused the damage. And since this is a road or rental unit, the guy who finds it dead offstage doesn't have much chance to open it up and check it out (especially if it's a mover). The note for the bench tech (that the dancer kicked it off stage) tells the guy that it needs to be opened up and checked out from front to back (especially if it's a mover, which I'd guess it to be).
If I'm out doing a show, I don't care much exactly why a light doesn't work. I just care that it doesn't work, and that to get the show up I had to use one of the spares because this one doesn't work. If I have time, I'll open the thing up to find out why it doesn't work, and sometimes even try to fix it. "NFG, fell from the truss" means something different than "NFG out of the box".