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02-22-2007, 11:40 AM
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Avatar Speakers Endorsing Hooligan | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bakersfield California | | | I fell asleep standing up and playing bass.
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At my last show... I was at work at 7 am the day of, drove two hours to the show, had to play with my band and was covering for another local band...
Apparently, I feel asleep standing up, but kept playing my parts just fine. My guitarist had to slap me to snap me out of it.
I was finally done playing at about 1:15... drove back home, got here at 3:30, dropped my friend off, and was at work again at 4:00 am. Worked till 5:30.
37 hours, folks. |
02-22-2007, 11:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | You were sleep funk-ing. |
02-22-2007, 01:47 PM
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02-22-2007, 01:48 PM
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02-22-2007, 01:51 PM
|  | Forever in debt to your priceless advice | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Methuen, MA USA | | | Been there... |
02-22-2007, 03:12 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chicago, IL. | | | LOL, ya I had a guitarist do that once. But, he kept playing the same part over and over through the last part of a song. We all stopped then looked at him, and watched him play by himself for about three more minutes. |
02-22-2007, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: newcastle upon tyne (UK) | | | yep done that too, except the KB player woke me up with lesley speaker swirls
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02-22-2007, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KPJ  Been there... |
+1
I was in a cover band, and knew the songs so well, I could play them sleeping... and I decided to prove it one long day. Doing a ballad at 1AM after zero sleep last night makes me a sleepy dude.
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02-22-2007, 06:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wynne, Arkansas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Money At my last show... I was at work at 7 am the day of, drove two hours to the show, had to play with my band and was covering for another local band...
Apparently, I feel asleep standing up, but kept playing my parts just fine. My guitarist had to slap me to snap me out of it.
I was finally done playing at about 1:15... drove back home, got here at 3:30, dropped my friend off, and was at work again at 4:00 am. Worked till 5:30.
37 hours, folks. | UH, A quote from the movie, "My Cousin Vinny", "boy, are you on druuugs?
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02-22-2007, 06:54 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Money <SNIP>
Apparently, I feel asleep standing up, but kept playing my parts just fine. My guitarist had to slap me to snap me out of it.<SNIP> | Happens to me every time our leader calls simple-minded tunes that lack harmony, have a boring rhythm, simple-minded changes, etc.
The last time it happened, in rehearsal, I asked if he really wanted a bassist with a room-temperature IQ. When he called a bonehead tune twenty minutes later, I raised my coffee cup in his honor; when he looked my way, I turned my volume all the way down and feigned sleep until he got the message.
Life is too short for mindless music. |
02-23-2007, 07:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bay Area (Chesapeake ) | | | Sleep deprivation = disaster waiting
This ain't bad mofo stuff, this is disaster waiting to happen after the poster already fell asleep while standing then drives two hours home in the middle of the night with a friend depending on his driving and innocent others on the road. Keep doing that and the end result will leave a lot of people in tears. |
02-23-2007, 07:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: saint michael ,mn | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KPJ Been there... | +1
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02-23-2007, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Jazzdogg Life is too short for mindless music. | I'm with you there
I can't stand playing a bass line that only goes:
Bump...........Bump
.........Bump..........Bump...etc. |
02-23-2007, 08:55 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ee-san This ain't bad mofo stuff, this is disaster waiting to happen after the poster already fell asleep while standing then drives two hours home in the middle of the night with a friend depending on his driving and innocent others on the road. Keep doing that and the end result will leave a lot of people in tears. | My thoughts exactly. |
02-23-2007, 09:17 AM
| | | | That used to happen to me, too, during long periods of one nighters on the road. Once, I actually heard someone in the crowd yell, "Hey! The bass player's asleep!" That was so embarassing that it pretty much cured me.
The amusing thing is when you wake up in the middle of a song and have no idea where you are. ("I know I'm playing the chorus, but have we passed the bridge yet?!") |
02-23-2007, 09:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | I was up all night once a couple of years ago because of after-prom, and I was scheduled to play bass for church the next morning. The final song of the set was a very slow balad-type song (As The Deer, if anyone is familiar with that song) with mainly whole and half notes for the bass line. I apparantly fell asleep and woke up several bars later. |
02-23-2007, 12:10 PM
| | I <3 Darkstar | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Riverside, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ee-san This ain't bad mofo stuff, this is disaster waiting to happen after the poster already fell asleep while standing then drives two hours home in the middle of the night with a friend depending on his driving and innocent others on the road. Keep doing that and the end result will leave a lot of people in tears. | It's not fun driving while really tired.
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02-23-2007, 01:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lansing, Michigan | | I've fallen asleep on stage before too.
I'm also guilty of being so tired and dozed off that I drive from point A to point B and barely remember how I got home when i'm getting out of the car. Crazy stuff.  
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02-23-2007, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Virginia | | | I was once driving next to a guy who fell asleep I was a bit behind him and by the time I realized he was asleep he had drifted into a ditch I cant really remember how fast it was a (at least 40) while ago and you know how when theres driveways they put a tunnel under it for the ditch? well that worked kind of like a ramp and he came down upside down it was pretty crazy. the guy was pretty old/not wearing a seatbelt and didnt survive. Not trying to "scare you straight" or anything. |
02-24-2007, 09:23 AM
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I've done something similar. I was in the practice room in my uni dorm (I'm quite lucky for this) and I had had a full day of lectures . I decided to go practice, and after about an hour I decided to take a rest, when I sat on my amp (which was against the wall), rested against the wall and closed my eyes 'for a while'. I woke up with my bass still on my lap, three hours later and my fingers were stil clenched round the neck.
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