Nightmare scenario

[SoonerBill]

If Flea can do it, you can do it.

Flea didn't look all that bad. But I know of a LOT of bass players that if I saw them perform naked it would create a whole string of nightmares.

 

[2saddleslab]

If Flea can do it, you can do it.

Just watched Woodstock 99 last night. I'm still blushing.

 

[HardNHeavy]

lol wow that would suck in reality--maybe it's a subconscious hint to buy some "post-it notes"

 

[bigjames]

Imagine if you will:

I got hired to play in a very successful, big-ticket cover band. I drive several hours to get to our first show together; get there and it's this huge hotel with a big conference going on.

There are several bands setting up for what seems like a big conference event. I start to bring my stuff in and realize that all I have are stands. No amp, no cabinet and no bass!

As I begin to panic, someone points to a very busy area and tells me, "that's support staff over there. They have everything, just go over there and tell them what you need and they'll rent it to you."

Really? Oh, wow, OK. So I go over there and wait in line. After what seems like forever it's my turn and I tell the guy I need a bass amp and cabinet. He says, "All I have is this old Acoustic 160. It's pretty awful." Well, I used to have one so at least I know what I'm getting and I tell him, "I'm desperate, I'll take anything." Then I say, "I also need to rent a bass for this show," and he tells me he doesn't have one.

So I'm out of luck. I walk over the the keyboard player; she and I are in a different band together and we've been talking earlier about getting our passports renewed to travel with this bunch; we were so excited. I tell her what happened and say, "I guess I'm just going to drive home. I don't know what else to do, but I won't be able to play this show without any gear, and I know they won't keep me around after this mess."

As the bandleader is walking toward us, I steel myself against the news I'm going to have to share with him. Then I wake up and realize the whole thing is, indeed, a nightmare!

That's how my day started. How about yours?

You got me...I thought this happened and I kept reading saying, "how? How? HOW?" and then imagining how bad that bass would be that they would have on hand to rent at a conference.

 

[2saddleslab]

You got me...I thought this happened and I kept reading saying, "how? How? HOW?" and then imagining how bad that bass would be that they would have on hand to rent at a conference.

Happened to me in real life. Opened the truck at the gig and..............holy [youknowwhat]! Forgot to put my gear in the trunk. Lucky for me, the gig was only 5 minutes from my house.

 

[SLO Surfer]

Imagine if you will:

I got hired to play in a very successful, big-ticket cover band. I drive several hours to get to our first show together; get there and it's this huge hotel with a big conference going on.

There are several bands setting up for what seems like a big conference event. I start to bring my stuff in and realize that all I have are stands. No amp, no cabinet and no bass!

As I begin to panic, someone points to a very busy area and tells me, "that's support staff over there. They have everything, just go over there and tell them what you need and they'll rent it to you."

Really? Oh, wow, OK. So I go over there and wait in line. After what seems like forever it's my turn and I tell the guy I need a bass amp and cabinet. He says, "All I have is this old Acoustic 160. It's pretty awful." Well, I used to have one so at least I know what I'm getting and I tell him, "I'm desperate, I'll take anything." Then I say, "I also need to rent a bass for this show," and he tells me he doesn't have one.

So I'm out of luck. I walk over the the keyboard player; she and I are in a different band together and we've been talking earlier about getting our passports renewed to travel with this bunch; we were so excited. I tell her what happened and say, "I guess I'm just going to drive home. I don't know what else to do, but I won't be able to play this show without any gear, and I know they won't keep me around after this mess."

As the bandleader is walking toward us, I steel myself against the news I'm going to have to share with him. Then I wake up and realize the whole thing is, indeed, a nightmare!

That's how my day started. How about yours?

my wife and I had super weird and stressful dreams last night too.

 

[bassicmike]

I've started writing out a list of what goes in the car heading to the gig, and double checking that everything is there coming home from the gig.

 

[JimmyM]

My day started by kicking my little pinky toe into a stand on my drum set and nearly breaking it. I'll trade you.

 

[Stewie]

I was dreaming I had an ice cream sandwich, I had just peeled back the spongy brown bread stuff on both sides and was about to take a big bite of just ice cream when my wife woke me up. I was actually a little mad at her for cheating me out of that bite.

 

[Raoul_Duke]

I'm a NICU nurse. I frequently have nightmares that I'm caring for small living things (sometimes impossibly small babies, sometimes kittens, always a lot of them) in perilous situations. Like… I'm on a cliff and they're all crawling towards the edge, or I'm in an abandoned building and I have no equipment, or I'm at work and the power goes out and it's pitch black and the vent is off and I can't see the neo-T. The phone is always ringing and the crisis alarms are always going off.

Our brains are odd things.

 

[Razman]

It could have been worse - like showing up to the gig without any amps just standing there in your underwear...

 

[Pings Bass]

I love that in your nightmare scenario there is a useless customer service desk you have to stand in line for, only to get nothing. Like an airport.

 

[JimmyM]

It could have been worse - like showing up to the gig without any amps just standing there in your underwear...

That's worse? Maybe if it's torn and stained

 

[LBS-bass]

I love that in your nightmare scenario there is a useless customer service desk you have to stand in line for, only to get nothing. Like an airport.

I know, right? I stood there watching other people get waited on, thinking the whole time someone was going to walk away with the last of whatever it was I needed.

 

[LBS-bass]

I'm a NICU nurse. I frequently have nightmares that I'm caring for small living things (sometimes impossibly small babies, sometimes kittens, always a lot of them) in perilous situations. Like… I'm on a cliff and they're all crawling towards the edge, or I'm in an abandoned building and I have no equipment, or I'm at work and the power goes out and it's pitch black and the vent is off and I can't see the neo-T. The phone is always ringing and the crisis alarms are always going off.

Our brains are odd things.

That does sound like a nightmare that's not that far from what your actual job is!

 

[Raoul_Duke]

That does sound like a nightmare that's not that far from what your actual job is!

When I'm there I'm so functional! I really love it, but evidently the fear is in there and my brain be workin' it out while I sleep.

 

[Stewie]

I drained my boiler into the laundry drain with a sump pump. Next day I did a load of laundry and flooded my bands practice area (never put the hose back in the drain) The water never reached any equipment, but carrying a soaked 9X12 wool rug up out of the bulkhead to dry it was a real hard job. Oh wait, we're not talking reality, never mind

 

[kevmac]

Imagine if you will:

I got hired to play in a very successful, big-ticket cover band. I drive several hours to get to our first show together; get there and it's this huge hotel with a big conference going on.

There are several bands setting up for what seems like a big conference event. I start to bring my stuff in and realize that all I have are stands. No amp, no cabinet and no bass!

As I begin to panic, someone points to a very busy area and tells me, "that's support staff over there. They have everything, just go over there and tell them what you need and they'll rent it to you."

Really? Oh, wow, OK. So I go over there and wait in line. After what seems like forever it's my turn and I tell the guy I need a bass amp and cabinet. He says, "All I have is this old Acoustic 160. It's pretty awful." Well, I used to have one so at least I know what I'm getting and I tell him, "I'm desperate, I'll take anything." Then I say, "I also need to rent a bass for this show," and he tells me he doesn't have one.

So I'm out of luck. I walk over the the keyboard player; she and I are in a different band together and we've been talking earlier about getting our passports renewed to travel with this bunch; we were so excited. I tell her what happened and say, "I guess I'm just going to drive home. I don't know what else to do, but I won't be able to play this show without any gear, and I know they won't keep me around after this mess."

As the bandleader is walking toward us, I steel myself against the news I'm going to have to share with him. Then I wake up and realize the whole thing is, indeed, a nightmare!

That's how my day started. How about yours?

I was a serious hockey player back in the day and I still have bad dreams of showing up to the rink and finding I forgot my goalie pads.Ouch!

 

[Ewo]

Imagine if you will:

I got hired to play in a very successful, big-ticket cover band. I drive several hours to get to our first show together; get there and it's this huge hotel with a big conference going on.

There are several bands setting up for what seems like a big conference event. I start to bring my stuff in and realize that all I have are stands. No amp, no cabinet and no bass!

As I begin to panic, someone points to a very busy area and tells me, "that's support staff over there. They have everything, just go over there and tell them what you need and they'll rent it to you."

Really? Oh, wow, OK. So I go over there and wait in line. After what seems like forever it's my turn and I tell the guy I need a bass amp and cabinet. He says, "All I have is this old Acoustic 160. It's pretty awful." Well, I used to have one so at least I know what I'm getting and I tell him, "I'm desperate, I'll take anything." Then I say, "I also need to rent a bass for this show," and he tells me he doesn't have one.

So I'm out of luck. I walk over the the keyboard player; she and I are in a different band together and we've been talking earlier about getting our passports renewed to travel with this bunch; we were so excited. I tell her what happened and say, "I guess I'm just going to drive home. I don't know what else to do, but I won't be able to play this show without any gear, and I know they won't keep me around after this mess."

As the bandleader is walking toward us, I steel myself against the news I'm going to have to share with him. Then I wake up and realize the whole thing is, indeed, a nightmare!

That's how my day started. How about yours?

Hmn...can't decide if this is a Franz Kafka or a Dean Koontz dream...

 

[Hambone70]

There's already enough drama in real life!