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The really only RUDE experience I have was doing live sound for a band that will remain unnamed that played on Warped Tour in 2009.
The show was supposed to start at 8, and the drummer shows up at 7:55. He was late because he was literally... in the bathtub. No time for a proper sound check, I tell them to just run through part of a song, and I'll get levels from there. Everything is fine, until the show actually starts, and the guitarists both crank their amps to 11, and singer decides to swap the 58 out for her own SM86, RIGHT before they start the set. Instantly when the band starts, everything starts feeding back like crazy, due to her using her own mic... DURING the song, she COMPLAINS TO THE AUDIENCE how bad of a sound guy I am, that the guitars are too loud (they weren't even up in the house OR the monitors, that's how loud they were). After the first song, I run up and tell her to switch back to the 58, and she tells me I don't know what I'm doing, but she decides to listen.
Throughout the set she keeps bitching and bitching to the audience about how she can't hear herself (only thing in her monitor is herself...) and that the guitars are still too loud...
By about 3/4ths through the set, the only thing I had in the monitors was the snare drum BLARING at them fuuckfuuck
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