What Spinal Tap quality scene have you starred in?

[Woodchuck]

Originally Posted by Cristofre

What could be more spinal tap than having your drummer disappear in the middle of a song?

Some years ago I was playing with my band and we were probably somewhere in the third set and just really jamming on some song when suddenly the drums completely stopped. Me and the guitarist/singer turned around and our drummer was gone!
We had to stop the song and go look for him... we looked behind the drum riser and he wasn't there, but we saw a hole in the floor behind the riser that was part of some construction project. We looked down the hole and sure enough... there he was down stairs in the kitchen of the resturant below looking up at us somewhat bewildered.

As far as we can tell, he, being somewhat inebriated, had managed to loose balance and not only fall off of his stool, but fall into some hole behind the stage barely big enough for a person to fit through.
Amazingly he was ok and we went on to play the rest of the gig.

This story rules!

[KSDbass]

I got up on stage with my fretless and did "The sustain...listen to it...it's famous for its sustain...I mean, you could, just hold it....
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... You could go and have a bite an'...aaaaaaaaa...you'd still be hearin' that one."

[grygrx]

This is a converation I had at band practice the other day. It seemed very sureal to me.

Me: I think it goes crunchy part, soft part, chorus

Drummer: I thought it was soft, crunchy, crunchy, chorus.

Me: Hrm.. I don't remeber...

Drummer: And while we are at this I know we changed from one time through the chorus to three times through the chorus, but I still don't think its enough, we need to go SIX times through the chorus!

[Fo' Shizzle]

Originally Posted by fenderx55@yahoo

besides having to garage my car before one gig in the city, then leaving the key to my case on the ring with my car keys, we've been ok so far (knock on wood). But not a performance (or practice, or shared meal) goes by without either:
a) some reference to a disappearing drummer
b)reasons for drummer disappearing (usually the gardening incident)
or
c)shouting hello cleveland and making some "up to 11" comment.

but recently we've been doing a lot of anchor man...

Great post........ Compelling and rich........

[dain bramage]

Originally Posted by harmolodic

My jazz group had a clown troupe open for us.
In high school, I was in a band that played a show where every member was sick, becoming sick, or getting over being sick. We were playing Smells Like Teen Spirit (hey, this was 1991) and I thought it would be cool if I jumped off the drum riser at the beginning of the loud chorus. My cable got caught on a lug on the drummer's kick and as I jumped out, I took the drum with me.

VERY Nirvana-esque!

[lowenduser]

Originally Posted by grygrx

This is a converation I had at band practice the other day. It seemed very sureal to me.

Me: I think it goes crunchy part, soft part, chorus

Drummer: I thought it was soft, crunchy, crunchy, chorus.

Me: Hrm.. I don't remeber...

Ha! Had similar one once during a hungover (the whole band) rehersal.... was along the lines of

Me: Did you play dum dum dum last night?

Drummer: No, I think I played dum tat-ta-tat-ta-ta but I can't remember

Me: OK, play whatever

Guitarist: what was that fill you played last night by the way?

Me: I played a fill? Oh, eh, em.... sort of a do-do-do-do. Couldn't hear myself really. Your muffled solo was a bit overbearing

Guitarist: huh?

Me: you know..... the way you went da-da-da-da during that song... you know the one? The one after that other one

The same band really annoyed the sound engineer at this particular venue by calling him up on stage at the soundcheck to ask why the amp doesn't go up to 11, or where I could locate the 11 on my bass, or where the volume control on the bass drum was, and once called him up on stage to show our equipment (musical equipment that is) to him, and then told him not to touch it.... no don't even look at it...... We had a mic feed to the stage from the mixing board and all through the gig we got this voice appearing sporadically... "sorry guys I looked"... and were asked by the audience what was so funny

[Schecstar]

Well i wouldn't say this story took place on stage, but we were at a red apple and everyone was getting energy drinks but me cause I was broke. and I was behind my guitarist in the line (and we are big into the shotgun game) and I'm trying to get out of everyones way (not even thinking about the game) and he's like
"No stay there"
"Dude I just wanna get out of the way"
"No I know what you're gonna do!"
"What!? Dude I just wanna get out of everyones way cause I'm not buying anything!"

and we were just hollering each others heads off making a huge scene. When we went in the place was hustling and bustling but our one argument just silenced the whole store. I gave him shotgun cause I was too upset to give a ****.

[Incognitus]

Shotgun? Please Explain...

[Doctor J]

When I played in Old Scratch (and the bastard son side-project Frank Mammoth), every gig seemed to be another scene from Spinal Tap. Cock ups included -

Slipping in a puddle of beer left by the previous band, falling into the bass amp, a Trace 4x10 combo up on a tea chest, and cowering as it teetered back and forth ready to crush my skull. When it settled I got up to see I had kocked the mic over as I fell and it was sitting in the same puddle... so I yelled at a mate of mine who was side-stage to pick it up

Playing a gig where we were all stoned to varying degrees, the guitar player coming up to me before the gig saying he couldn't feel his hands and had to play the gig sitting down on a chair. I was going through some bad paranoia which was partly to blame for the singer walking off 3/4 of the way through the gig and calling for a friend of ours to finish the set, even though he wasn't at the gig, though I thought he was.

One gig where we were going down apallingly and the singer from the main band of the evening came out to bail us out in his full stage costume, wig, etc. Unfortunately, our singer had his first ever spliff that evening and wasn't quite himself and had a minor meltdown seeing this wierd looking guy coming up looking to grab the mic off him. It ended up in fisticuffs as we kept playing until security got onstage too.

One time our guitarist got fed up with his guitar cutting out, slammed it off the stage a couple of times and chucked it out into the crowd, then about a second later, realising what he'd done, dived into the crowd to retrieve it.

All character building stuff

[Dkerwood]

My favorite Tap-esque scene:

We're headlining a multi band show. We're doing this prom theme for the show (we billed it as "Rockin' on Prom Night"), so we're all dressed in fancy tuxes, dresses, etc. The PA starts to play "It's Raining On Prom Night" from Grease. The stage is dark with lights flashing to simulate lightning. We go up no problem, we strap up in the dark, no problem.

The clip ends, I start the guitar intro to the opening song - the tone is a light crunch. 4 bars, then I stomp on my pedal board to kick on the heavy distortion with the rest of the band... my guitar is gone. Lights flash as the bass and drums kick in, and there's me, fiddling with my pedals trying to figure out where the problem is...

About 30 seconds later, I've yanked the defective pedal out and we go on with the show. No throwing the guitar down on the stage and walking off for me.

Another time, we played at a National Guard Armory building. Military personnel in full uniform all over the place. When I was rewatching "Tap" and they went to the Air Force base, all sorts of "hapy" memories flooded back... lol...

[Schecstar]

Originally Posted by Incognitus

Shotgun? Please Explain...

You know shotgun, Where everyone tries to call the seat next to the driver.

[Dkerwood]

Originally Posted by Incognitus

Shotgun? Please Explain...

I thought it was a tool fathers used to marry off their daughters to foolish farmhands...

[Schecstar]

Wow you guys are so missing the point

[Rob Lewis]

Everything to do with bands is, post-Spinal Tap, a bit Spinal Tap...

[Albot]

and so say all! tap into america!

we had an inident with the arrangements backstage. We were in our green room and wouldnt you believe it, but there it was "MINATURE BREAD" This is no joke. We couldnt hold a straight face the whole night. To this day I still think a friend of our set that plate back there and I think it was our sound engineer. Still, it doesnt get more "tap" than that!

[Lonnybass]

Ahh, so many to think of. During the course of my psuedo-illustrious career, I've...

1. gotten lost trying to find the stage (ok, you jog down the hall, make a right, then go up the stairs...)

2. had mystery radio communication being picked up and broadcast through the PA.

3. called someone a wanker.

4. suggested a jazz-blues odyssey when our lead singer needed a break.

5. played video games backstage and commented "it's really amazing, this computer magic."

6. and soundchecked with "Big Bottom."

Lonnybass

[TheDarkReaver]

my amp actually goes up to 12...does that count?

[Bayou_Brawler]

we opened for a puppet show....true story


but it was for charity.....

[tlwaps]

We had the disappearing guitarist happen to us (Yes I know in the movie it was the drummer's that kept disappearing). We played one show where we couldn't find the stage; we wondered around back stage for about 3 minutes before we found the steps going up to the stage, they were around a corner and hidden. This could have been in the sequal my old guitarist got really drunk one night before a gig and fell off the stage. So I helped him up and he was cussing about nothing; then we started playing another song and he jumps into this blues type solo, then slams his guitar down, jumps off stage and finally passes out face first onto the floor. Pretty interesting night.