General Music Chat

"I swear it was the drummer"...

My band was playing this dive bar in Somerville (just outside Boston) every Saturday night. We'd long since given up getting our friends to come EVERY weekend, so most often we were playing to an almost-empty room, and the only money made from the $2 door charge was going towards beer.

One night, after a break between sets, the drummer comes back on stage and says "now I remember why I should always wear underwear with white pants" - obviously a leak/splash problem when he went to the mens room, and now had a big yellow blotch on the front of his pants for the rest of the night.

underwear stories...

played a gig way back when. it's last set and a young lady was suggestively dancing in front of me. after awhile she reaches under her skirt to remove her panties. she then placed them over the headstock of my bass, thinking this was gonna mess w my head. w/o missing a beat i removed them from the headstock and donned them as a beret. everybody was laughing pretty good.

after a cpl of songs like that w my new chapeau, she asked for them back. i politely explained they were the band's property now, and passed them back to the drummer who then donned them on his head beret style. as you would guess, yes....everybody in the band took a turn.

not sure what eventually happened to them ...we were all pretty altered. i think maybe they went home in the drummer's trap case.

Great story. Thanks.PG.
Actually let me say there many great stories. Thanks for sharing them.

Hi guys, fun stories.
We are playing at a race track next weekend in Desert Center CA. It is about 40 mi from Blythe... just west of Hell.

Here is my crazy gig from last October:

Guy emails and wants to know if we are free next Saturday for a gig in town. Yes, what are the details? An anniversary party for his parents and he wants a band that does 60s tunes, 2 hours @ $650. He found the right band!

Three days later he wants to know if we can do a few request songs. Sure what do you want? Well, his parent's favorite song is "Hush" by Herman's Hermits... but they also like to clog so can we work in Foggy Mtn Breakdown, Cajun Moon, Red Haired Boy, Orange Blossom Special? Ummmm, Hush we can do but the rest are bluegrass shred tunes that would require many hours in the woodshed to pull off. We just don't have enough time to work up these hot tunes. Ok that will be fine.

We arrive at his place on time and he directs us to the "stage" which is a wooden structure approximately 10'x10' and is still covered with 1 ft of leaves. In fact the whole yard and the pool are covered in leaves. Landmark anniversary party, zero preparation. We find a few rakes and rake the stage as well as a path from the stage through the bridal path to our cars and begin load-in. A 4 piece band with full drum kit, keys, guitar, and bass crammed onto a 10'x10' postage stamp.

We finish setup just in time as the vow renewal is done indoors and we start our set as folks wade out through the sea of leaves. We played a quick 90 minutes of our best stuff including the signature Hermits song to rousing applause and our client thanks us and says that we made his night and we are done. As we wander back to our cars in the dark we get a nice tip from him and many thanks again for being the highlight of the night. Home by 9pm, wallet is a bit heavier, and my band mates are all looking at me like "what just happened?".

A "take the money and run gig" for sure!

CAJUN...

That is a great story!

Damn we all have a life history. Thanks for sharing. Love your music and Pics.

Thanks Glenn, now you got me started:

Many moons ago we played a wedding reception for a Lebanese family in one of the ballrooms on the Queen Mary Long Beach CA. Elegant room, nice stage with good lighting and acoustics. They built that ship with no expense spared. So after the meal and formalities, the night transitions to music and dancing. The wine and champagne are flowing and these folks know how to PARTY! We are having a blast with this group and expect to play into the wee hours.

Unbeknown to the adults, two 14 yr old lads got ahold of a wine bottle or two and took a tour of the ship while proceeding to get totally sheetfaced. When they reached the bow they had no inhibitions left and one dared the other to dive off the Queen Mary bow into the (shallow) harbor below. Yep, both of them went over and the splashes alerted the crew who promptly called harbor patrol. The lads were apparently too drunk to hurt themselves from the fall and were promptly fished-out and escorted to the ballroom where the Harbor patrolman came to the mic and asked to speak to the parents of these two dripping wet Navy Seal commandos. Party over, parents were cited, everybody had to leave the ship pronto.

Out in the parking lot my band mates looked at me like "What just happened?"

Sometimes.............
You can't just make this stuff up. Very funny story. (of course not at the time).

I really could do a dozen of these every day until the sun burns out


But about a week ago I went to an open mic in Greenville that I'd never been to. Did 3 songs and got an encore. When I did that last song, a few girls got out on the dance floor and started shaking it. One of them had a fall, and when she did her dress went up and she had nothing underneath. The way she was facing, I was the only person who could have seen but she didn't know that I did.

After putting up my guitar, I went over and told her what a nice hootchie she has. Love 'em shaved. She gave me her number...hahaha