Author Topic: I'm dead ...again ... (Read 594 times)

elzie · « **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2004, 07:48:49 AM »

Sorry people, none of those were caught on tape, that I know of......

Those were by far not my most embarrassing moments, they were just the music related ones. Yes, I have a whole list of more embarrassing moments, but you probably don't want to hear them here!

Paul TEO

dean_m · « **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2004, 07:59:04 AM »

Here's one of many:

Came out of the bathroom one night before a gig, got on stage, started playing. Could not for the life of me understand what everyone was laughing about. Yep you guessed it, forgot to zip up. Don't ask me how you forget these things and no I wasn't drinking....yet!
The thing that gets me is that no one in the band said a word until half way through the set.
I guess they wanted to see how far it could go first. No pun intended either.

Dino the drafty one

bigbadbill · « **Reply #17 on:** February 03, 2004, 09:57:48 AM »

Oh boy, there was the time we had to set up in front of the ladies toilets and every time somebody needed to go I had to move out of the way (to make things worse I was also the vocalist), the time when myself and the lead singer jumped in the air at the same time and I broke his nose with my headstock, the time when a naked man came and sat at the table in front of me whilst I was singing/playing, which completely put me off....the list is endless.

gbarchus · « **Reply #18 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:58:38 AM »

Early in my career at the first performance in a new band, our first song was Are You Ready. I jumped off the drum riser, sliding down the fretless neck to to start with a low E note and the string broke on the first beat as I hit the floor. I had never practiced the song an octave higher. I guess I wasn't ready.

811952 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 03, 2004, 06:47:02 PM »

My story has to do with a demo session in Nashville some 20+ years ago. The guitarist was (and amazingly still is) a good friend of mine, and we were cutting a demo of several of his instrumentals at PolyFox, if memory serves. It was a song he and I had played together for a while in a band before he got his Nashville gig which gave me the opportunity to show my arse. Anyway, We all got together beforehand to make sure we knew where things went, etcetera. There was a short bass solo (16 bars) at the end of the bridge, which I had crafted over time and had down pat. When we rolled tape, I discovered that among the things I hadn't paid attention to was the 12-bar bass solo... Oops.. I had to edit the line and relearn it really quick (but it worked out) since he was paying a half-dozen musicians and a couple of engineers union scale. I don't think I've ever felt so incredibly stupid and careless as when I cost a great friend so much money because I was too careless and arrogant to pay attention during rehearsal. Now, I write these things down and keep the papers where I can get to them quickly... I'm still embarrassed that he might remember it...

mint_bass · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2004, 02:30:33 AM »

it was my first gig not too long ago and although it went fine i thought i would demenstrate my ability of being a fool in one of our songs half way through the set i play a strummed chord pattern that song went fine went to start the next song and my bass did nothing oh no i left handed and have no spare bass with me this is a problem. i decided that it could not be my brand new epic and relized i was not playing through my amp so i thought i must of blown the one i was playin through oh dear i told the crowd we were having some tech problems and then realised that my bass was off as when i had been strumming i had turned the volume nob off yes wat a fool my friends still laugh about that one every time they c me

bassman10096 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2004, 05:19:15 AM »

I'm embarrassed to say how long it took me to learn to check volumes and p/u selectors before assuming, OH MY GOD!! DEAD BASS!!!!.

Bill

811952 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2004, 06:42:29 AM »

I used to always leave the PU selector in the off position when I wasn't playing. I'm sure you can all imagine how much time I've spent troubleshooting my signal chain over the years.
PtJoII
Oh, and Congratulations to Paul TBO on your milestone 1000th post! Dark beers for everyone, and PICTURES!! ;-)

bracheen · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2004, 05:18:39 AM »

When our Practicing thread turned into a Bach thread it made me think of this story. Not really embarrassing but funny. Or maybe you had to be there.
In my high school music theory class we were given a melody line written by Bach. Our assignment was to write a bass line for it. I don't remember which piece it was. I wrote my line and turned it in. It was returned to me with a note on one measure that said MOVE!. I had put two half notes in that measure. On comparing it to the original I found that Bach had written the same thing in that measure. When I pointed this out to the teacher his response was I didn't like when he did it either.

Sam