Hijinx!

Gotta love that.

I have this neighbor buddy who's an audiophile and I'm still waiting to see when he'll realize I changed the polarity to his right speaker without telling him.

On a more serious note...

While my roomie was in the shower in our old apartment, I snuck the stereo speakers (A/D/S) to the doorway of the bathroom and flipped on that cut from Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" that starts with the loud clanging. It made him fall down.

I had an old War LP with this weird buzz/warp/modulation sort of noise that I recorded onto a cassette and had a friend who was "Mister Car Stereo" play "Low Rider" on his Jensen triaxials.

I had him convinced his woofers were broken.

This one time, in L.A., I was with my Hi-Fi buddy at a store where someone was auditioning a pair of N.E.A.R. speakers, but the left speaker wasn't playing. We pointed out how the one speaker that was playing imaged amazingly well, and he believed what we were saying!

That was a good one.

Oh, I gots a million of 'em!

lololololol
No need for anyone to pull this prank on me.I did it to myself.I recall sitting in my hi-fi chair,listening to this lp at full volume when then VZZZZZZTTTTTT come on.I jumped from the chair thinking "oh shit,i blew everything up" and started fiddling with the amp's buttons to check what went wrong and the damn thing kept on playing on low volume for a minute or so,if you remember the song.Believe me,it was one of the longest minutes of my life rotfl

I worked for Bill at GNP in the early 80's and I remember him telling me about the prank. I believe it is traditional to play Ride of the Valkyries the morning finals begin at CalTech. Bill and his brother put a huge PA system on top of one of the buildings (10's of 1000's of Watts) and blasted Ride at something like 6:00 AM. Supposedly could be heard for miles around.

I know this is unspeakably cruel, and please don't hate me for it...

When we were around age 18-20, one of my buddies decided that Blondie (the group, Jeff, OK?) was the be all and end all of human evolution and music making.

That's all we'd hear at his place or in his car.

He wasn't monomaniacal, but he definitely didn't pay much attention to his other records.

So, we decided we'd switch some discs around and see how long it took until he realized it.

Usually, the gag is to only switch sleeves and covers, but we went that extra step and switched sleeves, records, and covers - so any given LP would have and LP that didn't match, as well as a sleeve holding the LP that didn't match either the cover or the LP.

He noticed!

I think it was still years later that he'd go to open an obscure LP and then start swearing about some things still not matching.

LOL @ the Blondie continuity!

I thought you were going to say that you pasted different labels on the records...

I have a pair of GNP 220's I bought from them there in Pasadena. I got a 10% discount for being a Caltech student, I believe they said the GNP speakers or store were created by ex-Caltech students and that was the reason for the discount.

And yes, Ride of the Valkyries was played every Finals week, more of a tradition when I was there than a prank.

I wish I could have afforded the Valkyrie speakers instead of the 2nd-best 220's but they are really sweet anyway.

Sorry for reviving an old post, just searching for GNP info on Google when I found this and thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.