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Author Message   Silverstrings Username: Silverstrings Registered: 11-2006 Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 7:10 pm:    Hello All Perhaps some of you would like to share some of those moments on stage that we would either like to forget or that make for great yarns over a couple of ales. There was the time that our band was playing a reasonable size gig. the stage had a 6 foot drum riser that was constructed in two pieces. Un fortunately they were a bit uneven and tended to wobble. Halfway through the second set we were paowering through a song when we noticed a change in sound. Our drummer (my brother) had fallen straight off the back of the riser. Luckily he was not seriously hurt, but was a little brusied. A 20 minute break and we were back into the swing of things. And then there was the times we used to place our singer in a part of the stage away from the rest of the band. He had upset a certain outlaw biker club and we did not want to be in the firing line.   Bobzilla Username: Bobzilla Registered: 2-2005 Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 12:34 pm:    Funniest band moment? Ahhhhhhhhhh yes... we got busted down in Jersey one day. The whole band was in a van. We're smokin' pot... going to get guitar strings and drum sticks. A cop, who was standing on the street corner... waves us over. Evidently... he smelled the green smoke pouring out of the van. He says "You guys smokin' pot in here?" Simultaneously... we all responded at the same exact instant. I said "no", drummer says "yes" Bass player says "maybe" other guitar player says "I dunno". All at exaclty the same time. Needless to say.... down at the station house... myself ("no") and the other guitar player ("I dunno") were released. "yes" and "maybe" got busted and had to deal with all the repercussions. Now.. for the funny part... My drummer at the time weighed 290 lbs. He was big and fat (good drummer though) and... I almost wound up getting arrested like my drummer did for because I was laughing so hard when they made my drummer bend over and they shined a flashlight up his ass to see if he hasd anything else on him. To this day I almost pee myself when I picture that moment. The cops did not see the humor in it nor could they figure why I found it so amusing. Well, let me tell you... it was the funniest thing I ever saw in my life. Plus my drummer was just such an a**hole anyways that was what made it so funny. I should say horrifying/funny. It was horrifying too for sure. In any event... how the hell do you get pulled over by a cop... who isn't even in a patrol car? I've got more funny band stories, most of those involve serious bodily injury though, not to me, just the folks around us. Here's something brief (I hope) and silly... on nights of gigs, the "L" rule went into effect. Any band member, who said any word with the letter "L" in it... would be brutally kicked in the shins by all other band memebers. The "L" rule was in effect all night of the gig and was enforced most vigorously while the band member using a word with the letter "L" in it , was carrying heavy equipment. Sometimes... 3 or 4 of us (depending on number of bans members at the time) would choose a different letter than "L" but we would leave one member in the dark as to what the deadly letter was that evening. So... the guy left out of it would take a bunch of shin attacks (nasty ones) until he could figure out what the hell the letter was that night. But 99% of the time it was the letter "L". Yes... this is stupid. But to me/us it was funny. If you haven't had 3 guys kick you brutally in the shins while you're carrying a P.A. system on to a stage... you really haven't lived a full life. This, by the way, cut down on the overall amount of gigs we woyuld play per year. It was just too dangerous.   Ubetcha Username: Ubetcha Registered: 7-2006 Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 2:04 pm:    I was playing rythmn with a good buddy's band, filling in for the wasted guy. It was a foothill roadhouse notorious for bar fights. Looked good until this old guy comes up during a slow one, & makes like to shout a request into my buddy's ear. James leans over & the old puke spits right in his ear! Ha Ha...I almost died laughing. James threw off his axe & almost killed the old fool right there, we had to pull him off. Needless to say that was it for the night & we didn't get paid either. Another one that was probably funnier than !~@$%&^ but also personally very embarrassing... it's 1971 & I've been playing guitar for about one year. Me & James are doing a duo thing & mostly singing (begging) on the streets of Santa Barbara. James is a monster guitar player & I'm only along because I can sing good harmony, I have good meter, and I am willing to put up with his ~!@$%%&^....basically. So I sell my truck, & we use the money to buy a cheap Hohner PA, and two sets of double-knit stage outfits each, and some high-heeled ##!#$%%-kicker Beatle Boots. Then we hit the audition scene in SoCal, and the first place we try is this joint in Oxnard called the Rawhide..or something similar. Big lighted sign in front says "now appearing Little Jimmie Dickens"... so you get the ambience. We go in there on an afternoon, all suited up & carefully groomed & the manager says sure...plug in your stuff & play, I'll be listening. There's about 10 other people in the place, turns out it's LJD & his band members & roadies etc. We start into our bit, a combo of Carter Family stuff, Rev.Gary Davis, Novelty Country, & utterly obscure R&B. Heck, nobody else played that stuff at the time. The first tune "Carry me Back" went off perfect, and the "audience" gave us polite applause & started paying closer attention. James could really fingerpick his big Epiphone, and now we had their attention. For the second tune we figured to pull out all the stops & do "Samson & Delilah"...which James could play & sing exactly like Gary Davis. Always our most popular street number. My part was simple rythmn background strumming, and harmony vocal on the chorus. We're about two verses in and rolling along, when James takes his first solo. I look over as he takes off, and I watch as his top three strings go TWANG... and all break simultaneously...oh dear this was seriously bad. I'm strumming along & he looks at the mess, looks at me and says "keep going". I look around, & the table full of musicians is cracking up. James is fiddling trying to pull the busted strings out of the way & retune the 3 he has left. I don't know the words to the verses, just the chorus. I finally fumble to a halt & laughter cascades down on us. We try to re-organize, but the manager comes up & says "nice job guys, but I don't think your music is exactly right for this place here". He offered us free cool ones, but we just wanted out of there. LJD did come up & compliment us, he said he really liked our authentic stuff, and that was nice. I have never since been so humiliated on a stage, and I swore then that I never would be again. A valuable lesson, be prepared.   Ibanezfreak1960 Username: Ibanezfreak1960 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 5:05 pm:    Ah this is going to take a little memory jogging. But I narrowed it down to a few. 1 Smashing antique punch bowls at a wedding when they refused to pay us after we played. 2 Playing the Beatles song Piggies with a slight lyric change when the cops came to tell us to turn down! 3 Smacking a heckler in the face with a mic stand when he wouldn't stop shouting Free Bird and messing with my girl while I was on stage.   Roadartstar Username: Roadartstar Registered: 8-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 5:18 pm:    One time our singer bent over to move a speaker 20 minutes before showtime at a very popular packed club as we were setting up and he pooped his pants at the same time he bent over and let out an UT OH I GOTTA GO HOME NOW!!! Doh so he took off to shower and change and came back like and hour and half after start time so we all took our best turns singing LOL Dam he never lived that down! he had all sorts of nick names after that as you can imagine! POOOP!

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