Re: Any use for analog control board?


"Lloydj" <ljeffords@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I found that pretty scary. It was something
like
60' to the floor. The theater had been around since the 1800s and nobody
had
ever dusted up there, so the floor was very dusty and slippery as were
the
beams
you had to hold on to while you stepped across. I wouldn't attempt it now
at
my age.

David

David, There were things we did "at an age" that we wouldn't even
consider now, that's true. Two years ago I light a show and the FOH
was only accessible by setting up this aluminum extension thing
between the rows. Noone at the theatre had ever done it. I needed
the lights in the cove to work and only two out of ten did. So we set
this thing up and I send the first kid up and he gets about half way
and craps himself and can't get down fast enough. The next one got to
the same spot and freaked. The rest just backed away. I looked
around and said "so you're going to make the old man do it, right?"
Si I climbed the thing, got into the basket at top and looked down and
asked what's wrong with you brats? I didn't tell them I was just a
bit frightened. After that they were embarrassed into climbing and it
was fun. Don't ever sell yourself short of what you can still do when
called upon.

You're right I still do things that are pretty scary. Taking down the
rigging for
Peter Pan was a bit of fun. It was all tied to the grid and I had to go up
in a
Genie lift. What bothered me more though was going up in the same Genie
to a height a bit lower than the grid, but I was out in the middle of the
room
instead of being surrounded by the stuff in a conjested fly. I new I was
safe
but it sure felt funny. Even so, it would be very hard to see me in that
attic
today.

At the south Shore Music Circus we used an extention ladder to focus lights
over the orchestra pit. There wasn't any where to lean the ladder so someone
had to hold it while our smallest crew member scurried up the ladder to
focus the lights. I got to hold the ladder :-)

David


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