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Oh my. That will be a great memory for sure.
wind is not good when playing outside!
Hi, today we played at an outdoor gig, we were the last on and had an hours set.
sounds great!
but it was a bit windy and I was wrapped up in the backdrop more than once.
The worst when I was doing my solo, and it wrapped right around me and I lost a stick, but it was funny
anyone else been sabotaged on stage?
Bridie
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Oh my. That will be a great memory for sure.
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I had the same happen to me last year. We were playing under a big tent and the tent flap kept blowing into my set.
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Not yet... But I was at Disneyland watching the band at tomorrow land, and the drummer got to agro and knocked the China cymbal and stand into the keyboard player. Not good. The keyboard player was
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I've had my cymbal stands keep blowing over but never have I been flag whipped ... that looks like it could be painful. Great job keeping your cool and staying the course through all of that ...
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Was playing a NASCAR event in Watkins Glen one year, we were under a large party tent type deal held up with poles, ropes and sandbags A big gust of wind came and took out the from right corner of the pole, the section of tent came down on our guitarist. Fwup.
It was pretty funny actually.
Last year I did a gig in Casa Grand, AZ...about 5 bands that afternoon. It was incredibly windy. The sound company had a small canopy tent covering the board and their stuff. A gust of wind came and lifted it completely up in the air and it tumbled half way across the field.
It's hard to drum and sing when it's very windy, you're laughing and watching the sound mans tent bounce around the audience while the people are hiding for cover.
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My band played out on a gusty day making my cymbals wave so much I had to aim my cymbal hits or swipe at thin air!
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Man that looks hilarious, Love that Mapex set, it looks so darn nice in flat black.
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Funny. I was just thinking about the little shop of horrors show. Instead of plants, you were being consumed by a curtain. LOL
Wind is certainly a force to be reckoned with. At last years Regatta show my ride kept threatening to blow right over. I grabbed some hunks of concrete from a nearby construction zone to put at the base of the cymbal stand to try a stabilize it.
all the best...
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Great story. Great picture. Great memory to tell down the road.
Love your kit. Classic flat black with the perfect compliment of cymbals.
Way to keep playing and roll with it, btw. Very professional.
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hahaha that's funny lol
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Oh wow, that's not good! Knowing me, as soon as the song ended, I'd have been up tearing that backdrop down.
It'll make for a good memory and story!
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Yeah, that sounds like me, too.
On another note: your kit looks awesome!!!
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Oh man...that looked like a really windy day. Way to keep your cool. I played an outdoor gig where the wind kept blowing my cymbals around on the stands. Fearing the worst was about to happen, after the 1st set, I grabbed a Gibraltar V-bar I had stashed in my trunk and bolted my cymbal stands down but it didn't help from keeping the cymbals from flapping in the wind. Like Slinglander, I went to hit a crash and ended up swiping nothing but air. As goofy as this looked, the V-bar kept my stands from falling over in the wind.
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Apparently it was the beginning of storm Katie, (we missed the worst of it here!)
@gotadrumr and johnnyG thanks, I like it too, no fingerprints!
And @kay-gee I have had bricks on an old stand, it used to tip over
I had them on a bungee .
Bridie
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