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Must Have for Your Gig Kit
Re: Must Have for Your Gig Kit
jeffb wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> Les Cargill wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes! Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
>>>
>>
>> Actually any color you want just about.
>
> Gaff tape comes in a multitude of colours. For singer emission reduction
> though the stuff you want to use is what's known as "hundred mile an
> hour" tape. The name comes from doing car rigs in movies where you might
> want say a piece of cardboard stuck to a window to cut sunlight and you
> need ultra bomber tape to keep it there with the car doing 100 mph. It
> looks just like duct tape and I've only ever seen it in silver and
> occasionally black. I guess you have to decide if you want to make a
> fashion statement when you gag the singer or if you wanna do a job that
> will *STAY* done.
We used Duct Tape to get control of the drummer's bass pedal once. It
was part of an Roland electronic drum set, and it (and the bass drum
pad) started to walk away from the drummer about midway through the
third song of a benefit concert at our church. We duct-taped that
sucker down WHILE HE CONTINUED TO PLAY, and it held its position for the
rest of the concert. You never know when that stuff is going to come in
handy.
--Steve
jeffb wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> Les Cargill wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes! Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
>>>
>>
>> Actually any color you want just about.
>
> Gaff tape comes in a multitude of colours. For singer emission reduction
> though the stuff you want to use is what's known as "hundred mile an
> hour" tape. The name comes from doing car rigs in movies where you might
> want say a piece of cardboard stuck to a window to cut sunlight and you
> need ultra bomber tape to keep it there with the car doing 100 mph. It
> looks just like duct tape and I've only ever seen it in silver and
> occasionally black. I guess you have to decide if you want to make a
> fashion statement when you gag the singer or if you wanna do a job that
> will *STAY* done.
We used Duct Tape to get control of the drummer's bass pedal once. It
was part of an Roland electronic drum set, and it (and the bass drum
pad) started to walk away from the drummer about midway through the
third song of a benefit concert at our church. We duct-taped that
sucker down WHILE HE CONTINUED TO PLAY, and it held its position for the
rest of the concert. You never know when that stuff is going to come in
handy.
--Steve
Re: Must Have for Your Gig Kit
Steve wrote:
> We used Duct Tape to get control of the drummer's bass pedal once. It
> was part of an Roland electronic drum set, and it (and the bass drum
> pad) started to walk away from the drummer about midway through the
> third song of a benefit concert at our church. We duct-taped that
> sucker down WHILE HE CONTINUED TO PLAY, and it held its position for
> the rest of the concert. You never know when that stuff is going to
> come in handy.
>
> --Steve
Perhaps the same stuff used to tape headphones to Keith Moon's head so he
could follow a click-track in one Who movie. I have to wonder how stoned he
was not to consider what it was going to feel like when they pulled the tape
off.
Steve wrote:
> We used Duct Tape to get control of the drummer's bass pedal once. It
> was part of an Roland electronic drum set, and it (and the bass drum
> pad) started to walk away from the drummer about midway through the
> third song of a benefit concert at our church. We duct-taped that
> sucker down WHILE HE CONTINUED TO PLAY, and it held its position for
> the rest of the concert. You never know when that stuff is going to
> come in handy.
>
> --Steve
Perhaps the same stuff used to tape headphones to Keith Moon's head so he
could follow a click-track in one Who movie. I have to wonder how stoned he
was not to consider what it was going to feel like when they pulled the tape
off.
