Many stories, but one of my favorites was in Michigan, but nowhere near "that school up north". I was at a Holiday Inn and we just set up grabbing power from wherever we could. I plugged my keyboards into an outlet just off stage right and set everything up. Now sound check was like at 4pm and the place was not busy at all to the point where there were 2 customers in there, both drinking bottled beer. We got everything set up and headed out for dinner and to relax before the 9pm start time.

So comes gig time, we head downstairs. The first song called for me to play sax. The second song started a short medley of the old Motown greatest hits. Playing along on my ESQ-1 on an organ sound. Suddenly I am playing flute. I dug back to the organ patch, internal bank one, sound 3. Played another 45 seconds, suddenly I am playing brass. This went on for about 5 songs. Then between songs, the room was fairly quiet as we talked some smack to the crowd, and I noticed that my board changed again, this time as I was watching the display. I also heard a sound like an electric relay from the bar area exactly at the same time.

I figured out that my keyboards were plugged in on the same circuit as the ice maker. Every time the compressor on the ice machine kicked in it caused a very brief voltage dropout, which my keyboard for some reason was seeing as me pressing a button to change sounds. I relocated my rig to another outlet on another circuit and everything was fine after that. I would have had another clue from the sampler (EPS 16+), but the sample disc in the sampler had only the horn section sound on it. The voltage drop WAS rebooting my sampler but the same sound loaded back in every time so I never noticed.