Thought this might be a neat thread...
What is the weirdest rehersal space your band/bands ever used?
For me, it was my first band. I was still living with my folks, and behind our house was an old storage building my mom always called "The snake house", I guess to keep me out of it when I was a little kid. Inside this place was about 100 years of CRAP. Litterally. My grandmother had stuff stored in there from when she was young. It was two stories tall, about 20 feet by 15, and as soon as you opened the door there was a set of steps that went to the upper floor. Upstairs, the hole for the stairs was in the middle of the room, not the side of the room, so if you were hammered you needed to be careful. There was a hinged covering that folded over it to cover it if you didnt need to go up and down alot. The downstairs was two seperate rooms with no windows. The whole building was made of rough cut oak wood, and the building was seriously probably 85-90 years old and dusty as hell. The splinters were vicious. There was no electricity, and you could see the vinyl siding on the outside downstairs thru the spaces between the wood. Driving a nail in the wood was next to impossible unless you used a masonry nail. We cleaned all the junk out of it, and ran a couple of extension cords from the outside outlets to the building, then ran one upstairs and one for downstairs. The neighbor man gave me some old carpet he had replaced and we put it on the floor upstairs. The downstairs room was about 16 feet by 10 feet and we put styrofoam on the walls and ceiling. This turned out to be a mistake because in the summer, if it was 80 degrees outside, it was 125 in the building. We called it "The toaster" and would have to stop every few songs just to cool off. The PA board was upstairs, and then we put one speaker upstairs and one speaker downstairs. The singer and the guitar players were upstairs, and the drummer and bass player were downstairs because there wasnt enough room for all of us in the same place. Practicing in two different rooms was strange, but it made us tighter because we couldnt count on seeing each other for the changes!!
Over time, we made some changes to the place. We replaced the clip on light at the door shining into the downstairs room with a bare bulb hanging from the center and carpeted the walls upstairs. I came home one day and found the guitar player had taken a chainsaw and cut the stairs out, turned them 180 degrees, cut a new hole in the floor upstairs and moved the stairs to the side of the building from the middle of the room, basically making one large room downstars that we all could fit in, and one large room upstairs. We practiced there for about a year, but also just hung out and drank beer and tried to score....LOL, hey, we were young!
Sadly, we broke up and it became a storage building again. I still wont let my mom go in there. Some of the posters are more than she could handle. This all happened abut 22 years ago, and I think every beer can we ever drank is still piled up in there!
Ah, the good ol' days!
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What is the weirdest rehersal space your band/bands ever used?
For me, it was my first band. I was still living with my folks, and behind our house was an old storage building my mom always called "The snake house", I guess to keep me out of it when I was a little kid. Inside this place was about 100 years of CRAP. Litterally. My grandmother had stuff stored in there from when she was young. It was two stories tall, about 20 feet by 15, and as soon as you opened the door there was a set of steps that went to the upper floor. Upstairs, the hole for the stairs was in the middle of the room, not the side of the room, so if you were hammered you needed to be careful. There was a hinged covering that folded over it to cover it if you didnt need to go up and down alot. The downstairs was two seperate rooms with no windows. The whole building was made of rough cut oak wood, and the building was seriously probably 85-90 years old and dusty as hell. The splinters were vicious. There was no electricity, and you could see the vinyl siding on the outside downstairs thru the spaces between the wood. Driving a nail in the wood was next to impossible unless you used a masonry nail. We cleaned all the junk out of it, and ran a couple of extension cords from the outside outlets to the building, then ran one upstairs and one for downstairs. The neighbor man gave me some old carpet he had replaced and we put it on the floor upstairs. The downstairs room was about 16 feet by 10 feet and we put styrofoam on the walls and ceiling. This turned out to be a mistake because in the summer, if it was 80 degrees outside, it was 125 in the building. We called it "The toaster" and would have to stop every few songs just to cool off. The PA board was upstairs, and then we put one speaker upstairs and one speaker downstairs. The singer and the guitar players were upstairs, and the drummer and bass player were downstairs because there wasnt enough room for all of us in the same place. Practicing in two different rooms was strange, but it made us tighter because we couldnt count on seeing each other for the changes!!
Over time, we made some changes to the place. We replaced the clip on light at the door shining into the downstairs room with a bare bulb hanging from the center and carpeted the walls upstairs. I came home one day and found the guitar player had taken a chainsaw and cut the stairs out, turned them 180 degrees, cut a new hole in the floor upstairs and moved the stairs to the side of the building from the middle of the room, basically making one large room downstars that we all could fit in, and one large room upstairs. We practiced there for about a year, but also just hung out and drank beer and tried to score....LOL, hey, we were young!
Sadly, we broke up and it became a storage building again. I still wont let my mom go in there. Some of the posters are more than she could handle. This all happened abut 22 years ago, and I think every beer can we ever drank is still piled up in there!
Ah, the good ol' days!
BnB
Good times.
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