OK. Here's a good story. I will try to make it short, I have told it enough times to keep to the best details.
Red Rocks Colorado 1984, Grateful Dead's summer run. for any who have been there and taped you will really appreciate this story. If you haven't been there, be aware that the amphitheatre is on the side of the mountain. You have to line up at one of 4 entrances which can wind from close to a parking lot all the way to where they take tickets. In those days, they would open up the gates by noon so we could all get in and get plenty ready for the show. If you weren't in line by 8 Am you were not going to be FOB. Of ocurse, the only GD taping back then was FOB as this was just beore they started the section.
One additional piece of information: the venue hated tapers and did not "officially" allow tapers in, however, if you got in your gear, most of the inside security ignored us and let us tape.
MY buddy notices on night 1 as we were all getting hassled pretty hard trying to sneak in equipment that the mens bathroom had a "window" carved out only about 5 feet off the floor of the bathroom, but it was against one of the sides of the mountain, so the base of this window was about 15 feet below on a part of the rocks near one entrance where you might wait in line. the best part, after we looked at this spot was that it was out of sight of any security. Sooooooo, being the sneaky Deadheads that we were, we concocted this plan.
The plan was to bring in some climbing rope with a D Link attached and a couple of nearly empty backpacks with some one in line that had no gear. That morning,we slowly put all the gear in small groups behind the base of the bathroom and had two of us wait all morning in that spot so we wouldn't get noticed. then my buddy started to tell the other tapers who showed up in line. In the end, about 5 sets of mics and almost 15 Sony D-5's and various accessories were waiting to get hoisted up with the rope. Sure enough, about 10 minutes after the gates opened, my buddy was in the bathroom letting the yellow rope with pack attahced down from the window. Me and the other guy start loading mics. decks, batteries and what have you in to the bag, the bag starts to get tugged in and won't go through the opening, it's too full! it was like a scene from a spy movie, they tug a few times, notice it won't make it in and lower it back down to us. we notice what is wrong and load it half as full. BOOM, it goes through! he drops the empty pack back down and we just kept going until all the gear was inside!!!
They told us it was a little weird looking if any one noticed several dudes go in the bathroom with empty back packs and leave with full to the brim packs and mic stands, the whole bit.
That's my story, and I'm sticking with it!!!!!!!!