Its happened to me countless times. What you have to do is press down again on the foot switch and just hold it there until you can change the foot switch setting. As long as it is held down, you get your volume back.

I once blew out my pitch/mod joystick in the middle of a solo Boy was that something.... I was having a great time with the solo, and when I released the joystick, it slapped back to the left, and just kept on going..... Clean off the keyboard and into someone sitting at a table near where we were playing.

I had no idea the spring in that stick was even that strong. I could only imagine if something like that happened today.... Imagine if it hit someone in the eye... yeah I would have gotten sued over that one.

Squeak

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Many moons ago I purchased a Casio CZ101, but I had a decent-looking power supply available so I used that at the gig.

Not a good move. Power supply blew up and took out the main breaker at the venue. Total darkness, everything stopped. Even the beer.

Who's shown up for a gig to find another band on stage? It's happened to me several times. Fortunately, I've had signed contracts and waited for the other groups to pack up. Once, while playing a real tonk during college days, the owner came up on stage during a song and said, "Boys, I'm gonna have to shut her down. Somebody's ripped out all the plumbing in the men's bathroom." Sure enough, the dance floor was soon flooded and we cleared the place. If you've never gigged in the real fighting, red-neck joints, you've missed something.

I can add an embarrasing experience. When I was in college, I was in a band called The Three Aces (you know, "call us for a full house"). HA HA. Well, our biggest competition in the town was another trio (organ, drums, and sax) and they were called "Two Hits and a Miss" (the miss was the drummer).

As luck would have it, one night of nights we were both playing at the Shrine Club. The competition was upstairs and our trio was downstairs. On our first break, we wandered outside the place and saw a big blackboard with the entertainment listed on it. So, you guessed it, being crazy college kids, we changed the "Two Hits and a Miss" to "Two S#its and a P#ss". We thought that was funny.

So we mosey back down and play another set and then come outside only to see that the board now says "Back by popular demand - The Three ASSES".

Sometimes it pays just to "hold your tongue".

Randy

On my way home from the day job one Friday, my wife calls and asks me if I wanted to meet her at her sister's for dinner ... knowing it was going to be all-females I said I would skip that and go home to work on a couple of songs I needed for a party I was playing the following night ... I am home, going through the tunes and the phone rings ... when I answer, the woman on the other end says "Tony, where are you??? .. The party is about to start!!!" ... I tell her I have it down for Saturday, not Friday, but she says "No, it is TONIGHT" ... Fortunately, the hall is about 10 min from my house ... I call my wife and ask her to pick up my tux at the cleaners and meet me at the hall ... I don't 'pack' my gear, I just put it in my truck and get down there ... I end up starting about 50 min late ... I play straight through to try to make up for it, and took 1/2 pay, but at the end of the night, the woman tells me that even though I did a great job, and everyone had a great time, she would never recommend me to anyone... I just thank the Lord that I passed on dinner at my sister-in-law's ... imagine finding that message on the answering machine at about 10:00PM ?!?!?
I've NEVER missed a gig, and that's as close as I would want to come ...

t.

Tony,

Didn't you have a contract?

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

Gary ... the contract had the right date ... I just placed the gig info in the wrong box on the calendar ... had no reason to check the contract because the calendar is ALWAYS right (NOT!!!) ...
t.
PS ... I was the one who made the offer on the 1/2 pay, and the client accepted ...
t.

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Tony...
It has happened to me as well. Once I even showed up at the wrong venue for a wedding. The venue thought they had forgotten a booking and were going crazy, til I realized I was at the wrong place.

Confirmation by phone a day or two prior to a job can be a big help. Some clients call me to confirm. And, sometimes I will call, especially if the client is not a regular. But I don't do it as often as I should. The fact is, clients do appreciate a call to be sure everything is right.

eddie

Now that's not very nice. In all the bookings I've done to date (100's), there's been only ONE person that's indignant. I still try periodically to book there - but same response every time - very rude (has never heard me and no intention to). Man, she makes me mad

zuki