Too much drinking between sets + me getting two hours sleep the night before = me dozing off for a few microsleeps while playing to a packed bar. I kept playing somehow, or at least I think I did...
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Most pitiful thing youve ever seen a bassist do live
- Thread starter powderfinger
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Not a bassist, but still lame. The singer for this band we were playing with ended their set by yelling "REMEMBER! DRINK SOME BEER! SMOKE SOME WEED! AND EAT SOME ****ING PUSSY!"
The entire venue went dead silent.
The entire venue went dead silent.
A friend of mine got a little nervous at his first gig as a bass player and downed a few shots too much before the show. He ended up jumping at the dancefloor, breaking his cable (the connector tip remained stuck in the output jack) and still rocking out for solid 50 seconds after the rest of the band had stopped playing.
Same dude found the one "bad" power outlet in the venue and managed to blow a fuse twice while the next band was rocking. Never heard three >5 minute drumsolos in a 50 minute coverband set before.
Same dude found the one "bad" power outlet in the venue and managed to blow a fuse twice while the next band was rocking. Never heard three >5 minute drumsolos in a 50 minute coverband set before.
I'd say it's about giving to your fans whatever sets them on fire; the crowd was cheering and shouting so he was prolly doing the right thing at that specific moment
Cronos is Venom and Venom was always like that - crude, loud & chaotic - but that's why ppl love 'em 
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I played guitar in a metal band ages ago and we had a bassist who would turn himself down all the time
He would also walk up to us during the gig, fart then walk away:scowl:
The ole Fumigator guy. Gotta love them.
First time in a while that I read through an entire thread... in one single day. Also remarkable considering it has 12 pages already.
Kudos to all the hilarious stories here. I wish I could contribute but I don't have any (weirdly enough... maybe it is a good sign that I'm not that out there hearing live music).
Except this one time at my preferred music store where the self-entitled douche of the "technician" took my MIM Jazz in for some adjustments and to file the frets a bit (were a bit sharp). Fast forward a couple weeks, I went to the store again to pick up my bass and he demanded his cash... and it was a job covered by my warranty. Naturally, I said I wouldn't pay a dime, and he just started angrily screaming at the first employee that came across things like "why nobody told me this?" or "I'm really f***ing under-appreciated here!". All this in a packed store. Very, very lame. I felt bad for the employee he screamed at, but I did chuckle a bit after the fact. I hope they fired his a** for giving such a cringe-worthy scene in front of a bunch of customers.
Kudos to all the hilarious stories here. I wish I could contribute but I don't have any (weirdly enough... maybe it is a good sign that I'm not that out there hearing live music).
Except this one time at my preferred music store where the self-entitled douche of the "technician" took my MIM Jazz in for some adjustments and to file the frets a bit (were a bit sharp). Fast forward a couple weeks, I went to the store again to pick up my bass and he demanded his cash... and it was a job covered by my warranty. Naturally, I said I wouldn't pay a dime, and he just started angrily screaming at the first employee that came across things like "why nobody told me this?" or "I'm really f***ing under-appreciated here!". All this in a packed store. Very, very lame. I felt bad for the employee he screamed at, but I did chuckle a bit after the fact. I hope they fired his a** for giving such a cringe-worthy scene in front of a bunch of customers.
I went to a music retailer (no names, but rhymes with blamash) to pick up a cable. The clerk was new (probably 17 or 18 years old) and accidentally scanned the cable twice. He asked his manager for help deleting the cable off the register and the manager FLIPPED HIS LID at the poor guy. Said about every nasty thing you could say. I felt awkward, people were staring, and the poor clerk looked like he wanted to crawl in a hole. Turns out it was the clerks SECOND day there. Total classlessness on the managers behalf. Never saw that clerk again. Can't blame him....
Sorry this wasn't a stage story. Was just relating to carlthegroover's story.
That made me feel better about my standard of bass playing, but can I have my 4 minutes back???
My singer does that. I use a floor fan on stage and he thinks it's funny to fart in front of the fan, walk away, and wait for the face I make when the smell hits me.
Didn't happen to a bassist, it happened to my drummer, and it happened after a gig. After our show last Friday
(which was perfect except for one new original that sort of fell apart, but we pulled through and the audience was none the wiser. But our drummer was really upset that he messed up. He went into the bridge 8 bars too soon and completely skipped a chorus)
Our drummer's girlfriend of 3 years (they were pretty much inseparable) dumped him right after we loaded back into our trucks. Now I'm not here to gripe about relationships or anything like that, I'm just here to say TIMING IS EVERYTHING. She could have waited 12 hours and picked a different venue.
(which was perfect except for one new original that sort of fell apart, but we pulled through and the audience was none the wiser. But our drummer was really upset that he messed up. He went into the bridge 8 bars too soon and completely skipped a chorus)
Our drummer's girlfriend of 3 years (they were pretty much inseparable) dumped him right after we loaded back into our trucks. Now I'm not here to gripe about relationships or anything like that, I'm just here to say TIMING IS EVERYTHING. She could have waited 12 hours and picked a different venue.
A friend that I work with plays guitar in a cover band. I will go and support them when I can. They play a cover of Sublime "badfish" and the bass player doesn't play the bass line.it drives me crazy...I am not a "play note for note on covers" type of guy- but certain songs are built around the bass line. Badfish has a great line that makes the song- I want to pull the guy aside and ask if I can teach it to him.
We once had to cancel a gig because of a power outage, but first the bandleader insisted we go ahead with sax, drums, and me playing the bass line on a borrowed classical guitar! We quit half way through the first song. Luckily I am too old to be embarrassed by crazy **** like this.
