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04-13-2009, 02:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | I guess this is why you shouldn't play a gig without treating your allergies...
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My band had a show last night. We play pretty aggressive hardcore/rock and roll and we always try to put on a high-energy show. I've been getting hit pretty hard with allergies over the last couple of weeks, but I didn't really want to take any Benadryl before a gig because it makes me sleepy.
Anyway, we're playing, and about 2/3 through our set, I'm rocking out, banging my head, and this HUGE glob of wet, slimy snot comes flying out of my nose, and splatters across the 9th fret of my bass. Crap. Luckily, I don't do a whole lot of work much above the 7th fret or so, so I think "Maybe I can avoid it." No such luck. I had forgotten that our next song has a guitar/bass unison riff that bounces from the 11th fret position back down to the third, and that is the main riff in the verse portion of the song, so I'm running my hand through this glob over and over again. Pretty soon the back of the neck is slippery. I'm thinking "Ok, slippery isn't so bad. Maybe it will stay wet till the end of the set, since we're almost done." Again, fate had it out for me last night, and almost immediately it turned into this sticky paste all over the backside of the neck.
I would rank this as one of the top 5 or so grossest gigging experiences I've had, plus this morning my strings were totally dead, and I've only had them on for a couple of weeks. |
04-13-2009, 02:07 PM
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04-13-2009, 02:10 PM
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04-13-2009, 02:13 PM
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04-13-2009, 02:15 PM
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04-13-2009, 02:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tulsa, OK | | I'm not sure. Have we crossed the line into over-sharing here?  |
04-13-2009, 02:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by S Sanders I'm not sure. Have we crossed the line into over-sharing here? | You really think this is worse than the farting threads? |
04-13-2009, 02:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Des Moines | | | I ripped my thumb open and played with a blood covered bass one time - nice and slippery. Those were the days. |
04-13-2009, 02:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassman1185 You really think this is worse than the farting threads? | hehe
Perhaps I'm just unimaginative, but when I read a thread about folks passing gas, the visual isn't quite the same as this one. |
04-13-2009, 02:32 PM
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04-13-2009, 02:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RobertPaulson I ripped my thumb open and played with a blood covered bass one time - nice and slippery. Those were the days. | On my P-bass, the saddle height allen screws pop up above the top of the saddles unless you have the action WAYYY high, and I used to cut the side of my palm open on those all the time. Never bled a whole lot, though. I also used to be really sloppy with my pick playing, and I would bash my cuticle on the strings till it would bleed. I remember my bass got pretty splattered after one gig. |
04-13-2009, 02:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | i get pretty bad eczema on my hands when it gets colder...
i use lotions and such, but they rarely do a good job.
i had a period of a couple months with a gig a week in a hard rock/prog band where i went nuts on stage. pretty much every show my right hand started bleeding. some nights, not too bad, but one night i was playing my Butterscotch '51 P, and it got splattered. i had to remove the pickguard to fully clean my bass the next day.
but for that night, it was pretty awesome.
(i think i have a pic around here from that gig, but i can't make any promises)
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04-13-2009, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Washington State | | | I can't say that has ever happened to me before, very funny.
But I did play a show once where I couldn't stop sneezing, that really sucked. Good thing was that I didn't have to sing at all. |
04-13-2009, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by S Sanders hehe
Perhaps I'm just unimaginative, but when I read a thread about folks passing gas, the visual isn't quite the same as this one. | Maybe those guys just aren't very good storytellers. |
04-13-2009, 03:02 PM
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04-13-2009, 03:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I once played 2 sets with 2 bands while suffering from tonsilitis. I was the lead singer/bass in one band and bass with about half vocals in the other. I ended up coughing up blood onstage by the end of my first set.
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04-13-2009, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassman1185 Maybe those guys just aren't very good storytellers. | lol
Always a possibility  |
04-13-2009, 08:14 PM
| | | | You should play for the band Snot |
04-13-2009, 08:17 PM
| | | Never had one of the stringed instrument players bleed at a show, but the drummer broke his last stick in the middle of the last song one night, and played the rest of it with one stick and one hand. He didn't hold back, either. Snare was pink by the end of it, and we believe he broke a finger as well.  But that was so in line with the way this guy played, we didn't really think that much about it... |
04-13-2009, 08:19 PM
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