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03-23-2003, 06:20 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Eric Cameron
We also had a guy punch our door person. Seems he tought he was being singled out to have his receipt checked. (This happens with EVERY transaction at EVERY Guitar Center) So he decked our door guy in the mouth. Fortunatley, our General Manager was right there. He took the guys bag away from him, returned everything, gave him his money, and told him to "get the **** out of my store, and never come back." Sometimes Roberto can be a real nice guy.
| I would have had the guy arrested for assault. |
03-23-2003, 06:50 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | On a gig with my first band, when I was still in high school in the mid 70's...
This was before people started shooting each other on a regular basis. Anyway, we were playing in a neighboring town and were drawing pretty nice crowds at the time. Word got back to us that some guys said they were going to kick our butts because the girls in this town liked the band.
We do the first set and sure enough a group of guys eyed us through the entire set, from the center of the room. They leave right at the end of the set. We hadn't noticed that our perscussionist had walked out after them.
When we got outside, we found the entrance and most of the parking lot clear...
and our percussionist, nonchalantly tossing a grenade up and down while standing at the front door. |
03-23-2003, 01:45 PM
| | | | All we are trying to do is just play music.I tell someone I'm a musician,they never say-"that's a dangerous line of work you're in " They have no idea-people think it was non realistic to see the "Blues Brothers" play behind a wire screen.I've dodged a few shot glasses and beer bottles over the years.(sometimes we deserved it).
I remeber hearing from a friend that a guy came into a biker bar where his band was playing and discharged a few clips on a M14,taking out booze and mirrors behind the bar.They hid behind the Hammond CV.
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03-23-2003, 03:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Rockville, MD | | | jaco got killed in a bar fight, didnt he? |
03-23-2003, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Valencia, CA 91354 | | Quote: Originally posted by bentem
jaco got killed in a bar fight, didnt he? | Well, he got killed by the bouncer. It was a little more complicated than your garden-variety bar fight.
Most experienced pro musicians I've talked to have told me, "Make friends with the bouncer."
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03-24-2003, 03:26 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | Fortunately, I retired from live playing when I got a real job. The incident I remember best was a show
in Providence at the Ocean State Theater, now known as the P-PAC. The lineup was Mott the Hoople and Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin.
Sure enough, about halfway thru the first set some nitwit hums an empty whiskey bottle [ fifth,
no less ] onto the stage from about the fourth row,
hitting the guitar player. Ian Hunter and the guitar player jump off stage, dive into the fourth row and commence beating the c#@* out of this toad. Unfortunately, they left the stage at this point.
About a half hour later, Mahavishnu John comes out and does a spiel about peace. love and bad vibes that evening, but finally go on for a pretty good set. Never had a chance to see MTH after that, they broke up and Ian went on to his solo career. The toad really messed it up for the rest of us, I was hoping to see Sweet Jane and All the Young Dudes live, but they never got that far.
Too bad.
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03-26-2003, 09:27 PM
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Owner/Retailer: Jive Sound | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Alexandria,VA | | | I guess you could call it a physical assault.
My current band had a gig where there were a bunch of lovely young ladies who had a little too much to drink. Anyway, we were grooving on a tune and had a bunch of people dancing. Then from the crowd of dancers, a gal came up on stage and got behind me. She proceeded to spank me in rhythm for about a good couple of minutes. Of course this would only happen when my wife is in the audience. Fortunately, the guitar player was more jealous than my wife. |
03-27-2003, 08:43 AM
| | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | |  Haaaaaha!
Quote: Originally posted by jive1
Fortunately, the guitar player was more jealous than my wife. | LOL, my guitar player would have been spanking along in time, but my wife would have killed me slowly later .....
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But does it go to ELEVEN!
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03-27-2003, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Hafnarfjordur, Iceland | | Quote: Originally posted by Brad Johnson
On a gig with my first band, when I was still in high school in the mid 70's...
This was before people started shooting each other on a regular basis. Anyway, we were playing in a neighboring town and were drawing pretty nice crowds at the time. Word got back to us that some guys said they were going to kick our butts because the girls in this town liked the band.
We do the first set and sure enough a group of guys eyed us through the entire set, from the center of the room. They leave right at the end of the set. We hadn't noticed that our perscussionist had walked out after them.
When we got outside, we found the entrance and most of the parking lot clear...
and our percussionist, nonchalantly tossing a grenade up and down while standing at the front door. | Christ, that's funny.  |
03-31-2003, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: moscow, russia | | | This ones not as funny as the grenade episode but it was a heck of a more unsettling experience.
About 3 years ago I was in a seriously mixed race band. A Thai on guitar, a Canadian on lead, me(Russian) on vocals, a dreaded swede on bass and an American on drums. See it'd be okay in a civilised region but not in a Moscow ****hole gig-hall. We were playing 3rd and after was some skinhead band (great booking). There were about 20/25 skins in the 200 strong crowd and there were about 70 of 'our' people in there. We were finishing up with a long funky reggae song with some ragga from the bassist when I got the evilest stares I ever got. They were showing me the slit-neck and in my city, hardcore violence is rare but brutal when it happens. So anyway, they were doing that and I couldn't take it anymore. Told them all to **** straight off. They just got more pissed of course. Just when I was thinking that a big fight gonna ensue the skinhead band's leader walks on stage (after we're done) and tells those boneheads to enjoy the music (?!!!??), colour, get this, is not of any importance. Those assholes came up to apologize(again!!?!?).
This might not sound so bad but that was my first concert ever and when we made our album we planted the live reggae song from that night with all the stuff I said to them right in the beggining. It'll take something real bad-ass to freak me out onstage now. I think I'll make an emotional chick-flick out of this.
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