In one of my first bands, there was a fight at just about every gig. It didn't seem to matter what type of place we played, someone got their butt whuped. At this one in particular, this guy dressed in black with a keychain the size of my car announced to my drummer that in Florida, he was known as El Blanco Diablo. My drummer said "Here, we call you a$$hole" That set the tone for this guys mood that night. Later on someone spilled this guys drink, and he cut their ear off with a switchblade. It was mayhem. My guitarist got pulled over while he was leaving, the cops thinking that he was the White Devil trying to flee. A year or two later, I was at a friends pig-roast, and was telling this story, when the guy next to me said "That was you?!" and pointed to his mangled ear.
Apparently, they never found the rest of his ear, and the white devil was caught and sent to jail. True story.
Wow, seems like something from a movie. "the attack of El Blanco 'A******' Diablo"
This isnt exactly a disaster at a gig or a disaster at all (After reading this thread, Ill never complain). We were practicing for our first 'gig' a while back and we were kinda short on practise time. We had to switch guitarists, add a singer and change teh songs we were gonna cover a couple of times. Not to mention the crappy drummer. After practising our main song, we didnt have much time for the other one. So on the day of the final checks and run through we practised at our school music room till it was our turn for the practise.
When we get there, the person who was to sort everythign out with the sound manager hadnt told him that we were using amps. Now our school sound manager isnt exactly the most friendly guy. Now we managed to convince him to hook the stuff up by the next day (the day of the gig). But for the run through, it was just my fairly decent bass amp, and my guitarist's tiny tiny tiny amp. Well, before we got there we were brimming with confidence and just ready to explode. But on stage, I couldnt hear myself or the guitar, same with guitarist, drummer had no clue what was going on, singer couldnt hear ANYTHING (the amps were placed right next to the drums). After basically screwing that up we got a few nervous claps and some encouraging words from friends. The song we had to practise was just a disaster. Now with 24 hours to learn a song and play together, and to teach our drummer how to drum we were pretty bummed. We were actually thinking about not playing and giving up all that hope.
but we still managed to practise and get it right, fixed the amps to the speakers and everythign was marginally OK the next day. Our drummer still was crap, and I couldnt turn my bass up cause of some prob with the speakers and the cable going from my amp to the speakers was messed up such that I had to turn it every so slightly to get it working.
Now for the first song, the cable was kaputt! Im playing my heart out and at the middle of the song I realise im just miming, the CABLE WAS LOOSE! I had to play on tho', pray that my miming was in time with the guitar. the second song was better tho, althought it was just the reverse. My bass was going through, but the guitarist's amp wasnt passign through to the speakers and it was only coming through that tiny amp.
All in all tho', people loved it (I dont know why, but whos complaining), and probably was the most exciting time of my life
Wow that was long, and it wasnt even a major disaster.... Sorry if I wasted your time XD
