Dying gear, sick as a dog, we did the gig anyway. Not a good plan...

#21
Not a gig but i ended up doing five nights in a row playing Lumiere in beauty and the beast when i had glandular fever because when i was meant to be in hospital the guy covering my role got pneumonia and also went into hospital so (regrettably) i got discharged and did the show. The combination of dancing and singing with a gravelly french accent and feeling like death anyway meant i could barely speak let alone sing for a week. Illness is a bitch. Hope you get better soon :D
 
#22
cattzap said:
Love it. When it rains it pours. It's usually only you (or me) that gets all wound up. Most people don't even notice or care. Love the part about the drummer falling off almost into the can your beefing into. At our Sunday service, we have a heavy wood sign we hang up, dead center of everything. Every drummer we have ever had had clocked himself more than one time. Some almost going coo-coo on us. Every visiting player bends over to do something and comes up with a knot. I make sure I tell every one of them about it but it still happens and every one has said afterwards...you said not to do that.
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LOL I used to be co-owner of a tiny studio in my friend (and longtime drummer's) basement. The floor was tall enough for people to walk around comfortably, except at the entrance to the main room. My friend was short enough to pass under it safely, I (and many other people who frequented the studio) were not so lucky! I can't tell you how many times I hit my noggin' on that bloody wooden beam! After a while I would just walk around the studio hunched over.
 
#23
Worst for me was when we were doing "Fiddler on the Roof" at the theater, and I was having some serious GI issues. A sense of urgency came upon me, and I gingerly sprinted from the pit, under the stage to the backstage trapdoor, only to find that they'd parked scenery on top of it. No accidents fortunately, but that may have been the most panicked I've ever been in my life. The MD, awesome guy that he is, said "if it happens again, go out through the top and screw the show if they're going to be ignoring fire codes like that". We had a chat with the stage manager during intermission, and never had that particular problem again.
 
#24
Big Hoss said:
The only pic I have of the night is of me heaving my guts up into a trash can. Not exactly something I want to post
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The problem is, I am the one typically with a camera out snapping pics!
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Definitely don't want to see food shots of this gig . You got a pass on this one ;)
 
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Reminds me of the time a band I was in took a gig at a party in a field on a farm. A hay wagon was the "stage". The drummer fell backwards completely off the wagon (about 3ft up) I think twice and everyone in the band hit their heads at least once (on the way in and on the way out!) on the frame of the wagon that went over our "stage entrance". Also, our power consisted of a single extension chord running a few hundred feet to a trailer, so you can imagine what that led to. The best part was that apparently our hosts had been misinformed by a certain member of our band that we played Limp Bizkit covers :confused:....They weren't very happy when we opened up with Creedence and I think it almost came to fisticuffs at one point:facepalm:
 
#31
And where was the lead guitarists' spare fuse? :rollno:

Long ago on the road our drummer was always on the guitar player and me about whether we had spare fuses, tubes, and strings, which we always had. I still have a picture of him sitting in the middle of the dance floor changing the head on his kick drum. He had blown it out the night before and had no spare. We had to finish the gig with no kick drum. My taking the picture pissed him off. That was the point! :thumbsup:
We were playing a hotel in the middle of nowhere and he had to drive about 50 miles to get a new head.
 
#33
So far on the guitarists Crate, at least what he has been told, it looks like a solder joint in the power supply / section broke loose and grounded where it shouldn't have, causing the fuse to blow. The tech is going to solder it back up, and keep troubleshooting...

The Rhythm guitarist picked up his own amp. A used Behringer (Yard sale find, working GX212FX. appears fully functional, $40.00)

We are getting there, slowly, and painfully, but we are getting there.
 
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#34
Been a slow 2 months, only one gig since the barf fest. The Crate was fixed, and seems to be workable, but the guitarist picked up a Pawn Shop Peavey 2x12 of some flavor that does the job, but makes the Behringer sound gooooood!

Last gig though, was under the influence of pain killers and muscle relaxers due to me missing my PT appointments over work... Good thing the sets were short, 20 minutes on, 10 off, 20 on 10 off, for 3 hours though. Ugh...

Funny side story about that though. Because of my back, and the meds, the only way I could play, and stay vertical was to use a stool, an old "Built Ford Tough" stool that I borrowed from the venue. I managed to trip on the danged leg of the stool, stayed upright while playing, but sent the stool up into the Rumble cab. No damage but a real oh sh*t moment you know?
 
#35
I did an outside gig once in late fall and it was cold! Must have been 40 degrees. It was so cold that someone there had one of those blast heaters that construction crews use which really blow the heat. They would train it on one of the guitar players and the whole guitar would move up in pitch so fast that it was comical, knock the whole guitar out of tune in a matter of seconds. We ended up doing the whole gig somehow but man it was hard to play when it was that cold.
 
#36
Falling off stage is the sort of thing our drummer would do. Fortunately he hasn't managed it yet (probably a good job as he is 70 y.o. with a heart condition) but he regularly trips, slips, spills drinks or knocks things over.

He is a walking disaster area and we try to keep anything that he could hurt himself on or break well out of his reach. We don't always succeed!
 
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