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Woodshed Jacked By the Man!!!!
Woodshed Jacked By the Man!!!!
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Jambo
15 posts
Jun 06, 2011
10:18 PM
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So im sitting out in the "WoodShed" which happens to be a neigborhood church which has until tonight been my harping oasis. No people, no problems, good acoustics...etc. Finally get comfortable and who shows up, the cops! Excuse me bud... BUD!!! And they have taken the oasis. Oh well on to the next dark alley. Thanks Jambo
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nacoran
4174 posts
Jun 06, 2011
11:03 PM
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You just need a few religious numbers... then you can say you are praying and they need to respect rights. :)
Apartment complex laundry rooms work pretty well. You should have asked the cops if they had any good ideas where you could play without bothering anyone. I've had a couple run ins like that. Once I was told to move along. I wasn't even harpin', just hanging around talking after an open mic. I started to make a fuss, but the other person didn't want to make a big deal out of it. I meant to write a complaint to the police department, but I never got around to it. On a later occasion I was talking with the same person and they were cat-calling ladies at 1 in the morning and I decided that maybe they'd been warned to be on the lookout for him. The other time a group of friends of mine at college went on a chalk outlining spree with some colored chalk someone had. We put dead bodies all over campus and then headed into the nearby woods. (We'd already got a noise citation from the R.A.'s in the dorm.) Oddly, no drugs or alcohol were involved. A cop heard us in the woods and came to investigate. The others wanted to run, but I got up (nearly fell over because my legs had fallen asleep sitting on the ground) and talked with him. He asked us why we were there (he apparently hadn't seen our artwork!). I told him we'd gone out in the woods because we'd gotten in trouble for making too much noise in the dorms. He asked if we'd been drinking. When we soberly said no he left us alone. (Come to think of it, that night started off with music too. There was a guy who could play any song he'd ever heard on his guitar. The whole wing, maybe 30 people, had been out in the halls singing along.)
I don't even think it's necessarily a power trip. Cops are conditioned to think that people out making noise are up to minor acts of mayhem.
Sadly, it rained the night of the chalk outlines and by class time they'd all been washed away. :(
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OzarkRich
455 posts
Jun 07, 2011
8:06 AM
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If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Three years ago I took early retirement from the printing industry after twenty seven years and went to work for my church on second shift. My woodshed consists of a sanctuary, chapel, two auditoriums, banquet hall, gym, several tiled restrooms/kitchens and the concrete "catacombs" under the church.
I also have access to several tube amps (with permission), both of the church's and members who keep their equipment there for Sundays and Wednesdays. The sound system for the chapel organ is in essence two bassman amps. Currently being used on the sanctuary platform is a Matchless Spitfire. It's a hand wired tube amp that is only fifteen watts but if I turn it past three my employees come to tell me it's to loud (the sanctuary holds 2,000+). I also keep my VHT Special Six combo and a Pignose in my inventory cage.
It takes about an hour and a half for me to close up the church for the night so I have time to play harp; the trick is to learn how to play while juggling keys and a flashlight! I also have time while supervising employees. If I don't have enough time to play while working I can stay after midnight. I have a sofa bed in my office so I can stay all night if need be. My wife is my boss (at the church and at home :) so she can kick me out of bed when she gets there at 8:00am.
Best of all, when there are problem people in the church, I'M the one one calling the police.
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