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Dwight Mark
From:
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2002 2:30 am |
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Thought it might be fun to share some onstage nightmares.
I just got home from a gig. Usually when my band takes a break, I get up and play a solo set. I had friends there, so I got out my Weissenborn and went into Cream's "Politician". After the second verse, the high string broke. I managed my way through the song and then went to replace the string, but the string broke at the endpin and the endpin had popped out - nowhere in sight! Even after we packed up, I never found it on the stage. I never thought to carry extra bridgepins. It was quite a bummer.
So anyone have some good onstage stories to share?
Dwight |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 30 Nov 2002 3:11 am
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The band I play with is a nightmare all by itself..
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Chris Forbes
From:
Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2002 4:24 am
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| HA HA!! Tony, I've worked with that band too!!! |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 30 Nov 2002 5:53 am
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No, but I just woke up this morning from an actual nightmare in which I was about to go onstage for a solo show and when I sat down at the steel and looked at my set list... I didn't recognize any of the song titles! Actually, it was worse than that: I had made the setlist up using new software and the software didn't even print the songtitles; it just printed the names of the song writers/composers, and I didn't recognize any of them! Showtime!
(Too bad my wife woke me up before I could see how this movie ends; now I'm kinda curious if I woulda played "Bud's Bounce", "Mansion on the Hill", "Steel Guitar Rag" and "Sleepwalk"! LOL!) |
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2002 4:21 pm
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| Tony, you get a break. I have to work with the same band tonight. |
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Joel Glassman
From:
Waltham MA USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2002 2:12 pm
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Jimbo-
You forgot the part about being naked
onstage.  |
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Gene Jones
From:
Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)
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Posted 4 Dec 2002 4:17 am
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Jim you were lucky....I looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the player! 
www.genejones.com |
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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Posted 4 Dec 2002 7:28 am
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Hey Joel! I've done that naked thing. It was h*ll for the audience but I dug it! 
Keep on pickin'!
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Dwight Mark
From:
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Posted 4 Dec 2002 4:34 pm
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Well I was hoping for some more amusing onstage nightmare stories, but if we're talking about naked stage stories. I did have the pleasure of playing on Fat Tuesday in Boulder Colorado, and the women were jumping on stage giving kisses and exchanging beads, not to mention a couple that pulled up their shirts for the crowd. I don't consider that an onstage nightmare though - more like a dream come true.
Dwight |
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Bill Crook
From:
Goodlettsville, TN , Spending my kid's inheritance
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Posted 6 Dec 2002 12:14 pm
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Been there, Saw that, Didn't get to participate in a darn thing.
Ain't life a hoot !!
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