Cascading F UP's

[ric1312]

LOL, I heard someone in another thread use the terminology, "cascading F UP's." Last gig I truly understood the meaning of it.

Set was going good, then we get to the one song that I regularly screw up the intro for. I made it a point to practice the part and even count to the ninth fret, because that seems to be the problem as I don't usually play up there.

So, intro comes I count to the fret. I'm sure I'm on the ninth, intro starts, and *** wrong notes? WTH is wrong? I go up a bit thinking maybe I was wrong? In the heat of battle did I miss count the frets?

No matter what I do it's wrong. Guitar player is looking at me.

Come to find out after wards that the guitar player started playing a different song than me and the drummer. One that started at a similar fret location. Meanwhile, I'm thinking it's me, (because it usually is) and every note I hit is wrong for some reason.

So, the guitarist started the wrong song, which caused me to go to a wrong note(s), which then caused the guitar player again to screw up even when remembering to play the right song. We went back and forth like this for the whole intro. And Thus we have "Cascading F UP's"

We laughed about it later, the rest of the set went great, moments like those are really humbling though.

[Baird6869]

That happened to me recently while playing STP's Interstate Love Song. The intro was perfect until the riff goes into an open E. I hit the open E and it sounded like crap. I started moving around in a panic trying to find the right note and of course the guitard does the same thing. After about 10 seconds (seemed like hours!) the guitard realized he was still in drop D so his open E was actually a low D. Dumba$$!

Cascading is a great term for this!