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All the World is a Stage! Strange stages..

#61
I've had a few-
- boats on Lake Michigan (in choppy waters- not recommended)
- bowling alley on a lane apron (had to wear the rented shoes)
- horse race track between races (not recommended)
- busking on the street in Dublin (HIGHLY recommended)
- plywood on the mud in a field (more than once)
- various school cafeterias
- various hallways (Bulls game and NACA conferences)
- plywood on top of pool tables (not recommended)
- lobby of fancy building downtown (all marble, glass, and metal)
- lobby of a bank (the carpeting helped)
- campground in front of the snack shack
- flatbed trailers, block parties, gazebos, pop-up art spaces, lofts...

And I wouldn't trade a minute of it.
 
#63
in the middle of a half pipe skateboard ramp. With people skating.
On top of a peach crate stage in the middle of an almond orchard.
In a brewery (across from Mesa Boogie!)
many attics and basements
one or two rooves.
on a bridge over a dry creek that has no road on either end.
in a ford econoline
under an overpass
 
#65
Here are a few odd ones.

RichardCranium said:
Nothing better than the obligatory pole in the middle of the stage venue.
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How about an outdoor deck with a tree right in the center?

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Or another favorite is on a flatbed hay trailer

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#67
In a GameStop store at midnight
On the roof of a building
on a parade float for St. Patrick's Day
On a plateau overlooking the city that's a 200 foot walk uphill from the nearest parking
At a furry convention after party
Tons of boats
Countless backyard parties with or without stages, sometimes with gazebos, sometimes on sloped driveways, etc.
On a custom built stage for a family gathering of someone else's family in rural PA
At a standup comedy/storytelling open mic, improvising everything to fit the stories
On a 50 foot concrete wall behind a bar, with band members at various levels
Tennis courts in a public park
In the middle of a parking lot for a street festival
Flatbeds
On stage in a strip club
A rural biker bar where the show was booked an hour prior, with a top 40 cover band (Some of the bikers came to an open mic that we ran until 12AM every Wednesday and said stop down at the bar after that to talk about booking a gig, we got done at about 10:30 because it was a slow night so we all stopped down and they said set up and play. We played from 11:15 until about 3AM and they paid us $500 and said come back next Friday.)
 
#68
BryanM said:
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On a plateau overlooking the city that's a 200 foot walk uphill from the nearest parking
At a furry convention after party
Tons of boats
Countless backyard parties with or without stages...
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Oh come on. You don't just slip that in the middle of the list as if it's nothing. I'm sure there's got to be an interesting story there.
 
#73
Not my band, but I was at Holiday Valley Ski Resort for Mardi Gras weekend and saw a band play on top of a 20-30 foot mountain of snow. The band isn't up there in the picture but you can see the PA speakers!
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#74
We used to throw these big New Years Eve bashes in my Dad's shop for NYE 04, 05, 06 and 07. We used a flatbed trailer and a hay wagon. We even made a little catwalk once out of hay bales that we could on. We'd get about 75-100 people at those parties, and they were fun. The attached picture was taken while we were setting up.

Also we played a place in Columbus Ohio called "The Treehouse". The "stage" was basically the side of the room that wasn't taken up by the enormous tree they had built the bar around.
 

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#78
As a matter of fact today i played in the courtyard of the Wesybeth center [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] . It was quite windy, lots of clothing pins for the sheet music and taping and retaping of music stands to the concrete.

Other locations in days past:
-with an open air theatre show: the bottom of a swimming pool; a barn; the ruins of a castle.
-various boats in and around Amsterdam (houseboats, sloops, rowboats, partyboats)
-Out of a 67 Chevy Impala that raided the outdoor bars and terraces all over Holland " ( ; subbed for them for a summer in 2001, I believe)
-in a equestrian manege that served as the basis of the circus I played in the band for during 5 summers in late 80ties/early nineties.
-in a political parade, in Amsterdam way back in the day.
-various homes, gardens, and the grounds of a mental institution
 
#80
Nev375 said:
Oh come on. You don't just slip that in the middle of the list as if it's nothing. I'm sure there's got to be an interesting story there.
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Not yet said:
Agree, we gotta hear about the Furry Convention gig.... We may have a winner here
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Sorry for the delayed response. The story is that our guitarist's ex wife was a furry, nothing real out there like you imagine, just liked to dress up. I used to live in the same house as the two of them and when they split up, she moved back to California. A lot of our friends that we met through her or that would occasionally hang out at the house also happened to enjoy that lifestyle, and some were pretty big names either in the art world surrounding that or in helping organize anthro-con (it's one of the bigger conventions, held here in Pittsburgh every year.)

One year we were downtown as a whole band busking and the convention happened to be going on. We ran into some friends of ours and they asked if we'd be interested in coming to an after party upstairs from a bar nearby, and we just so happened to have the equipment in the van from a gig the night before. We set up and played the venue and got a great response, had a blast doing it too, it wasn't too different from a normal show except that there were more theatrics from the crowd than from the band that night.

I will say, for the most part, furries are pretty cool people with the occasional way-out weirdo thrown in. I don't see it as any different from people who enjoy cosplay, larping, or most other forms of roleplay. It's just about putting on a face that makes it more comfortable or fun to interact with people. It is weird to be talking to a cute girl after the show and 10 minutes later you run into her as a cat, though.
 

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