On Friday 21 January 2005 04:04 pm, Timothy Alan Gorman wrote: > Curtis Sloan wrote: > >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. > > > >------ > > > >(Comment copied from > > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136725&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode > >=thread&cid=11421466) > > > >Re:A Piano... (Score:5, Funny) > >by mr i want to go home (610257) on Thursday January 20, @04:06PM > > (#11424155) > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > > >We thought that was a bit tragic (it was a great synth), but he was > > adamant that the Evil must be destroyed. > > > >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! > > WOW... > Drop a hit of acid or two and... WHEW!!!! Probably had mice living in it.
