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Worst gig you've ever done
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Probably not the worst, but anyways, it was a truly bad gig as it simply didn't take place.
Day before: Exhausting gig in Cologne, lots of booze with some folks of the record company (so we couldn't say "pardon, we gonna leave very early in the morning").
Next day we were supposed to play somewhere near Dresden. Around a 600km ride. Nothing all that bad, especially as we were the headliner act on that small open air festival (supposed to play at 11pm) and because we started in Cologne around 9am. That's around 13 hours left for the ride... (soundcheck at 10.30am). We even thought we could have a swim in some lake in the afternnon or so.
Anyways, it came out to be like the hottest day in that summer and it was traffic jam all over the f**king route. 45° C in the bus, massive hangovers from the gig the day before... it wasn't much fun, but anyways, we still thought we'd have a good gig.
Took us all day long to arrive at the place just around in time (10.20 or so).
But then, hold on, we were allready wondering... it was almost night allready, there's been not much of a noise anywhere around either and the place has been suspiciously dark too. Not all that much people around anymore either.
Took us quite some minutes to find the local manager in all that darkness, and we were like "sorry for being late" and all that. Which wasn't the problem at all...
Now, what it all came out like was that the dude simply had forgotten to order ANY lights for this festival!
And mind you, it wasn't the first time this festival took place, it wasn't THAT small either... just seemed as if the dude had never organized ANYTHING like it ever before. I still wonder how the other folks involved (sound and rigging guys) couldn't have mentioned anything.
However, needless to say, the gig didn't take place. Fortunately we got paid at least.
Ironically, next days gig was rather close to Cologne again...
Btw, we had such or similar things a number of times.
Arrived at one place, no announcements, no people, a locked up venue, no people to ask, no hotel, just nothing.
Or the gig we had to force the location "manager" to hire a PA - he simply thought he could get away with "I'm sorry, there's not been enough interest in you" (how could there been... I mean, there's been NO announcements anywhere, no press, no posters, no nothing). We insisted that we WERE going to play and that he WAS getting us a PA anyways.
After the gig, that bloke tried to leave again without paying us... fortunately we could stop him.
Guess we've been looking angry enough, so we got our money.
Some week or so later the bills for the hotel and restaurant arrived at our booking agency (needless to say HE was supposed to pay both...).
Oh yes, and of course we had those gigs for a massive crowd of 1-5 persons as well - especially great if the places capacity is like for 2000 people.
Day before: Exhausting gig in Cologne, lots of booze with some folks of the record company (so we couldn't say "pardon, we gonna leave very early in the morning").
Next day we were supposed to play somewhere near Dresden. Around a 600km ride. Nothing all that bad, especially as we were the headliner act on that small open air festival (supposed to play at 11pm) and because we started in Cologne around 9am. That's around 13 hours left for the ride... (soundcheck at 10.30am). We even thought we could have a swim in some lake in the afternnon or so.
Anyways, it came out to be like the hottest day in that summer and it was traffic jam all over the f**king route. 45° C in the bus, massive hangovers from the gig the day before... it wasn't much fun, but anyways, we still thought we'd have a good gig.
Took us all day long to arrive at the place just around in time (10.20 or so).
But then, hold on, we were allready wondering... it was almost night allready, there's been not much of a noise anywhere around either and the place has been suspiciously dark too. Not all that much people around anymore either.
Took us quite some minutes to find the local manager in all that darkness, and we were like "sorry for being late" and all that. Which wasn't the problem at all...
Now, what it all came out like was that the dude simply had forgotten to order ANY lights for this festival!
And mind you, it wasn't the first time this festival took place, it wasn't THAT small either... just seemed as if the dude had never organized ANYTHING like it ever before. I still wonder how the other folks involved (sound and rigging guys) couldn't have mentioned anything.
However, needless to say, the gig didn't take place. Fortunately we got paid at least.
Ironically, next days gig was rather close to Cologne again...
Btw, we had such or similar things a number of times.
Arrived at one place, no announcements, no people, a locked up venue, no people to ask, no hotel, just nothing.
Or the gig we had to force the location "manager" to hire a PA - he simply thought he could get away with "I'm sorry, there's not been enough interest in you" (how could there been... I mean, there's been NO announcements anywhere, no press, no posters, no nothing). We insisted that we WERE going to play and that he WAS getting us a PA anyways.
After the gig, that bloke tried to leave again without paying us... fortunately we could stop him.
Guess we've been looking angry enough, so we got our money.
Some week or so later the bills for the hotel and restaurant arrived at our booking agency (needless to say HE was supposed to pay both...).
Oh yes, and of course we had those gigs for a massive crowd of 1-5 persons as well - especially great if the places capacity is like for 2000 people.
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- KVRist
- 59 posts since 21 Apr, 2005 from Uk
I did a wedding for a mate last night and the wanker never paid me. But it was not really a good mate he just took advantage.
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- KVRian
- 694 posts since 6 Aug, 2002 from London, UK
Second gig of the brilliantly (if I do say so myself) Mary-Joanna Experience.
We'd had a huge f**k-off argument during a last minute rehearsal and split into 2 halves - 4 of us were inches from walking completely.
The bassist (keys) decided to go for pizza and so we had to start without him; he turned up half-way through the first song.
The drummer hadn't eaten or slept since the day before and was incapable of keeping time...any time. He eventually got so pissed off at me glaring at him that he threw his sticks at me.
The trem block on my guitar cracked half way through the gig and so it wouldn't stay in tune for more than about 2 seconds.
The other guitarist broke his top E and couldn't work out how to play without it.
We had a CZ-101 leaning up against an amp for a guest synth player to pick up and play for one number: on putting it down after his piece, he kicked it over and broke the keyboard on it.
He then decided that the main synth/sampler player wasn't really playing anything and decided to pull random audio cables out for some un-f**king-known reason.
That was also the last gig of the brilliantly (if I do say so myself) Mary-Joanna Experience.
I did feel I had the moral high ground in the end by turning down payment for the gig because, apart from my (then) girlfriend and a friend of the lead singer, we'd completely emptied the bar.
We'd had a huge f**k-off argument during a last minute rehearsal and split into 2 halves - 4 of us were inches from walking completely.
The bassist (keys) decided to go for pizza and so we had to start without him; he turned up half-way through the first song.
The drummer hadn't eaten or slept since the day before and was incapable of keeping time...any time. He eventually got so pissed off at me glaring at him that he threw his sticks at me.
The trem block on my guitar cracked half way through the gig and so it wouldn't stay in tune for more than about 2 seconds.
The other guitarist broke his top E and couldn't work out how to play without it.
We had a CZ-101 leaning up against an amp for a guest synth player to pick up and play for one number: on putting it down after his piece, he kicked it over and broke the keyboard on it.
He then decided that the main synth/sampler player wasn't really playing anything and decided to pull random audio cables out for some un-f**king-known reason.
That was also the last gig of the brilliantly (if I do say so myself) Mary-Joanna Experience.
I did feel I had the moral high ground in the end by turning down payment for the gig because, apart from my (then) girlfriend and a friend of the lead singer, we'd completely emptied the bar.