Drunk guy didn't like my playing.

[DrThumpenstein]

based on his inability to form all consonants needed to complete his thoughts.

 

[PDW30]

Just run through this thread, and I wonder if there's a business opportunity in refinishing bass guitar bodies and headstocks to match dried blood.

 

[NZBassman]

I remember another gig where we were outside the venue on a break... suddenly we hear someone hitting the drums, so we rushed back inside and there were 2 semi drunk young ladies on the stage.
1 was trying to play the drums and the other was trying to play my bass, but I have my bass on mute in the breaks - the lady trying to play my bass said these exact words "your guitar is broken because it doesn't make any sound"
They quickly left when they were asked to and I didn't see them after that

 

[bassplayer1494]

Don't overthink this...

Two drunks and they're hassling the band and the bar staff, and the manager didn't do anything?

Why don't you call up the bar manager and ask if perhaps the next time a situation like that occurs if he/she could grow a pair and take care of it themselves (i.e. bounce them).

Everyday somebody gets their ass handed to them (or worse) by a drunk, a blackout drunk, a whiskey drunk, They're totally unpredictable.

I wonder if they hopped in their car and proceeded to almost kill several people on the way home?

I was unaware that they had approached our drummer on break, and didn't find out about them hassling the bar staff until the show was over. There's only so much you can do/say when it comes to drunken nimrods. I chose the "moral highroad" and he stormed off...

This experience, and reading these stories, has definitely taught me to be more aware when people are acting up.

Ubers are aplenty down in Murrell's Inlet, but people still drive drunk.. There's no telling where those two ended up the next day.

 

[bassplayer1494]

Too many to count and not want to remember. The only good one was when a gal walked up to me between songs and said "Your bass makes my clit tingle!" Need I say more.

"Kids, this is how I met your mother.."

 

[Michedelic]

Too many to count and not want to remember. The only good one was when a gal walked up to me between songs and said "Your bass makes my clit tingle!" Need I say more.

Let me guess, you were hitting a lot of “G” notes.

 

[LBS-bass]

Only one "drunk guy didn't like my playing" story for me.

We were on break and I see this guy walking up to my gear and picking up my bass. Um, what are you doing? He said he played for years and was gonna sit in the next set and show me how it's done. Um, no, you aren't. His reply was "but dude, I could play circles around you." Great, let me know when you have a gig and I'll come to admire your brilliance. Now let go of my bass.

There was an uncomfortable minute where he pondered his next move and I pondered if he was really just drunk, or he was just a moron who knew martial arts.

He walked away grumbling so I'm going with the assumption he was drunk based on his inability to form all consonants needed to complete his thoughts.

You met Jaco!

 

[WI Short Scaler]

You met Jaco!

I think this "gentleman" had outlived Jaco and out-eaten him 3 times over.

But I get your confusion here.

 

[Michael Stanley 2112]

"Kids, this is how I met your mother.."

I knew you looked a lot like Josh Radnor!

 

[bassplayer1494]

I haunted the Strand back in the day in a 3-piece, mostly south down in Murrells Inlet. Man, the folks I came across there... whooo boy.

It is quite the experience down in the Inlet.
Dead Dog Saloon is where all this went down, which is surprising because it's more of a family bar/restaurant instead of a straight up dive.

 

[stubborne]

It is quite the experience down in the Inlet.
Dead Dog Saloon is where all this went down, which is surprising because it's more of a family bar/restaurant instead of a straight up dive.

SBB and a few others too!

 

[wallawallabob]

Oh, and there was the time that half our crowd was bikers. One of the biker chicks kept flashing her tata's at the band, and at everyone else. Nobody seemed to mind, though.

I've noticed that this response is quite common in some parts of TX as well. This is one drunk interruption I don't mind at all.

 

[bassplayer1494]

SBB and a few others too!

SBB gets wild during fall and spring bike rallies. Lot's of drunken shenanigans going on.
Beaver Bar is a good spot to play on their outside stage. Crowd can be hit or miss.

Played up at MOTOs last night in North Myrtle, really enjoy the crowds alot more in North Myrtle Beach. They tip better and can hold their alcohol.

 

[stubborne]

SBB gets wild during fall and spring bike rallies. Lot's of drunken shenanigans going on.
Beaver Bar is a good spot to play on their outside stage. Crowd can be hit or miss.

Played up at MOTOs last night in North Myrtle, really enjoy the crowds alot more in North Myrtle Beach. They tip better and can hold their alcohol.

Remember this stage? Crowd drinks so much, the fumes knocked out the bass player!

 

[PDW30]

Remember this stage? Crowd drinks so much, the fumes knocked out the bass player!

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I might have heard that excuse before.

 

[definenredefine]

Too many to count and not want to remember. The only good one was when a gal walked up to me between songs and said "Your bass makes my clit tingle!" Need I say more.

The only time I've gotten a comment like that, it was a guy saying that our Pixies cover gave him a hard on or some such. Needless to say, I would have been better off not knowing that.

 

[definenredefine]

Remember this stage? Crowd drinks so much, the fumes knocked out the bass player!

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Neither of those bastards look particularly phat to me...

 

[5StringBlues]

The only time I've gotten a comment like that, it was a guy saying that our Pixies cover gave him a hard on or some such. Needless to say, I would have been better off not knowing that.

Back in the 90's a girl asked to sit on my bass cabinet. I obliged.


After sliding the 40 Hz slider on my EQ all the way up.

 

[definenredefine]

Saw the opposite. A supporting guitar player's guitar wouldn't stay in tune and could see he was struggling. Eventually, he took it off mid song and threw it down on the stage and stormed off. What made it funnier was he was a black metal guitarist, with the corpse paint and all.

That was pretty cool.

See, the nice thing about black metal is that no one can tell your instrument is out of tune anyway.

 

[definenredefine]

Back in the 90's a girl asked to sit on my bass cabinet. I obliged.


After sliding the 40 Hz slider on my EQ all the way up.

We joked about that sort of thing after a close friend in high school got his first "real" bass amp (an old Yamaha B115 combo. Which, incidentally, I hope he still has because them ***** are serious...)