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#445170 - 10/26/07 01:15 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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Tanner_Boyle
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I don't even want to talk about Vincent Van Go Go's in Mobile, Alabama.
Fuck.
OK.
Enough.
Hey, I'm originally from Mobile. I'd like to hear your Vincent Van Go Go's experience.
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#445199 - 10/26/07 02:14 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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Last night's gig?
lol.
Got called in last minute to replace a band who got the opening slot for New Young Pony Club (the Verizon phone commercial band, lol)...annnnyyyhow, that in itself is ass backwards. We're playing a huge rave party...tomorrow. Factoring in zero promo time and everyone coming to see us...tomorrow...it was pretty dead, lol. The DJs were...pretty nice but typically T.O aloof. Kinda used to that.
The bright side of it was that there was a US company in the venue beta testing their new site, which will basically stream live shows on the net and keep them, on demand. I have a feeling they want to go the itunes/pay per view route. Which is an interesting idea. Sooo, our fifteen minute line check play get paid and get the fuck outta there instead turned into an hour + lighting and camera check, lol. But it was neat to be involved. And we got a ton of free drinks. Which doesn't really help today, lol. But we had to Dee Snider it up for the camera, lol.
In retrospect, not that bad.
There was the piss covered bathroom/change area in one SF club that I can STILL smell, if I try hard enough.
Best thing that's been thrown at me on stage? An unused tampon. Caught it in mid flight and then proceeded to graphically explain how useful it would be after the show when I cram it up my bloody snatch. Giant chorus of "EWWWWWWWWWW" from surly teens turns into a giant roar or approval...
Kids r fucked, lol.
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#445263 - 10/26/07 03:46 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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Early 70's, playing the Northern Ontario bar circuit, our agent gets us a weekend gig in a town called Chapleau - a tiny railroad town a long way from anywhere, maybe 50 miles down a dirt road.
We played our first set, and the some locals asked us to join them in a drink, then asked if we wanted to smoke some hash.... of course we did...
When we realized that someone had sold them incense instead of hash, and that they didn't really know the difference, we knew it was gonna be a long weekend!
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#445267 - 10/26/07 03:52 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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easily, without question, the coconut teazer.
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#445334 - 10/26/07 05:00 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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easily, without question, the coconut teazer.
Dude, I had some of my most fun shows there. It was always nice to plug in to someone else's Rectifier every once in a while. :-)
Plus...goblets of beer. C'mon, man!!
Buckaloo
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#445339 - 10/26/07 05:05 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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Once, right before we were supposed to go on at a club in Toronto, we came up the stairs from the dressing room and realized that what we thought was cheers of anticipation was actually jeers of surprise as the audience watched as a seriously inebriated dude plugged his whiskey-dinked stack'o'dimes into his fugly girlfriend's Rectifier onstage...
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#445356 - 10/26/07 05:13 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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I remember working with (as opposed to "in") a band that played Madame Wong's West, first on the bill and for the door accumulated during their set.
Esther wouldn't pay us/me until the end of the last set of the evening, well past midnight, and the take amounted to less than $10, total.
Of course, the band had gone home, hours earlier.
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#445358 - 10/26/07 05:15 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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is this an urban legend? I've heard this story before and I have no idea where.
You've just finished playing your first Ticketmaster show to a grand total of 7 people in a venue that holds 1200. If that wasn't a slap to the back of the head, as you're loading out, you hear your "radio hit" faintly emanating through the walls of the smaller club downstairs. You assume it's a jukebox until you open the door to find a cover band playing your song to a crowd of about 500. Aaaaah...the memories.
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#445388 - 10/26/07 05:43 PM
Re: And, The Worst Gig You've Ever Played
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Darren
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We had just opened for Joan Jett at the local fair and were feeling pretty high on our own fumes, enjoying our relatively newfound status as local bigshots. A dude who caught us at that show dug us quite a bit and just so happened to be putting together his own rock festival.
"How'd you boys like to be the headliners?"
Hell yeah, we said.
Within days, we're seeing our name and picture on posters plastered all over the Michigan-Indiana area and hearing commercials on the local album-rock station voiced by the same guy who normally does those deep-voiced drag strip commercials - "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!" - announcing our impending appearance at Midwest ROCKFEST or whatever the damn thing was called.
Now, considering the extent to which the event is being hyped, we're imagining a mini-Woodstock. We show up and see more people than we've ever seen in one place...that's a good thing...but then we catch a load of the stage.
See, it isn't so much a stage as a cheap, wooden wagon that runs about 20 ft across, then arches downward at an angle for another fifteen feet or so. That's right, almost half the stage slopes at a downward angle, making it impossible to put an amp or drumset in the area. Our lovable-but-gruff bass player draws the short straw and ends up on that side of the stage.
Needless to say, he spends the first song standing awful damn close to me and my drums, leering at the slanted part of the stage with obvious contempt, afraid to take another step in that direction.
During the bridge of the first tune, I hit the crash cymbal that's mere inches from his head and the sound catches him off-guard. He steps onto the slanted part of the stage, trips over his own size-fifteen wrestling shoes and tumbles onto the floor with enough force to turn the wagon into the unfortunate rock & roll equivalent of an anvil landing on one side of a teeter-totter. The drums are the first to fall victim to the shift in momentum and I find myself with nothing left but the highhat, with its spurs stuck firmly into my drum rug.
I turn to look at my guitarist as his amp (a Roland JC120...with wheels) speeds past me. The look on his face - one of absolute horror, but quickly grasping the hilarity of the situation - is forever burned into my retinas.
Our bass player, bless his heart, was struggling with every fiber of his being to keep from falling off the stage while, amazingly, still playing the song. Whatever hopes he had of remaining upright were dashed when the guitarist's amp hit him from behind with a full head of steam. At that point, the amp, the remainder of my drums, and our bassist tumbled off the stage.
At that moment, we knew exactly what the band on the Titanic must have felt like.
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