Worst Experience Being in a Band? - Beyond Tiki

T Turbogod Member Joined: Jun 14, 2002 Posts: 1219	T Turbogod Posted posted on Mon, Nov 8, 2004 6:09 PM Boy, there have been alot. I'd just joined a band that had been together for about 8 years. They usually played clubs but one time we played a 16th Birthday party. It was decent $ and it was going to be over early (trying to justify). While moving our equipment in, I got a dread stuck in the spring of the screen door. Well, when we got our equipment in the speakers were about 1/2 inch from the ceiling and the hotel owner was freaking out. When we were scheduled to play everyone was eating. After our first setbreak the parents gave the girl a new car. We started playing and everyone went outside to get a ride in her new car. By this time we pretty much had given up, but the Father was drunk and demanded we play even if no one was there. Bored we went from our regular setlist of New Order and the Cure to Agent Orange and Black FLag. We played till the end and were told we'd never be allowed back there again. Everytime I drive into Ocean City and pass the Franklin Scott Key Motel, I smile a little and mention it to my wife, who's tired of hearing it. Every Sunday we would drive 3 hours to play in Baltimore @ a club that never paid but allways promised that big opening slot which never happened. One night the Guitarist was so drunk @ soundcheck he thought we were already playing. So he fully launched into Agent Orange's version of SOmebody to Love,,,solo. Throughout the night many people came up to the stage, flipped the bird and told us we sucked. My favorite worst expirience was when our lighting guy had leftover fog juice from a Christian Rock band he had worked for the night before. We had never used it before. God, I felt like the Sisters of Mercy (or Spinal Tap) as it kept getting foggier and foggier it looked so cool. The drummer and I were laughing as we all disappeared into shadows on the stage. That was until I came up front to sing a song and fell off the front of the stage since I couldn't see a foot in front of me. However, these were also some of the best times I ever had.

Boy, there have been alot.

I'd just joined a band that had been together for about 8 years. They usually played clubs but one time we played a 16th Birthday party. It was decent $ and it was going to be over early (trying to justify). While moving our equipment in, I got a dread stuck in the spring of the screen door. Well, when we got our equipment in the speakers were about 1/2 inch from the ceiling and the hotel owner was freaking out. When we were scheduled to play everyone was eating. After our first setbreak the parents gave the girl a new car. We started playing and everyone went outside to get a ride in her new car. By this time we pretty much had given up, but the Father was drunk and demanded we play even if no one was there. Bored we went from our regular setlist of New Order and the Cure to Agent Orange and Black FLag. We played till the end and were told we'd never be allowed back there again. Everytime I drive into Ocean City and pass the Franklin Scott Key Motel, I smile a little and mention it to my wife, who's tired of hearing it.
Every Sunday we would drive 3 hours to play in Baltimore @ a club that never paid but allways promised that big opening slot which never happened. One night the Guitarist was so drunk @ soundcheck he thought we were already playing. So he fully launched into Agent Orange's version of SOmebody to Love,,,solo. Throughout the night many people came up to the stage, flipped the bird and told us we sucked.
My favorite worst expirience was when our lighting guy had leftover fog juice from a Christian Rock band he had worked for the night before. We had never used it before. God, I felt like the Sisters of Mercy (or Spinal Tap) as it kept getting foggier and foggier it looked so cool. The drummer and I were laughing as we all disappeared into shadows on the stage. That was until I came up front to sing a song and fell off the front of the stage since I couldn't see a foot in front of me.
However, these were also some of the best times I ever had.

Post #124350 by Turbogod on Mon, Nov 8, 2004 6:09 PM