Spinal Tap Moments

lizardking837 · #1 04-06-2009, 09:21 AM

Share your gig stories akin to the movie Spinal Tap in this thread.

A few weeks back, I was doing a gig in my High School's gym. We asked them to turn the lights above us off just for our show, they said they couldn't due to fire code, however, less than a second after we finished up the lights above us got shut off.

D Rokk · #2 04-06-2009, 09:24 AM

i've never had a spinal tap moment while gigging but my baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo

southernrocker · #3 04-06-2009, 09:26 PM

I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo

lizardking837 · #4 04-07-2009, 05:52 PM

the looser the waistband, the deeper the quick sand

brachal · #5 04-07-2009, 08:25 PM

My band once played on the same bill as a puppet show ... we got top billing though. If the sign had read "Puppet Show and Narcissy" it would have really hurt.

chunkylover73 · #6 04-08-2009, 06:00 AM

My band is on drummer number five and he's leaving in a couple of months.

jmac · #7 04-08-2009, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by chunkylover73

My band is on drummer number five and he's leaving in a couple of months.

Yeah, but have any of them choked on someone else's vomit?

When I was sixteen I built my own flash pots for my brother's band. There were many mistakes in the development; I set my mother's porch on fire.

There were even more in the execution of the flashpots at shows; including having a small club evacuate.

Thank goodness I never hurt anyone...seriously.

Phalex · #8 04-08-2009, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by jmac

Yeah, but have any of them choked on someone else's vomit?

They don't finger print for vomit, how would you know it was someone elses?

topper · #9 04-08-2009, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Phalex

They don't finger print for vomit, how would you know it was someone elses?

You have seen the movie This is Spinal Tap right??

jmac · #10 04-08-2009, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by topper

You have seen the movie This is Spinal Tap right??

I think his reply was a paraphrased line from the movie; so I think he has.

Dave Muscato · #11 04-08-2009, 07:26 AM

The guitarist of my old band wanted to transpose a song about a dead friend to Dm. We never let him live it down.

Phalex · #12 04-08-2009, 07:28 AM

It is the saddest of all the keys.

Dave Muscato · #13 04-08-2009, 07:30 AM

Exactly. He didn't get why we were laughing at him (at first).

rouge127 · #14 04-08-2009, 07:59 AM

My band played at the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs a couple of years back. We arrived to find out the Sound Engineer had no P.A set up for us. He thought we were bringing it! He was able to mix and match some speakers, found a mixing board..(Not enough channels), and some crappy monitors. At this point, all the "cadets" started to enter the hall we would be playing in. The sound engineer decided to "test" the P.A at this point. The feedback was intense!!! Everybody there, including us, had their fingers in their ears wincing in pain. He finally got that figured out after about 5 minutes. Finally the show was going to start! As we were walking on to the stage, my keyboard player tripped over the cable to my Chapman stick sending it crashing to the floor. I had to retune the damn thing in complete silence with everyone staring at me. I totally felt like I was in Spinal Tap at that gig.

Ozonbass · #15 04-08-2009, 08:04 AM

Played a huge fund raiser for Misericordia in Chicago with a bluegrass band. We played the childrens tent and basically opened for the Ronald McDonald Magic Show...a very humbling experience for a very good cause. We laughed and then drank.

two fingers · #16 04-08-2009, 08:05 AM

Too many to count. Girlfriends "taking over" bands. Showing up at dozens of venues where we just didn't belong. I guess that's why I'm a hired gun now. It's all somebody else's problem. I show up, play, get payed, go home, loose no sleep.

Disappear · #17 04-08-2009, 08:40 AM

But this one goes to eleven!

jonathan_matos5 · #18 04-08-2009, 08:52 AM

there was a miscommunication for my churches band and we had a rehearsal with three bass players and no guitar. does that count? we didn't play big bottom. even though we all joked about it.

Fishheadjoe · #19 04-08-2009, 09:09 AM

Not band related, but with today's economy and my almost complete lack of success recently selling body's to company's, I have begun practicing for my next day gig...
I tell my clients this and give them this example:
"uhm... yes I do believe we have that shoe in a Canary Yellow, four inch pump... "
Heck, if Nigel could do it, so could I!
Fishheadjoe

D Rokk · #20 04-08-2009, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Phalex

It is the saddest of all the keys.

it's called lick my love pump