EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l4LNLcktQY 2:14 I remember watching this live and wincing... and then when the solo came, I thought, come on Huey, let that bee in the jam jar go! Any memorable gaffs you want to share? Quote
stingrayPete1977 Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 You have witnessed most of mine live mate! Were you at The Varsity when Andy fell off the stage reaching for his beer and took the tuners off the Les Paul? Quote
chris_b Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Not saying anything. I'm just glad most of my toe curlers happened before mobile phones, camcorders and YouTube. Quote
EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1424889302' post='2701632'] You have witnessed most of mine live mate! Were you at The Varsity when Andy fell off the stage reaching for his beer and took the tuners off the Les Paul? [/quote] Wasn't there - I think the first time I saw you with Andy was at the Bull and Gate down in sweet old Kentish Town! Some crazy bands on the bill if I remember. Can remember seeing you at the Little Civic too. Can't remember if I actually saw you at the Varsity or not!? Quote
EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 `Madonna. Brits. That's all. Quote
stingrayPete1977 Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 Really? 13 times we played there, there was a goof every time! Quote
EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1424905214' post='2701883'] Really? 13 times we played there, there was a goof every time! [/quote] I think I saw you at the Varsity. Can't remember. Think the last time I was in the Varsity was when I was in there with the 'zon. Quote
EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 A classic. And (almost) everybody already knows the lyrics! Quote
EBS_freak Posted February 25, 2015 Author Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1424905375' post='2701889'] Alphabet song! [/quote] Just for you Pete... [url="https://soundcloud.com/rh_music/the-alphabet"]https://soundcloud.c...ic/the-alphabet[/url] (apologies for the cack recording... I can't even remember anything about this recording!) Edited February 25, 2015 by EBS_freak Quote
chriswareham Posted February 25, 2015 Posted February 25, 2015 I fell off stage at my first London gig in the now defunct Moonlight Club. Overcome with excitement at being on the same stage that had once featured Joy Division, I misjudged the edge of the stage thanks to too much dry ice ... Quote
JTUK Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Drunken Violin player got caught up in his leads on a very poorly cabled stage and had the choice of putting his arms out to break his fall...which meant his very expensive violin and bow would take the hit, or land on his chin. He took the chin and the thump went thru the P.A. Me and the drummer cracked up and lost time... and were laughing right the way to the end on the song. The singer saw the funny side of it but did wonder what the hell as going on.. The gig was recorded so we played it back on audio and it became stuff of legend. The drunk vioin player wasn't finshed for the night either but that is another story. Quote
gelfin Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Saw Chris Squire trip on a cable at a gig in Cardiff. Went down face first, held his bass close and used his elbows to protect it. Successfully. Heroic. Quote
deepbass5 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Playing in more than one band. Sweet Caroline I play the intro. But the two bands do the song a tone apart. So i did my intro and you should have seen the look on our guitarist face when he came in oops wrong band Quote
MiltyG565 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 At my sister's wedding, I messed up and missed a chord. That was embarrassing. Also, at A level exams, I was playing bass, and my friend was playing guitar. We had learned a song, but through the week she'd been to see her guitar teacher, who (for some reason) told her to capo at the second fret, but she never told me this before our exam. Exam time comes, and I'm inexplicably a tone out! I was fuming. In my ineptitude, I faltered and stumbled through the rest of the song. Thankfully, the examiner was more inept, and never even noticed anything had gone wrong. Drama types Quote
MiltyG565 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Also, years back now, I saw Madonna play the BRITs, and she was dressed like Cruella De Ville and hand a bunch of demon goat dancers, and one of them grabbed her cape and Madonna landed on her arse! Oh, how we laughed at the time. Mind you, this was in the days before the internet, so it wasn't immediately talked about everywhere. Quote
barneyg42 Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Car crash tv!!!! http://youtu.be/F1JIe8Zlvr4 Quote
BobVbass Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 (edited) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9vFSqXu6XI"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9vFSqXu6XI[/url] The famous Parfiit falling over the drum set on TOTP - Rick says he did it on purpose these days but I remember watching this live and cracking up .... Edited February 27, 2015 by BobVbass Quote
Roland Rock Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Duff duffs it up at 2:40 http://youtu.be/ogxmYA3l6DA Quote
ubit Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 [quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1425027752' post='2703011'] Duff duffs it up at 2:40 http://youtu.be/ogxmYA3l6DA [/quote] That's nothing, our guitarist does that all the time! Quote
Count Bassy Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 [quote name='deepbass5' timestamp='1424993563' post='2702864'] Playing in more than one band. Sweet Caroline I play the intro. But the two bands do the song a tone apart. So i did my intro and you should have seen the look on our guitarist face when he came in oops wrong band [/quote] There is a live, published, recording of Roger Chapman and the Shortlist where the song starts with the bass setting (slow) groove. After a couple of phrases it shifts up the a third and you can distinctly here the guitarist say "thank you". Quote
BigRedX Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 [quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1425027752' post='2703011'] Duff duffs it up at 2:40 [media]http://youtu.be/ogxmYA3l6DA[/media] [/quote] To be fair he doesn't make it easy for himself using that clunky bolt-on neck bass. Quote
wateroftyne Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 Have we done what happens if you play the backing track back at the wrong sample rate yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx_GjyXCs4 Quote
Chest Rockwell Posted February 27, 2015 Posted February 27, 2015 i played a gig with my 2nd band (which I've now left) and broke a string during the early part of the tune. Whipped out the dead string, jumped off stage like a trooper, restrung it on the fly, tuned up and came back in for the last 1/4... something wasn't right though and I was getting stern looks from the band... I couldn't tell (I'm a bit thick when it comes to fine tuning with everyone playing) after nearly a minute I realised I'd tuned it to a drop tuning which I use in my other band, but this one is standard . got it back in for about 1 minute of tune. I nearly sacked myself! Quote
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