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Dumbest thing you've seen someone do onstage

#43
I read that Björk once took a dump on stage. Now that was pretty unprofessional, but last winter a punk/metal band in these parts made headlines by appearing at a family-type fair with an act that included stapling postcards to their chests, whipping, and a live blowjob. There were plenty of children in the audience. The band suggested things just got out of hand, but such lack of judgment is kind of hard to excuse, since the whole show was obviously premeditated to bring them publicity.
 
#47
Early 90's - Laclede's Landing - Club First Rock - the band, Sinister Dane (an excellent local band at the time) Very energetic and known for crazy stange antics. The club was NOT very full - the bass player decides to go for a stage dive anyway... All I heard was an incredibly loud, "THUNK" - I looked up to see a very dazed bass player crawling back up onto the stage to finish the set...

Ouch
 
#49
Dumbest thing I ever saw, just recently at bb kings in los angeles. Saw some friends who were in the original suicidal tendencies band, with there new band. They play old st stuff.
Soundguy was doggin them so hard, The singer talked to the sound guy during the set, And said maybe the pa is bad. Then the sound guy said maybe your a bad band. Then the singer said I should mess you up. Then threw the mic to the second level and hit the sound guy in the head. The mic was still pluged in.
Then a drunk fan threw a beer on the board. Next thing the cops showd up. And I thought at my age I never see new things happen at gigs. BB KINGS is the worst club ever for sound in los angles.......................
 
#51
Metal kid had one of those Chord Locking Mechanism on his bass... he didnt put this chord thru his strap, jumped camedown on thye wire and ripped it clean out(input and all).

I was in the bathroom and just hurt this god awful sound

'the jump was the end of the song break, and then the sound came and stayed while all was quiet, wish i would have seen that.
 
#53
lmoh said:
I read that Björk once took a dump on stage. Now that was pretty unprofessional
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Black Witchery's bassist Impurath not only did this intentionally, he described in great detail how he planned and executed it. Trust me, you don't want to read that! The guy's got some interesting fetishes and likes to crap himself in public. Among other things.
 
#54
years ago, there was a bar in the atlanta area with a circular, revolving bar in the center of the room. a friend's band was playing and the guitarist had a wireless system. during one song he climbed on the bar and started "strutting" around on the bar top during a solo.

remember, it's a circular bar - the bartender has to have a way to get in. like many bar-tops, it had a small hinged section that can be lifted up.

when mr. showmanship unwittingly steps on the hinged section, it collapses and he takes a dive directly into the bar and over the side, disappearing in a percussive thunk. after a brief pause in his playing, you hear him pick back up on the lead and slowly re-appear from behind the bar, more than a little disoriented.

rock and roll, hell yeah!
:bassist:
 
#55
I was helping out these pals of mine who had a punk band by filling in on bass for a big gig. I "converted" the drummer by loaning him "James Brown's greatest hits" and we had this cool bass/drum funk thing we practiced....

Anyway so it's the big show, it comes to the guitar players big solo and he jumps of the front of the stage into the audience, lands on his knees hits that first sustained note and has his head cocked...just like Eddie VanHalen. His jump was teh most impressive as he must have gone 20 feet! The problem was his guitar cord was 15 feet.

Needless to say there was no sound to his solo and he had this horrified guilt expression on his face like his mom caught him masterbating.

Thinking quick I yelled to the drummer "James Brown funk now!" the drummer and I go into our bass/drum thing.

The guitar player is examining his guitar trying to figure out the problem. He's oblivious to the cord unplugged. He gets pissed and walks of the stage, er the floor.




Ernieballer said:
How about Tim from Rage Against the Machine throwing his bass up in the air at the MTV music awards(I think). It came down and smacked him right in the face, preety grueling.
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Richie Blackmore did that once in Deep Purple. I guess when musicians get right into they forget some of the basics, liek gravity.
 
#57
Dave Martin said:
In Las Vegas a few years ago, I was part of a band playing for three nights in that big venue at the MGM Grand; the synth player was on the riser with me (while the piano was on the other side of the drummer). Anyway, the promoters brought in an SVT as part of the back line; I was getting a sound, and the synth guy thought he could point the amp a little away from him; He pushed the amp about three inches and a wheel came off of the riser. And s-l-o-w-ly the whole SVT tipped over backwards. There was a 3 foot walkway behind the riser and a rail at the back of the stage, and the cabinet kinda stuck between the riser and that rail, while the head went on over the rail and hung about 10 feet off the floor of the arena, dangling by the power and speaker cords.

It made a god-awful noise, of course - all of the band and the crew were staring at the amp, at me and at the synth player who caused it all. He looked around, smiled and said, "The bass was a little loud...".
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That is one of the funniest stories I've heard in a long time, thanks for sharing.
 
#60
Ok, so a local act called Creeping Charly was playing in a small, cool bar. They're a heavy metal act(read screaming and loud loud guitars) and this bar is a classic-rock sort of place to start with. The place is inexplicably packed with people anyway, and the singer starts going on about how the crowd should F things up. So in this smallish bar, 3-4 200+ pound dudes start moshing, with me on the edge of it in front of my girlfriend. Long story short, she had to drag my supremely angry self out of there before I did something really stupid to one of the mongoloid moshers. On another occasion, this same singer wanted to go crowd-surfing....in this bar.....with about 20 people there. I ended up holding the guy up....should have thrown him somewhere. No worries though, their guitar player is going to jail and their drummer has to get pins in his leg.
 

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