Benny Christmas Lights
On Halloween in 2007, during Jip Jop’s second performance ever, lead vocalist Benny Gershman’s Christmas light costume went haywire when he started sweating on stage. “I basically short-circuited,” Gershman says.
“I was electrocuted. It was sort of a rush of adrenaline, but it was also extremely painful. They called me Benny Christmas Lights after that.”
Are you there, God? It’s me, Michael.
At the end of South Jordan’s Dance Marathon performance last year, the soundman gave a heads up to the band that they only had time for one more song. But Hall didn’t realize the voice was talking into their earpieces, and the audience couldn’t hear it.
“So Michael gets on the mic and was like, ‘Wow, you sound like God. Big God, can we have four more songs?’” drummer Greg Olsten says.
“The crowd thought that I was praying to God,” Hall says.
Drinking on stage
Even though you feel great, you probably don’t sound great. Clayton Anderson Band front man says watching a recording of his drunken performance made him lighten up on the alcohol. “You think you’re awesome,” he says, “but you’re not.”
