https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:06:22 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283062 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:59 +0000
I was lined up to play bass on Paul McCartney's Yesterday, it's in F and the arrangement hadn't messed around with very much, and I launched into my big fat opening note....

... G Sometimes a wrong note wll eventually sound right if you just are persistent enough - but I guess this was not one of these times :lol:]]> Opinions and Polls lars https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283062 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283058 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:34:29 +0000
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Cheap investment to avoid that, save your drink, and save your back!]]> Opinions and Polls corbind https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283058 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283057 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:58:36 +0000
Lesson: keep your drink away from leads!]]> Opinions and Polls StriferDiem https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-283057 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281634 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:02:41 +0000 Opinions and Polls Misanthrope https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281634 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281536 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:59:10 +0000
Somewhere around 1979 I was playing in a cover band in a little Chicago dive called the Bottleneck. It was a dart bar - the front door was set back from the street, so when you entered the door there were dartboards on the walls behind you on either side in little alcoves. The stage was at the far end, directly in front of the door.

The bar was within walking distance of a couple of colleges, the drinking age was 19, and it was quarter beer night. The place was packed, and most of the patrons were fairly well over-served.

Some people are calling out requests. One drunk yells out "play Sympathy for the Devil", and we did.

Other people are calling for requests, but this guy keeps shouting "play Sympathy for the Devil". Since we'd already done it, I ws trying to ignore the guy.

Which makes him mad.

He comes up in front of the stage, and keeps shouting "play Sympathy for the Devil". I finally tell him we've already done it, and we're not going to do it again.

He staggers/pushes his way back to one of the dart boards, grabs some darts and starts throwing them at the stage.

Luckily he was too bombed to throw straight, and the doorman was only a couple feet from him, so he got ejected before he could get off more than a couple of tries.

The gig wasn't a disaster, but it was one of the more memorable ones I've had :)]]> Opinions and Polls NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281536 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281530 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:29:35 +0000
Just a thought - I strongly believe that audience can make a big difference in making a gig go 'wrong' or 'right'.
Could not agree more! And I love the stories so far...

-Mike]]> Opinions and Polls MikeyGesus https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281530 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281461 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:48:24 +0000
Just a thought - I strongly believe that audience can make a big difference in making a gig go 'wrong' or 'right'.]]> Opinions and Polls Rahul https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281461 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281445 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:27:03 +0000
Gothic Playground gig #6: FSU with The Flaming Lips. Everyone that came to see us were high schoolers and were not allowed in. We played to a nearly empty place while looking out the window and watching fights, police, ect. The Flaming Lips were not impressed with FSU, and I don't think they ever came back. Also, that afternoon before the gig, the lead singer got a staple from a staple gun shot through his hand. He almost got in a fight with a skin head during the last song.

Gothic Playground gig #?: The place we were originally scheduled to play had the electical fuse box blow up when we plugged in our equipment. We ended up playing in a warehouse. Tightest gig we ever played.

Dream Deferred gig #??: About 800 people showed up, but it was a sorority rush party. No one listened to us. No one. I'm not kidding. This was exactly a week after playing at the same club where three people showed up and will always be remembered as the best audience I've ever had.

Dream Deferred gig #???: The only person in the audience was my wife.

Oenyaw gig #1: Had a cold all week then played out doors, freezing night. Stuffy head, frozen fingers. Totally messed up everything! The crowd liked it, though.

I learn so much from every gig, that's why I love doing it.]]> Opinions and Polls Oenyaw https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/paged/2/#post-281445 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/#post-281442 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:55:32 +0000 when the set arrived just before show time the monolith was only eighteen inches high. cracky, they came up to my knees.
just terrible. worst show ever. :mrgreen:
Stone`enge....Where the dewdrops cry & the cats meow...]]> Opinions and Polls Mac Manc McManx https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/#post-281442 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/#post-281435 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:23:33 +0000
I was lined up to play bass on Paul McCartney's Yesterday, it's in F and the arrangement hadn't messed around with very much, and I launched into my big fat opening note....

... G

I realised it instantly and managed to play it as an 8th note G followed by a joined 8th note and half note F and got away with it.

I learned a heck of a lot in that couple of seconds


A :-)]]> Opinions and Polls Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/live-gigs-gone-wrong-name-yours/#post-281435