Yet another first gig story.

[Jimbow]

Well, I just got home from my first "gig". We played for a youth group outreach thing (drummer and guitarists church, I go to a different one). Anyway it was good. We got to play 8 songs, a mixture of cover tunes by SRV, Hendrix, Cream, The Meters (Cissy strut ), and one John Mayer tune.

Before we started playing, I was tuning up as usual when my D string went flying. I first thought I broke it, but after a closer look, my D string tuner seems to have broken. Nothing happens when you turn it and the peg part can just spin freely. Not good.

Anyway, I ended up using the church backup bass. An ESP strung with super-light strings. The bass sounded fine, but playing took a bit of effort considering I normally use Power Slinkies (55-110).

Other than that, and a belligerent soundman, it went really well. Nailed my solo, and the guitarist and drummer were tight. It was great.

[IconBasser]

congrats

[sikkinixx]

I played in a band for one night. The singer headbutted the stage 3 times, the last time splitting his forhead and blood went everywhere.
One of the guitarists fell of the stage during a solo.
The other one went to the bar and returned 1 hour later.
The drummer and I just played our asses off.
After the gig we were approached by a guitarist starting a band and we played for 18 months together after that.
The guitarist wasnt that great, but he didnt smoke weed either. We did, but hey, we kept the rhythm section tight as a fishs' ........................... well im sure u get the drift. lol