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"DB" · 11th February 2007

I don't know when I've laughed as hard as reading this thread - thanks!
Here's a few I saw and heard, not necessarily stupid but I found them funny:

"I don't think that guy could produce a blister on his ass if he sat on a hot stove", said by a bandmember as the famous, but clueless producer walked out of the control room yet again to explain to the drummer how to play.

Standing in the Production Remote Truck at Live Aid during the prime-time broadcast part; "Thunk" best describes the sound of the ABC Network Standards and Practices (i.e. Censor) guy hitting his head on the desk in front of him just after Mick had tore off Tina's skirt.

Record Plant NY Studio "A", late 70's, big time producer whose name I won't mention cause he posts on here too, seated at the producer's chair. The old style soda-water fire extinguisher next to the engineer's seat had a long piece of tubing attached to the end of its hose carefully run under the console and aimed at the producer's chair. The engineer pulls the handle and sprays the producer in the crotch. After he dries off and a dry chair is put in place they tell him he can go out and get someone else to play the joke on. This is where a good practical joke turned into a brilliant one. While he was out finding a new victim the hose was moved (I won't say by whom exactly, but the two younger brothers of the guy who invented the harmonizer were involved) so that it was aimed at the engineer's chair. Which the producer sat down in, and proceeded to spray himself.

Billy Joel gig in Washington, DC, with the Record Plant White truck. As Peter Hefter and I were driving the truck down from NYC we were talking about how Kooster would be worried about all the RFI we often had trouble with in DC. So we bought a little transistor AM radio, turned it on very low, tuned just slightly off station, and put it inside the frame of the Trident console. After Kooster tried for about 10 minutes to figure out where it was coming from he had me go under the console to turn off the power supplies to see if that would make it stop. He figured out what was going on when he noticed the only part of me he could see was my feet sticking out from under the console and they were shaking because I was laughing so hard.

How many Digidesign software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
"Can't be done, that's a hardware problem."

11th February 2007	#1509
"DB" Gear nut Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 76	My sides hurt! I don't know when I've laughed as hard as reading this thread - thanks! Here's a few I saw and heard, not necessarily stupid but I found them funny: "I don't think that guy could produce a blister on his ass if he sat on a hot stove", said by a bandmember as the famous, but clueless producer walked out of the control room yet again to explain to the drummer how to play. Standing in the Production Remote Truck at Live Aid during the prime-time broadcast part; "Thunk" best describes the sound of the ABC Network Standards and Practices (i.e. Censor) guy hitting his head on the desk in front of him just after Mick had tore off Tina's skirt. Record Plant NY Studio "A", late 70's, big time producer whose name I won't mention cause he posts on here too, seated at the producer's chair. The old style soda-water fire extinguisher next to the engineer's seat had a long piece of tubing attached to the end of its hose carefully run under the console and aimed at the producer's chair. The engineer pulls the handle and sprays the producer in the crotch. After he dries off and a dry chair is put in place they tell him he can go out and get someone else to play the joke on. This is where a good practical joke turned into a brilliant one. While he was out finding a new victim the hose was moved (I won't say by whom exactly, but the two younger brothers of the guy who invented the harmonizer were involved) so that it was aimed at the engineer's chair. Which the producer sat down in, and proceeded to spray himself. Billy Joel gig in Washington, DC, with the Record Plant White truck. As Peter Hefter and I were driving the truck down from NYC we were talking about how Kooster would be worried about all the RFI we often had trouble with in DC. So we bought a little transistor AM radio, turned it on very low, tuned just slightly off station, and put it inside the frame of the Trident console. After Kooster tried for about 10 minutes to figure out where it was coming from he had me go under the console to turn off the power supplies to see if that would make it stop. He figured out what was going on when he noticed the only part of me he could see was my feet sticking out from under the console and they were shaking because I was laughing so hard. How many Digidesign software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? "Can't be done, that's a hardware problem." __________________ "DB"