1st poast!@!

[3red]

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-bird-cat-cage.jpg

[zoomzilla]

Is this a brand new section? I just saw it.

[Anderton]

Yup, this forum just got created a few minutes ago. Here's another fun link that Phil O'Keefe found:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...failcabzg7.jpg

[tiger roach]

"Epic Fail" has it's own forum? WTF

:facepalm:

[FenderPusher]

Just what HC needs, another forum full of fail. :o

[Meowy]

This will never last :rolleyes:

[fanuvbrak]

Woo-hoo! I'm in the fail forum! I'm in the fail forum! I'm in...wait, what?

[dmn23]

In.

[TL4558P]

Pretty sad that harmony central has become 4 chan.

[sonik]

My whole existence is failure, though I don't consider it epic.

:(

[Mark Wein]

Pretty sad that harmony central has become 4 chan.

LOL.

I'd post something from there but then I would be banned...

[Anderton]

I was playing an outdoor concert with Mandrake on the steps of Philadelphia's famed art museum (you know, the one in the Rocky movie) with thousands of people attending - I was told somewhere between 5 and 10K. This was back when synths were new, and I had a homebuilt synth hooked up to a Radio Shack power supply.

1st danger sign: Radio Shack power supply.

Due to the circumstances, we didn't have time to do a proper sound check but we were pretty confident things would work fine. The generators were humming, the amps were putting out good juice, the PA was picking up the vocals and mics - everything seemed like smooth sailing.

Then at the appropriately dramatic moment, i went over to play the synthesizer, normally one of the high points of our act. Except...

The generator voltage varied. So the Radio Shack power supply voltage varied, which meant that the oscillator pitch varied. It sounded like the ultimate warped record, or maybe an LFO stuck on at a waaaay too slow rate. Our dramatic high point sounded like a seasick synth on quaaludes.

I got off that thing as fast as I could and went back to guitar.

[Anderton]

"Epic Fail" has it's own forum? WTF

:facepalm:

Well, since disaster threads and posts seem to be pretty popular, we figured it would be fun to put them all in one place. We'll see what happens, but I have a feeling there's no shortage of horror stories to populate this forum...

[Mark Wein]

Or there is Van Halen with their pre-recorded keyboard played back at the wrong sample rate:

R_ZZI0ZX82M

[Anderton]

Then there was the time that I was playing in New York, and SOMETHING in my setup was picking up taxi cab dispatcher combinations. You haven't lived until you're in the middle of playing a sensitive solo on 12-string, then a dispatcher breaks in about going to pick up someone at LaGuardia airport...complete with, shall we say, "rich linguistic choices."

[Anderton]

Or there is Van Halen with their pre-recorded keyboard played back at the wrong sample rate:

R_ZZI0ZX82M

One of my personal favorites!!

[Anderton]

Then there was the time opening for Pink Floyd at JFK stadium in Philadelphia, and all of a sudden, a lightning storm came out of nowhere. I know "the show must go on," but I don't think any of the Floyd particularly felt like dying that day...thankfully it was a stadium, so they had tarps sitting around they could throw on things.

[goodhonk]

Or there is Van Halen with their pre-recorded keyboard played back at the wrong sample rate:

R_ZZI0ZX82M

is that what happened there? i had seen that and thought the guitar was out of tune.

[Mark Wein]

A few years ago I got a call to accompany this singer songwriter for a festival in San Diego and he explained to me that they had asked him to play two shows that day and he needed an extra guitarist to beef up the sound for the occasion. He was very stoked and explained that we were playing on the main stage for the first show as a "headliner" and then on another stage later in the day...

I got there early and signed in for him at the production office and they brought me to our first gig. On the sidewalk in front of the venue next to a bus stop. When he got there he threw a big fit and then figured that our "Big Show" was to be the second one and that he had misunderstood his contact.

The festival was in an old church on 5th avenue in San Diego that had been turned into a concert hall...it turned out that our second show was in the organ loft playing above the main stage while they changed acts over...I was wondering if this guy was managing my employer for the day:

http://www.inluminent.com/images/st/its_time_to_kick_ass.jpg

it was very much one of these moments...

http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/parenting/2006/09/10/spinal_tap300x111.bmp

[Mark Wein]

Then there was the time that I was playing in New York, and SOMETHING in my setup was picking up taxi cab dispatcher combinations. You haven't lived until you're in the middle of playing a sensitive solo on 12-string, then a dispatcher breaks in about going to pick up someone at LaGuardia airport...complete with, shall we say, "rich linguistic choices."


I played the Orange County fair with a swing band in the mid 1990's and the stage AC was a little less than "shielded". I was playing a solo instrumental intro to "It Had to be you" and I started getting what seemed like radio chatter from the Orange County airport through my amp...VERY loudly :facepalm:

[Dew Knot Hump]

In before the lock! :facepalm:

[Mark Wein]

is that what happened there? i had seen that and thought the guitar was out of tune.

Well, it was out of tune...with the out of tune keyboards :p


The worst part is that there is nothing you can do in that situation...the amount that the pitch was off wasn't an actual musical interval...

[Mark Wein]

A friend of mine did protools playback for the Grammy awards the year they did the "Sly and the Family Stone" tribute. This is a terrible video but at about 7:10 you get to see Sly bail out on the band for the last minute or so of the broadcast..he was mad about something else that had happened earlier in the day and decided to leave them hanging. When he left the rest of the people on stage had to continue to play since they we playing along with a pre-recorded track...there was no way to cue an ending and bring it to an actual early ending. Everyone on stage starts trying to figure out how to fill all of the new "space" that Sly's abscence had left them with...

W50reGsu9ho

[Dew Knot Hump]

One time a few years ago this chick opened up for my band.
http://www.myspace.com/alicepeacock

Now she plays rooms here that hold 750 people, back then she was a nobody. Anyways she started playing around 9:30 did not stop until 11:45 and kept saying stupid shit on the mic like "I know the other band is going to hate us but we are going to do a couple more." Two problems with that though, one the songs weren't that great and two there were maybe a dozen people in the room.

So we get started about 12:30 or so and come out slamming. When the whole band is on you know it right from the start and this was going to be a good night. Halfway through our second song the power goes out leaving the club in total darkness. It turns out it wasn't the club, we were rocking so hard we knocked out the entire block. So the club lit candles and we asked the Alice Peacockers if we could borrow their acoustics so we could still do a set. They said "no, we are leaving now."

Fuck you in your face Alice Peacock!!:mad:

[Mark Wein]

One time a few years ago this chick opened up for my band.
http://www.myspace.com/alicepeacock

Now she plays rooms here that hold 750 people, back then she was a nobody. Anyways she started playing around 9:30 did not stop until 11:45 and kept saying stupid shit on the mic like "I know the other band is going to hate us but we are going to do a couple more." Two problems with that though, one the songs weren't that great and two there were maybe a dozen people in the room.

So we get started about 12:30 or so and come out slamming. When the whole band is on you know it right from the start and this was going to be a good night. Halfway through our second song the power goes out leaving the club in total darkness. It turns out it wasn't the club, we were rocking so hard we knocked out the entire block. So the club lit candles and we asked the Alice Peacockers if we could borrow their acoustics so we could still do a set. They said "no, we are leaving now."

Fuck you in your face Alice Peacock!!:mad:

Lol.

[Cardinal of Crunk]

epic fail

[Neilrocks25]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z258/neilrocks25/strange/2043-fail-camera.jpg

http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2069204

[Kikaruu]

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z258/neilrocks25/strange/2043-fail-camera.jpg

One of my favorite fail pics.

[modeerf]

in.

[Kikaruu]

Triple in.

[strathound]

So in, it's not even funny.

[3red]

i was in before any of you were in, BURN

[Kikaruu]

Ouch.

[whitegreyblack]

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s24/Necromancer-Nyra/Motivational%20Posters/windows.jpg