bad performance experiences

Hmm... well this is a thread I'd like to be dedicated to mistakes and such in your guys' performances. I had one tonight... sort of.

My band was playing for this sort of festival thing. The person who set up the order decided it'd be cool to have me perform my Jethro Tull "Wondering Alloud" solo.. thing afterwards. Our band did awesome, but it was a very rockin' song. So when I went up to perform my little acoustic piece, even though I did awesome and made not one mistake, not that many paid attention
It was hard going to a whole bunch of people clapping after one performance, to just a handful of people knowing you're finished and clapping. And to top it off some creepy guy asked for my phone number
:( .

My band had 3 people at our second show and about 70 at the first. Talk about dissapointment.

Originally Posted by: iihollyAnd to top it off some creepy guy asked for my phone number.

Hey! I did ask nicely.

My wannabe HM high-school band once played as a support to a jumble sale.

90% of the audience were over 60.

It was not a success !

Originally Posted by: iamthe_eggmanHey! I did ask nicely.

Yes, but it was the fact that you weren't wearing any pants that tipped her off, not your voice.

Anyhow, My rhythm guitarist and I have our first gig with a new drummer soon, so some stories will be coming soon! Although we have written some (IMO) kickass songs.

Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonYes, but it was the fact that you weren't wearing any pants that tipped her off, not your voice.

Crap! I knew Mother was right about not wearing pants creeping girls out!

Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonAnyhow, My rhythm guitarist and I have our first gig with a new drummer soon, so some stories will be coming soon! Although we have written some (IMO) kickass songs.

Hopefull they won't be bad stories.

Eggman... I think this guy may have had even you beat, and he had pants. So it was some other kick as guitarrist/singer you asked her phone number.

My first performance was very devastating..

because our vocalist sucks most people were shouting "what the f*ck is that?!"

"go home!!!"

I never performed ever again..

Well that really is horrible...

Originally Posted by: iamthe_eggmanCrap! I knew Mother was right about not wearing pants creeping girls out!

Well, that and tucking your tallywhacker into your sock.

or your sock into your tallywhacker !!!! Yeah !

I saw Spinal Tap go through airport security !

I haven't had any really bad experiences... the most recent gig I did had a few funny ones though. For a start I managed to drop my plectrum while just playing some easy powerchord riff. I just look down on the floor at the plectrum in shock thinking "how the f**k did I drop that?". A drummer at the same gig also fell off the stage when he was coming off. To top it all off a bassist plugged into my flextone 3...... luckily it still works fine, I was pretty pissed off though, suprised he didn't blow it.

Oh, and if anyone has heard "Dazed and confused" by Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page does a guitar solo with a violin bow.... another guy at the gig who was playing that song managed to keep the solo going for 30 minutes. :eek:

It was good until it got past about 6 minutes, then the audience just wanted him to get the hell off. The band were supposed to wait for a signal to come back on stage and play the rest of the song, in the end they just came back on and forced him to finish the solo. :D

- J

Originally Posted by: JamiephofeOh, and if anyone has heard "Dazed and confused" by Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page does a guitar solo with a violin bow.... another guy at the gig who was playing that song managed to keep the solo going for 30 minutes. :eek:

Lead-who???

Our worst performance was around 1994. In the middle of a song, our vocalist decided to hang upside down from the rafters in the club we were playing. He got his foot stuck and could not get down. It took about 15 minutes of prying to get his foot loose from the rafters.....Needless to say, we never played that club again.

You guys can't ever let anything go... but the sarcasm is pretty amusing most of the time. Unless it involves me, then I won't to go cry in a corner. :(

yes I think we can safely assume that no pants, tallywackers and socks do not mix well at gigs.
The absolute worst gigging experience has to be forgetting to tune your axe between songs (thats why its nice to have two guitars on stage, with dif tuning) or having a pedal mess up on stage...always sucks

im 12 years old and my band had my first gig at the end of they year talent show. we had fog machines a strobe,laser light show, and stage lights. i had a slow solo in the beginning and i froze on stage and forgot it but every1 cheered like crazy,hey its middle skool, but it wasnt a scared stage freeze it was more like i felt incredibly good and i luvd the feeling of being up there with every1 cheering. then we kept going and did awsum it felt soooooooo good to be up on stage i cant even explain. im glad i got into music. then the basists amp went out for a sec but it turnd out ok. ill definetely be performing agen.

My worst (and funniest) was my high school band. I got suspended from school after a talent show that had went horribly wrong for me... I don't know why they had a problem with the performance....something about kneeling on the judge's table in front of the pretty teacher with my guitar between my legs giving the strings the "stroke"... maybe it could have been my facial expression that got me in trouble for that one, but hey! I saw Steve Vai do it on MTV, so I blamed MTV for it....

I didn't care though, I got one hell of a standing ovation for having the "testicular fortitude" to do it in the first place....

My worst and best experience happened at the same time. I was playing a small gig and our singer used to keep a glass of water with cough drops melting in it on the stage at his feet. It's supposed to really help loosen the vocal cords but it also makes for a literal pain in the butt when you trip over it. I was goofing around making my way around the stage and stepped backwards onto the glass. Next thing i know i was on my back mid song. Rather then make it worst, I just finished the song laying on the floor but the crowd loved it. A few people thought that I was showing off and did it on purpose, little did they know I was limping around for the next few days.