I dislike when people pick up the microphone stand and sing. My singers have a stage, but it isn't big enough to be picking up a mic stand and be swinging it around.
I keep 2 mic stands on stage one that I use and just hand my mic to a singer if there is a duet and another one for the solo singer.
Since the weighted stand didn't seem to detour them I bought a tripod stand. Which is bulkier, so you'd think this would stop the insistant rockstar. For the most part it worked except for Sat. night.
I had a guy Sat. night that wacked me in the back of the leg when my back was turned. I gave him a warning and he still insisted on picking it up. Bye bye you're done singing.
His complaint was where he usually sings the KJ allows him to pick it up. I told him he could sing again, but if he picked up the stand he would be done for the night, no exceptions. My stage is not big enough and things get broken like my legs.
Do any of you allow people to pick up mic stands when singing?
- but this dunderhead made no apologies for his behavior. I later found out he's not only a musician in a relatively popular local band, but works for an audio company that sells and installs PA equipment. Despite the fact that he nailed the song and the crowd went nuts, any musician or audio tech worth a crap would've been extremely apologetic.
What's next pyrotechnics?
