19-12-2011, 08:07 AM
I have to confess to being a party to nearly setting fire to a Stéphane Grappelli concert in around 1974! The concert was at the teacher training college in York where my brother was a student, and involved with setting up the stage lighting. I was visiting and got roped in. We had a big cable drum, coiled up, supplying the lighting. All was going well until somebody smelled hot rubber. The cable on the drum was too hot to touch and, even on the outside, starting to get sticky! Panic! We either plunge the concert into darkness or attempt to unroll the cable, live and on the verge of melting. Somehow we managed the latter and spread it out to cool. Phew! The audience (and Stéphane Grappelli) were oblivious to how close to disaster we were.
It was a bl**dy good concert, by the way!!
Andy
It was a bl**dy good concert, by the way!!
Andy
