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10-19-2001, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: beautiful trash-ridden and smog infested South East Texas | | | Does anyone else NOT get nervous before a gig?
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Whenever I'm about to play, I get more excited then anything. Sure, there's the fear in the back of my mind that somethings going to screw up, but its never really bothered me. I'm not really an outgoing person or anything, its just that I've never really experienced stage fright.
Anyone else feel the same?
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10-20-2001, 12:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Sweden | | | I don't think I'm nervous BEFORE the gig, but as soon as I get on stage my hands start to shiver and my mouth gets all dry and funny. Does that count?
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10-20-2001, 07:14 AM
|  | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | | I'm probably as NOT nervous as possible before you enter the realm of mental disorders. I really look forward to it, it's like Christmas morning as a kid.
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10-20-2001, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Hmmm...well, I'm with Oyster there, only my hand's don't shiver, and my mouth doesn't go dry. I just get a big adrenaline rush from being nervous, even if it's just a little bit. Plug in, goof around for the (very quick and usually bad) sound check, and once I play my first note in our first song...it all just goes away. 
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10-20-2001, 11:35 AM
|  | Mad showoff 7-stringer | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NW suburban Chicago | | | I've always found i play better with a little pre-gig jitters. Adrenaline buzz gets things going, I guess.
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10-20-2001, 11:41 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Newberg, Oregon | | | I am not nervous about my playing at all... A little of the pre-gig adrenaline rush, but like Eli, I find that to be beneficial. It's wondering if the flake-out drummer is going to show up or not that tends to freak me out!!!
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10-20-2001, 02:15 PM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | I get a huge rush while playing. Before I gig, sure I get a some last minute thoughts that something bad might happen, but usually during the middle of the first song I'll be all into it.
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10-20-2001, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: London | | | I've never really been nervous. I'm usually on edge, especially when the bands before mine are playing, but I can't say I've ever been really nervous before a gig. Having said that, I get a little knot in my stomach in the second or so while the drummer counts in the first song, but that's about it.
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10-20-2001, 04:21 PM
| | | | Re: Does anyone else NOT get nervous before a gig?
Quote: Originally posted by Every1TookMyName
Anyone else feel the same? | It really depends for me. If it's a gig that I play regularly with songs that I know well, I am not going to be nervous about it.
If it's a one-off jazz gig playing with great musicians that I don't really know, playing songs that are difficult, no matter how many times I practise, I get nervous... |
10-20-2001, 08:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | I get so worked up to the point i nearly throw up. Its goo because it means i switched on and ready cause of all that adrenalin.
Although the gig before last, i was so calm it was disturbing. The whole band was, and boy was it a bomb night. Drummer missed cues (  ), i just didn't get that groove, guitarist dropped his guitar during change overs etc.
Nerves is good. 
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10-20-2001, 10:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: 6.02 x 10^23 microns away | | I used to get REALLY nervous, but after spending 2 years with the drama department at my school getting up in front of people is something I look forward too.
I LOVE being the center of attention. HEY, EVERYONE!!!! LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!!!!
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10-21-2001, 12:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | ::Aims at the jester's crotch with a sniper rifle::
*crackle*
Permission to take him out, sir?
*crackle*
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But that thought becomes but a whisper, as I bring my fingers to gently caress her neck. Her beautiful, slim neck.
Then, without saying a word, I ease my hands down the length of her body, and slowly remove her G string... |
10-21-2001, 02:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Hemet, CA USA | | I have'nt gotten nervouse at a gig in a very, very long time. I'm pretty much like alot of the guys here when I say that I look forward to it. Gig time is like Christmas, New Years, and a little Easter all rolled togeather.
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10-21-2001, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Providence RI | | I use to have a big problem with nerves
before a gig. ( if it was a big gig I'd get
butterflies weeks before the gig).
Unfortunately I overcame my nerves.
I say unfortunately because I miss
the nervous excitement.I will always love
to gig, but there is nothing like pre-gig
butterflies.
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10-21-2001, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: 6.02 x 10^23 microns away | | Quote: Originally posted by Sheep Man
::Aims at the jester's crotch with a sniper rifle::
*crackle*
Permission to take him out, sir?
*crackle* | HA!!! Go ahead, take your best shot. I'M wearing my lucky rocketship underpants, and NOTHING can defeat those!!!!
Rock on
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10-22-2001, 06:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Australia | |
I probly would but me and the guitarist have a few drinks before our gigs.
The drummer can't else he ****s up and the vocalist has to sing so it helps him not to drink.
But everyone reckons we put on a hell of a show cos ya loosen up a bit and don't care so much about what the audience think about the way you move and my playing is always heaps smoother too.
-Exo
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10-22-2001, 06:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | Quote: Originally posted by Eric Cameron
HA!!! Go ahead, take your best shot. I'M wearing my lucky rocketship underpants, and NOTHING can defeat those!!!!
Rock on
Eric | *crackle*
Court jester is wearing his lucky rocketship underpants, but no worries, I've got my lucky beer mug boxers on, sir.
Still waiting for authorization to make the shot, over.
*crackle*
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"Aaah"...a sigh of pleasure escapes my lips as I run my fingers over her body. Her perfect, round curves leave me wondering, "How did I end up with her? Why me?"
But that thought becomes but a whisper, as I bring my fingers to gently caress her neck. Her beautiful, slim neck.
Then, without saying a word, I ease my hands down the length of her body, and slowly remove her G string... |
10-22-2001, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: The Dark Side Of the Moon | | I thought I was the only one! I've never been nervous before playing, I cant wait to get out there. I'd be more nervous if I was the singer, or even lead guitarist, but I dont worry in the slightest. I do have a couple of drinks usually before playing, but that is to make me limbre up and put me in the mood, not for nerves or anything like that. Guess I just love being up there in the spot light, its just so darn cool 
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10-22-2001, 08:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Winston-Salem, NC -- "The City That Always Sleeps" | | | I never get nervous before a gig, although I have experienced "flop sweat" during shows when the band isn't going over with the crowd or we aren't playing particularly well as a group. Fortunately, I guess, I don't dwell on such possibilities before the show, so I'm not prone to jitters. |
10-22-2001, 10:01 AM
| | - that dog won't hunt, Monsignor. Moderator | | | | Quote: Originally posted by Sheep Man
*crackle*
Court jester is wearing his lucky rocketship underpants, but no worries, I've got my lucky beer mug boxers on, sir.
Still waiting for authorization to make the shot, over.
*crackle* | You are a little crazy, I think. I have glow in the dark skull and crossbones boxers on, top that you bastards!!!
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