Hot Pants Makes me Scream & Shout !!!
OK Upstroke...I love this thread & it "GREAT"...I am packed with some great stories...all true I may add...I see you have been playing since 1960...I was born in 1959 ... me & you will keep this thread alive & have fun doing it...
On a sad note, Im from Rhode Island and lost 9 friends in the Station Fire. Since then I thank God we never had anything tragic as that happen...everyone did piro back then...we were all lucky and some stuff we actually did was bigger grade than what "Great White" used that night 100 people died.
As far as our 1st episode at this same club only a few months earlier, the Singer/Owner of the band had a law suit slapped on him from 1 of the girls in the audience. This is literally hysterical compared the Bloody Brawl.
As I mentioned before, we were a top 80's local cover Rock band & had a great following. We played everything from Black Sabbath to Motley Crew to AC/DC and KISS. We not only performed & palyed well as a band, we had the best lighting tec in the state...he now works for Mariah Carey etc...Giant acts...his name is Bill
Bill not only set up the biggest concert lightshow around, he also blew up everything in sight or just set it on fire. He even set my Drums on fire...along with my hair a few times. I will have to post a picture somehow for you. Anyway back to the show...
So you know... everytime we played Motley Crew's "Shout at the Devil" Bill had depending on the size of the stage anywhere from 4 to 8 pods filled with flashpowder, when he pressed the button the spark from the wires made a 3' wide fireball that went as high as 30' depending on the ceiling height...
Let me add Bill was a profesional & liscened & very careful...but this one time the stage was only 2' high & really small & our 6 pc. band barely fit on the stage, so Bill put 4 pods right in front of the stage on the dance floor.
Well.....remember those fake plastic pants the girls in the 80's used to wear that looked really cool & like leather & were really tight....this girl & her boyfriend are dancing right infront of the stage & her drunk boyfriend throws his lit cigerette ...guess were it lands...directly in a pod...and worst...the pod 1' from his girlfriend...the cigerette sparked the flashpowder & the fire burned this girls plastic pants right off her...she also had no underwear on...isn't that funny...I should have moved to this state were no girls wear underwear...
Anyway...some of the plastic burned parts of her legs a little...not serious burns at all but enough to hurt...never mind she had more of a case to suit Bob for embarressment watching her run out of the club pantsless screaming was the funniest thing I ever saw...she was pretty good with Bob & settled out of court & kept coming back to see the band...
Lee  |