What's the most epic fail of a train wreck you've ever witnessed? Plus a lesson. - Page 4

JumboJack · #61 06-17-2012, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Single Coil

It was at the 2004 Billboard Awards.

Here it is:
http://www.videolog.tv/video.php?id=538176

The "magic" starts happening at 3:08.

Wow indeed... I wonder what happened?

Amy Lee has great set of pipes IMO...

SeaBassSteve · #62 06-18-2012, 01:18 AM

And she is fit to boot.

mooreon131 · #63 06-18-2012, 03:36 PM

Last saturday, we were playing "If You Could Only See" by Tonic. A few measures past the first chorus, we all lose our places at the same time. It took us about 20 seconds to get back on track, but it felt like hours. We actually got a decent reaction for it. I learned two lessons, or rather applied them: "Never for stop, for any reason" and "No matter how bad you screw up, 99% of the audience will have no clue."

lousybassplayer · #64 06-18-2012, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Freight Train

Now that you mention it, Fishbone (probably way off-relevence, but a popular punkfunk band in the 80's) played SNL in the mid-90's, and it was like pick-a-key night. So cacophonous it was almost jazz.

I remember that. Egads.

WJGreer · #65 06-18-2012, 05:26 PM

Answering this question requires me to reveal that I went to a Michael Bolton concert. I did, at Fiddlers Green in Denver in 1992. His keyboardist that night was new or a sub or something. Bolton shut down a song twice, each time just three or four bars in, because the board player had the wrong key. I always wondered if the dude lost the gig that night.

duderasta · #66 06-18-2012, 05:40 PM

I could relate a number of trainwrecks, a former drummer who got very drunk and did a header into his kit during the intro to "Sweet Emotion" is the one that always stands out...
He did vocal harmonies as well, and they were way off, we kept playing, only to have him fall off the throne into his kit, I actually stepped on the snare to stop it before it rolled off the edge of the stage!

sayman · #67 06-18-2012, 07:55 PM

I had a singer who puked in the middle of a song. Kept singing, though - a real trooper!

Marial · #68 06-18-2012, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Freight Train

It would be totally awesome if Dave Matthews wasn't a real person.

He is, and he takes a REALLY ******* long time to figure out what kind of chicken he wants to buy (he lives, or at least lived, in my neighborhood in Seattle).

vegas532 · #69 06-19-2012, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by purfektstranger

This...I wasn't there but had I been I am sure I would have seen RJD looking down from above....and shaking his head in disbelief.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFUGfYMDxJs

Sorry I'm late to the party but DUDE, ***?! Is "Mr. Shred Everyone's Face Off" Joey Demaio in an entirely different tuning?!

I got seasick from the 30 seconds that I could handle!!

jefwho · #70 06-19-2012, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by lousybassplayer

I saw the Melvins play once.

I saw the Melvins last month amazing show great rhythm section!

dbase · #71 06-20-2012, 07:05 AM

I've never told this story to anyone but... I had this gig in the 60's. Our booking agent sent us to a bar in Allentown PA. I think it was the Opal Room. Real sleese bar, no door on the mens room plus the vending machines were also located in there so chicks were coming right in all the time. The stage had to be 8X14 and was situated in the middle of the bar. I could literally take a step forward and be standing on the bar. You have to realize we had a 6 piece band, drums, my Sunn amp, guitar, two front men and a Hammond B3. I hated the setup. What made it worse was the fact that the lead singer broke his dental appliance(front tooth) and had a hole in his mouth. He refused to go on stage looking like that. I was furious, since we could no longer do our planed vocal sets we had to settle for instrumentals. and we would suck. Here comes the good part, I told him if he couldn't come up on stage and sing, then he should go home. He got outraged and called me out to fight in the parking lot at break time. I proceeded to fight him outside with the patrons looking at the band fighting among themselves... I got so wrapped up in the fighting and the adrenelin, that I crapped my pants. I'm not making this stuff up. I had to ditch my underwear in the parking lot as chicks were walking into the club. Clean my self up and get back on stage for the next set. Fortunately our lead singer and I made up and he joined us on stage and we were a hit. People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

Portphilia · #72 06-20-2012, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by dbase

I've never told this story to anyone but... I had this gig in the 60's. Our booking agent sent us to a bar in Allentown PA. I think it was the Opal Room. Real sleese bar, no door on the mens room plus the vending machines were also located in there so chicks were coming right in all the time. The stage had to be 8X14 and was situated in the middle of the bar. I could literally take a step forward and be standing on the bar. You have to realize we had a 6 piece band, drums, my Sunn amp, guitar, two front men and a Hammond B3. I hated the setup. What made it worse was the fact that the lead singer broke his dental appliance(front tooth) and had a hole in his mouth. He refused to go on stage looking like that. I was furious, since we could no longer do our planed vocal sets we had to settle for instrumentals. and we would suck. Here comes the good part, I told him if he couldn't come up on stage and sing, then he should go home. He got outraged and called me out to fight in the parking lot at break time. I proceeded to fight him outside with the patrons looking at the band fighting among themselves... I got so wrapped up in the fighting and the adrenelin, that I crapped my pants. I'm not making this stuff up. I had to ditch my underwear in the parking lot as chicks were walking into the club. Clean my self up and get back on stage for the next set. Fortunately our lead singer and I made up and he joined us on stage and we were a hit. People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

I laughed hard. Brilliant.

lousybassplayer · #73 06-20-2012, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jefwho

I saw the Melvins last month amazing show great rhythm section!

Had to have been a different Melvins. The ones I saw opened for Tool around 2000-2001. They managed to simultaneously play a 1 hour and fifteen minute set, a non stop song, and not a single thing discernable as a "melody", "tune" or espescially "rhythm". 20 minutes of the set was the singer demonstrating the phallic nature of a guitar neck on a speaker cabinet and creating horrendous feedback sounds. Picture The Greatful Dead live and you're fresh out of acid. Rough for a man of my musical tastes.

Freight Train · #74 06-20-2012, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by dbase

I've never told this story to anyone but... I had this gig in the 60's. Our booking agent sent us to a bar in Allentown PA. I think it was the Opal Room. Real sleese bar, no door on the mens room plus the vending machines were also located in there so chicks were coming right in all the time. The stage had to be 8X14 and was situated in the middle of the bar. I could literally take a step forward and be standing on the bar. You have to realize we had a 6 piece band, drums, my Sunn amp, guitar, two front men and a Hammond B3. I hated the setup. What made it worse was the fact that the lead singer broke his dental appliance(front tooth) and had a hole in his mouth. He refused to go on stage looking like that. I was furious, since we could no longer do our planed vocal sets we had to settle for instrumentals. and we would suck. Here comes the good part, I told him if he couldn't come up on stage and sing, then he should go home. He got outraged and called me out to fight in the parking lot at break time. I proceeded to fight him outside with the patrons looking at the band fighting among themselves... I got so wrapped up in the fighting and the adrenelin, that I crapped my pants. I'm not making this stuff up. I had to ditch my underwear in the parking lot as chicks were walking into the club. Clean my self up and get back on stage for the next set. Fortunately our lead singer and I made up and he joined us on stage and we were a hit. People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

Now THAT is a gig story!

packhowitzer · #75 06-20-2012, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by dbase

I've never told this story to anyone but... I had this gig in the 60's. Our booking agent sent us to a bar in Allentown PA. I think it was the Opal Room. Real sleese bar, no door on the mens room plus the vending machines were also located in there so chicks were coming right in all the time. The stage had to be 8X14 and was situated in the middle of the bar. I could literally take a step forward and be standing on the bar. You have to realize we had a 6 piece band, drums, my Sunn amp, guitar, two front men and a Hammond B3. I hated the setup. What made it worse was the fact that the lead singer broke his dental appliance(front tooth) and had a hole in his mouth. He refused to go on stage looking like that. I was furious, since we could no longer do our planed vocal sets we had to settle for instrumentals. and we would suck. Here comes the good part, I told him if he couldn't come up on stage and sing, then he should go home. He got outraged and called me out to fight in the parking lot at break time. I proceeded to fight him outside with the patrons looking at the band fighting among themselves... I got so wrapped up in the fighting and the adrenelin, that I crapped my pants. I'm not making this stuff up. I had to ditch my underwear in the parking lot as chicks were walking into the club. Clean my self up and get back on stage for the next set. Fortunately our lead singer and I made up and he joined us on stage and we were a hit. People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

haha

PlungerModerno · #76 06-20-2012, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by DLKasim

My band tried that (E vs Eb in the same song) about three shows ago. It is an awful sound that no audience should ever be subjected to.

Yes... I heard the concept of 'beats' in a physics lecture years ago.
Frequencies that nearly match up... like 440Hz and 832Hz hurts to hear.

If one has ever tuned by ear (an can do it) it's painful to hear when it's played off at volume. There's a reason we tune while muting the main rig...

My teeth hurt thinking about that clash, a sound that makes NIN industrial samples sound friendly.

alecduncan · #77 06-20-2012, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by dbase

I've never told this story to anyone but... I had this gig in the 60's. Our booking agent sent us to a bar in Allentown PA. I think it was the Opal Room. Real sleese bar, no door on the mens room plus the vending machines were also located in there so chicks were coming right in all the time. The stage had to be 8X14 and was situated in the middle of the bar. I could literally take a step forward and be standing on the bar. You have to realize we had a 6 piece band, drums, my Sunn amp, guitar, two front men and a Hammond B3. I hated the setup. What made it worse was the fact that the lead singer broke his dental appliance(front tooth) and had a hole in his mouth. He refused to go on stage looking like that. I was furious, since we could no longer do our planed vocal sets we had to settle for instrumentals. and we would suck. Here comes the good part, I told him if he couldn't come up on stage and sing, then he should go home. He got outraged and called me out to fight in the parking lot at break time. I proceeded to fight him outside with the patrons looking at the band fighting among themselves... I got so wrapped up in the fighting and the adrenelin, that I crapped my pants. I'm not making this stuff up. I had to ditch my underwear in the parking lot as chicks were walking into the club. Clean my self up and get back on stage for the next set. Fortunately our lead singer and I made up and he joined us on stage and we were a hit. People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

This is by far the most rock n' roll story I've ever heard on talkbass.

**Unprofessional** · #78 06-20-2012, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by dbase

I've never told this story to anyone but... People at the bar close to the band were wondering where that smell was coming from.....

That is the epitome of rock and roll. Winner.

jimc · #79 06-20-2012, 12:54 PM

This was just last night. Street fair in old town Roseville. I knew it was going to be a tough night, 97f and no facilities for the band, no toilet, no changing room, not even bottled water.

Our keyboard player's $2500 Kurzweil is in for repair for the third time in 6 months (would not recommend them!) so he brought his backup rig, unfortunately he forgot the disk drive with all his sounds on it so had to go home.

So it's showtime and no sign of the keyboardist. The singer also doubles on guitar and keys so he decides to improvise the piano intro. Unfortunately he's got a new keyboard and doesn't realize that it's transposed down a step. I join the piano halfway through the intro and slide around till I find the key. I'm trying to communicate this to the lead guitarist but he's not taking any notice so I'm left with the decision to stick with the keyboard playing a step down or go back to the normal key. According to the sound guy I have a 'deer in the headlights' look as the trainwreck occurs.

Calebmundy · #80 06-20-2012, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Smokin' Toaster

Did you notice that most of the crowd didn't even seem to notice? They just kept waving the horns hand sign and cheered when the sonic turd ceased it's assault on their ears.

I'm not familiar with the song-I couldn't tell what was wrong. Not enough melody and chords coming through that camera mic. The youtube comments seem to think the bass player was in the wrong tuning. Was he wrong, or the guitarist? Is it possible to know?