F**king candles!
Why couldn't they just have lava lamps like everyone else?
I remember a few years back in my radio engineering career, some dickwack put candles on top of a stereo triple decker cart machine in the control room.
The f**king candles, of course, were not he dripless kind.
Imagine trying to get wax out of the innards and salvage the machine, at which time was not a cheap item to replace.
If Steve got really lucky, maybe the candles set fire to those hippy tie died curtains and burned the entire facility to the ground so he could move on to some more suitable recording facility.