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06-01-2011, 01:33 AM
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For me: Phantom of the Opera ... and I fumbled it pretty badly, but somehow got through to the end. That was a long, long time ago, but still a big learning experience.
Anyone else tried something a little too ambitious for their first stage performance?
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06-01-2011, 01:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | That is a tricky one, especially during the first part where it goes from the regular riff, to the intro riff, then back to the regular riff. Hell, I still can't really play that intro riff on time for the life of me.
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06-01-2011, 02:07 AM
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06-01-2011, 02:19 AM
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I don't really remember...
With bass guitar in my High School Days I think maybe it was "Dreaming You" by Heatwave.. I might be wrong tho..
Before play bass I was a keyboardist/vocalist first in my band.. It was "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band we played at prompt night in my 9th grade..
Actually far before that, in my Elementary School days I was playing Double Bass too (stand on a chair hahaa).. But I forgot the song we played on the stage.
Ironically I never play Double Bass again since then...
What a nostalgic thread
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06-01-2011, 02:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | Either Smells Like Teen Spirit or All The Small Things. Well, I did (or attempted to do) a psychedelic intro to that gig with my bass and our drummer. Didn't go down well. Especially at that kinda gig.
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06-01-2011, 02:27 AM
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06-01-2011, 02:58 AM
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06-01-2011, 03:30 AM
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Nothing too ambitious here, -86, IIRC Killed by Death, Motörhead.
Sung as well.
I'm not absolutely certain it was that tune, but it was among the first three at least.
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06-01-2011, 03:45 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | That's going back a ways-I think it was some nameless Jr. High Jazz Band tune I've long forgotten at the Castleberry High School Jazz Festival in Ft. Worth, TX. That's got to be 1971, so I'll excuse myself if the Memory Bank doesn't work as well as it once did.
I'm sure it was played through my Gibson Thor 2x10 bass amp with my Kalamazoo Mother of Particleboard EB-0 copy and I'm pretty sure I was wearing a brushed corduroy pair of purple bell bottoms (Chess King's finest!) and some granny glasses as I tried to channel Roger McGuinn of The Byrds. 
One vivid memory I have is that the fuse blew on the bass amp and our band director put some tinfoil from a gum wrapper around the fuse and I made it though our 2-3 tunes.
The first "Rock Band" song on stage was likely Badge by Cream.
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06-01-2011, 03:48 AM
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06-01-2011, 04:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Morris County, New Jersey | | | 'Living After Midnight' and I'm not sure if I was even breathing while I played it....
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06-01-2011, 04:21 AM
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Endorsing artist: Musicman basses, Hipshot products | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: New York City | | | Kiss - Deuce. I think. On guitar. First song I ever played onstage on bass was an original from a band I don't remember that I played with for about 2 months. |
06-01-2011, 04:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Wickham, UK | | Umm, Elvis Presley - Hound Dog with the school ensemble 
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06-01-2011, 04:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Kingston, ON, Canada | | | I don't count my elementary school performance because, well, I have no idea what I played.
My first song was an original that the guitarist wrote which I also sang. 'Up & Down'. It sucked. We played a 6 song set and got a tepid response from the crowd of 12 (including us).
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06-01-2011, 04:38 AM
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06-01-2011, 04:45 AM
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06-01-2011, 05:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: cincinnati | | | hmm.. it Plush** (STP) or Whatshername** (green day) at a high school variety show. cant remember which i did first. either way, i was terrified.
the next year was much more ambitious. Stare at the Sun* (thrice), a 3 man rendition of Wish You Were Here**, an original with my band, and Broken** (seether) as a duet. we closed the night with a giant open reggae jam.
phoned it in the last year with 2 or 3 originals from the same band, Swing Life Away* (rise against) and filled in on guitar for a cover of Heart Full of Soul.
* denotes solo acoustic performances
** denotes group acoustic preformances
and somehow i didnt get most musically inclined in the high school superlative. hmph
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06-01-2011, 05:14 AM
| | | | S#*t Bird, an original.
It went over like gang busters.
All 7 people in the audience loved it.
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06-01-2011, 05:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Columbia, SC | | | not counting stuff from kindergarten and elementary school, i think it was a cover of 2 skinnee j's "You're a Champion" that i did both bass and half of the vocals on, at a skate park when i was in middle school.
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06-01-2011, 05:29 AM
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