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07-29-2002, 05:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Enniskillen, Northern Ireland | |  where was your first gig?
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so where was your first gig. Mine was at my schools concert were i played bass with my band!  (the good old days)
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07-29-2002, 09:21 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Ibanez basses and Promethean amp | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | On live T.V.  2 months after I'd started. It was a telethon for a public television station.
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07-29-2002, 09:24 AM
|  | Mmmmmm... Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Kopavogur, Iceland | | | Well, my first gig EVER would have to be a birthday party for a relative of our drummer.
The first gig of my current band was on live television...... *shudders*
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07-29-2002, 09:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Vermont | | In a small town in a little local bar. We got there around 8 and most of the people were drunk or well on the way. So of course we were great . It was a blast. Knowing there wasn't anyone in the audience that could descern good music from bad took alot of the tension away and we had tons of fun and the crowd loved us. If they could recognize the first bar of any song we played, that was it............we had um.HE HE HE HE !!!!!!!! 
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07-29-2002, 01:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Staten Island, NY | | | At the Spa Lounge ..the Taj of the Terrace. Staten Island NY. What a dump..lol.. December 15th 1990. We played for a case of beer. Too bad I didn't drink. Opened with Sympathy for the devil and closed the night with A Day in the life.. with lots of mouldy classic rock in between(Im sure freebird was in the somewhere). Have pictures and a recording too.
Played my trusty Phantom 4 string Bass my dad got me for Christmas 2 yers before. Played through an Amp that the band all pitched in to buy. Also the first and last gig for our coke snorting guitar player Eddie. Replaced by Rod who was running the sound board that night. Ended up playing with Rod and Tommy(Keyboards) for 9 years. Was a great start to a long run. |
07-29-2002, 01:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA | | My first gig was at a church hall in my hometown. I was 15 and playing in a band called "Destin". We did one original and all the rest were covers. We covered Van Halen, Def Leppard, Dokken, Led Zeppelin, Extreme (hey it was 1989!). 
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07-29-2002, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Vista, California | | My first gig (The Defekts) was at the Purdue University Amrory 1980. Big holloween Party! in front of 2500 crazy drunk college students. I was 16.. people were throwing beer and popcorn at us I remember having to stop and pick the popcorn out of my strings...I was suppose to do some backup singing but was so frightened I couldn't hardly even play....  |
07-29-2002, 03:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Portland, OR | | My brother, the drummer, and a friend (guitar player), took a class graduation party gig. (1972 dates me) We knew four songs and played loud and long (five hours). The parents couldn't even stand in the school gym for the decibels. The kids loved it!!!! (I was a kid too). MY wife graduated from that class, we're still together, must not have been that bad?! Right!
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07-29-2002, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Auburn High School, Auburn, NY like 1986...Battle of the bands contest....
Placed 2nd and 3rd in 2 different bands I was in... |
07-30-2002, 02:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia. | | | At my school, like a month ago. It wasn't a permanent band thing, just a get together once off.
Man, we sucked.
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07-30-2002, 02:55 AM
| | | | my first gig was a talent show at parkway central high in Missouri. we played one cover, "freshmen" by the verve pipe. We go tto close the show and everyone liked us. that was 2 years ago. My most recent gig was with a new band in Kent, WA. at another talent show (first gig with this band) we played all original stuff and got the girls screamin. hehe |
07-30-2002, 02:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Chesterfield (near St. Louis), | | Mine was at my school with my Orchestra for a spring concert. I've performed there with them 2 more times after that. Then my dreadful party.
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07-30-2002, 10:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Austin, TX | | | Small club, (Club Uncool) in front of about 50 people. Horrible place, cool show. I try to forget about it.
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07-30-2002, 10:53 AM
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Artist: Bee Basses, JAF Basses, Circle K Strings | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | High school coffee house in 1995 - six months or so after I'd started playing seriously. |
07-30-2002, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Franktown, CO, USA | | | August 12th, 2001. We did a suprise concert outside my high school, good turnout for the first 2 hours. Then the faculty decided that the first day of school shouldn't be fun... classic story though. The best thing is that we did some Jaco, now there's actually people that listen to him!
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07-30-2002, 11:21 AM
| | Vorsprung durch Technik | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Cologne, Germany | | Sometime in 1989 with the school band in front of 100+ screaming french exchange students (mostly girls ). I played bass for some weeks at that time. We played covers of course, I remember Grand Funk's We're An American Band, Paranoid, Sultans Of Swing, and some covers of German bands/artists (Ärzte, Toten Hosen, etc.) among others.
I didn't make any major mistakes, but I had to concentrate too much to really enjoy it or have a closer look at the girls in the audience...
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07-30-2002, 11:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Near Detroit, MI | | My first gig is scheduled for September 6th and we're having drummer troubles and I'm trying not to freak myself out about it. I've never played in front of an audience before. Never imagined I would either... yikes |
07-30-2002, 04:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New York | | | My first gig was at a pig roast. There were 250 people there, and three other bands. |
07-30-2002, 04:50 PM
| | | | Wow! You guys get gigs??? |
07-30-2002, 04:55 PM
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Endorsing:LowEnd Jazz,Schroeder Cabs,S.I.T,True-voice,FutureSonics | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Nashville | | | My first gig was my first practice with this band I played in... I didn't know there would be people there... and I had been playing bass for only a few months.. man it was a scary time... I thoroughly hated every second of it
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