What a night!

[todegard]

Just got home from tonights gig. It was an outdoor show.

Soundcheck: Keyboard player spills a cup of tea on his keyboard. No sound from the keyboard. We dry it off for 10 minutes and it works again.
I'm at the back of the stage doing stuff when suddenly theres no more stage and I just fall off the stage and land on my back. Luckily I fall on the back drop and it saves me from getting hurt.

Showtime: It rains. A lot. I'm at the front of the stage to the left. And the rain comes in on my side. Everything is wet. Amp, cables and bass. My pedalboard is in a pool of water. In the middle of a song in the second set, my tuner and pedalboard power dies. I bypass the rest of the pedals.
Last set i loose my voice. I sing a couple of leads and backing on the rest. So not very good.

The crowd was great. Everyone was dancing. Girls were screaming.
Man, what a great night!

Tommy

 

[GianGian]

If you could get through that, nothing can beat you now!!

 

[Shakin-Slim]

Man, that's the sort of thing that would have me too nervous to be capable of playing. Well done!

 

[Lecomber]

I know how you feel man! We were playing a halloween gig once, and some idiot spilt a pint over an extension cable. The fuse goes and all the lights turn off, along with the PA, all our amps, etc. The sound guy was extremely professional and with a smile on his face dealt with the whole situation and we had it all sorted within 5 minutes. Once we managed to return the power to the amps me, the drummer and our saxophonist played some chilled out jazz to keep the audience entertained whilst the engineer got the PA sorted out. It had such potential to be a tragic affair, but due to everyone's ability to just get on with things we managed to turn it round and it turned out to be one of the best gigs we've played! Our straight up funk cover of thriller went down a treat!

 

[plankspanker13]

Playing through adversity builds character, and if you sound good while doing so, it can also build respect and a following.

 

[BassyBill]

The worst thing the weather ever did to me was at a big band gig in the park (on a large bandstand) a good few years ago now. No rain, but it was really windy. I pegged all my charts to my stand, but about 1 minute into our 1 hour set a big gust of wind blew my stand over and all my charts went dancing away on the breeze towards a very distant duck pond, leaving me up there in front of a large crowd without a single dot to read.

I had to busk the rest of the set and this was NOT the sort of stuff that was easy to busk. I still have nightmares.