Your "stage" experience

[Jazz Ad]

Altar, prison cell, stage, floor, sand, grass, table, chariot, bus, skyscraper top experience for me. There must be others.

 

[denhou1974]

Last time I did that I kept getting punched in the mouth with my microphone! I'll take a stage setup thank you......

Then don't taunt your mic!

 

[buzzbass]

how about some old pallets, rasied off the floor by 2 gallon cans of stewed tomatoes ? I lived it.

 

[addylewis]

Floor
Step
Stage
Flatbed
Lawn

 

[Dave44]

I hear you on the mike punch in the teeth there phalex, that has happened to me to many times to count. Maybe the reason this cat has a set of fake teeth to worry about LOL. But got to admit being right there eye level with your audience is a cool way to get in their face and rock-n-roll.

 

[bobbybigmac]

Hmmmm... lets see if I can remember....
Bar Stage
Floor
Auditorum stage
Stripper stage during a Sunday afternoon jam session
Cafeteria
University Lecture Hall
Back Porch
40 ft flatdeck trailer
Basement
Barn floor
Balcony
Church alter
Downtown Park
Horse Arena
Race track
High School Gym
Minor League Hockey Arena
best of all,.... Roof top of a deserted Prison Guard house

 

[Munjibunga]

stage
raised dining room floor
living room floor
sailboat
street
gazebo
patio
lawn
piece of plywood

 

[Stumbo]

parking lot
stage (movie theater, high school gym, club,church)
floor with drums/rigs on riser
stage with stripper cat walk (and topless dancer) in front of us
riser stage
college concrete walk way
grassy knoll - Griffith Park, Los Angeles
grass on side of concrete park restrooms - PA on roof
riser stage on football field
patio deck
garage
back lawn
concrete patio
living room
cafeteria (riser stage)

 

[hbarcat]

I played a few gigs in a bar that had mostly burned down and the "stage" was a couple of cars parked next to what was left of the deck. Bands played while standing on platforms built onto the roofs of the cars.

Here's a view from the stage.
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Tom's Burned Down Cafe

 

[ciudadmarron]

Stage, floor, carpark, leaky boat, abandoned brickworks, kitchen.

 

[Matt Dean]

I played in the back of a dump truck last year!

 

[CBgaragebassist]

Floor
Altar
Raised stage
Auditorium that was good for wind ensembles, but not high-volume mesic with electric instruments and drums.
Football Feild
School hallways

 

[Kid-A]

Stage, floor, garage, yard, baseball field, and flatbed truck....

 

[Elmo Oxygen]

Played on stages of all sizes, indoor and out but some of the weird ones that come to mind are:

A 40-year-old boyscout camp in the mountains of McCall, ID playing for a bunch of forest service people. (This was actually really cool = 2 fire pits in front of the stage and ampitheater-style seating made of logs in the middle of this log-cabin city)

The 2nd story of a very old barn (twice) at the base of Mt. Adams at a hippie-fest site that has been going for a few decades. Cool festival, scary stage.

And one of my least favorite memories: Sea/Tac people, I know you've been/played here;
Bob's Java Jive! This place is shaped like a tea kettle (no, I'm not kidding) and the stage (yes, this place actually has a stage instead of just the floor) is about 5'x5', with a rail around it so you can't even "extend" things a bit. We (a four piece at the time) couldn't even breathe without touching each other. I was attacked by the crash cymbol quite a few times that night.

There are more "situations" but these really stick out in my mind.

 

[GreggBummer]

I played a few gigs in a bar that had mostly burned down and the "stage" was a couple of cars parked next to what was left of the deck. Bands played while standing on platforms built onto the roofs of the cars.

Here's a view from the stage.
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Tom's Burned Down Cafe

As a firefighter... this pic just screams SHUT THEM DOWN.

 

[Obe]

Vault at an art gallery that was formerly a bank.
Corner of a bar where they didn't bother to move out the electronic dart machine. Or supply microphones with the PA. Luckily nobody wanted to play darts.

 

[brandtb]

Hmmmm....

Stage (bar, auditorium)
Floor
Gymnasium (floor and stage)
Backyard Lawn
Garage
Basement
Parking Lot
Church
Backyard Deck
Living Room

...that's about all I can remember.

 

[Stempelloos]

Started off singing in the church choir weekly (or more often).

After that:

Elevator in a factory used for artist studio's, first gig on bass and synth.

Stages of local clubs.

Veranda & balcony.

A boat yard's storing space for boats.

Open truck trailer at a local market.