Members Guitzilla Posted October 29, 2008 Members Share Posted October 29, 2008 The drum machine thread started me thinking about my very early adoption of MIDI and technology. In the early nineties, I wanted to have a live show synced to video. My plan was to use a screen behind the band with a TV projector. The system would also use a VCR synced to a PC, so that I could trigger synths, samples and drum machines. Artsy!?!? I couldn't figure out how to get usable video from any cheap primitive means, so I scrapped the idea. With Vegas, digital cameras, lightweight TVs, and laptops, this idea could be reasonably done today, but I no longer want to tackle something like this by myself. What's the weirdest, most unweildly idea that you've dreamt of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted October 29, 2008 Members Share Posted October 29, 2008 Some of the craziest ideas for a live show really happened, including: the performance artist who slit himself all over with razor blades onstage, the performance artist (Joseph Beuys) who rolled himself up in a blanket and put himself in a locked glass chamber with a coyote who'd beeen deprived of food for days, the Japanese artist who, onstage, painted canvases on the floor with a brush held by her vagina, the SF transie who, onstage, shot out vegetables from her rectum at audience members. the guy with a numb, paralyzed, useless foot who guillotined it off and charged people online to watch him do it :facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitzilla Posted October 29, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 29, 2008 Some of the craziest ideas for a live show really happened, including: Those are way past my little idea.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted October 29, 2008 Members Share Posted October 29, 2008 Those are way past my little idea.... Okay, sorry, Guitzilla. (But hey-- don't rule them out!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitzilla Posted October 29, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 29, 2008 I did my own performance art once....I had the flu and I had a bucket behind the PA that I tried to fill with my stomach contents....I should have thrown that at the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 29, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 29, 2008 I had my own performance art once too. I had "stomach issues" one night while performing at a little dive rock and roll joint, packed to the gills with 150 drunken beach folk. The band is aware of my condition. Mid set my stomach says "NOW!" and I put my bass on its stand and run to the men's room. The band continues to groove... ...I sit on the thone of a tiny little bath room in pain. No walls to this stall. No stall. Just the bass player in pain sitting on the toilet and roughly 20 guys peering in saying "Aghrghgaghghhhhh dude!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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