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10-31-2008, 03:09 PM
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What is the Scariest/Worst that has happened to you during a Gig?
I had a Gig back in 2002, it was a sat. night, we were playing in a local dive. I was hung over - and just sick as a dog.
My band let me sleep in so I would feel better and they went to set up, Well my older brother came to pick me up, and I was still passed out. He had to drag me out of bed and force me to get ready - I was hurling everywhere even in the shower. He finally got me in his truck, but he had to stop every couple of blocks so I could puke. Once we got to the
Bar I was feeling a bit better, I was Main Vaining the Coffee to keep awake.
Well Long Story short I ended up throwing up all over myself and our Drummer - It was hot in the place and no ventalation
so people in the audience were getting sick from the smell, we had to stop the whole thing.
I was so embarassed, I have never been so sick in my life.  We actually got through 2 whole songs though.
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10-31-2008, 03:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Tulsa , OK | | Seems to be the day for "back in the day" stories for me,...Playing a dive, we go outside on break to partake in the things we did back then...  ....as we're passing the chocolate chip cookies back and forth,  a guy comes walking across the street towards us,... we hear a car engine revving, the guy jumps forward, pulls a gun from the back of his pants and opens fire on a car thats trying to run him down!!!   After soiling ourselves in amazement and terror, he walks in the bar, we stand there stunned and amazed, not believing what just happened. After a few minutes, the guy walks back out, and as he's crossing the street,.... yup,....here comes the car again,...this time with several guns blazing from inside the car!!! At this point, we're all hiding under cars and crying for our momma's! The situation finally ends, we get up, see no one lying anywhere and bleeding, beat a hasty retreat into the club, finish the night,..and NEVER BOOKED THAT JOB AGAIN!!!!  ...the moral to the story...????....playing dives might put a little change in your pocket, but shootouts will DEFINITELY kill your buzz!!!
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10-31-2008, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings  | OMG That is nasty - I think I am the only one who actually vomited - so it wasn't that bad 
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10-31-2008, 03:44 PM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | We used to play gigs in a major urban downtown bar. We had to load in through the back door in the alley. The third time we played that venue we had to park about a block away and hand-carry our gear more than 300 feet over the worn-out, uneven brick-paved surface. Just try that some time - casters and smaller hand trucks/dollies are of no use whatsoever on that type of surface. The reason we had to push our gear that far? The area just outside the club's back door was sealed off with police "Do Not Cross" yellow tape, along with plenty of police officers. We never heard what had happened, but there was an incredibly large pool of fresh blood all over the place. There had to be over 2 gallons of blood on the ground! |
10-31-2008, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by voodoobassist Seems to be the day for "back in the day" stories for me,...Playing a dive, we go outside on break to partake in the things we did back then... ....as we're passing the chocolate chip cookies back and forth, a guy comes walking across the street towards us,... we hear a car engine revving, the guy jumps forward, pulls a gun from the back of his pants and opens fire on a car thats trying to run him down!!! After soiling ourselves in amazement and terror, he walks in the bar, we stand there stunned and amazed, not believing what just happened. After a few minutes, the guy walks back out, and as he's crossing the street,.... yup,....here comes the car again,...this time with several guns blazing from inside the car!!! At this point, we're all hiding under cars and crying for our momma's! The situation finally ends, we get up, see no one lying anywhere and bleeding, beat a hasty retreat into the club, finish the night,..and NEVER BOOKED THAT JOB AGAIN!!!! ...the moral to the story...????....playing dives might put a little change in your pocket, but shootouts will DEFINITELY kill your buzz!!! | I would have had to go home and change my shorts , that is pretty freaky
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10-31-2008, 03:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Oregon, USA | | A hard rock band I was in during the late 80s did a gig at a 1,000+ capacity standing-room hall in NYC, opening for a resuscitated version of Stiff Little Fingers.
The hordes of skinhead knuckleheads that showed up were none too happy to see us – and the feeling was very mutual. 
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10-31-2008, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings | haha thats awesome
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10-31-2008, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by scottbass We used to play gigs in a major urban downtown bar. We had to load in through the back door in the alley. The third time we played that venue we had to park about a block away and hand-carry our gear more than 300 feet over the worn-out, uneven brick-paved surface. Just try that some time - casters and smaller hand trucks/dollies are of no use whatsoever on that type of surface. The reason we had to push our gear that far? The area just outside the club's back door was sealed off with police "Do Not Cross" yellow tape, along with plenty of police officers. We never heard what had happened, but there was an incredibly large pool of fresh blood all over the place. There had to be over 2 gallons of blood on the ground! | That is a Bloody Mess Do You think there was more than 1 person bleeding? Cos an adult male carries about 4 liters of blood in his body. To bad you werent there just a bit earlier so you could have seen it. Might have been a Hack fest...
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10-31-2008, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Willy2911 ...an adult male carries about 4 liters of blood in his body. | That piqued my interest - so I checked a couple of internet resources. One said the typical aldult male has 5 liters of blood, the other said he has 6 liters. I guess it must vary a lot, huh?  Yeah, there were lots of smear, streaks and several different shoe tread patterns, too. I'm guessing it might have been a case of so-called "mutual combat" and several of the combatants ended up losing. |
10-31-2008, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by joeinsprings | Shweet. |
10-31-2008, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by scottbass That piqued my interest - so I checked a couple of internet resources. One said the typical aldult male has 5 liters of blood, the other said he has 6 liters. I guess it must vary a lot, huh? Yeah, there were lots of smear, streaks and several different shoe tread patterns, too. I'm guessing it might have been a case of so-called "mutual combat" and several of the combatants ended up losing. | My mistake if I am Wrong...
Still that would have been Cool to see
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10-31-2008, 08:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Orleans, La | | | Guitarist got falling down drunk before the show. Could barely sing, couldn't tune his guitar, could barely play it. Starts whirling his strat around over his head by the cord ... like he's Roger Daltrey, but with a guitar. I'm ducking, the drummer is ducking, and the first couple of rows in the audience pretty much peed themselves. I have no idea why that guitar didn't come unplugged, but it would have killed somebody if it had. Fortunately he caught the guitar, then proceeded to smash it over the house PA. Mercifully, that was the end of the gig.
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11-01-2008, 06:39 AM
| | | We played at a place a few weeks ago that had reopened after being boarded up for a little while.
The audience consisted of extras from "The island of Doctor Moreau" but never mind, we play to anyone who wants to listen.
Now, our usual show consists of one set of about 45 minutes, 15/20 minute wee/beer break, then a longer second set - perhaps an hour with encores.
We've played that at dozens of venues over the last couple of years, no problems, it seems like that's fairly standard for cover bands.
This time, however, we were about to go back on after our first set when we noticed an agitated man ranting at our manager.
He seemed to think that we'd finished for the night and was saying that we wouldn't get paid, how angry he was (no sh!t) and everything else.
The manager said that we were about to retake the stage, that this was our break and he came out with an absolute gem:
"Who the fcuk do they think they are, Oasis or something?"
Anyway, we trooped back on, in two minds whether we should just quit there and then or not.
The only problem with "storming off" would have been the fact that there was a half-hour strip-down/van load, which would lessen the impact somewhat!
Anyway, we played the second set, got paid by someone (this angry thug had gone home by then, we later found out that he was the landlord's brother - we thought that he must be the landlord) and cleared off.
Later, the drummer (who has an eye for these things) told us that nutcase man had a thug friend waiting just out of sight when he was arguing with us, just dying to get involved and start swinging punches.
If the idiot had started shoving our manager our natural reaction would have been to step in to calm things, that would have been the "justification" thug #2 would've needed to kick off - we would've been "starting" on his mate.
That's the way these peoples' minds work.
Anyway, we won't be darkening the door of that sh!thole ever again - especially as two nights later some fella got kicked to death outside! http://tinyurl.com/6fg5ns
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