Favorite pre-gig food?

[WickedPissah]

I'm not finicky. If the place we're playing serves food and I can get there early enough to set up and eat without rushing I'll eat off the menu (+1 if we get free or reduced price food). What I've found is that I can't eat a really big meal right before a gig. So if I'm eating at the venue it's usually a sandwich and maybe some fries. I don't play well when drinking so I'll usually have 1 beer either before the gig or after the 1st set. I'll usually either stop off at DD's for a large coffee before I hit the road if I have a bit of a drive or grab one near the gig. At my age a little extra caffeine helps. I do make sure to drink soda or water throughout the night to remain hydrated.

If I eat at home it's usually a sandwich or leftovers, preferably an hour before I load the car up though if pressed for time I've been known to eat a sandwich while driving to the gig.

Yes. Love Dunks, man, love Dunks.

 

[Kira]

Fried potatoes and drink few beers

 

[complexprocess]

Those packaged peanut butter crackers and a bottle of water. Pizza usually right after I'm done playing. I like to keep my fingers grease free before I play.

 

[Audiophage]

A Starbucks venti white chocolate mocha with 2 extra shots of espresso. Nothing like being geeked up on stage!!!

Once I had a little too much coffee before a jazz gig, and uh, lets just say that the tempos were soaring for the first few tunes.

 

[TheGrizz]

Thanks man! That show was super fun. Hopefully you can catch another soon and we can meet up again!!

Well, I'll be at Maximum Capacity this Saturday. So I'll be sure to say hi.

 

[Pstewart]

Those packaged peanut butter crackers and a bottle of water. Pizza usually right after I'm done playing. I like to keep my fingers grease free before I play.

i read that as "a bottle of butter crackers and a packet of pizza water" when i skimmed it ?_?

There's this gnarly little malyasian place in the center of town which is famous for rotichenai for $6 that's killer and giving people brutal food poisoining :S. Good stuff though.

 

[Oric]

scrambled eggs with steak, cheese, and salsa. At least it is for three of us, our drummer's a vegetarian. But we haven't had a gig with the two new members, so yea. We make it all together, eat it, and then clean up. It's delicious.

Bacon can substitute steak.

 

[Jimbow]

Jimmy Johns! #6 Vegetarian sub and a water.

 

[LumpyGravy]

Pizza with sausage, onions and anchovies, followed by a couple beers. Some reason I feel a little more creative that way.

 

[datsgora]

no food. I play the Blues, so....how you gonna play the blues all full and happy......beer for me and a shot of 12yr old scotch. stomach growling and buzzed...that makes for the Blues!

 

[dcr]

Normally I eat on the way to the gig, set-up, take a break, then play. So it's quite a while between meal and stage lights.

If I eat, Subway. If I don't, a coke or orange juice. With bourbon or tequila, respectively





dcr

 

[megadan]

Good question!

Probably subway or quiznos, no greasy burgers.

 

[LumpyGravy]

Good question!

Probably subway or quiznos, no greasy burgers.

Quizno's Sammy's!!!!!!!!!

 

[TonyP-]

A Starbucks venti white chocolate mocha with 2 extra shots of espresso. Nothing like being geeked up on stage!!!

I know the feeling...

Something light, nothing greasy, nothing with oil. Never booze.
Coffee of some sort.

 

[lunarpollen]

In the 24 hours preceding a gig, I like to gorge on extra fresh raw salmon... But for a pre-gig meal I like something hearty and comforting, something old-school, meat-&-potatoes, diner food...

 

[RED5]

Before? nothing, I like to go in lite. During, one beer,all night except sunday,tonic water & lime, anything fried that's passing by. After? open season, precious few diners open after 12am round here but we know where they are.

 

[Nikoubis]

Souvlaki.

'Nuff said.

 

[kesslari]

Niko, years ago I used to do a weekly gig at a Greek restaurant. Then the pre-gig food was avgolemono and souvlaki. Good stuff indeed.

 

[Bass Mule]

A pint of Guinness or Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout. Just one pint.

 

[Gintaras]

light and protein with water. No sugar or anything with corn syrup. Low on the carbs. Sushi or tuna salad on wheat. sometimes a salad.

Overeating just saps the energy from me. You also have consider that I am 61 and eating the crap that I ate when I was 27 would kill me.