You Know You're Addicted To Taping When....

[Doin]

I got these from a thread at www.taperssection.com
How many of these can you relate to?


YOU KNOW YOU'RE ADDICTED TO TAPING WHEN....

Within the first 5mins of getting home from a show your transferring it, onto tracking, then to cd and or bit torrent.

you don't go to a show cause you know you can't tape

you leave a show because you got busted during the first song. "my night is ruined, i'm going home to sulk."

your in the front of the line and you opt for 15th row center or 1st row balcony...

upon arriving home from concert, your wife wants to have sex, and you think: "Ok, this sets back my listening to the tape back by how many minutes?"
You do NOT think those types of thoughts out loud, however, or risk mortal peril.

when you buy two tickets to a theater show and your girlfreind says, "thanks for getting me one!" - to which you reply, "that seat is for the gear!"

you can't enjoy watching a show unless you're taping!

The house sound man asks you after the show how you liked the mix, and then for a copy...
when you help talk a local venue into building a tapers box to help protect the gear and get the mics closer to center

you schelp around 15 lbs of gear in the nasty summer heat for a three day festival just to tape 5 bands....

when your girlfriend doesn't like going to shows with you anymore... or when you don't like going to shows with your girlfriend anymore...

When you start taking bagpipe lessons and you ask the instructor if it's cool if you set up your rig to record the classes.

when you tape your own wedding

when you go on vacation and ponder bringing your gear along just incase you go to a bar that has live music

when you bum dats, instead of cigarettes, off your buddies

When you fly in from Chicago for Rockygrass and lug in two full rigs and say you "probably" won't do that again next year.


Taking along the stealth rig just in case I'm shut-down from open taping. This has saved me 2 times already.

Figuring out how I can hit x amount of shows, still work, and not use up many vacation days.

Leaving halfway betwen your first cousin's wedding to get to the venue "early" to set-up.

when you skip out on your little sister's wedding reception early and discreetly, including skipping the bride's father's toast to the happy couple and first dance with the bride, so you can get to the Panic show on time (true)

when your friends complain that you always go to shows "way too early" so you can set up the gear
When you tell friends that you're going on vacation to a certain city and they ask you: "Oh, yeah? Who are you taping there?"

your main concern with airport security is the demagnetizing of your dat tapes

your normal view of the show is with two mics and a stand right in your line of sight, and you like it that way
A: at shows, you grumble when the first set is longer than 80 minutes
B: you get excited when you can fit the show on two discs with the first set and encore fitting on disc one

When you set up an calendar event email, through Ticketmaster, for all the venues in your area.

when you're such a regular at a venue that the house sound guy is willing to get you a "stealth" board patch b/c the band wont allow it that night.

you're in church and all you can think about is that the choir sounds so good, how can you stealth tape them.

You're critical of the sound at every show; even live TV shows.

You go to a festival with enough power to tape all the sets you want to tape,
and wind up running back and forth to the car to recharge batteries all weekend long
because you wind up recording Everything

..when you get pissed at your wife and kids when they talk during a Children's show you are stealthing

after coming home from a show you close your eyes to sleep, and you can still see the lights dancing from the SVU-1

... when you are shopping for maternity wear with your girlfriend and while she is trying things on you notice a black diaper bag that just might work as a rig bag... had some time..just not enough padding but the size, # of pouches > Perfect!

You throw in a new CD (studio release) & your 1st thought is "wow, no crowd chatter"

When you bring the old deck out on vacation to Disney World to tape some of the classics. Anyone for a stealth of Pirates of the Carribbean, or Spaceship Earth?

If you set off the metal detector while only wearing your underwear.

you don't even hesitate to wear a fanny-pack in public.

...when you contemplate wearing Breath Right Strips in a classical concert, while stealthing, to cut down on breathing noise on the tape.

..you know you (or the gear) foobar'd a stealth run and you are just not ready to toss in the towel on the crappy sound.

taping dreams that forewarn batteries dying/tapes running out, etc

You fubar a stealth recording and decide to drive to the next town to make up for your loss.

When you can't go to a ball game without stealthing it (but only "for archival purposes" of course).

You ask your 10 year old son to ask his music teacher if they would like the Holiday musical taped.

you've got a bad cold but still want to stealth a show, so all night you suppress your cough reflex even though it makes your eyes tear.

you taped so many shows last summer that you can only think of a few when someone asks you about it.

your entire weekend is gonna be spent in front of a computer tracking shows because your computer HD is full of untracked shows and you still have shows on your JB3 to transfer

you tape so many shows that you start driving to the wrong venue

Once tape is rolling, you won't leave a show no matter how much the band sucks because you want to get the complete set.

You don't go to a show because the acoustics of the venue suck.....

you're sitting in small claims court and all you can think about is "i wonder what kinda mics the judge is talking into"?

You (stealth) record the circus when you take your child there...

People in the local clubs just know you as "taper guy".

First you tell your wife you'll be going in to the lab to work during the evening, then you 'fess up and tell here just to call the pub and ask for "taper guy".

When you ask the doctor if it's cool to run a stand while your wife gives birth.

your friends say that your were talking in your sleep all night about your levels and how the MicroTrack keeps cutting off.

[Bert Jan]

OMG!! That makes my day! Thanks!

[MetDream]

I sure am glad that there are crazed tapers like that out there in the metal world!!! That was a great read! Thanks.

[Danallica]

when you buy two tickets to a theater show and your girlfreind says, "thanks for getting me one!" - to which you reply, "that seat is for the gear!"

lol

When you ask the doctor if it's cool to run a stand while your wife gives birth.

Thats some funny shit double time

[fey-metallica]

Soooo many soooo correct The others are great for a good laugh