Whilst setting up for last night's gig, I discovered that the black stand I'd picked up was an old guitar stand and NOT my mic stand. Our singer refused to give hers up and go handheld. The pub we were playing in sells handmade walking sticks, so I appropriated one from the rack, grabbed a chair and made my own mic stand as in the picture below. This is the second best time that Gaffer tape has saved me, the first being when we used it to stick the front wing of a Ford Transit back on so we could get back from a gig.
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I assumed it would be easy, but it’s unbelievable how much physical and mental effort it takes to hold a mic with your arm stretched out straight in the same place for three minutes!
I could barely play guitar afterwards, my arm was so knackered...
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