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Slipping on ham..

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FurnaceAwe

Feb 11, 2014
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Winnipeg
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My band got asked to do a last minute show after another band had dropped out and we followed a grindcore band onto the stage. One of their antics was to smash a pinata at the end of their set, and it was full of sandwich meat, bologne and ham slices and of course they didn't clean that up.

The stage was covered in slices of meat and as a pretty active band I ended up stepping on a pile of meat and slipped, falling on top of the monitor and tumbling off the stage. I've never let falling or crashing into someone stop me from playing though, and I don't think I missed a note then either.
 
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wow....a grindcore band using non-rotten meat. You are lucky.

WAAAYYYYY back in the 90's my band played before Insane Clown Posse (in a very small club before they were well known, so no Juggalo's etc {thank god}), and every thing we brought in that night ended up covered in soda.

I remember the sound guy going: "you guys might want to leave your gear off the stage and in the next room" and saying something about soda....Our stuff didn't fit in the next room so it sat side stage after we played...and got coated during their set.

Also was funny b/c we had about 90 people there for us, and after ICP's 3rd or 4th song, the audience dwindled to about 20...
 
#8
The 4 gigs I've played have never had a problem, but I do have a story, my dad was playing with one of his many bands, this one was Tex-Ass (them and the Swingin Utters have quite a history together!), but he was down in california, and the first two opening bands, the crowd was dead, but then my dad's band came on, in his own words, "Really, we werent any better than the opening bands, we were really nothing special, but the second we'd step on stage these people would go absolutely crazy, and we hadn't even done anything yet!", but so about halfway through the show, my dad decided to stage dive, he did so, and when he was in the air, a large portion of the crowd moved, my dad is around 6' 7, and weighed around 200, so people ran, and there was only like 2 people there to catch him, needless to say, all 3 them hit the ground in a crumpled heap and it took a while for everyone to calm down!
 
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FurnaceAwe said:
My band got asked to do a last minute show after another band had dropped out and we followed a grindcore band onto the stage. One of their antics was to smash a pinata at the end of their set, and it was full of sandwich meat, bologne and ham slices and of course they didn't clean that up.

The stage was covered in slices of meat and as a pretty active band I ended up stepping on a pile of meat and slipped, falling on top of the monitor and tumbling off the stage. I've never let falling or crashing into someone stop me from playing though, and I don't think I missed a note then either.
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Where's the beef? What a bunch of bologne, I think you were hamming it up and purposely "slipped", trying to pinata on the other band. Steak out your next gig so your band doesn't meat up with the grindcore band again, 'cause they sound like they're out to luncheon. Having to play after them, that's the coldest cut of all.

Might as well go for soda...
 
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Feral Feline said:
Where's the beef? What a bunch of bologne, I think you were hamming it up and purposely "slipped", trying to pinata on the other band. Steak out your next gig so your band doesn't meat up with the grindcore band again, 'cause they sound like they're out to luncheon. Having to play after them, that's the coldest cut of all.

Might as well go for soda...
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Have you ever attended the Austin Pun-Off?

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Because you should. Some good stuff you got there. I like how your brain works.
 

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