The Concert Speakers Are A Lie [Image Cache]

My life was just flipped, turned the wrong way up and I didn’t even need to move to California. It just took one photo, a dozen instant messages, and a handful of emails to substantiate that I’ve been lied to by musicians.

My first reaction once I saw the photo above was to believe that it usually is fake, but several searches for additional information ended in an analogous answer: It’s from a summer performance of a band called Immortal and it’s real. The band had used a pretend wall of amps for some reason-probably to seem more ” hardcore” or whatever this is metal bands aspire to be-and got caught.

The next thought was that perhaps it may it’s just an extraordinary one-time act of concert stage trickery. But unfortunately a sequence of emails and instant messages to musicians, stage hands, equipment providers, and club managers revealed the sorrowful truth: It’s not too uncommon for bands to hooked up fake stacks of speakers or amps-hell, empty amp cabinets are usually sold for that precise purpose.

Was I the last person on the earth to test this sham? I think deceived, but I guess that’s some kind of karmic punishment for browsing Reddit once I need to be writing a Gizmodo post.

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