Sam Houston
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Things That Piss Me The **** Off - Inst # 2

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By: Sam Houston
Posted in: Gigs

<p><span style="color: #00ffff;">Ok, one more. I was going to try to do one every other day or one a week, which I will try to do. But for now, I couldn't resist one more.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">This particular one has to be hilarious to watch....I wouldn't know though cause it WAS ALWAYS HAPPENING TO ME.....damn it.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">Imagine if you will, being on stage, singing something along the lines of "<a href=&quotGeorge Jones - LIVE "He Stopped Loving Her Today" Stopped Loving Her Today</a>" by George Jones (click the link for the song). This particular song has been called the greatest country song of all time. One thing is for sure, it's definitely one of the saddest, if not THE saddest song ever. It's a song about a man whose woman left him but he never stopped loving her and longed for her year after year. He kept pictures of her and all the old love letters they had between them. In the end, as the song says, he stopped loving her today....because he finally died. So, you can imagine, each time I performed it, I wanted to put as much emotion into it as humanly possible, and the crowds expected that.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">You know that when you sing a slow sad song you want to get close to the mic, or even against it, so you can manipulate your voice better. So, imagine me on stage trying to sing this terribly sad song..........and the PA isn't grounded quite right. So every time my wet lips touched the mic ...... <span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span>..... shocked the dog water out of me. And I would usually <span style="color: #99cc00;">cuss</span> and everybody could hear me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">So the song would end up like this....</span></p><p>He said I'll love <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>you 'til I die <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT <span style="color: #99cc00;">....damn it</span></span></span></p><p>She told <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>him you'll for<span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span>get in time</p><p>As the years went slowly <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>by&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....f***</span></p><p>She still preyed upon his mind&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #99cc00;">....leaning over to guitar player...."go fix this son of a ****"</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #99cc00;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p>He <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>kept her picture on his wall&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....shit</span></p><p>Went half crazy now and then <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span></p><p>He still loved her <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT <span style="color: #99cc00;">....OW!</span></span></span> through it all</p><p>Hoping she'd come <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT POP</span></span> back again</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Kept some <span style="color: #3366ff;">POP</span> letters by his bed</p><p>Dated 19<span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span>62&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....damn</span></p><p>He had underlined in <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>red&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....son of a ****</span></p><p>Every sin<span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span>gle I love <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>you&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....DAMN IT!!</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I went to <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT POP</span></span> see him just today&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #99cc00;">....piece of shit PA<br /></span></p><p>Oh <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span>but I didn't see no tears <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span></p><p>All dressed <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span> up to go away&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #99cc00;">....OW!</span></span></span></p><p>First time I'd <span style="color: #3366ff;">POP</span> seen him smile <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT</span></span> in years <span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT </span></span><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">BVVVVVVVT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="color: #99cc00;">....f***</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;">And it continued that way through the whole song. It happened on other songs too but the slow ones were killer! It HAD to be funny to watch!<br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff9900;"><span style="color: #00ff00;">That pisses me the **** off!!</span><br /></span></p>

Farrell Jackson
01/23/11 02:35:07PM @farrell-jackson:
Oh yeah the old "kiss the mic, blue flash, your life passes before you" syndrom, ouch! I've had that shocking kiss many times early on....but soon we all wised up (plus we got better at checking grounds) and bought windscreens for every mic. Even when I perform today, I bring an extra windscreen along just in case the house mics don't have them.....you still got to be careful with grabbing the mic stand though, lol.

Farrell

Luca Wulf
01/21/11 03:05:18PM @huge-artist:
Ah,the brings back BAD memories.
One rehearsal,something went wrong with the pa but it's fuse didn't blow.(UK 240 volts)
I took hold of the mic and POW!.
The rehearsal hall's mains fuses didn't blow,but I sure did.
About 15 foot backwards through the air,landing on top of my stack.
Guitar strings had welded into my fingers.
Took a nice walk for fresh air after that.
Electrician said I was lucky I didn't die.
Bearing in mind how I felt at the time I said that I thought it depended on your point of view LOL

bri-an
01/21/11 02:54:28PM @bri-an:
lmao...oh ya Okie, the dreaded bvvvvvt!
Sam Houston
01/21/11 03:26:33PM @sam-houston:
I've seriously seen blue flashes from the mic. Not good!
bri-an
01/21/11 04:22:51PM @bri-an:
LOL Nigel....denied an honourable rawkNroll fate man...lmao.
...once back when all seemed just right...playing a larger venue,In the midst of a toon i was. Rollinout of a chorus and into the 16 bar outro i HIT that cymbal EdGe on. HARD.
It toppled the cymbal stand, over and down like a Ginsu blade it cut my bass players line...
BvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvT !!
Bass player (who didn't see this happen) promptly started to take it out on his guitar.
WE decided not to tell him right away...weeks after in fact.
...it was better that way.

Sam Houston
01/21/11 04:35:48PM @sam-houston:
Brian.........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHHAHHAHHAHHAHHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

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