DAT-heads Digest #600, Volume #7 Sat, 10 Sep 05 16:50:01 EDT Contents: Re: Airplanes and Taping Gear?? (Dennis Bathory-Kitsz) Hot Tuna/Jorma Kaukonen Taping Policy (Jbg0402@aol.com) re: airplanes & taping gear (roy dripps) Flying with equipment..... (michael ryan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz Subject: Re: Airplanes and Taping Gear?? Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:28:55 -0400 >From: j.rioux@comcast.net >Subject: Re: Airplanes and Taping Gear?? >Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:04:16 +0000 >I put my bag on the conveyor and before I could get through >the detector myself the woman at the xray machine was freaking >out and two people were tearing into my bag. I calmly walked >up to them and said something like "you probably saw my audio >recording microphones. I packed them right on top of my bag so >I could get to them easily and show you." I ended up pulling the >mics out and unscrewing the caps so they could see what they >were. I even had to explain how they worked. The 3 workers >were pretty freaked out. I think they thought I had bombs. In >fact I conciously made sure I didn't joke about it, or the fact that >they must've looked like bombs. Don't even think that word if >you're getting checked. I've been through numerous times with a backpack full of taping gear -- DAT, minidisc, tapes, discs, microphones (including a set of binaurals on a handmade frame), PZMs, camera, etc. It's totally a roll of the dice. I'm leaving in three weeks for Europe again, and I'll have a laptop as well as a Theremin in my carry-on. Hoo-hah. Can't wait to discover what my $187 in security fees per ticket pay for this time! Sometimes they wave me through, sometimes they try to figure out what they're looking at, sometimes they take everything apart -- and *then* try to figure out what they're looking at. The two most absurd checks happened in Philadelphia and Boston. In Philadelphia, I had three black Sony bags of recording gear inside my backpack. The uniform set them side by side with great care. He opened the first, took everything out, carefully examined it and asked me about it, and put it back. He opened the second, and did the same. Then he opened the *first* again, and examined it all and asked about it again! He totally ignored the third. He had lost track of what he was doing within two minutes. They took away my wife's surgical scissors from our medical kit though, even though she had her nursing license with her. The second absurdity was coming back into Boston with a plane change, where we had to go back through inspection. Again, my backpack was full of tech, and uniform #1 said to uniform #2, "check that bag!" Uniform #2 saw it on the monitor, and went around to grab it. He carefully watched the bags come out of the scanner and picked up a pack full of stuffed teddy bears belonging to the woman behind me and started pulling everything out. The Philly guy couldn't count up to three, and the Boston guy couldn't count up to two. I put on my pack and walked away. Like with the three Sony bags, I never, ever, *ever* talk to them. And this time they took away my wife's *plastic* knitting needles -- even though past the inspection point they had restaurants with *metal* silverware in Amsterdam! Most inspections have been half-hearted stuff. The only time I really set off nervous scurrying was bringing six small cans of maple syrup to friends in Europe. O-my-gawd! Metal cans! It took a half hour for them to release the baggage (it was checked baggage, too) and we ended up being the last to board to the scowls of the rest of the passengers. Ah, well, Have fun! Dennis ------------------------------ From: Jbg0402@aol.com Subject: Hot Tuna/Jorma Kaukonen Taping Policy Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:17:09 EDT Hello All, you can find the official policy concerning Hot Tuna and Jorma Kaukonen at the following address http://www.hottuna.com/faq.htm Hope this helps Jason Greenberg ------------------------------ From: roy dripps Subject: re: airplanes & taping gear Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 21:02:33 -0700 (PDT) A few years back (before 9/11), the screeners were sure they had a live one in my carry-on. Turns out they were keeping the country safe from the dangers of Lee Oskar harmonicas.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: michael ryan Subject: Flying with equipment..... Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Hey Now All! I normally have to fly outta a little podunkt airport, ACV to be exact. Talk about Gestapo! Anyway, I have come to the conclusion that it's easier and safer to send it Fed-ex or UPS, 2nd day in the original box'es or my specialized cases. Have the Airline your flying give you several ' Fragile " stickers, if you do not have them already on, say from the last service you had done. Send them directly to your hotel or friends/ families house. It's a lot less stressful...HOWEVER... If you do decide to take your equipment on the plane, go to eco-charge's website and download the battery certification that is Govt. approved. Again saves a little headache. Hope this helps, Peace, Michael in Humboldt ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** To unsubscribe from this digest, please send email to dat-heads-unsubscribe@datheads.phish.net If your email address has changed, you may (optionally) send the message to dat-heads-unsubscribe-oldaddress=olddomain@datheads.phish.net and the old address will be removed. 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