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Spinal Tap Moments

lizardking837

lizardking837

Jan 28, 2009
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Share your gig stories akin to the movie Spinal Tap in this thread.

A few weeks back, I was doing a gig in my High School's gym. We asked them to turn the lights above us off just for our show, they said they couldn't due to fire code, however, less than a second after we finished up the lights above us got shut off.
 
#7
chunkylover73 said:
My band is on drummer number five and he's leaving in a couple of months.
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Yeah, but have any of them choked on someone else's vomit?

When I was sixteen I built my own flash pots for my brother's band. There were many mistakes in the development; I set my mother's porch on fire.

There were even more in the execution of the flashpots at shows; including having a small club evacuate.

Thank goodness I never hurt anyone...seriously.
 
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My band played at the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs a couple of years back. We arrived to find out the Sound Engineer had no P.A set up for us. He thought we were bringing it! He was able to mix and match some speakers, found a mixing board..(Not enough channels), and some crappy monitors. At this point, all the "cadets" started to enter the hall we would be playing in. The sound engineer decided to "test" the P.A at this point. The feedback was intense!!! Everybody there, including us, had their fingers in their ears wincing in pain. He finally got that figured out after about 5 minutes. Finally the show was going to start! As we were walking on to the stage, my keyboard player tripped over the cable to my Chapman stick sending it crashing to the floor. I had to retune the damn thing in complete silence with everyone staring at me. I totally felt like I was in Spinal Tap at that gig.
 
#15
Played a huge fund raiser for Misericordia in Chicago with a bluegrass band. We played the childrens tent and basically opened for the Ronald McDonald Magic Show...a very humbling experience for a very good cause. We laughed and then drank.
 
#16
Too many to count. Girlfriends "taking over" bands. Showing up at dozens of venues where we just didn't belong. I guess that's why I'm a hired gun now. It's all somebody else's problem. I show up, play, get payed, go home, loose no sleep.
 
#19
Not band related, but with today's economy and my almost complete lack of success recently selling body's to company's, I have begun practicing for my next day gig...
I tell my clients this and give them this example:
"uhm... yes I do believe we have that shoe in a Canary Yellow, four inch pump... "
Heck, if Nigel could do it, so could I!
Fishheadjoe
 

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