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- Did a song in drop D then forgot to tune back up for the next song.
- Spilled my own pint into my own pedalboard.
- Had my tuner set on something other than A=440 for a whole gig, was not happy with our bass player's tuning all the way through.
- Have played Sweet child of mine on ACOUSTIC guitar including the guitar intro (shuddering at the thought, it was all done in fun though).
- Was briefly in a folk band.
In another band, my co guitarist was dyslexic and was sometimes confused by the set list. He would occasionally start playing the wrong song but would usually realise by the chorus!
We played a thirty minute set at a charity thing and I was using the supplied amp. During the last song I had a complete blank ( on a song that is C and F all the way through...) and proceeded to pretend to have problems with the amp. Afterwards the organisers apologised to me and I didn't explain. X_X
Before I started using straploks I had my LP slip from my shoulders (caught it just before it hit the ground) not only mid-song, not only mid-riff, not only mid-opening riff to the song, but mid-opening riff to opening song of the night. Well, THAT helped settle my nerves for the night................
Playing about 4 numbers into the second set with the wah on and wondering why it way so trebly.
I was the dep electric guitarist in a folk band, I was with them longer than any permanent guitarist in the end!
I've played and sung '500 miles' at a wedding - as the bride and grooms special request!
I've played a Rock and Roll set (bass guitar drums with the aforementioned folk band) at a folk gig when the audience requested it!
I've gigged in a tent on NYE when it was snowing, the dozen or so PAR CAN lights were placed at ground level and tucked in at the sides to create enough warmth.
I also was a band leader in an Easter passion play at a church (I'm not religious by the way... Honest), and I'd got lumbered with somebody who volunteered to play his guitar with me, but was awful. He also only had a really badly set up Jackson metal guitar with very flappy strings, no amp except one of those battery powered mini amps. So I may have accidentally given him a faulty back lead to put between the multi fx I lent him and the mixer on the big night whoops
I got to a gig in Winter. Took our mixer out of the freezing cold van and it was dripping wet with condensation. I opened it up and gave it a thorough drying with a heat gun (being careful not to damage it of course). When it was dry I closed it up and screwed it back together. It was only when I picked it up I realised that there was a burnt black square on the carpet! :-O
Others must have experienced this one. Happy Birthday, the simplest song in the world, what can go wrong? The amount of times someone has called the key as the first note of the song, which is actually the 5th.
Doing a gig in a gorilla suit standing next to a dry ice machine. My head was boiling hot and my feet were freezing cold. When I looked down I couldn't see outside the mask - not my best performance. Then a home made confetti cannon went off with more power than planned, blasting itself apart and blowing a hole through the polystyrene ceiling tiles. It looked like snow at a wedding.
Not paying enough attention to the readout on my first automatic tuner and tuning my second string to C. I didn't notice at first because the rhythm part was power chords on the low strings. The gig was recorded on cassette and the fast solo didn't sound as bad as expected, having a strange Holdsworth quality.
Having a brain fart and forgetting to bring things back in after break in Long Train Running. I thought I'd finished and I couldn't understand why everyone was staring at me. It wouldn't have been so bad, but the gig was being video'd for promotional purposes.
Mishearing 'Let's Stay Together' as 'Let's Stick Together'. Amaj doesn't 'work together' with Bbmaj7.
Giving a dep bass player a chord chart to a song he didn't know, but I put page 2 before page 1. It went in and out of phase being right then wrong.
Playing at a smart 'marquee in a garden' gig. The crazy lead singer turned his back to the audience and waved his willie at the band. There were a couple of stunned old ladies standing off to the side.
Another gig, same lead singer, trying to get everyone up to dance, saying "you, the lady behind the table, I want to see you up dancing". Then the other guitarist leaned over and said "John, she's in a wheel chair".
Not me, but musicians I knew: A girl singer did this act when she lay down on the stage. She had two pigtail hair extensions. The guitarist accidentally stepped on one. When she stood up she only had one pigtail.
Playing Goldfinger at a first rehearsal with 'proper' musicians. The Intro sounded huge with all the brass. I thought I'd go really for it with a big power chord on the Intro fourth repeat. The WTF expression on their faces was not the best way to learn the meaning of mp.
Playing at a rugby club wedding and the band leader asking the bride if he could see her ring.
The worst experience is in my response to "10 questions we ask everyone". I learned the solo to Kid Charlemagne note for note. I didn't count on someone in the band messing up. Totally threw me and I actually froze and stopped playing. I now know it's fairly easy to blag through it using a bluesy C major scale. Learned the hard way to be comfortable improvising over the chords when learning note for note solos, in the event of things going wrong.