Basschat Awards: Gigging in the face of Adversity

[Happy Jack]

Clarky and I have decided that we don't have enough ... erm ... better make that "any" medals.

I hereby nominate Clarky for a Basschat Insanity Award for playing his first-ever DB gig just two weeks after breaking his left hand.

I will also take this opportunity to nominate myself (hey, it's my Topic, I make the rules, OK?) for a Basschat Anti-Depping Award for playing with two different bands at an all-day charity event three weeks after breaking my leg in two places.

Anyone else care to come up with some other nominations?

Or at least second these?

[geoffbyrne]

I'll third it if you can get a seconder!!!!










No. Seconded. OK?

G.

[Delberthot]

me for still playing a gig the very same day as I was in a car accident and had to wear one of those collar things for whiplash.

TNiT for being the cause of so many locked threads in one day despite not contributing to any of them

[Stingray5]

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='1054808' date='Dec 11 2010, 11:19 AM']I'll third it if you can get a seconder!!!!




No. Seconded. OK?

G.[/quote]
In that case, thirded!

[Musky]

Waynepunkdude must deserve an award for gigging with a band the same day it formed!

[Mr Fudge]

I played the day after my vasectomy

[rOB]

[quote name='Musky' post='1055571' date='Dec 12 2010, 12:18 AM']Waynepunkdude must deserve an award for gigging with a band the same day it formed![/quote]

agreed. Very impressive

[Raggy]

Without wanting to sound like a crawly bum lick.

I'd like to nomimnate an award to the Basschat Mods for putting up with us bunch of reprobates.

Firm but fair.

[Cat Burrito]

Rivalling Mr. Fudge, I gigged during my cancer treatment and chemo last year. In fact I dragged my upright bass up to London for a couple of those shows which was no mean feat. Silly bugger that I am.

[fatback]

[quote name='Mr Fudge' post='1055609' date='Dec 12 2010, 01:32 AM']I played the day after my vasectomy [/quote]

I'll second this one. Eeeeh

[Gareth Hughes]

I played a gig a few days after breaking my collarbone. Thankfully it was my right one, so my strap hung on my left shoulder - but I still had to have help getting my bass over my head. Also played a show with such a rotten head cold that both my ears were blocked, making my already dodgy upright intonation that much worse. To make it more fun I got a serious nosebleed during the intermission that delayed the second half. The bleeding didn't stop on it's own so I had to go onstage with a big wad of reddening toilet paper wedged up one nostril. To make things even better was that this was a tux and tie gig, backing three tenors - so very la dee daa.

Can I get a Darwin award?

[leschirons]

Here's mine although, as I wasn't injured or ill at the time, it may not count.

2 years ago at our local music festival, I supplied the bass rig, drums and P.A, and mixed two of the 6 bands. Was there for a total of 14 hours and in between, played a set with my band (bass) then with a blues band (lead guitar) a French pop rock band (bass) another French rock band on drums and slotted in a lead guitar solo for a solo keyboard player.

All these buggers turned up with someone missing on the day?? Only in France.

Do I win £5?

[Happy Jack]

Versatility doesn't win you medals - just ask Phil Neville.

[E sharp]

Gigged a few days after my circumcision . Loading up afterwards , felt the blood trickling down my leg .

Sounds worse that it actually was , so I don't requires a medal , just a mention in despatches will do

[leschirons]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1056272' date='Dec 12 2010, 07:06 PM']Versatility doesn't win you medals - just ask Phil Neville. [/quote]

Fair play, I'll post again when I've broken a leg.

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Musky' post='1055571' date='Dec 12 2010, 12:18 AM']Waynepunkdude must deserve an award for gigging with a band the same day it formed![/quote]


Haha cheers, although I think my best moment was 4 gigs in 4 days with 4 bands 3 of them I'd never played with before.



That didn't make me sound conseated at all...

[phil.i.stein]

i happen to be the one-string massdebater.

[mrtcat]

Our singer did a gig last month after having a colonoscopy 2hrs before going on stage. He couldn't stand upright so we propped him on a stool with a cushion and he had to wear a grown up nappy to catch leakages.

[Clarky]

[quote name='mrtcat' post='1057054' date='Dec 13 2010, 11:07 AM']we propped him on a stool[/quote]

That was a bit ironic wasn't it?

[mrtcat]

lol

[Jase]

I gigged after burying my dad!

[lowdown]

I shot off the morning after my wedding to go on tour overseas for 4 weeks, my Father in-law even drove me to Birmingham airport.
He likes me these days though, even though he has advanced Alzheimer's and can not remember who i am!




Garry

[ThomBassmonkey]

I once did a gig where I was so ill, I had to lean against the wall for the entire set, they had to jam for a couple of minutes at the start ofr me to get off the toilet and we only cut one song off at the end so I could go back to the toilet again.

[Raggy]

I was once sick in my mouth during a gig halfway through a song.

Though it was down to the amount of booze I had consumed the night before though.

[jakenewmanbass]

I once vomited in the toilet at the side of the stage during a big solo piano feature, and got back onstage to finish the set with the taste making me feel even worse... it was on an extremely rough crossing of the bay of biscay and the theatre lounge being in the bows of the ship was going up and down like a good un, 40-60 feet rise and fall whilst holding a double bass and trying to put on a show under the hot lights etc all conspired to give me my one and only bout of sea sickness. Blegh
I definitely deserve some sort of recognition for that little episode.

Edited December 13, 2010 by jakesbass