[linux-audio-user] [OT] Have you ever felt this way about your gear?

[Timothy Alan Gorman]

John Check wrote:

>On Friday 21 January 2005 04:04 pm, Timothy Alan Gorman wrote:
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>>Curtis Sloan wrote:
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>>>Sorry for the OT post, but I thought maybe the LAU crowd would appreciate
>>>the following story.  True or not, it's good for laugh.
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>>>(Comment copied from
>>>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136725&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode
>>>=thread&cid=11421466)
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>>>Re:A Piano... (Score:5, Funny)
>>>by mr i want to go home (610257) on Thursday January 20, @04:06PM
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>>>I had a lot of friends who were making electronic music back in the mid
>>>90's. This was when an old classic analogue synth from the 70's could be
>>>sold for thousands of dollars.
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>>>Anyway, this guy I kind of knew had a problem with one of his old synths.
>>>In the middle of the night, he would be recording something and it would
>>>suddenly start squealing away. You'd walk up to it and it would stop.
>>>Turn your back on it and it would start again...all sorts of weird stuff
>>>like that.
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>>>He was taking loads of e's and acid at the time which maybe why he decided
>>>that it had become possessed by Satan. He started loosing a lot of sleep
>>>over it - mostly because it would turn itself on during the night and
>>>bleep away. One night he couldn't take it any more, and took to it with a
>>>sledge hammer. He collected the pieces and burned them with diesel.
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>>>We thought that was a bit tragic (it was a great synth), but he was
>>>adamant that the Evil must be destroyed.
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>>>After that he disappeared for a while. I wasn't quite worried that he
>>>might have been kidnapped by the minions of Satan, but I was getting a
>>>bit worried. He turned up again a week later. He was fine - much calmer
>>>than I'd seen him in a long time. He'd been driving up and down the East
>>>coast of Australia, sprinkling the ashes of this damn synth to make sure
>>>that it could never reform!
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>>WOW...
>>Drop a hit of acid or two and... WHEW!!!!
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>Probably had mice living in it.
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That Guy Prob mad mice living in his head...