Re: It shoulda been a Goff ...

[GOFFProf@aol.com]

Pete Levin wrote a "HAMMOND-players Worst Nightmare" post about his rental
nightmare. It ended with --

<< Never mind.  I'm just venting.  Cheeez, what a night! >>

Pete-- If it makes you feel any better, I hear a lot of stories similar to
yours. Jimmy McGriff told me his nightmare story about the night he and Jimmy
Smith were to play a "dueling B" set together at Carnegie Hall (of all
places) and one B-3 died, so they rolled out a crappy piano and rolled the
dead B off stage.  Somebody got it running and rolled it back on stage and
rolled the piano off stage. Then the other B-3 died and was never
resusitated.  The show received poor reviews and both Jimmy's were pissed at
S.I.R. Rental for such "terrific" rental equipment. 

So, Pete, I suggest you carry your VOCE V-3 with you as a spare... just in
case.  Bring a Leslie too, and a pedal preamp, spare cable,  .....   :-)

Did you consider beating the crap out of the rental equipment owner?  Sal,
Tony and others (me too) will help.........

I wonder how the rentals are Down-under in Australia? 

Al