Dumbest thing I've ever been told at a gig. Ever. - Page 10

jay stevens · #**181** 10-02-2012, 11:01 PM

I've got a ton of them over the years, but here's the most recent one:
I'm playing a dive with a classic rock cover band and in between songs a women yells out "you guys are way better than the band that was here last night"
we WERE the band from last night. We played both nights.

Noosh · #**182** 10-03-2012, 02:14 AM

My band was playing a really nice local bar for the first time. We were setting up and the sound guy came onstage. I told him he could use the DI on my amp, to which he replies "oh I don't run the bass through the PA" ??? Alrighty then. He does however run the kick through his subs so rediculously loud that the walls of the place shake. When I come back on stage to start our set I realize he has mic'd my cab with a 58. I could've sworn this guy just told me he wasn't going to put me through the PA.

murphy · #**183** 10-03-2012, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by bassgod0dmw

Would you call an Epiphone a Gibson? A Squier a Fender?

I never understood (and still don't) why ESP and LTD are an interchangeable name. It's a slap in the face to anyone that owns a "real" ESP, especially a US model.

Ok, I understood LTD to be a line of ESP basses...for metal mostly....made offshore.
Lakland, Fender etc.
Did not know it was its' own seperate brand/company.

okcrum · #**184** 10-04-2012, 12:53 PM

Band leader says (after a smoking set) "So, that club I've been trying to get into for XX years called about booking us. I told them no 'cause we were already booked that night."

LumberjackTBird · #**185** 10-04-2012, 01:23 PM

Setting up for a small, artsy type place that was bringing in a "full band" for a block party. Preface is they were barely covering half our gas.

We have been set-up for 30 min, have about 15 before we are supposed to start, and me and our rhythm guitarist, who are both sound men at our church, can't even find the sound board. Dude walks in and asks if we are the band. He says he is the sound guy, and apologies for being late. No big deal, we sound check, he grabs his stuff and starts to leave. We ask him where he is going, and he says, oh, they only pay me to set up and sound check the bands, most bands don't need a sound guy here for two hours!

So they paid him to be there for 10 min, but can't pay us for playing for 2 hours!

Luckily the guitarist had wireless so he could adjust through the night...

Downunderwonder · #**186** 10-06-2012, 03:36 AM

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Originally Posted by okcrum

Band leader says (after a smoking set) "So, that club I've been trying to get into for XX years called about booking us. I told them no 'cause we were already booked that night."

That's good business. The honeypot club only needs reliable smoking hot bands.

okcrum · #**187** 10-06-2012, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Downunderwonder

That's good business. The honeypot club only needs reliable smoking hot bands.

You *must* have forgotten the smiley on that one.

EDIT: You see, the way it works in the clubs around here is that bands play time slots which usually rotate on a monthly basis. Once you're in a slot, it's your gig to lose. So, the guy passes up finally getting into a prime club slot, because he's got some $50 a man gig booked he doesn't want to cancel. Doh!

The issue is so NOT the reliability or quality of the band...or the honeypot club wouldn't have called.

iriegnome · #**188** 10-08-2012, 09:24 AM

We played a festival, this past summer actually. I walked up to the sound booth and asked if the bass rig on stage was the one I was supposed to be using. The 2 guys both said it sure is. The band on stage finished and I brought up my bass. I did the normal "great set" kind of thing and asked the bass player if this was the rig we were all sharing and he quickly said yes it was. I'm thinking cool, I have always wanted to try a Ampeg. I set my bass down walked over to get my brief case, came back to stage and the amp speakers and cables were gone! Nobody including the sound guys knew anything (of course), so I went back to our truck pulled out my gear and went on with the show. When we were done, the next bassist asked if my rig was ok to be used by him! I was livid.. I kind of laughed it off and recommended he talk to the sound guys since we were leaving... He ended up using the rig from the band that follwed them!

Nev375 · #**189** 10-08-2012, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by iriegnome

We played a festival, this past summer actually. I walked up to the sound booth and asked if the bass rig on stage was the one I was supposed to be using. The 2 guys both said it sure is. The band on stage finished and I brought up my bass. I did the normal "great set" kind of thing and asked the bass player if this was the rig we were all sharing and he quickly said yes it was. I'm thinking cool, I have always wanted to try a Ampeg. I set my bass down walked over to get my brief case, came back to stage and the amp speakers and cables were gone! Nobody including the sound guys knew anything (of course), so I went back to our truck pulled out my gear and went on with the show. When we were done, the next bassist asked if my rig was ok to be used by him! I was livid.. I kind of laughed it off and recommended he talk to the sound guys since we were leaving... He ended up using the rig from the band that follwed them!

One bad turn deserves another?

iriegnome · #**190** 10-08-2012, 09:31 AM

Another one, after a long 3-1/2 hour set, I got off stage and went to get a drink. 3-1/2 hours straight on stage. Go to the bar to get a drink and the bartender asked me for money. I told her that the band got free drinks, it was in the contract. She said she knew that, but I had to be in the band to get free drinks. I didn't know if I should explode, laugh or crawl under the table... I just spent 3-1/2 hours on stage and she did not know I was in the band... I asked her if she saw that crazy guy on the one side of the stage jumping around playing and singing all night with a shirt on that looked similar to mine. She said yes!! I can laugh about it now, but man was I PI$$ED

iriegnome · #**191** 10-08-2012, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Nev375

One bad turn deserves another?

No, we actually left before the begining of their set.

pklima · #**192** 10-08-2012, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by iriegnome

Another one, after a long 3-1/2 hour set, I got off stage and went to get a drink. 3-1/2 hours straight on stage. Go to the bar to get a drink and the bartender asked me for money. I told her that the band got free drinks, it was in the contract. She said she knew that, but I had to be in the band to get free drinks. I didn't know if I should explode, laugh or crawl under the table... I just spent 3-1/2 hours on stage and she did not know I was in the band... I asked her if she saw that crazy guy on the one side of the stage jumping around playing and singing all night with a shirt on that looked similar to mine. She said yes!! I can laugh about it now, but man was I PI$$ED

Ouch. Had the same thing happen to a cajon player between sets, right after I got a beer for free the same bartender asked him for money.

obsidianbass · #**193** 10-08-2012, 09:38 AM

I've got a good one. I'm 32 and was loading gear though the front door of a club early before our set. The bouncer was already on duty and watched me go by at least 6 or 7 times - I even said hi to him and he wished me a good show. The last trip I just had my gig backpack and he stops me to card me! (The legal age here is 19). I had to explain to him I was playing that night and showed him my ID. Weird...

Mike11121 · #**194** 10-08-2012, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Chickencha

The really silly thing about the second story is that there shouldn't be any problem playing guitar through a bass amp. You might not get the best sound, but you certainly won't blow the amp.

+1 Fender Bassman anyone?

Munjibunga · #**195** 10-10-2012, 01:27 AM

One time my old country western band was playing at a Eagles Club out in red-neck land. We did the "Hell Freezes Over" version of "Tequila Sunrise," in which Felder played the mandolin. I played the mandolin on that song, while the rhythm guitarist played bass. I had the mandolin out and in a stand on stage. So we started the gig, and we're like half a set into it, and an old-timer comes up to the stage and says, "When is somebody gonna play that little critter over there?" We got a good laugh out of that and, as you would expect, even ten years later, the mandolin's name is "Little Critter."

jonas_24112 · #**196** 10-10-2012, 05:00 AM

Gotta love some Eagles Clubs!! I'm a card carrying member. Sometimes I think Eagles clubs will be the last bastion of live music venues.

LanEvo · #**197** 01-03-2013, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimmy Bones

Kinda weird. i like low guitars but brighter bass. :\

I guess you're just a baritone kind of guy

denhou1974 · #**198** 01-03-2013, 01:03 PM

I'm continually told dumb things by house sound guys.

Some examples:
1. At one gig my monitor was popping loudly. I reached down and unplugged it because SG went outside to smoke. He comes back 45 mins later and told me not to do that because it would overload the amp. Removing a speaker from the circuit decreases the load. For the life of me I couldn't get this guy to understand that because he has "run sound for 20 years".

2. There's another popular place that we play, at every show the house SG feels the need to tell me how much he knows about playing bass and wants to 'educate' me on how to use my rig because he's "played bass for xx years". This means nothing to me. Doing something for xx years doesn't mean that you've done it right. His mix sounds like an AM radio because he's half deaf.

3. Yet another place (with built-in SG) I have to argue with this guy every time I play there. He want's me to run through his DI, which I refuse. The direct signal from my SVT3Pro is dry (straight from the bass no EQ) so it's the same difference except I cannot mute/tune through his DI. After winning that battle he insists on miking AND running the bass direct - this is a 100 person venue. I don't argue until the 3rd song when then 30HZ resonance gets so bad that I reach down and unplug the mic. I don't tell him, I just let him think that he fixed it.

Phalex · #**199** 01-03-2013, 01:07 PM

I showed up for a gig at a new venue once with my bass strapped to my back. I wasn't sure where the stage door was so I walked in the front door with my bass.

The hostess looks at me and says "May I Help You?" I said "Can you tell me where to set up?"

She kind of looks at me........ I see her look at the bass bag sticking up over my shoulder.......... She looks back at me.............

Then she asks me "Oh! Are you with the band?"

I was very nice about it, but we laughed a lot after she was out of earshot.

LiquidMidnight · #**200** 01-03-2013, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by denhou1974

3. Yet another place (with built-in SG) I have to argue with this guy every time I play there. He want's me to run through his DI, which I refuse. The direct signal from my SVT3Pro is dry (straight from the bass no EQ) so it's the same difference except I cannot mute/tune through his DI. After winning that battle he insists on miking AND running the bass direct - this is a 100 person venue. I don't argue until the 3rd song when then 30HZ resonance gets so bad that I reach down and unplug the mic. I don't tell him, I just let him think that he fixed it.

Ahh, the sound guys who insist that you use their DIs. Love 'em, especially since it's never even a Countryman or anything that they want you to plug into. It's always some $25 turd that your head's onboard DI would destroy anyways.