Mantaray
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Tell me you most embarassing situations that you faced during bassplaying(gig preferably).
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nickyB
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oooh I havent done anything too embarassing, my sound has cut out a few times due to PA problems but that happens to everyone sooner or later.
I suppose the most embaressing thing thats happened to me is during a gig, in our last song of the set, the outro to the song is mega crazy so we were all mega rocking out on stage as we were all totally feeling the music, and me and the singer in my band collide and I fell to the floor, luckily i kept on playing and didnt miss a note!
I suppose the most embaressing thing thats happened to me is during a gig, in our last song of the set, the outro to the song is mega crazy so we were all mega rocking out on stage as we were all totally feeling the music, and me and the singer in my band collide and I fell to the floor, luckily i kept on playing and didnt miss a note!
Aussie Mark
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I use wireless pretty often at gigs, depending on the room and whether I'm mixing us from stage. One time we played on a stage that was around 3 foot high, without any steps. Loading in was a pain, but my biggest goof up came during the gig, when I decided to jump off the stage and wander the room while playing. The height of the stage meant that I couldn't just step back on stage again while playing (ever try to climb a 3 foot step while playing a bass?). I made a couple of ridiculous attempts to get on stage while still playing, but gave up in the end. So, I spent the rest of that song trying to look cool until I could take my bass off at the end of the song and climb back on stage.
oddjob
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Hummm... that's tough.
Could it be the time when my pants caught fire while running around with my wireless? Maybe the time when I jumped up on stage and my pants split. Could be the time when all 4 of my 10" speakers fell out of their cab at the same time (no, that was a true nightmare). Perhaps it was when I broke the neck on my first (and only) StingRay
midsong. Complaining to the soundman that I couldn't hear myself (cause the amp wasn't on)??? I know, has to be leaning up against the PA columns and having them topple over.
And this is just the short list
Could it be the time when my pants caught fire while running around with my wireless? Maybe the time when I jumped up on stage and my pants split. Could be the time when all 4 of my 10" speakers fell out of their cab at the same time (no, that was a true nightmare). Perhaps it was when I broke the neck on my first (and only) StingRay
midsong. Complaining to the soundman that I couldn't hear myself (cause the amp wasn't on)??? I know, has to be leaning up against the PA columns and having them topple over. And this is just the short list
These are stories from long, long ago (ca. 1970):
1) We were playing a private party and had this cheap Bogen PA amp which did the trick for this type of gig. In the middle of a song, the vocals just cut out and we smelled something funny - the amp literally blew up and we had to put out the fire before it spread. So our lead singer tried to make it look like part of the act, but we had to improvise to finish the night - and get paid!
2) At a college concert, the guitarist (and still good friend) and I talked the other members of the warm-up act for Canned Heat into letting us jam with them before their act went on. Not being used to this elaborate rig, I couldn't hear my bass playing, so I kicked up the volume. Evidently, it was so loud & deep, it was shaking chandeliers in the lobby. And the group's bass player was ready to kill me! But it was fun...
1) We were playing a private party and had this cheap Bogen PA amp which did the trick for this type of gig. In the middle of a song, the vocals just cut out and we smelled something funny - the amp literally blew up and we had to put out the fire before it spread. So our lead singer tried to make it look like part of the act, but we had to improvise to finish the night - and get paid!
2) At a college concert, the guitarist (and still good friend) and I talked the other members of the warm-up act for Canned Heat into letting us jam with them before their act went on. Not being used to this elaborate rig, I couldn't hear my bass playing, so I kicked up the volume. Evidently, it was so loud & deep, it was shaking chandeliers in the lobby. And the group's bass player was ready to kill me! But it was fun...
spectorbassguy
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Just a couple:
Circa 1980
Lounge Gig
White Tux
"Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbitt
Singer (who pays us) insists we SNAP OUR FINGERS on the backbeat during the intro, just like on the record.
Need I Say More?
OK, 2 years later; hard rock band; dumb light man.
3rd Set, Start Taped Intro Music
Flash Pots supposed to go off during middle guitar solo on "Burnin' For You" by B.O.C.
Flash Pots go off in middle of TAPED MUSIC nearly burning 2 band members.
That looked cool.
A few months later, same band, same dumb light man:
We open 4th Set with "Young Lust" by Pink Floyd.
Flash pots go off as planned with opening line "What Shall We Use to Fill The Empty Spaces"
Cool, right? Nope, but thanks for checkin'!
Room fills with thick, black smoke; people coughing and gagging; bar evacuated for 1/2 hour to open doors and air it out.
Light man's response: "I ran out of flash powder so I used GUNPOWDER"!
Jeesh! Needless to say he did a few gigs for free after that stunt!
Circa 1980
Lounge Gig
White Tux
"Love a Rainy Night" by Eddie Rabbitt
Singer (who pays us) insists we SNAP OUR FINGERS on the backbeat during the intro, just like on the record.
Need I Say More?
OK, 2 years later; hard rock band; dumb light man.
3rd Set, Start Taped Intro Music
Flash Pots supposed to go off during middle guitar solo on "Burnin' For You" by B.O.C.
Flash Pots go off in middle of TAPED MUSIC nearly burning 2 band members.
That looked cool.
A few months later, same band, same dumb light man:
We open 4th Set with "Young Lust" by Pink Floyd.
Flash pots go off as planned with opening line "What Shall We Use to Fill The Empty Spaces"
Cool, right? Nope, but thanks for checkin'!
Room fills with thick, black smoke; people coughing and gagging; bar evacuated for 1/2 hour to open doors and air it out.
Light man's response: "I ran out of flash powder so I used GUNPOWDER"!
Jeesh! Needless to say he did a few gigs for free after that stunt!
oddjob
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spectorbassguy said:
MrDigory
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Um...the time I dressed up as a clown for a show with a hard rock band. The sad clown...you know...the hobo. I didn't know we had people in the audience who would be afraid of clowns.
I come running out onto the stage ready to rock and a couple screams go off. lol
That time was pretty bad. But not as bad as this story... lol
Ok, so the band would knock their old dusty guitars out of tune, but I would stay in pretty well. So whiule they silently tuned, I would play some goofy spoofy songs on improv. They would usually keep people's attention and make some laughs in the dullest part of the show. SO it worked.
Except this one time I sang a song about this fat dude I saw trying to be forced into the seat of a rollercoaster at an amusement park. lol In the audience, there were an abnormal amount of fat people. I am pretty hefty myself, so I didn't really think twice about it. lol I really upset alot of people that night, and it was the last time I did an improv.
I come running out onto the stage ready to rock and a couple screams go off. lol
That time was pretty bad. But not as bad as this story... lol
Ok, so the band would knock their old dusty guitars out of tune, but I would stay in pretty well. So whiule they silently tuned, I would play some goofy spoofy songs on improv. They would usually keep people's attention and make some laughs in the dullest part of the show. SO it worked.
Except this one time I sang a song about this fat dude I saw trying to be forced into the seat of a rollercoaster at an amusement park. lol In the audience, there were an abnormal amount of fat people. I am pretty hefty myself, so I didn't really think twice about it. lol I really upset alot of people that night, and it was the last time I did an improv.
Aussie Mark
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MrDigory said:
Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but other than young children, which audience members at a hard rock show would be afraid of clowns?
Mobay45
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People have some really freaky phobias!
Personally, I'm afraid of beautiful women with long legs in sexy stilletto heels and stockings with..... Oh, wait. That's not a phobia, that's a fantasy!
Personally, I'm afraid of beautiful women with long legs in sexy stilletto heels and stockings with..... Oh, wait. That's not a phobia, that's a fantasy!
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crazybass888
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Decent Saturday night gig, big crowd, tasty little bass solo, strap lock breaks into three pieces and guitar hits the floor... the best part is, it wasn't my bass! Needless to say the dude who actually owned the bass wasn't exactly thrilled...
spectorbassguy
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crazybass888 said:
A couple of weeks ago at the SonShine Music Festival in Willmar, MN, Skillet's bass player, who is pretty aggressive onstage, did a whip around his head with the bass, the strap broke and the bass skidded all the way across the stage. Looked pretty incredible on the gigantic screen they had.
Morrow
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Had a bit of gas one night in a small bar - the "stage" was about nine inches high. I cleared the dance floor.
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Bassplyr
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Morrow said:
Don't think anyone's gonna top this one.
Fuzzy Dustmite
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Well, we're playing "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love", and I'm singing it (which I'm horrible at, but the rest of the band insists I sing a song). We come to the part "I've been to the edge...& there I stood & looked down".
I go to the edge of the stage, and stand and look down, while leaning into my boom mic stand. It decides it wants to fold down and I end up falling forward off the stage (which thankfully was only about 12" tall), into the crowd.
Luckily, no one got bashed by my bass or my flailing body, and I didn't get anything but supremely embarrassed.
I go to the edge of the stage, and stand and look down, while leaning into my boom mic stand. It decides it wants to fold down and I end up falling forward off the stage (which thankfully was only about 12" tall), into the crowd.
Luckily, no one got bashed by my bass or my flailing body, and I didn't get anything but supremely embarrassed.
spectorbassguy
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Fuzzy Dustmite said:
After seeing Fuzzy's website, I knew he'd have a good story or two.
Fuzzy Dustmite
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spectorbassguy said:After seeing Fuzzy's website, I knew he'd have a good story or two.
Oh yeah, we have fun, all right.
That's what it's all about, and what attracted me to them in the first place. Their ad stated "must have a day job, and not want to make it in the music business. We're in this to have fun, and you should be too"
skabassist13
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well i can say ive never done anything to bad as of yet. but im only 16 so i have plenty of time. i have a few small ones though that i thought were kinda stupid.
i was playing with my former band at a gig and i told em during the middle of one of our songsi was gonna run out and kiss my girlfriend. i did. but i spent like two minutes trying to get to her while trying to not whack people with my bass. i look back and think i coulda done that better. oh well.
at another show my drummer was on an elevated platform and i thought during one of the songs id jump off it. so i go to do it, but when i get up there i realize im not feeling the music the right way to jump. so i get one leg up and then just kinda pause and get back down. not really that bad, but i thought it was.
i was playing with my former band at a gig and i told em during the middle of one of our songsi was gonna run out and kiss my girlfriend. i did. but i spent like two minutes trying to get to her while trying to not whack people with my bass. i look back and think i coulda done that better. oh well.
at another show my drummer was on an elevated platform and i thought during one of the songs id jump off it. so i go to do it, but when i get up there i realize im not feeling the music the right way to jump. so i get one leg up and then just kinda pause and get back down. not really that bad, but i thought it was.
spectorbassguy
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Fuzzy Dustmite said:
Personally I love the "Rock n Roll Missionaries" theme.
(Fuzzy w/ an IBANEZ???)
And then your "Flea Flyer"
Ahh a StingRay. Now you're livin' large!
