Damage done
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Topic: Damage done
Posted By: pfly
Subject: Damage done
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:30pm
Did hiphop festival stage week ago with some subhired wedges that are normally used in posh corporate gigs, well see the results for your self:   Some not-for-corporate-work gear got its share too   Seems like you try to do your best, to give best you can to audience and performers but it doesn't matter to them. |
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Posted By: MessyM2k8
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:47pm
| I'd be pissed if that was my gear, i'd be wanting to find the little shit that did it and cut his hands off. |
Posted By: Nox
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:48pm
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Aww man that really is shit. Surely there's got to be some way of removing it without doing to much damage? Shame you didn't get a chance to remove their fingers.
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Posted By: Enigmatic_Lemur
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:49pm
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It's possible they thought the person that provided the system would have approved of the tagging... It's more likely that they're just idiots, however.
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Posted By: mikey bear
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:54pm
one of my friends caught a guy taging one of his scoops, he asked him what the f**k he was doing and the chap said "its fine mate...i'm a professional graf artist". 
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Posted By: Pirlo
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 6:58pm
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It´s "just" chalk, isn´t!? Angry enough, but easy to clear!  ------------- Who the fu&k is Mr. Phanton, and why he has so much power!? |
Posted By: pfly
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:01pm
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That's some sort of wax / oil based crayon "for big boys", used to mark asphalt and such things at construction sites. We tried some alcohol and scrubbing on one LE1200 and it took paint shine away at the same time.We never caught the bastard. |
Posted By: Nox
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:02pm
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"One of my friends caught a guy tagging one of his scoops, he asked him what the f**k he was doing and the chap said "its fine mate...i'm a professional graf artist". So you go along and smash up his car...It's OK mate...I'm a pro auto-destruction artist  ------------- "We've got lumps of it round the back". |
Posted By: Nox
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:07pm
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Looks like it maybe a garden marker pen not chalk...maybe try a little area with IPA see what happens? Looks like a good epoxy finish so it should be quite robust compared to marker ink. ------------- "We've got lumps of it round the back". |
Posted By: Sounds_d_b
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:09pm
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Had a load of our kit tagged at a drum and bass night once - Not one of these pieces of 'street art' was anything other than a talentless scrawl. 'Professional' graffiti artists don't bother tagging other peoples speakers - If they did, I probably wouldn't have minded so much.
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Posted By: bass traffic
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:10pm
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Can't see the pics but I'd be seriously pissed off if someone tagged up my speaker stack. ------------- Always think bigger because your dreams might be the only thing holding you back. |
Posted By: TechnoChef
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:18pm
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Someone in the local area would know who the "professional graff artist" is and where he lives. Some tuff-cab would be much harder to remove! ------------- I think I'm in love with your mum. |
Posted By: bass*en*mass
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:40pm
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Grrr, everytime i see this i wish i catch such a stupid little A**hole one day... At one of the last gigs a "professional idiot" had the great idea to draw a fullsize chalk comic-cat on both stacks of 3x TRS218s - it was no fun at all removing the chalk from the foam... bastards!! Ask the local hip-hop community if they know him and give him the attention he is obviously after ;) |
Posted By: chickenfizz
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 7:46pm
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Some bell-end tagged our trailer while it was outside a venue, it made me very annoyed, absolute thoughtlessness. The marker never came off fully despite trying to remove it with all sorts of chemicals and cleaners. If you've never been victim to this kind of vandalism it's a horrible gutting feeling, so flippin unnecessary!
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Posted By: evolution rob
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:05pm
a similar issue we were in a warehouse with 23 other rigs  ------------- ǝןƃuɐ ʇuǝɹǝɟɟıp ɐ ɯoɹɟ pןɹoʍ ǝɥʇ ʇɐ ʞooן ɐ ƃuıʞɐʇ Evolution Systems Hire, Partys, And general South Norfolk Carnage |
Posted By: The Builder
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:43pm
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"TAG" Silly word invented to make vandalism OK.
Bloody hip hop/scate culture. ------------- It just is. |
Posted By: VentureSound
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 8:55pm
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That would really piss me off. I think Technochef has the right idea. Ask around the local scater/ hip-hop guys and find out who RELA is then go to his house and tag it with "F*CK OFF" using Warnex or similar. Then post pics on here!
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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 9:22pm
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Contact cleaner is your friend! Also, I was hoping this was a thread for showing off the damage you've done to venues!  |
Posted By: Timebomb
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 9:25pm
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Find him and spray paint in his face.
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Posted By: MarjanM
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 10:04pm
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get some box paint and make him eat it. ------------- Marjan Milosevic MM-Acoustics www.mm-acoustics.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/MM-Acoustics/608901282527713 |
Posted By: pfly
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 10:21pm
I guess it is right time to start teaching the young one about safety of me and my gear |
Posted By: tweeter box
Date Posted: 08 August 2011 at 11:42pm
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id introduce his index finger to a hammer!!
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Posted By: mk2_ginger_biscuit69
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 2:04am
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id class that as damage to equipment liable to repair costs to the promotor for not providing adequate/any form of stage security. Surely FOH should have been behind barriers, and especially the stage wedges only accessed by the artists/crew which should be an obvious one. It is pure crap, and must have been obvious to anyone on stage considering how much kit they got around! ------------- ''Remember that the object of a subwoofer is to enhance the output of your main speakers, not overpower it'' ''Dubstep - an elongated electronic fart'' |
Posted By: biotec
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 9:54am
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I did a gig in Denmark last year and some w*nker tagged the back of my truck. I drove all the way from London and get repaid with damage to my truck ------------- me so horny, me love you long throw. |
Posted By: giordihc
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 10:07am
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Once i found 4 bins(of 8)in this conditions..no words. 
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Posted By: dj scratchy
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 12:07pm
with that white crap on the martins and other bits the only thing i can sugest is a pressure washer obv remove all electronics but aslong as they are ply and you dry them fast it should be ok any chemical will remove the cab paint aswell and with the grills if you put them in the freezer it should chip right of all untested methods on speakers but may be worth a go if you run out of ideas the the freezer thing genuinly does work tho my gf used my good screwdrivers to ster paint with  and i done that it came right of
well gutted for all of you that have had this done tagging is stupid and unnessesery the worst thing that ever happend to me was my tms 4s got filled up with cubbish once plastic beer cups crisp packets burst ballons even found a car air freshener in there and that was bad enough ------------- sound, light, trilite, stage decks, complete stage packages indoor and outdoor 07568188104 sl systems sound&light |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 12:20pm
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Find him, tag him.
------------- music is the message |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 12:20pm
or make him clean your cabs, and anything else you can think of
------------- music is the message |
Posted By: Nitz V1505
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 12:43pm
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Mans would never dream of tagging speakers at a reggae do, if they value their lives. If anyone done that do my speakers Id apply an old school custom- make them stand inna very large wok and fill it up with quick drying concrete(so they'd be like subbeteo figures) and take them for a boat ride!!!!!! They'd be sleeping with the fishes!!!!!!! ------------- LET THE BASS ROLL LIKE THUNDER & THE TOPS LIKE LIGHTNING..... |
Posted By: studio45
Date Posted: 09 August 2011 at 1:21pm
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My lockup got tagged up recently, looks rubbish. I'm considering stencilling "WASTEMEN TAG SHUTTERS" in big letters across the shutters, that'll confuse them. Unless they can't read. Or if they can, it might just get my lockup set on fire. All in all I wish me and my length of steel pipe had been there when they did it. Turkish shopkeeper style. I'd need a FLIPPING big dog to win in a dog-off round here, I can tell you. ------------- Studio45 - Repairs & Building Commotion Soundsystem -Mobile PA |
Posted By: chilli
Date Posted: 10 August 2011 at 4:10pm
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had my w8c grilles tagged on a couple of occasions, tried all sorts of solvents/graffiti removal spray, no luck. they're powder coated in grey so in the end i took one to a&m panels and paints on lea bridge road, the guy there spent about 30 mins trying to colour match which was made the more difficult by the perforated dot pattern, eventually he cam e out with an exact match. big can of custom paint £10 he wrote down the ral colour too so if it happens again... little twats with no respect. the same type as are making headlines just now. ------------- Money can't buy you happiness, but it can allow you to be miserable in comfort. |
Posted By: mattd
Date Posted: 10 August 2011 at 4:33pm
| We have hire van absolutly hammered at parties where we have used them to divide up warehouses into arenas, paint and multiple pen tags, many ladies with flaps . we never do it anymore and keep it tucked right behind the rig. |
Posted By: djtowny
Date Posted: 23 August 2011 at 1:34am
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White spirits and scrub then a quick coat of tuffcab you'll be good as new. F**king annoying though.. ------------- LOWDSOUNDZ - www.djtowny.co.nr |
Posted By: thebestjester
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 10:12pm
| People can be so rude when its not their gear. |
Posted By: sonofalesbian
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 10:25pm
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had a girl draw on my speaker grills with lipstick the other day. not really permanent damage but bloody annoying! it went right into the grills so i have to take them off and give them a pressure wash now :/
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Posted By: mrspeedy
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 10:33pm
Thats not as bad as having 2 packs of cheesey wotsits grated into your grill by a child  Foam is behind the grill too, so you can imagine the aftermath! 
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Posted By: Edd Jordan
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 10:51pm
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Funking idiots! ------------- I do a sideline in ply wood wheels. |
Posted By: mrspeedy
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 11:13pm
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Mindless. Absolutely mindless! Cabinets can be cleaned/repainted. But if someone tagged my truck... |
Posted By: Calculus
Date Posted: 16 January 2012 at 11:29pm
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I had a one of these idiots tag the some carpeted cabs also tagge the club.. when congo natty was playing in town... gold paint pen... When leaving the venue i noticed he'd also managed to tag a completely unrelated coach thinking it was a tour bus with some thing related to the artist... not good at all.. Found out who it was by asking some of the other older heads who are in the graff scene was some skinny 17 year old kid. Next question was what did i want to do? so far nothing. But maybe i'll think of a punishment fit for the crime... Maybe its a case of the ultimatum do you want me to go to the police or are you gonna ____ (fill in the blank). ------------- Always a compromise, You can't have everything... Where would you put it all. |
Posted By: tomschute
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 6:57pm
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Not one for graff bashing but when I did St Pauls a couple of years ago some idiot stickered my number plate and another stickered over my tax disk. So I come 150 miles put on a party for free and the thanks I get is getting pulled by the 5 0 at midnight after a carnival. Nice. Tom ------------- Out to lunch... stableaudio@hotmail.co.uk www.stableaudio.co.uk Speaker Building Services |