I wanna read some of the strangest musical experience to date..

[ntbCreative]

Ok...
heres a good one and it should put some smiles or our faces and a chuckle here and there...
I want to know the weirdest,strangest most bizzare musical experience you have encountered....
heres mine...
cant remeber when but about 7 or 8 yrs a go i got a call from a buddy who need me to sub for him...being a musical slut i took the gig...i have bills to pay.
i get to the guys house...gear was provided and we started to jam out some tunes...kinda like hendrix in montreaux meets the who....chaotic...but it was cool..
we went over a few tunes for our 45 min slot and i was charting out form while just keeping time...a few things didnt add up but i just put a big ? on the chart (left for my own interpretation). we went over the tunes again and i was a bit suspicious of the way the bass and guitarist were playing their instruments but overlooked it cause...$100 is $100.....lol
anyhoo....after we hacked through the set we said "see ya at the gig...good work"....and i went home...the gig was the next day in toronto at a bar called "the 360"
i get there early ...have a few beers and relax...look over my charts and wait for the guys...we were 4th slot out of 6 bands...so i waited through 2 bands wondering if they were gonna show...they did about 10 min before we were supose to go on...lol
we get on stage...i sit on the kit...adjust a few things and then we start to hack through the tunes...it was a mess...lol...but we were gettin through it with me drivin the big bus plowing through everything....all of a sudden...they both stop and switch instruments...i was like "what the f..." but $100 is $100....lol
so we satrted to hack even more through the tunes...then we had 20 min left in the slot so they both stop leave the stage and go outside...what the f!!!..
those bastards left me on stage by myself in front of a fair sized crowd...i turned various shades of red...lol
so i have no idea what to do..so i play some house grooves and hope the guys catch on and salvage the gig...i played the groove for 5 min and then said" screw it..." left the stage to look for the guys...they proceeded to tell me that their instruments were out of tune and that the trafic on the street was distracting so its taking some time to hear the guitar between cars passing by...ever hear of a stage tuner?...lmfao!!!
they then proceeded to tell me "dont worry...youll get paid...its our 45 min slot...we own this stage time"...then the proceeded to smoke a joint the size of my leg...lol
at that point i just said screw it and took a toke and gave up. we then got on satge with 5 min to go and hacked even worse through the tunes...instead of being pissed off i had a good buzz and couldnt stop lauging because of their antics on stage..jumping around like idiots...no time or melody...me doing a qusi keith moon thing..
we finnished the set with some uncertain applause and made sure noone our their knew who i was...thank god...lol
after i grabbed my stuff a few people said "would like to hear you play with some guys who know how to play"...i just chuckled and said it would just be a good story for the future...lol
i found the guys who were stoned and drunk and said.."ok...that was the most interesting and strange experience ever....can i be paid now....please".....he said he had no $...i was not happy....we found his friend and between them they put together $50 (kinda like the scene in fast times when jeff spicolli was lookin for change in the 9-11 store..lol)..i just said "dont worry about other $50.."they said cool and that they would make it up next time...i said "with all due respect...i cant see a next time in the future"....took a last sip of my beer and split...it turns out that the $100 that turnrd into $50 was worth the experience cause i have made other musicians piss their pants with is strange but true story..lol
what a crazy gig....lol
now your turn....i wanna hear wacky!!!
Cheers!!!

[S.P]

damn man that is wacky...!

[Morgenthaler]

Great funny stuff!

The weirdest gig I ever played was a birthday gig. A girl from highschool had given us (my old party-funk band) a call about us playing at her dad's 50th birthday, something we would love to do, and so we cut her a good deal for old times sake. I personally asked her a few times if she thought that this would be a good audience for Mothers Finest/Living Colour type funk, and she said: Yeah you guys are the best! OK then...

We arrived....sat up our gear and went out for something to eat. Hours later we returned..went on stage and when the curtain was raised, we stared out into 80 old men, all of them with their breefcases next to their chairs, and kinda stiff, busines-like looking. We played the first track....TOTAL silence...second track...TOTAL silence...Not any response whatsoever from the all male audience. We continued to play one more song, and then asked if they would really like us to continue...Birthdayboy said.."Please no, this is not our style"...payed us our money, and we went home. I tell you playing your ass off for close to 100 people who don't say a word is pretty damn weird!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 23, 2006 05:29 AM: Message edited by: Jeppe Morgenthaler ]</font>

[DeSeipel]

here's a wacky story:

Me & my brother got hired to play this birthday party for some chick. We were both around 18 at the time and the party was out in B.F.E., redneck county (where I'm from, lol). Anyway we get there and we're literally setup in a barn.

I should back track a bit, we grew up on stuff like Soundgarden, RAge, STP, ...grunge.

So we start playing and it's going real good, one of the highlights was "jesus christ pose", but I digress.

the night wears on, and during the break everyone is pretty lit (from the 7 kegs of PBR or Millwaukee's Best or some fuct beer). This guy shows up with a fiddle.. not a violin mind you. If we were in chicago or champaign, IL it would have been called a violin, but out there in BFE it was a fiddle. So the chick's dad stumbles over and proceeds to tell us and I quote,

"..you guys better start playing some country, or you aint gettin paid.."

So when we get back on stage, this fiddle player gets up there and we 'train-wreck' through "devil went down to georgia", one of those tunes that, despite all my skill, was an absolute wreck, and I cringed all the way through it. However the fiddle player was quite good, lol.

Long story short, everyone got too drunk to care and we had a good, wacky time.

I'll try to dig up some more stories...

[cjbdrm]

"..you guys better start playing some country, or you aint gettin paid.."

Dude that is fickin' hilarious! LOL [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]