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Thought i'd share a truly embarrassing moment with you, coz i'm bored, in the hope of hearing some of your music related (or not) embarrassing moments see if you can trump me

I was in Stoke on Trent, recording at a studio up there back in 2001 (i think) staying in a hotel near the studio, hotel bars as far as i know have to stay open for as long as there are people buying drinks, we were keeping that place open till stupid o'clock every night

Anyway, i thought it would be a good idea, along with putting chairs in front of all the urinals (looked funnier than you think) to serenade the bar girl there, so i grabbed my guitar, strolled over with all my band mates and crew/manager watching, pulled up a chair, was gonna sit on it but the bar is high and chair was not so i sat on the back of the chair with my feet on the cushiony bit, y'know what i mean, took one swipe at my guitar, fell backwards off the chair, landed HARD on my back and smashed myself in the face with the guitar. there's no way to style that out, or look remotely cool with an instantly swollen lip! God thats really brought it back! (CRINGE)!!!!!

Not bad.

In my former band, I did all our marketing, and one of the things I started was a "Babe of the Month" promotion. We had some hot girls become Babes of the Month. In fact, the last two I approved, had BOTH been in Playboy... one was a Playmate!

I was proud of how I got that kind of interest in my band, and associating the Playboy name with our rising Southern Rock band!

But after selecting the Playboy Models, something got my attention. I noticed some comments made about a PREVIOUS babe of the month's pictorial on our site, from one of her friends.

Turned out, "she" was a tranny!

I got "her" award and pictorial removed from our site faster than the Federal Government spends your tax dollars!

Personally, I have no problem with trannies impressing themselves with how close they fool people, into believing they are fully something, they aren't... but Geezus... We were a muther f*cking SOUTHERN ROCK BAND!!!

That sh*t was NOT going to fly!

LMAO!!!

My bandmates didn't let me live that down for MONTHS!

"Well yeah Craig, you're right... I HAVE flubbed up my lead on the last 3 shows... But at least I know a tranny when I see one!"

*The band spits up their beer, and laughs their asses off!*

Haha!!!! that is funny, but don't feel too bad, we've all been fooled by one at some point i'm sure, i know i have, just glad it's always been a pic in some magazine and not when i got 'it' home

Iain Hamilton wrote:Haha!!!! that is funny, but don't feel too bad, we've all been fooled by one at some point i'm sure, i know i have, just glad it's always been a pic in some magazine and not when i got 'it' home

I heard that!

(singing) "I know all there is to know about the crying game..."

Here's one for ya. Being the front man of the band and having a sense of humor, I come up with little comebacks for the crowd, usually off the top of my head, but some I use again and again. For instance when someone yells "Freebird" I'll flip them off and say "No charge" and that gets 'em laughing, or if they yell "AC DC", I say "Can't sing like that...still got both balls".
Well, we were playing a late night club in Hot Springs, AR and this woman was drunk and dancing to every song, either with someone or by herself. She'd come up and make requests and if we knew them, we'd play them and if we didn't know them, I'd try to say something funny and then play something else and she'd dance anyway. She came up once and requested some Def Leppard and we weren't doing any at the time so I said, "Can't play any...our drummer won't let us cut his arm off." and we played something else and she just kept dancing.
The next morning when we got up at the band house, we were sitting watching some TV and the drummer and bassist said, "Man, I can't believe you said that to that lady when she requested Def Leppard, and I said, "Why not?" and they said, "You didn't notice? She was missing an arm."
The next night we were playing there again, and she was there again, sure enough missing an arm...and she danced to every song that night too.

Wow... LOL

Yeah, that would be embarrassing!

But... On the other hand, I know there are many "handicapped" people, who actually prefer not being treated with kid gloves, and will crack more jokes about themselves, than we would even know existed.

So it's probably hit or miss.

Doesn't seem like she took offense though.

ratsass wrote:Here's one for ya. Being the front man of the band and having a sense of humor, I come up with little comebacks for the crowd, usually off the top of my head, but some I use again and again. For instance when someone yells "Freebird" I'll flip them off and say "No charge" and that gets 'em laughing, or if they yell "AC DC", I say "Can't sing like that...still got both balls".
Well, we were playing a late night club in Hot Springs, AR and this woman was drunk and dancing to every song, either with someone or by herself. She'd come up and make requests and if we knew them, we'd play them and if we didn't know them, I'd try to say something funny and then play something else and she'd dance anyway. She came up once and requested some Def Leppard and we weren't doing any at the time so I said, "Can't play any...our drummer won't let us cut his arm off." and we played something else and she just kept dancing.
The next morning when we got up at the band house, we were sitting watching some TV and the drummer and bassist said, "Man, I can't believe you said that to that lady when she requested Def Leppard, and I said, "Why not?" and they said, "You didn't notice? She was missing an arm."
The next night we were playing there again, and she was there again, sure enough missing an arm...and she danced to every song that night too.