We got kicked off stage because....

mactac · #1 03-13-2007, 07:04 PM

I'd love to hear everyone's stories about getting booted off stage.

We played this bar one that was full of 40+ (not that that's old, it's just not a usual bar crown for our band). In the middle of the second song, the bartender ran up to the stage making slit-throat signs & yelled "you're gone!" for being too loud. Funny thing was, I was playing through a 100w 10" combo & the guitar player was playing through a practice amp. Our regular shows ARE loud, but this was nuthun'.

funnily enough, we were so excited about getting kick off stage. it's never happened to any of us before, and we felt like it was a rite of passage or something.

RWP · #2 03-13-2007, 07:07 PM

Wow, did ya' get paid?

blmeier7 · #3 03-13-2007, 07:10 PM

I wouldn't say we got kicked off stage but the show definately ended early one night about 8 years ago while we were playing a pretty heavy set and a fight broke out directly in front of the singer. There were about 10 or so people involved in the fight and one guy decided to use his beer mug as a brass knuckle. Anyways...the police were called and we ended early that night.

mactac · #4 03-13-2007, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by RWP

Wow, did ya' get paid?

hahah... nope.

RWP · #5 03-14-2007, 06:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mactac

hahah... nope.

Oh well, their loss.

HomeBrewTJ · #6 03-14-2007, 11:03 AM

You must have really sucked!

Busker · #7 03-14-2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by mactac

I'd love to hear everyone's stories about getting booted off stage.

We played this bar one that was full of 40+ (not that that's old, it's just not a usual bar crown for our band). In the middle of the second song, the bartender ran up to the stage making slit-throat signs & yelled "you're gone!" for being too loud. Funny thing was, I was playing through a 100w 10" combo & the guitar player was playing through a practice amp. Our regular shows ARE loud, but this was nuthun'.

funnily enough, we were so excited about getting kick off stage. it's never happened to any of us before, and we felt like it was a rite of passage or something.

Why didn't he simply tell you to turn the volume down? Sounds like he had issues.

**DougD** · #8 03-14-2007, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Busker

Why didn't he simply tell you to turn the volume down? Sounds like he had issues.

He may not have liked your band and used the volume as an excuse to get rid of them. Who knows.

KingOfAmps · #9 03-14-2007, 11:56 AM

If some douche who is trying to pick up some chick becomes frustrated because the chick keeps saying, "What?" the douche will suggest they head to another bar (prolly right next door).

If the bartender notices this happening too many times he'll mentally weigh the following in a microsecond:

how many drinkers showed up because of the band
how much money and free beer is the band expecting
Is anyone paying attention to the music
how many customers are heading for the exit

85% of the time the bartender will want to pull the plug but won't. About 2% of the time (like in your case) they do.

And the more experienced the bartender/owner the more sensitive.

Busker · #10 03-14-2007, 12:56 PM

You were't playing the Clash and Sex Pistols to a crowd expecting the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd, were you ?

We old pharrrrrts can only take so much.

**DougD** · #11 03-14-2007, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by KingOfAmps

If some douche who is trying to pick up some chick becomes frustrated because the chick keeps saying, "What?" the douche will suggest they head to another bar (prolly right next door).

If the bartender notices this happening too many times he'll mentally weigh the following in a microsecond:

how many drinkers showed up because of the band
how much money and free beer is the band expecting
Is anyone paying attention to the music
how many customers are heading for the exit

85% of the time the bartender will want to pull the plug but won't. About 2% of the time (like in your case) they do.

And the more experienced the bartender/owner the more sensitive.

Good point. I never thought of it quite that way.

mactac · #12 03-14-2007, 01:33 PM

nah, we were playing bluesy rock&roll. it was perfect for the bar & impossible to make sound bad unless you just suck (which we dont'!) We're a good band & have played some fairly big (well for our area anyways) shows. This was just a spur-of the-moment fill-in thing .... we were just too loud for them i think.

Like I said, I really didn't care... the humour of it all was worth it to me actually

I think the bartender was in a bad mood because:

-the crowd liked it (they told us so & bood when we got booted)
-we were NOT getting paid
- people were not leaving because of it

jrduer · #13 03-14-2007, 01:43 PM

Back in about 1969, my bnd was playing a school dance (junior high). All of our gear was plugged into one gigantic wall wart. About 4 songs into the set, we played "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf. Halfway through the first chorus, the principal yanked the wall wart out of the socket, and that was the end of that.

~John

Busker · #14 03-14-2007, 01:52 PM

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Back in about 1969, my bnd was playing a school dance (junior high). All of our gear was plugged into one gigantic wall wart. About 4 songs into the set, we played "The Pusher" by Steppenwolf. Halfway through the first chorus, the principal yanked the wall wart out of the socket, and that was the end of that.

~John

I take it you didn't change the lyrics to "Gosh darn the pusher man".

jrduer · #15 03-14-2007, 01:55 PM

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I take it you didn't change the lyrics to "Gosh darn the pusher man".

Nope!

Just another example of The Man trampling on our freedom of speech...

~John

Busker · #16 03-14-2007, 02:01 PM

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Nope!

Just another example of The Man trampling on our freedom of speech...

~John

Off topic, but I found an old copy of Steppenwolf 7 a few weeks back, the one with Snowblind Friend on it. They were a great band, really. I used to listen to them when I was a kid, but forgot all about them until recently.

John Kay has a heck of a story. He was a little kid in Germany during WWII and barely escaped with his life.

bradjonesbass · #17 03-14-2007, 02:50 PM

We once lost out on the 2nd two of a 3 night opening slot for a "big-name" band because 1/2 of the people who came left after their second or third song the first night. WE weren't drawing the right kind of people...

I.E. we blew them off the stage and they didn't like it.

chaosMK · #18 03-14-2007, 02:52 PM

Once this awful retro 80's metal band I was in played open mic at a bluesey bar with a lot of older regulars.

We were "too loud" so they kicked us off pretty quick.

I think the trouble was that we were a bad metal band. I dont know who was the jackass that booked that.

jady · #19 03-14-2007, 04:31 PM

We had our primarily 40+ blues band booked at a new club in town. It was like a Girls gone Wild Video shoot. We were NOT the right band for the venue. We got our 4 set night called off after 1 set, got paid in full and loaded up to the dulcit sounds of DMX and Eminem.

Bottom Feeder · #20 03-14-2007, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Busker

I take it you didn't change the lyrics to "Gosh darn the pusher man".

Haha. Probably just like a lot of people, he thought they were glorifying pushers when in truth, they were excoriating pushers. He probably thought that Steppenwolf was "evil, wicked, mean and nasty."

Yeah I have Steppenwolf 7. Grew up on that album.
When I was a little kid, for some reason my Mom allowed me to get it. I liked the 2 skulls on the cover.