How old were you on your first gig?

[katri]

My first gig was back in Feb 05 so i have now been gigging (about 2-3 times a month) for 4 years, I was 13 back at my first gig.

How old were you guys?

 

[MichaelJordan]

To be honest I have never played a live gig. I guess I was about 10 and I played my clarinet downtown atlanta... but other than that none. I have recorded some though... I hope to get a bass amp soon and start giging I'm 25 now.. about time...

 

[Mike Shevlin]

14

 

[Jim Carr]

14 on bass, but if you count church children's choir, 6.

 

[Michael Vee]

T'was when I was 16. I got my first bass, the National Beatle Bass, for Christmas the preceding year. The first band I was in played for my high school variety show. It was a lot of fun, and probably sounded pretty bad.

 

[MtManiac]

Do you mean paying gig, or first time playing in front of an audience? 19 for the former, 12 for the latter.

 

[wagstaff]

14 on guitar.

 

[jdieh1]

I am yet to play a proper gig.

In front of an audience it was a few years back... 2007. I would have been 14 and I didn't even know how to play bass then... Or any instrument. I did alright though.

 

[Jay Corwin]

First real gig, that was a paid bar gig 18 or 19.

 

[Vakmere]

My first gig was back in Feb 05 so i have now been gigging (about 2-3 times a month) for 4 years, I was 13 back at my first gig.

How old were you guys?

I was 20 back in 1973..........yikes

 

[etoncrow]

My first gig was a convention at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV, at the age of 14. My second gig was the local Moose hall. Figured I had seen both ends of the spectrum at that point. I was almost right.

 

[Jake of Bass]

15, in front of 450 people. I ws soooo nervous, but afterwards I would've done almost anything to get back up there.

 

[Hot Rats]

17. It was at a pizza hut. Some rude bastard actually got up and left! T'was 1983 it was.

 

[Cabazon]

I was 15 or 16, and it was drumming. I've yet to gig with bass.

 

[Phalex]

I used to sing at church from the time I was 9 or 10. Not just choir stuff, but solo as well.

I guess my first paying gig must have been when I was around 23 or 24. I played bass in basements and garages for maybe 10 years before that.

 

[lindseyp]

5. It was a piano recital, 45 years ago. My sister and I differ on which songs we played.

 

[deaf pea]

Do you mean paying gig, or first time playing in front of an audience?...

I joined the musician's union in 1960, when I was 15 years old . . . and have been gigging ever since!



But the "first time playing in front of an audience" was probably a piano recital when I was 7 . . .

 

[ClassicRock55]

I'd say I was 16 or so for my first paying gig.

 

[T-Bird]

Hi.

15, in -86, looked a bit different back then . My first paid gig was in the same summer.

Regards
Sam

 

[RexNFX79]

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