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Recent gig-bloopers

#21
Lazy B. said:
Oooooow! This must have hurt! Where you guys ever asked again at that particular gig?
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Yup, we played that gig a number of times after the incident. Ordered the fish and chips instead from then on.

But if I was feeling spunky, I'd get Corned Beef and Cabbage (and make it a double) and just so we could re-live old memories. ;)
 
#22
Bard2dbone said:
Unfortunately I have the same story. Not the cabbage part but the aftereffect. Mine was from Mexican food. We were playing a place in College Station, Texas. The Aggies are not shy about heckling when the bass player floats a cloud. :hiding:
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I was giving our guitar player my best evil eye a few weeks ago while onstage at Blanco's in Houston. Turns out it wasn't him but someone on the dance floor, though. Man, it was gut-wrenching!

I'm playing in College Station this Friday and I will keep your little experience in mind...
:D ;)
 
#23
It seems appropriate that my first post on Talkbass should be an insight into a blooper - ho hum, here we go

Played at a wedding gig in a celeidh band. I'd been working all day anyway before the gig and a couple of hours into the tunes I was very tired and had reverted to that playing with my eyes shut mode. Halfway through a tune and the band drops out - I was miles away and on autopilot and the band dropping out kind of woke me up with a start - panicking slightly I thought "Bass Solo!" and dove straight into a string bending pseudo hendrix style solo (I know, not entirley appropriate for a celeidh band at a wedding but hey I was caught off guard) Anyways, soloed for a minute (eyes still shut) when I was awoken from my dreamstate by the drummer tapping my leg with his stick. I looked up to find that the real reason the band had dropped out was that one of the dancers had collapsed and was receiving CPR. Doh! thankfully I hadn't meandered into some sort of version of the Funeral March in my solo.

Top tip - keeps yer eyes open.
 
#24
my blunder was: Sometimes I double up on gigs on fri and sat nites and the two clubs are 5 mins away. Anyway 1 band plays in E 440 and the other band plays D flat, so I was too busy trying to get the change over times to run smooth, that I forgot to tune down for the D flat guys. ooppps. Transposing time. Its a bit easier with the 6 string in those situations, but still an onion buster none the less.
 
#25
Ok, I have two that are related in a Freudian way.

We were playing a small club over in Beaumont. I meandered over to the singer just to mess with her (as I often do). Anyway, the song picked up tempo and intensity, and in response I ran away from the singer. Well, my cord was somehow wrapped around her leg. It yanked so hard that I cut a flip, slammed down onto the stage, and just sorta rolled off. I wasn't happy, but hey, that's rock n' roll. Have a nice scar from that one still, heh.

A month or so later, we were rocking out at some place with a huge stage; regardless, I was WAY too close to the singer and slammed her in the face with my bass (my poor, brand new Dingwall). There was blood and I knocked a bit of her front tooth off, but she kept going. It broke my A tuner too. I replaced it later.

I guess I just wanted my revenge. :D

And THAT is why I use a wireless now.
 
#26
Jay said:
Ok, I have two that are related in a Freudian way.



A month or so later, we were rocking out at some place with a huge stage; regardless, I was WAY too close to the singer and slammed her in the face with my bass (my poor, brand new Dingwall). There was blood and I knocked a bit of her front tooth off, but she kept going. It broke my A tuner too. I replaced it later.

I guess I just wanted my revenge. :D

And THAT is why I use a wireless now.
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Man, that is a mighty wollop, to snap a tuning peg off.

Ouch! :bawl:
 
#27
A band I was in once got hired to play a swingers club where nudity and free sex seemed to be the norm.
They were expecting a raid of some sort by the local police and/or the local evangelical community to turn up with placards.
The drummer turned up and put an ounce or thereabouts of his substance of choice on my amp and i'm thinking how do i explain this to Mr Plod when he turns up?

Anyway the eveing progressed without a hitch but I have to say it was scary when people bent over near the pool.

A sordid but lucrative experience

cheers

Smack
 
#32
My four most memorable, chronologically:

First big show in 5 years or so, I went to lean against the wall during a part I wasn't playing in, the wall was actually a curtain, fell right off the stage. :D Slick.

I was rockin' away with a cigarette hanging out of the left side of my mouth, my shirt was off, I brought the guitar up with my left arm and the cherry of the cigarette imbedded itself into my bicep. I still have the scar.

It may have been the same night as above, as I was rockin' away I leaned forward quickly, in the general direction of the singer who was crouched down. He sprung up as I was on my way down, his head caught me in the temple and I was knocked out cold for a few seconds. I remember waking up laid out on the stage, knowing I was on stage and playing, and just kept hitting strings until things "unfogged." The resulting black eye is clearly visible in my official Department of the Army photograph that is in my permanent file that I had taken either that weekend of the weekend after.

I was playing this "punk rock" bar and they had a barricade in front of the stage made of plywood and 2x4s to keep "moshing" off the performers. I was playing my Thunderbird, and our singer did some Eddie Van Halen kick thing, his rear foot stuck itself between the strap and the rear 'peak' of the T-Bird- his upper body fell face first into the wooden barricade about a foot off the stage floor. Face first, full force. He just popped right back up, spat blood for the rest of the night, but it didn't seem to faze him. I would have been crying like a little girl...
 
#33
Blisshead said:
She's a tough singer I guess! Ouch! :eek:
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She's a very tough singer. Didn't knock the tuner clean off though, just bent it up crooked bad enough to where it wouldn't work properly any longer.

Also, last night was my band's first gig back after a session of writing. As soon as I got home I thought about this thread... Well, one guitarist stands up his Mesa 2x12 and has his huge and heavy rack case next to it. I backed up into the rack case and flew backwards, off the stage, into a lil corner. I was STUCK amongst random rack covers and things of the sort, so a stage-hand type fellow came to pull me out. Didn't even knock the bass outta tune, but my back is killin' me!

Such is rock.
 
#34
Not a terribly interesting story, but the fact that it occurred at my most high-profile gig ever makes it memorable. I tend to be quite energetic when the music moves me, which includes jumping when appropriate. Playing in front of 2-3000 people at NACA, I jumped a bit too much, lost my balance and fell on my ass. I recovered quickly and no harm was done. Two things about this incident pissed me off: one, a couple people said it looked staged, which would be lame. Two, numerous people commended me for not missing a note during the fall, though I know damn well I dropped out for a bar or two to get my bearings...meaning, bass was so low in the FOH mix that my absence wasn't even noticed :mad: :mad:
 

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