Ever want to get totally drunk after a gig?

[Pilgrim]

Anyhow I wanted to just get wasted, because I know that liquor [DEL]solves all[/DEL] creates even MORE problems!

Fixed it for you.

But about the gig....realize that probably 80% of what went wrong was never even noticed by the audience. The other 20% may have been noticed, but life goes on and today is a new day.

 

[BioDriver]

Depends - do wedding gigs count as church gigs?

 

[fingerbun]

First, work out what you personally could have done to avoid each issue to which you contributed.

Sometimes what seems like your fault, really isn't. Case in point, a huge screw-up we had on my bar band gig Saturday night. We're starting "Red Solo Cup" and the guy playing banjo starts it in G. (We play it in A). So I've got my IEMs in but for some reason banjo's not in my mix so I walk my part in... in A. So we're both just jamming along, totally unaware we're off by a whole step from each other. BL/singer is looking back at me like, "W-T-F" and I had no idea. So really it was the banjo player's fault for starting in the wrong key but if I had been able to hear him I could have adapted. Oh well.

Maybe i chose my words poorly. I was thinking about control rather than fault.

My reason for starting with myself and what I control is that I can change things myself.

 

[jaywa]

Maybe i chose my words poorly. I was thinking about control rather than fault.

My reason for starting with myself and what I control is that I can change things myself.

Yeah... in my case, I have my own IEM mix that I can control from the stage... so I could/should have fixed it so I could hear the banjo player. OTOH I trusted him to start the song in the right key which generally is a given in a band situation. Guess that's one assumption to cross off my list from here on out.

 

[Biggbass]

I stopped getting drunk 25 years ago and can't think of anything that would inspire me
to want to.

And chances are pretty good almost no one in the audience noticed any of the
things you listed.

Last Sat night my amp blew one of it's three preamp tubes in the middle of a set and lost 80% of it's volume. Only one person noticed that I was having trouble with my amp and diagnosing the problem while we continued to play and I continued to sing. And only because he was a guitar player and sitting at the table right in front of me.

Funny story (for me anyway)...last year we were playing some gig (I was on guitar that night) and I launched into a solo a half key high. I knew right away that I was in the wrong key. Stage lights were low and I couldn't find my bearings on the fretboard. Looking at the other guitarist with a "deer in the headlights" look on my face he was just laughing, knowing I was in the wrong key. About half way thru the mess i managed to drop it down half a step and finish it out on key. No one in the audience ever picked up on it...they just kept dancing.

 

[jaywa]

And chances are pretty good almost no one in the audience noticed any of the
things you listed.

This is so true. The same gig where the banjo-ist and I had our trainwreck ended with a couple dozen 20-somethings "toasting" our band from the front of the stage and the gal who hired us giving us 5 referrals for other gigs. So you've just got to keep pickin' and grinnin' and plugging away.

 

[bassinplace]

Nope. I personally find drunkeness to be over rated. Nothing a few rehearsals can't fix. Look at the bright side, anything you play after that is only going to be an improvement!

 

[Blankandson]

Think about your audience. If MY mom had been there yesterday she would have said 'that was nice - you play that . . . whatever it is . . . very nice'

 

[Blankandson]

An old boss used to tell me "If the audience noticed there was a sound system, you didn't do your job." Well, being on the road, we visited a church yesterday (Easter) where it was very obvious that they had a sound system. A BAD one. As much as I grip about sound engineers, I tend to forget that a lot of churches have really bad systems and nothing anyone can do will help. I wanted so much to sneak over to the teenager operating it and whisper 'just turn it off ! Trust me ! No one will notice !' But I didn't.

 

[jaywa]

Well, being on the road, we visited a church yesterday (Easter) where it was very obvious that they had a sound system. A BAD one.

Yup... a lot of churches have a long way to go on this whole thing yet. It would take an act of Congress to get some of these places to invest in a subwoofer or two.

Of course, a lot of churches are still filled with people who think low frequencies are of the devil...

 

[otherclef]

I take music too seriously. I dont smoke or get drunk when Im doing anything with music.

hehe... if only talent was that simple..

 

[Sav'nBass]

Do you ever feel like getting totally falling down sh$$t faced drunk after a gig......a church gig?!

I never want to get drink ever.. EVER.. That is the worst feeling in the world.. spinning room... tongue in neck.. and the stomach... UGHHHH!! No thanks!! Ever since I was in my 20s every time I have gotten drunk was purely by accident.. usually at funerals with family.. Toss back a few...? Absolutely!! ... but I avoid drunk like a hot poker in the eye...

 

[MatticusMania]

I never want to get drink ever.. EVER.. That is the worst feeling in the world.. spinning room... tongue in neck.. and the stomach... UGHHHH!! No thanks!! Ever since I was in my 20s every time I have gotten drunk was purely by accident.. usually at funerals with family.. Toss back a few...? Absolutely!! ... but I avoid drunk like a hot poker in the eye...

The feeling you describe is not exactly 'drunk' but rather a step or two over the line. If youre spinning then you drank too much. A good drunk doesnt bite you in the ass until the morning, a better drunk not even then.

 

[hdracer]

It could be a lot worse.
The crowd could have left and the club owner stiffing you on the pay.

 

[jaywa]

It could be a lot worse.
The crowd could have left and the club owner stiffing you on the pay.

Not likely, as the OP was describing a church gig.



But yeah, that's pretty much the worst possible outcome.

 

[turbo chicken]

Sounds like a regular gig to me


and nobody in the crowd notices ... really they don't... least most of them