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Phone call this morning:

Large corporate client: “Yes I’m wondering where that order we need is.”

Me: “You haven’t placed an order.”

Large corporate client: “Oh, can we have it by this Friday?”

Me: “Does that mean you want to place the order?”

Large corporate client: “Yes. So can we have it Friday, in four days?”

Me: “Ok great. But as you recall I told you this job will take 7-14 days.”

Large corporate client: “Ok we need 10,000 of them.”

Me: “Ok great.”

Large corporate client: “Maybe 15,000.”

Me: “Um, well I need a number.”

Large corporate client: “I’ll have to call you back…”

Synopsis

Large corporate client wants to know where the order he hasn’t placed is, which is an unknown quantity.

I don’t watch TV anymore. There’s too much entertaining stuff on YouTube.

Here’s a Van Halen concert gone bad. Seems that the “pre-recorded” keyboard parts have been accidentally transposed without the knowledge of Eddy or anyone else. Perhaps the sampling frequency on their DAT machine was set wrong.

Thanks to my friend Matt for this video. This clip is of HIS old band but some bonehead father does something terribly stupid in the audience. Watch and enjoy…

1. Never argue with a drunk
2. Never argue with a mormon.
3. Never argue with a drunk mormon.

I’m out there fighting the battle and trying to prove to the general public that not all musicians are on drugs. Just when I thought I was making progress this article pops up… F’n musicians.

Nice phone call:

Client: Yes I’m wondering where my CD’s are.

Me: I have them ready to go right here.

Client: Why haven’t you sent them to me?

Me: Because you haven’t paid for the production of the CD’s which took place about 4 months ago. I’ve told you as soon as you pay your bill you can have your product!

Client: Oh, I’ll drop a check in the mail.

Me: Like the check you said you’d send three months ago, and the one you’d send two months ago and the one you said you’d send last month?

Only in my neck of the woods do you see stories like this.

This guy was running from the cops on a bumpy road and his pitbull got so irritated with being bumped around in the car that he bit his owner’s nose off…

Client: My company is about to go public. They figure the shares will be worth $6-$8 each and I have 300,000 shares.

Me: Awesome! That’s so great for you. By the way here’s your latest invoice for $600.

Client: Oh. Uh here’s a check. Can you hold it until next Friday?

Since my switch from the dreaded blogger lame ass blogging software to Wordpress I’m now able to take advantage of some new features here.

I’m now working on categorizing all the posts. I have 8 categories currently:

Boneheads: A category dedicated to stupid people and the things they do.
Gear: Recording gear, musicial instruments, computers or any gear I deal with.
Gigs: Stories about my gigs or other peoples gigs.
Random: A blanket category when nothing else works.
Rants: When shit pisses me off I use this category.
Recording: Recording studio war stories, recording techniques etc.
Uncategorized: Means I have yet to decide what category to put the post in.

Now some posts may have multiple categories. For example: A dumbass musician jumps on my stage and plays my drums. He’s drunk and he breaks my snare head and won’t get away from my kit. That post alone could be a combined boneheads, gear, gigs, musicians and rants. I can already see that the boneheads and musicians categories will be selected together many times.

I’m about 25% of the way through categorizing the old posts so be patient.

In this article The Who’s Pete Townshend blames wearing headphones in the recording studio for his hearing loss.

So touring for decades with The Who, standing next to the insane Keith Moon’s drum kit and standing in front of huge stacks of Hiwatt amps cranked to 11 had nothing to do with his hearing loss? I remember going to see The Who and there were actually disclaimers saying if you were in the first 30 rows in front of Pete’s rig you might experience hearing damage.

But no, it was the headphones…. Ok Pete.