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For all those that have done gigs. What was your worst experience live and why? Mine would have to a series of gigs I did with a metal band at school. They normally resulted in half the audience leaving, or putting two fingers up at us or showing their distain in various other ways. To be fair, we were fairly lame, and we also always seemed to get dreadful guys at the main mixer who clearly didn't give a fuck. They seemed to hate electronic instruments in particular, turning me down every time before I had even began. Those were fun days. |
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I have never done a gig, but I have a short noise thing that used to be played at the end of this rock groups gig. It was fun to see peoples faces when it was played. |
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if this topic was "the best live experiences" i would tell You about my one and only live rock concert 11 years ago. |
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If it was your only one then it si also your worst ever, so you can tel us anyway. |
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:golfclap: |
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:D ! |
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heh...:) it was a Kurt Cobain tribute concert, right after his death. i had a rock band with my classmates....my mic was set not loud enough so i kinda screamed for about an hour [the sound man obviously couldn't hear everything he should have]...and i almost lost my voice before the end...my form mistress left the gig after 2 or 3 songs....our classmates danced in front of the stage...the guitar solo in "teen spirit" went off-tune totally and became a desperate improvisation....we laughed our asses off when we later listened to the tape recording of this gig....and that was the first time i earned some moneyz for music |
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live performances are fun. you completely disregard the audience while having your way with your instrument. i've never really had any bad experiences, even when there was no one to come see us play. it can be nerve wrecking if you do it for the first time. it must suck if the audience is not very receptive. |
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hahah do You still play it ? |
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what was Your part ? [instrument] |
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I try to, yes. This was actually quite fun and not really a gig, but I just wanted to post the picture. |
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the guitar. my old faithful mexican stratocaster. |
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thing that really is starting to piss me off the few times I've done gigs is not being able to hear myself, either getting no monitors or them just being shit. |
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...and i saved it right away [if You don't mind] cause it's actually quite fun. do you sample sax into your tracks ? oh, this is off-topic..... but DO YOU ? |
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i played a blues/jazz improv piece in assembly one morning in my last year of school. it was horrible because once i got up on stage with everyone staring, the silence deafening me, my body temperature just seemed to rocket, and i started playing it far too fast to do myself justice. and that was the worst part, i could bang out something really good (my music practical examiner commended me in particular on my improvisation) but i just flunked and ended up getting up, shrugging and walking off the stage after a minute or two. |
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NO NOT YET BUT I WILL PROBABLY DO SOME STUFF WITH IT THIS SUMMER WHEN I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY IT WITHOUT INFURIATING ALL MY NEIGHBOURS . |
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if you play in places with bad sound equipment that is usually a problem. |
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* saves the ultimate techno band photo * |
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or maybe bad sound engineers behind the desk... |
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great ! |
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fortunately, i don't think i've had any really awful experiences performing yet... a long time ago, when i was performing in an incredibly loud noise-rock band, i had a sound engineer who was a real cunt... and during the first couple of minutes after we started playing, he started yelling at us over his mic on the pa to turn it down. i mean, granted, the audience was in severe pain from all the feedback, but there was no way i was turning it down. so he came up onto the stage and started screaming right in my ear, demanding that i turn it down. i said yes just to get him to leave and pretended to turn down the volume. but i think he just gave up. most of the kids at the show actually had to leave the venue, but there was three or four who stayed and watched up front. that was really fun. |
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Nice. I think my first ever gig was terrible because we played greenday and nofx songs really badly. |
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I've never played a gig, bu tthe worst gig I ever went to has to be four tet.. I wonder how the fuck that analized asshole can ever ffel like he's done somethig nice when he's done... fuck him and his mother too! |
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what made it so bad? |
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i dunno whether this counts but i was going with a mate to see the foo fighters about 8 years ago, and we went for a few drinks beforehand, and a few drinks turned into a lots more drinks and we turned up and we'd missed the entire gig. |
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everything! it was just noisy pre-recorded crap and he had huge hair and this weird guy was breathing down my neck and there was noise. |
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I pretty much had that with Nirvana as we went two nights running and stayed in the pub the second night to avoid seeing Hole again, with disatrous booze based consequences. |
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once i saw the eels not that they were bad i was just so bored i spent the whole thing leaning against the wall and mustve read the miss kittin+hacker flier about 30 times |
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I'd rather have seen Nirvana than Foo Fighters any day. in fact, I had a ticket for the "in utero" tour when he went and topped himself. :( |
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you could've just left. |
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forgot to mention i'd already bought tickets |
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Just going on this thread, in order of preference Redrum's Blues / Jazz improv Nirvana Foo Fighters r40f's Noise band Skink's Green Day tribute CS2x's metal band Obara's Nirvana tribute Fourtet Hole |
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i saw kingmaker once. well, i didn't see them i was too busy getting drunk. in fact no-one was listening to them at all. i can still picture the drummers face when he realised it. haha. |
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Loz... Kingmaker, they were the worst of the fucking worst, yet they still had records out...... it'll be Thousand Yard Stare next. |
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The worst band I used to see were "The Darkside" who always mangaged to turn up third on the bill before, inevitably, Mega City Four. |
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Some great stories here. Strangely enough, I haven't had a bad experience live or missed any gigs before when going to see other artists. All the raves or live events I've seen have been really enjoyable. How much of that is down to the music and how much the drugs I don't know, but that's irrelevant anyway. ;) |
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I used to be in a band and have many horror stories. One time someone had taken the bass drum pedal just before we were about to start. Another time (the last time I believe) my amplifier just gave in on stage and there was no backup. This was the same gig where the venue managment had decided to enforce ID crap and about 80%+ of the friends we'd asked to come support us were thrown out. So yeah it was quiet in many ways :| depressing as hell, actually. |
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Me and a mate had this electro-band and we made an album. Actually, to say we is stretching it a bit, cause he made all the music and I told him which tunes were crap and/or semi-crap. Anyways, we were doing a releaseparty for the album in Oslo, and I was going to scratch over the music to give the pre-recorded set a "live" aspect. At the time I had quit the band, but he needed someone to talk into the mic and make an ass of himself onstage, so he thought he'd let me take part. We did a soundcheck, and the promoter acted up and said parts of the set was unacceptable and told us to play something from the album instead. We weren't going to argue and accepted the order, but we weren't too pleased about him dictating our gig. After some bitching backstage, we were ready to roll and started the set. I was going to introduce ourselves, but couldn't find any mic to do so. I thought I'd use the headset and plugged it into the mixer and started talking. First I talked intor the wrong cup, and when I realized the gain was too low. Someone in the crowd yelled, "I can't hear you!" , but the next track had already started and I just gave up. We had never rehearsed, so my scratching was just bits thrown in when I got bored standing on the stage doing nothing. After a while I gave that up to and just mimed some turntable tricks. I feel sorry for the guys who paid to see us... |
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All the problems I've ever had playing live have been with shitty in-house PA systems. They're either in mono and the asshole behind the board can't figure out why, or I can't hear myself. A lot of them can't handle bass well either. This displeases me. Now, I usually rent one for a day. Takes a little more time in the setup process, but I don't really care. |
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"We did a soundcheck, and the promoter acted up and said parts of the set was unacceptable and told us to play something from the album instead." Fuck all that. |
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Heh, that's how we look at the situation now, but at the time we were a bit scared, being the first time we played in a big city and all. And for the record, I could understand him, cause the tunes were shit, but he's still a cunt. |
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at a school talent show, i absolutely bombed playing f.o.d. by green day. our bus had gotten back late so we were rushed, wed only practiced once beofre, and for like 20 minutes, and i had just lost my voice (i was singing). the beginning where its all acoustic went fine, until the heavy guitars were supposed to come in. everyone was out of time, and you couldnt hear shit. about 30 seconds into that i just yelled into the mic "im telling you to fuck off and die. goodnight." and walked off stage. it was pretty fun. |
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my last gig i didnt invite anyone and there were no tickets. so it was a bit of a failure. |
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once i drove 2 hours out to Lansing was setting up all my gear and suddenly realized i forgot my pc oops. |
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I played my High School talent show my senior year. One YamahaRX-11 drum machine + one Boss DD-5 digital delay petal. The sound sucked. The music sucked. It was still awesome though. |
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haha, also you pissed qrter off a bit, i bet he likes them |
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I have a hundred horror stories. Something always goes wrong. I once had to take a 3 hour detour because of a chemical spill and missing my slot. I played tripping on acid once and was waaay too high to do it (this is when I swore off acid). I had something screw up in a set once and i ended up playing 1 loop for about 10 minutes straight. I was packing up my stuff afterward and there was a wadded up napkin someone had thrown at me that said "I payed 5 dollars, change the song!" - ouch. tons of mono problems and no monitor problems cleared a hundred floors.. wankers who want to talk about my setup and learn about what i am doing as i am doing it.. that is annoying. people who say "play something with words in it" people tripping over a power cable and switching off all your equipment slot mishaps forgetting mice/necessary cables having cables stolen next guy up plugs into your power strip and you have to leave.. IDM ladies and gentlemen. |
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The worst was my 8th grade musical. Somehow I managed to audition well enough for a part with a solo. I have an awful voice (not to mention a sexy wisGonsin accent). Well, you can guess how that went. I also missed my entrance because i was playing cards backstage. Oh well, i don't think the middle school audience cared. |
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I played bass for a neo-hippy who grabbed his crotch and belched a lot. He drank cooking sherry and fucked single moms. Aside from that it was okay. |
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