Story time
I'm sure you've seen that video of the gal destroying a song even though she was "really getting into it" Reminded me of this.....
I was working at a music store in the 80s that had two locations. One had a recording studio. Every so often we'd get a student that had a project going on. This one time it was a girl that was in one of the local pageants that eventually led to the Miss NJ pageant. She wanted us to record a backing track of "Come in From the Rain". Easy enough. But she wanted thunder in the background.
There was one guy that was always at the studio. Anytime it looked like it was going to rain, he'd open a window and stick a mic out the window hoping to get the sound of real thunder. Nope. Nada. Nuttin'.
So now we're playing with synthesizers trying to come up with thunder. I came up with a sound I was sure would please her. She comes in, and like the typical pageant brat, hears it and hates it. Not kinda sorta hates it, she pitches a fuss and says "you better have it by next week!" and storms out.
After she leaves, we're sitting there thinking.....and thinking.....and more thinking...I look towards the bathroom and then BOOM, I got it. The engineer is looking at me like I lost my mind. He's watching me take the mic stand with the mic on it into the bathroom. "I don't wanna hear you taking a shit!" Trust me you'll love this.
I take the boom stand and point the mic towards the toilet. I tell him, record with a higher tape speed. He's still looking at me weird saying "oh KAAAAAAAAAaayyyyyyyyy?" He starts the tape, I flush the toilet. I said ok, now play it back normal speed. He is laughing his ass off....omg it sounds like thunder!
So we record it a few times with the other tracks, pissing ourselves laughing. We get that done, I call her saying, come on back, we got it. She shows up all pissy again. I was the only one there since I was the only one that could keep a straight face. I play the tape....and she LOVES it. "OOOOOOO! I have my thunder!" She leaves, the guys came from the other room "Well?" She loved it. And all hell breaks loose. Guys were in the floor laughing in the fetal position.
Pageant time! I'm there with the girl's singing teacher. The girl is onstage, doing pretty good actually. I'm trying SOOOOO hard not to laugh. She didn't win, ah well. So, her teacher gets in my car and asks me what was so funny. So I told her......
YOU MADE MY STUDENT SING TO A TOILET??????????
