Your most embarrasing moment as a musician

[CanyonCarver]

Tell us about a fucked up gig you had.
Tell us about your drummer giving you a wedgie in front of 2000 people as you played your solo.
Tell us about how you tripped over your guitar wire, unplugging your amp. Tell us how you forgot your guitar at home and carried an empty hard case to an important audition for a major Metal band that is now touring the world without you, making tons of money and screwing barely legal gals from California to Nebraska.

Just a thought. Now let's hear it! [img]images/smilies/icon_jam.gif[/img]

[ericgtr]

Once, we were playing a country gig and our bass player was late so I sat down on the drums and played bass with my hands while the singer played rythm and sang. We did a couple of little two step numbers so I could go boom chuck chuck boom chuck chuck with the bass drum and hi hat. Everyone was laughing at us and I wanted to kill the bass player, he finally showed up after a couple of songs. For those of you who don't know I was as much a drummer as guitarists, it's just been a few years since I played the skins.

[Wolfman]

Hmm... not to many truly embarrassing stories, but I could come up with more than a few funny ones.


Here's something close to an embarrassing one though. When I was starting to get a little bit of a reputation as a hot young player in high school, I actually had a group of older guys ask me to audition for their locally known band. This was the 80's and these guys were a typical metal cover band with the name "Python" or "predator" or something like that. ( [img]images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img] LOL ). Anyway, I knew the guy that was their bass player because he had gone to school with my sister adn I think some of her friends had tipped him off to me when they came over to see her and heard me playing in the next room.


These guys had done their own basement videos that resembled the VH promo vids of You Really Got me, Runnin' With The Devil, and Jamie's Cryin' and everything. They had me over to his house to watch the videos, and then he came and picked me up a few days later to audition.

Now, at the time, my rig consisted of a Washburn, A-10, a little Peavey combo and a cheap-ass DOD distortion pedal. [img]images/smilies/icon_redface.gif[/img] The guy I knew (Phil) told me they would have a marshall for me to play through, which totally blew me away. It would be the first time I had played through one, and I was stoked. So, they have a rented-out rehearsal space on what used to be an unofficial drag strip here in town. Matter of fact, that spot is full of businesses today and people still refer to it as the drag strip.

Anyway, I walk in and two guys stuck out to me pretty fast. First, their singer looked like the big ugly blond fucker from the Sean Penn movie "Bad Boys". (You know, the guy that tried to take Penn up the cornholio and later had his nose busted with the coke cans in the pillowcase [img]images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif[/img] ). This guy was actually scary to me - he was everything a lead singer for a metal band should be - intimidating like Brian Johnson of AC/DC, good vocal chops, definitely looked the part. The other one that stuck out to me was the lead guitar player, a guy named Tony that worked in a pizzeria (wait till you hear the name...LOL ) that my friends and I used to hit after school to play video games. He looked like Vito Bratta of White Lion (who weren't even around yet) and used to sit behind the counter with his black Les Paul all the time instead of working. So I see him and go "Hey man, I know you from 'J.J. Jinglebottoms' ! " (Told you the name was a winner) A couple of the guys kind of laugh and he just kind oif sneers and goes "uhh..yeah, man". LOL

Well, I plug in and we start going through stuff like Motley Crue's "Looks That Kill", some AC/DC stuff, maybe some Ratt. Well, the rig was so hot compared to what I was used to, and it kept feeding back on me like crazy. I was totally embarrassed and couldn't concentrate for shit after that. They said to just ignore it and play the way I normally would. They were nice guys, really. Phil drives me home and when he pulls up to my house, he gets out a photo album of them gigging and stuff, and he talks to me for a bit. He was cool enough to tell me that he didn't think it was going to work out, but that I was going to be a great player and to keep at it, and that maybe I should come back sometime in a few months. At least he let me down easy, but it was a totally humbling experience.

[Mondy]

Everytime I post a clip of my playing dude...

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[CanyonCarver]

Mondola, LOL!

[Coyote]

Well, this didn't happen to me, but the singer.

We were doing a gig in a bar, a lot of friends & relatives there (brothers and sisters mainly). We'd just gotten through a few songs, and we started to play "Die, Die My Darling". The place went crazy. So crazy, that a couple crashed into the singer (we were playing on ground level), and the three of them landed in the drums. No major damage to neither the drums or the threesome. Our singer would've punched the guy, but he was the bass-players sister's fiancé. Execpt for that, it was an ok gig.

[Rob]

Gee, there were so many! There was the time we had a packed club and our drummer, who was boozing waaaaay tooo much, passed out cold during "UNCHAINED"!
Another time, this same drummer and our bass player had an argument inbetween songs that turned into a shouting match. Meanwhile, my singer and I are just mortified! I packed my shit while they'd yelled at each other and left!