I think she must have moved to Atlanta and sang with us for a while. Oh and we played a cub where the band is responsible for working the door & our door person couldn't make it so the singer worked the door between sets & kept everything she collected.
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I think she must have moved to Atlanta and sang with us for a while. Oh and we played a cub where the band is responsible for working the door & our door person couldn't make it so the singer worked the door between sets & kept everything she collected.
We were doing a show on a riverboat and realized just after leaving the dock that we didn't have the kick drum mic'ed and upon searching, didn't have the midget mic stand that we used for it. We ended up mounting a mic clip in a monster energy drink can and propping it up on the isolation block we use. It was a perfect fit. Another show, about 2 hours away and the drummer forgot his bass drum pedal. He ended up playing the show by actually kicking the kick drum head and I didn't notice until the end of the night. Played a show a couple of weeks ago with an old band because they were playing near my work, so I stopped down and they had forgotten to arrange for either of their two rotating bassists to be there that night, do forgotten bassists count as forgotten gear?
My old band was recording with Lou Whitney of the Skeletons and Morells. Our drummer forgot all his cymbals. Lou made some calls and we ended up going to Bobby Lloyd Hicks' house to pick up his cymbals. The only problem was that he was currently on tour with someone else and we got the cracked ones......
One of my current bands played a gig in Kansas City. We stayed with an old friend of the guitar player. After the gig, we went to the front door and knocked but no one answered so we went to the side door where he let us in. The next morning, we were loading up when the guitar player realized he couldn't find the guitars (one of which was mine). We walked to the front door and there they were. They had sat on the porch all night. The porch light was on, the house faced a major thoroughfare. Everyone who drove by that night probably saw 3 guitar cases on the porch.
One of my current bands played a gig in Kansas City. We stayed with an old friend of the guitar player. After the gig, we went to the front door and knocked but no one answered so we went to the side door where he let us in. The next morning, we were loading up when the guitar player realized he couldn't find the guitars (one of which was mine). We walked to the front door and there they were. They had sat on the porch all night. The porch light was on, the house faced a major thoroughfare. Everyone who drove by that night probably saw 3 guitar cases on the porch.
.I once saw a band at a gig and one of the guitards was using the cable from a soldering iron (it had the iron on one end and the plug on the other) as a guitar strap - try tieing a piece of 2 core cable around your strap buttons and sling it over your head!! - OOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!.
If it were me, I'd just sit on a chair!.
A Bandleader I worked with told me a story that he once booked a Guitard for a "serious" gig (the punter had paid for an 8 piece with Girl singer, Brass,wearing Tuxes etc..). The Guitard he booked played an early Roland Guitar synth that required a special cable to connect to the synth contained in the floor box (later ones had a normal jack socket so you could use it as a "normal" guitar as well) and, you guessed it, he forgot the cable!!. BUT as the Band was contracted to be an 8 piece, this guitard had to stand there and play a dead instrument for three sets!. Needless to say, my friend didn't book him again!.
Many years ago I got a drummer I knew from a Garage band a "Dep" gig with my "working" Band (they played the Working Men's Clubs and British Legions for money). I gave him a ride to the "garage" - another friend's house - where his drums were and we packed them up in their cases and put them in my car. When we got to the gig that evening he realised that he'd somehow left the hi-hiat clutch behind. Luckily, we fixed the issue with gaffer tape, BUT on returing to the "another friends house" for practise in the morning he said " I wondered why you left it behind... - he didn't think to give either of us a call when he spotted it just after we'd left ....
In my case, the only time I recall a situation was on a ship I was working on. We were rehearsing the act for the show that night and my cable completely failed. Normally I brought my gig bag on the stage for the gig, but not for the rehearsal. I had to apologies profusely and with the act (production singers, magician, juggler, dancers etc.... and the rest of the 5 piece band sat there I had to run down five decks, get my gig bag, and return with a useable cable. I spent the afternoon with a cable tester, pliers and a soldering iron.....
If it were me, I'd just sit on a chair!.
A Bandleader I worked with told me a story that he once booked a Guitard for a "serious" gig (the punter had paid for an 8 piece with Girl singer, Brass,wearing Tuxes etc..). The Guitard he booked played an early Roland Guitar synth that required a special cable to connect to the synth contained in the floor box (later ones had a normal jack socket so you could use it as a "normal" guitar as well) and, you guessed it, he forgot the cable!!. BUT as the Band was contracted to be an 8 piece, this guitard had to stand there and play a dead instrument for three sets!. Needless to say, my friend didn't book him again!.
Many years ago I got a drummer I knew from a Garage band a "Dep" gig with my "working" Band (they played the Working Men's Clubs and British Legions for money). I gave him a ride to the "garage" - another friend's house - where his drums were and we packed them up in their cases and put them in my car. When we got to the gig that evening he realised that he'd somehow left the hi-hiat clutch behind. Luckily, we fixed the issue with gaffer tape, BUT on returing to the "another friends house" for practise in the morning he said " I wondered why you left it behind... - he didn't think to give either of us a call when he spotted it just after we'd left ....
In my case, the only time I recall a situation was on a ship I was working on. We were rehearsing the act for the show that night and my cable completely failed. Normally I brought my gig bag on the stage for the gig, but not for the rehearsal. I had to apologies profusely and with the act (production singers, magician, juggler, dancers etc.... and the rest of the 5 piece band sat there I had to run down five decks, get my gig bag, and return with a useable cable. I spent the afternoon with a cable tester, pliers and a soldering iron.....
How about the other side of the story, I once had to stop the car, get out, open the trunk and check my Bass WAS in the case ....
OK, this story is a bit off-topic, because not the gear was forgotten. A drummer forgot a whole session - night.
Two weeks ago I was invited to a rock - session with some dudes out of the three bands I play with. There are also only two drummers for three bands, the one drummer plays with me in two bands, the bands share a practising room. The third band has its room 20 km away from this place.
But - I don't know who was the father of this idea, maybe a keyboarder - they asked another drummer, unknown to the rest of them guys, for getting his gear on stage. Yeah, the guitarists of his band should play on this session, too.
I was asked to bring my gear for the backline. So I called the bar - manager, a friend of mine, and asked, when it would be ok to arrive. He told me, that he will be there at 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm would be fine, because it was planed to make a little soundcheck at 8:00 pm and we could talk a bit before. At 9:00 pm the session should start. OK, so I arrived at 7:00 pm. Nobody was there. Only me, my gear and some pieces of a small PA, two satelites, two subwoofer, a power-mixer, this was it. So I talked to the barman, installed my gear, made my sound (first time on stage with a MarkBass LM II and a Peavey TVX 210), played-along to some metal-songs from his stereo. Some guests, more ore less friends from the neigbourhood, arrived for a drink, came in and sayed: "Oh wow, you really did something with the bass-section of your stereo....!"
Later that evening, some more musicians arrived, bringing in theyr gear. The two other drummers appeared - but we still missed that one who was responsible for bringing his drums! At 9:00 pm I asked, where them drums should come from..... So they told me the name of a guy I know for 30 years, a nice guy, but 30 years of beeing a alcohol - addict wound up some parts of his brain.....
I told the man who was the organisator for this evening: "...so if you talked to "Drinkin' Dan" (name of the guy changed to protect the innocent), you should call him by now. I want to start lately at 10:00 pm because I want to sleep in my own bed!"
So he tried this several times. After a while he got connected with that guy and told him to come. "Drinkin' Dan" answered astonished: "I don't know about anything. What shall I have sayed? You must be kidding - I never aggreed bringing my gear to this place!"
OK, after sampling all the peaces of a cell-phone that was thrown to the wall we talked, what to do now. The way to my second practising room lasts for half an hour one way. The drums there are mine, a gift from a former drummer of mine who gave them to me as I helped him out a lot - and he knew that one of my two sons is interested in playing drums. Only a snare, two toms, a stand-tom and a floordrum. Two crappy cimbals, a hi-hat, that's it - a poor drum-set, but good enough to start. So we counted a bit - and everybody decidet to chancel the session. 1 hour of driving, 10 minutes taking it down, 10 minutes rebuilding it, soundcheck......
What a shame! F**king embarrassing! On this evening "Drinkin' Dan" lost the small piece of reputation he didn't "drink to pieces" until his time.... Such a completely ******...
Two weeks ago I was invited to a rock - session with some dudes out of the three bands I play with. There are also only two drummers for three bands, the one drummer plays with me in two bands, the bands share a practising room. The third band has its room 20 km away from this place.
But - I don't know who was the father of this idea, maybe a keyboarder - they asked another drummer, unknown to the rest of them guys, for getting his gear on stage. Yeah, the guitarists of his band should play on this session, too.
I was asked to bring my gear for the backline. So I called the bar - manager, a friend of mine, and asked, when it would be ok to arrive. He told me, that he will be there at 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm would be fine, because it was planed to make a little soundcheck at 8:00 pm and we could talk a bit before. At 9:00 pm the session should start. OK, so I arrived at 7:00 pm. Nobody was there. Only me, my gear and some pieces of a small PA, two satelites, two subwoofer, a power-mixer, this was it. So I talked to the barman, installed my gear, made my sound (first time on stage with a MarkBass LM II and a Peavey TVX 210), played-along to some metal-songs from his stereo. Some guests, more ore less friends from the neigbourhood, arrived for a drink, came in and sayed: "Oh wow, you really did something with the bass-section of your stereo....!"
Later that evening, some more musicians arrived, bringing in theyr gear. The two other drummers appeared - but we still missed that one who was responsible for bringing his drums! At 9:00 pm I asked, where them drums should come from..... So they told me the name of a guy I know for 30 years, a nice guy, but 30 years of beeing a alcohol - addict wound up some parts of his brain.....
I told the man who was the organisator for this evening: "...so if you talked to "Drinkin' Dan" (name of the guy changed to protect the innocent), you should call him by now. I want to start lately at 10:00 pm because I want to sleep in my own bed!"
So he tried this several times. After a while he got connected with that guy and told him to come. "Drinkin' Dan" answered astonished: "I don't know about anything. What shall I have sayed? You must be kidding - I never aggreed bringing my gear to this place!"
OK, after sampling all the peaces of a cell-phone that was thrown to the wall we talked, what to do now. The way to my second practising room lasts for half an hour one way. The drums there are mine, a gift from a former drummer of mine who gave them to me as I helped him out a lot - and he knew that one of my two sons is interested in playing drums. Only a snare, two toms, a stand-tom and a floordrum. Two crappy cimbals, a hi-hat, that's it - a poor drum-set, but good enough to start. So we counted a bit - and everybody decidet to chancel the session. 1 hour of driving, 10 minutes taking it down, 10 minutes rebuilding it, soundcheck......
What a shame! F**king embarrassing! On this evening "Drinkin' Dan" lost the small piece of reputation he didn't "drink to pieces" until his time.... Such a completely ******...
Last summer we did a gig out of town where I had to bring the entire PA systems - speakers, monitors, cables, mixer, stands, snake, power cables, etc. in addition to my bass/amp/cab. I also needed to bring the e-drums for a kid that was subbing. My truck was going to be pretty full, so I emailed everyone else to remind them to please bring their personal items - i.e. guitar stand, music stand, boom mic stand.
- I remembered everything I was supposed to bring.
- The lead guitar/singer forgot his boom stand.
- The other guitarist forgot his guitar stand and instrument cable.
- Singer forgot her music stand. That was the only item she had to bring.
Unfortunately, this is typical.
- I remembered everything I was supposed to bring.
- The lead guitar/singer forgot his boom stand.
- The other guitarist forgot his guitar stand and instrument cable.
- Singer forgot her music stand. That was the only item she had to bring.
Unfortunately, this is typical.
Left my stand at a bar we play frequently... didn't remember where I left it, so I bought another one. Went to play there again and guess what was on the stage? So I ask, "Hey, did I leave that here a few weeks ago?" 
We were on an out of town a gig (2-3hr drive), while unpacking, our drummer realizes he forgot his high-hat trigger. He set the top/bottom high hats up on a lowered crash stand and voila ... instant closed hat ... all night long! No crash though.
Another out of town blunder, but a good example of why you should be nice to the sound guy. We showed up with *all* of our PA, but left our big "cable bag" at the studio. Luckily, we had a local sound guy buddy in the area who loaned us cables.
I also left a Bass Balls in a green room at a club once and it wasn't there when I went back. That's one I'll never forgive myself for.
We were on an out of town a gig (2-3hr drive), while unpacking, our drummer realizes he forgot his high-hat trigger. He set the top/bottom high hats up on a lowered crash stand and voila ... instant closed hat ... all night long! No crash though.
Another out of town blunder, but a good example of why you should be nice to the sound guy. We showed up with *all* of our PA, but left our big "cable bag" at the studio. Luckily, we had a local sound guy buddy in the area who loaned us cables.
I also left a Bass Balls in a green room at a club once and it wasn't there when I went back. That's one I'll never forgive myself for.
The first song I ever recorded I forgot my bass and the guitarists guitar. And that is why you dont leave your drummer and keyboardist to pack. Also the studio was an hour away. The guy was super cool and didnt charge us for the time going back and getting em.
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