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Post by TJ on Jan 30, 2006 11:34:56 GMT -5
Fayetteville.
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Post by Hacksaw on Jan 30, 2006 11:36:33 GMT -5
LMAO... yes.. and there was a bar up north central Oklahoma Kansas line called the State line. chicken wire, dirt floor. what a dive.. the other guitarist wore a japanese flag shirt, ( the guys only 4'10') red spandex, it was all we could do to keep him from gettin beat up ever 10 minutes.. that was the roughest crowd we ever had , especially for us long haired rockers LMAO.. I still dont know how we ended up with that booking! oh geez...sounds like that other guitarist had a death wish..lol Ya he did! about got the whole band beat up.. happened more than just that gig. he liked that style.. a lot of hard core USA folks didnt like it. |
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Post by Hacksaw on Jan 30, 2006 11:38:57 GMT -5
Cool, let me know next time you around and I will attend.. we had a few informal jams with Smiley died, you know of them? they are from around your area. I think they broke up recently. |
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Post by TJ on Jan 30, 2006 11:41:13 GMT -5
I don't know them personally but I've seen the name around. I haven't seen them playing around in a long time.
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Post by Hacksaw on Jan 30, 2006 11:46:32 GMT -5
I don't know them personally but I've seen the name around. I haven't seen them playing around in a long time. yes, its been just over a year since we jammed with them at the practice pad across the street.. it has been a while.. man time is slidin fast. I think they are doing a jazz thing with a metal guitarist now.. sounds very unbalanced. LOL.... |
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Post by Pageplayer on Jan 30, 2006 21:14:43 GMT -5
I remember a gig where we opened up with Toys in the Attic.. Our drummer had a case of stage fright and starts playin the tune at like half tempo!!! Very embarrassing..
One other time at a differant gig, We opened with Them Bones by Alice in Chains... My amp was set on the clean channel, and I couldn't switch it to OD cause the footswitch was busted!!! Lots of fun.. Makes me smile to think back on it now...
But I know there are more bad gigs to come....
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Post by Hacksaw on Jan 30, 2006 21:19:20 GMT -5
Welcome to the board pageplayer. haha stage fright, theres a thread topic right there! I had a drummer, they guy had to p*ss 3 or 4 times within 15 minutes of show time LOL... cracked us up.. at least we knew where to find him!
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 1, 2006 10:03:50 GMT -5
You're HOB gig sounds about right; in my experience alot of those "cool" shows are jokes in how they're run. At least 50% of the time when we've done shows like that we've gotten no sound check, lots of times not even a line check. I'm talking the "put your amp on stage, plug in and hope to god everything works" kind of lameness where you can't even turn your amp ON before you start your first song. Shoot, we've got videos of that crap on my bands site to make things worse (www68guns.net). I'll never get why so many "big" venues are run by retards.
Anyway, I know exactly what you mean when you feel you can't even play because the sound is so screwed, I've gotten totally thrown out of my game with that, felt foolish, it sucks. Like I said, I've got video to prove it! I envy people who can play through anything, I'm very dependant on being in the right place so to speak.
Once we were opening up for Led Zepagain at a pretty big HOB type venue and the club said they were out of drum mics so they said our drummer "just needed to play loud". I objected politely to a couple of the "engineers", we mic drums even at small club gigs, but the idiots in charge who blew me off. After a little of that, I said f*** this, I'd rather get my stuff offstage and go home if we weren't going to be given a chance to sound good, and then somehow they suddenly found a bunch of mics. And we're a band that's known and has a pretty big draw, we were ASKED to be on the bill! 90% of house sound guys are complete idiots.
And also, I saw George Lynch at that same club when he was opening for Yngwie, and HE didn't even get a line check, nothing. Needless to say his band sounded HORRIBLE, so bad he got through half the set, cussed the sound guys out over the mic and walked off.
Anyway, sorry bud, chalk it up to experience, learn from it. It does happen to EVERYONE if you're fortunate enough to make it out of your bedroom.
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Post by DonaldDemon on Feb 1, 2006 10:20:54 GMT -5
hey morecowbell,
thanks for sharing the stories, it feels better to know that this is a normal occurrence! I have had the same experience with every "important" show we have had as well. I am very much like you where I just can't get it together when the sound is screwed. I used to be much more anal and would get messed up if everything didn't sound great but I soon learned that you MUST learn to accept the fact that it will almost never sound great and usually will sound poor when dealing with soundguys.
I realize how important it is to be able to play through anything and most important to remember that you sound fine to the general non-musician audience. Even when I was out in the crowd after the show, I noticed the band sounded ok out there but on stage everyone is bitching. I did get a few comments that our drums were really low but on stage, man...they just were gone! When I hit thatfirst note I was like...uh-oh, now what?
Live and learn I guess?
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