Sheer Heart Attack Vs Don't Worry Be Happy"

[LeftyLB]

Last Saturday Night we were due to play a Wedding in a posh Hotel.

Our Normal Guitar Player is to be at Isle of Wight Festival to see The Who - So dep guitarist is already in place, with cd's and setlist, but we have never used him or heard him play before - but he comes highly recommeded - Let's hope so!

Thursday/Friday night: Liam, 100+ temperature due to severe throat infection, cannot talk, let alone sing to cover more BV's because of Dep.

Friday Night; Drummer confirms that his arm has now been put into plaster due to the work-related accident on Thursday! - Dep drummer contacted and CD driven across London to give to Dep

Friday Night: Singer confirms that he still cannot bend his knee due to cist behind his knee bursting on Tuesday. Doctor does not want to drain the knee - strong painkilers being eaten hourly!

Saturday 6pm: keyboard player arrives at gig but his keyboard stands don't! - Frantic dash back to meet wife half way home to collect, whilst Liam tries to wire up the PA for him

Deps turn up on time - good, but Drummer wants to learn the set before we start as he has not had much time to learn- not his fault!

9:30pm: Second song into set, Stingray sound starts fading and dieing. Thoughts of unreliable GK heads and MMScarborough postings ringing in my ears. No, not tonight of all nights, not my new pride and joy GK 400RB, that I thought would be the answer to all my prayers! - Not after only one month!! PLEASE NO, I can't cope with anything else, no more pressure tonight!!!

No! it was the f##kin' battery in my Bass Flanger which I had left plugged in with the connector leads in my pedal board all week!!!

Guitarist turned out to be a gentlemen and a genius, the drummer rock solid and a very quick learner, the singer could still stand, my voice came back enough Saturday afternoon to get through the Bee Gees Medley and the crowd never new a thing was wrong.

11:45pm: Three groomsmen (ushers) stripping down to their underwear on stage as we jammed around "You can leave your hat on" whilst the packed dance floor screamed in delight.

Cash had been paid as soon as we had arrived and we gave out a load of business cards at the end of the night.

Don't know what all the stress was about - I really have to stop worrying about these gigs.

Liam

 

[Dees]

hehe, I always worry before a gig, but everything always turns out just fine during the gig

 

[bovinehost]

A few weeks back, I had to learn 4 hours of stuff I'd really never heard before - mostly "modern country" - Shania Twain and Faith Hill and others I generally ignore - plus Celine Dion and Leann Rimes and God knows what else.

I had a week and a CD. Whew. Good thing the chick singer was on fire (and cute). No one really noticed the band anyway.

But to be honest, I pulled it off quite nicely. No one was more shocked than yours truly!

 

[MM Scarborough]

Driven to sheffield from scarborough, with 4 people kickdrum and snare, bass guitar, GK (which broke on the night) all in a Peugeot 205 which missfire above 50 milles an hour, ah the fun of gigs. On the way back the pistons jammed in the calipers and the brakes stuck on, managed to burn 1 litres of oil and destroy a set of disks all in the name of music!!!!

 

[basspastor]

Sunday,
Keyboard player did not show, drummer gone to Utah, Soooo,
Organ player bangs on keyboard, fill in drummer was doing his bongo drum think on set of electronic drums, lead guitar, and I; we all had a good time.
Praise ye the Lord!

 

[Psychicpet]

Liam, that almost came close to a complete cross-mojination!! Sounds like you all had fun though. My worst to date was having to fill in for a band for 3 fairly big gigs ,a Wed.,Thurs., and then a Sat. night but due to FedEx and other reasons, the new songs that made up half the set didn't get to me until the Tuesday afternoon that I had to leave for Seattle to meet the band.... so Tuesday afternoon I'm downloading and burning a CD of this new material that I then had to gig on for Wednesday night, had never met the band before and barely had the old tunes learned which I had heard for the first time on the Friday before.... made it though! The first night had some hiccups but none that the audience noticed.The opening act even commented how tight we were...... ah, by the seat of your pants, it's the only way to fly!