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Originally Posted by Robster
it is just not possible every time to not have singers go near your cables
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Hey Rob,
During the third to the last song I played Tuesday night (I amost made it through the night without issue
) a drunk (old guy, you'd think they learn
) jumped up on stage and tried to grab the mic from a singer he had pissed off earlier in the night. The singer shoved him and he fell into my monitor then off of the stage. Once the bouncer got the old guy out of the building (he'd been giving me grief all night as well), my singers complained that the words were not on the TV. When I touched the connection on the front of the TV it was loose so I held it for the last two songs to make the lyrics appear. It felt like he had busted the female phono connector on the TV but it turned out to be the male phono plug on the cable (Thank GOD).
We can do everything in the world to try and prevent folks from hurting out gear but it is going to happen every now and then. It's the nature of the beast.
I put my monitor in a high bar chair and set it as close to my rig as possible. This avoids running the cable accross the stage in any form. They have to look to the right or left to sing but it helps keep my gear safe.
At private parties, I bring rubber door mats that I bought from Wal-Mart to cover the cabels, something like you do. This is the first time in over four years, five nights a week that somebody damaged my TV hook up.
Jim
