I don't think I'd take a boat gig, I'm scared of deep water.RefD wrote:you had me going until the bit about the Chilean Coast Guard.dwlb wrote:Back in 2000 I took a six-month gig running sound for a cruise ship line that ran cruises from the Straits of Gibraltar to Cape Horn and back. Not a bad gig, wireless mics for 6 singer/actor/dancers in Mickey Mouse/Minnie Mouse/Donald Duck costumes and DAT playback in the afternoon, and a jug band in the evenings. An old Soundcraft 200B board that was similar to the one I'd used in college. You know, the blue and grey one with the red and yellow caps on the knobs. Lots of time off to eat shrimp and flirt with wealthy 55-year-old women. One day, just after leaving port at Punta Arenas, we were beset by pirates. 4 of the actors and I were taken prisoner along with many of the passengers. As fate would have it the pirates had previously captured another cruise ship, one which employed a former member of His Name Is Alive as cruise director. She happened to have a copy of TapeOp #9 (for the Warren Defever article) which I was able to read during our captivity.
Of course, we escaped, by rewiring Minnie and Goofy's wireless mics, which they were still wearing when captured, in order to signal the Chilean Coast Guard. There's more to the story, and it really is quite exciting and fascinating, but the TapeOp thing's really the important part.
Though I did briefly entertain hanging it all up to become a helicopter pilot this afternoon.
Oddly, parts of that story are true.