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Posted by: Harry Murphy (Jul 6, 2002 5:40pm) I read this post some time ago and, aside from the occasion splinter in my hands (?) my feet survived...until last night. In front of a full house of chanting audience members I walked slowly across the glass with bare feet. I reached the other end, slowly walked back to the middle, faced my audience, spread out my arms for complete silence and then jumped up and straight down bare foot onto the glass..... ....I now have to go into the theatre early and clean up the bloody foot prints off the stage! |
Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
Yeah...that sucks.
It's a hard way to make an easy living. freak things like that happen sooner or later. brett
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
If a shard has your name on it, that's it man. Still, you got off on it, didn't you?
I don't jump on the glass, but a shard found me once, and when audience members came up at the end, one of them looked at a shard and asked, "Is that blood?" I picked it up, said, "Why, yes it is," then presented it to him as a memento. For all I know someone is showing it in a grind show now. Yours, Paul |
Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
Haa!
I find both the grindshow refrence and that fact that someone took the bloody glass, extremely funny.
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
People will take anything as a souvenir. I used to get rid of cinder-block chunks that way. Had to autograph them too!
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
Heh yeah...I've done that too.
people are funny in their ways. but I've switched from using a cinder-block to a 70 pound anvil. (a hell of a lot less clean up after a show and makes a nice ringing noise when it gets smacked with my sledge hammer.) Brett
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
I stopped doing cinderblocks unless I know the person swinging the hammer. I got hit the wrong way, a few too many times.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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Freak Prodigy Inner circle NYC & LA 1805 Posts |
Yeah, I know that feeling too!
whenever I use block I always have my partner swing the hammer.
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Slim Price Inner circle 1935 - 2006 1326 Posts |
On the old TV show, "Circus of the Stars", I remember seeing Brooke Shields getting a bad cut on camera. It happens...
Slim
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The Village Idiots Elite user Orlando 464 Posts |
I'll have to ask her about that the next time I see her.
Will
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thegreatnippulini Inner circle of Hell because I've made 2582 Posts |
The most common cinder block injury I've noticed (and I've seen a lot of 'em) would have to be the errant stray chunk of brick fly into one's face while on the bed of nails.
Brett, the BEST place to make an anvil ring nice and loud is the heel of the face (the square flat spot at the back). There are even "musical" anvils available that are used in symphonies and such, but they cost a pretty penny. Also a word of caution: cheap anvils are cast iron and are subject to cracking when hit enough. Technically they're not even anvils, they're referred to as anvil shaped objects (ASO's). A true anvil should be forged wrought iron with a forge welded steel plattern on top, has a square hole in the heel called a hardie hole, marked in English hudredweights and so on. True anvils sell for as much as $5.00 a pound. SO, my 108 pound Wilkinson anvil I use is worth over $400 and I would NEVER use it on a stage. http://www.greatnippulini.com/sagesmithin.jpg
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
The next night I stuffed up my card memory routine. I can tell you which was more painful!
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts |
OW!
With cards, you get paper cuts.
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
And lets not forget my fragile ego.
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