John Check wrote: >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. > > > That Guy Prob mad mice living in his head...
