Embarassing Moment during a gig

[bovinehost]

One time, way back in the times when pterodactyls darkened the skies overhead, I was playing in some club in Mobile, Alabama. We were sort of a Deep Purple kind of thing, I guess.

The guitar player leans over toward me to tell me something, I think, and I lean over toward him, sort of my left cheek really close to his right cheek, and we're front and center onstage.

We lean in, and this HUGE FREAKIN SPARK flies out of his face and INTO MINE. Nearly knocked me stupid. I had a burn mark for a week!

So when it happens, the 150 or so drunk idiots start cheering. They thought we meant to do it, and they damned well wanted to see it again.

 

[MrDigory]

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?

Yeah, I don't get it. But there were no children. I know one of them was a close friend of the band (whom I NOW know is freakishly afraid of clowns).

 

[Disquieter]

alright, so one show, my band who just started lime 1 month earlier, has 5 songs and 3 covers, and we do our set. our drummer comes up to us before the show and says

"hey guys, is it alright if we dedicate 'stuck on you' to my girlfriend?"
"no"
"no"
"oh....umm..well....i kind of already told her we would...."
"do you know what that song is about?"
"no..."
"ok...well, your doing it though."

proceed to the stage.

"this song is dedicated to (insert name here), im stuck on you" (i wanted to push my guitar through his torso)
he goes back to the drums, the singer steps up and says:
"alright, this song is called stuck on you, it's about someone who can't get away from something really annoying. like a crappy song you hear on the radio, it's something terrible that you just can't escape."


that made his girlfriend reeeeally happy, she ran off crying, and me and doug had trouble getting through the song cause we were laughing so much.

 

[armybass]

1st year of college on upright bass in my first symphony concert.



I had an old King bass that I bought from my church choir director who happens to be the bassist in the Dukes of Dixieland. The bass was well worn and the E string tunning key had broken off of the peg. The previous owner put a water spicket (faucet) handle on it. On the fist piece of the concert....Dvorzak's Symphony No. 9..The New World Symphony....I hit the first note...a big loud open E and the water spiket falls off of the bass, hits the floor and rolls straight to the conductor's (my teacher) podium. We were all in tuxes, the house is packed and I turned thirteen shades of red. We laughed later...but not when it happened.