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WTF?

Floyd Rose's are evil!

Strange enough, Josh Grierson broke his 3rd string with about 5 songs to go, amazingly didn't seem to effect his performance at all, he seemed to compensate quite well.

eric vaxxine wrote: I am sure we all have some 'worst' gig moments.

My gig was as a dep guitarist with a pro, touring coversband,
and I got the job via personal recommendation.

I had recently acquired a JayDee Strat copy equipped with a Floyd Rose
floating trem with locking nut. I was excited to get out and gig
with it...but midway into the first set, I broke a string.

Normally that wouldn't be a problem with my old Strat or the Les Paul,
but it took me 3 songs to fit a replacement on the beast.
Allen keys, locking nut, reversed string with ball end at headstock and
tuning the floating trem.....aaaarrrgh.

I 'hardtailed' the instrument after that episode and always took a spare guitar.

So the moral of the story is..... ?

My worst nightmare came true when the PA amp packed up (fortunately an hour before the start of an important gig ) and we had to source another in Port Alfred, eventually getting one from East London, two hours later.

singemonkey wrote:

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WTF?

My thoughts exactly.

singemonkey wrote:

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WTF?

Nothing to do with us, and no reason why we should be concerned about this thread so far.

"Know thy equipment" is a great wisdom. When I saw Matthew van der Want the other week he had a G7 Capo. These are very good, and they have their advantages, but they have quite a different mechanism from any other capo and the release method is not intuitive. The capo was fastended to the mic stand at the start of the set, a good, handy place to put it (you can't park the G7, or the Shubb for that matter, on the headstock the way you can with a Kyser capo). So far so good. Then he wanted to use the thing and couldn't release it's grip from the mic stand. A brief wrestling match ensued and eventually humanity prevailed over inanimate capo (hoorah!) and he fitted it to the guitar neck. But it was not the end of the matter, because at the end of the song he had to wrestle again.

Not that there's anything wrong with the G7, indeed they have advantages over any other type of capo, and everything is explained in the little booklet that is included in the packaging, but if you don't know about that little thumb latch...

And it's like that with any device you're going to use on stage - know how to operate it.

Most members of this forum are not performing musicians - nothing wrong with that, you can still love and own guitars without putting your skills on display - so many of us may not have any kind of gig moment at all.

Last time I played live Fingerpicker (who has been scarce of late) tried some borrowd mics that sounded quite good, but had a sweet spot about 1 cubic millimeter in size (the SM58s he usually uses are far more forgiving) and that caused me some distress. Eventually I was trying to not move at all.

X-rated Bob wrote:

singemonkey wrote:

eric vaxxine wrote: End of Thread.
Apologies...Admin guys and girls.

WTF?

Nothing to do with us, and no reason why we should be concerned about this thread so far.

"Know thy equipment" is a great wisdom. When I saw Matthew van der Want the other week he had a G7 Capo. These are very good, and they have their advantages, but they have quite a different mechanism from any other capo and the release method is not intuitive. The capo was fastended to the mic stand at the start of the set, a good, handy place to put it (you can't park the G7, or the Shubb for that matter, on the headstock the way you can with a Kyser capo). So far so good. Then he wanted to use the thing and couldn't release it's grip from the mic stand. A brief wrestling match ensued and eventually humanity prevailed over inanimate capo (hoorah!) and he fitted it to the guitar neck. But it was not the end of the matter, because at the end of the song he had to wrestle again.

Not that there's anything wrong with the G7, indeed they have advantages over any other type of capo, and everything is explained in the little booklet that is included in the packaging, but if you don't know about that little thumb latch...

And it's like that with any device you're going to use on stage - know how to operate it.

Most members of this forum are not performing musicians - nothing wrong with that, you can still love and own guitars without putting your skills on display - so many of us may not have any kind of gig moment at all.

Last time I played live Fingerpicker (who has been scarce of late) tried some borrowd mics that sounded quite good, but had a sweet spot about 1 cubic millimeter in size (the SM58s he usually uses are far more forgiving) and that caused me some distress. Eventually I was trying to not move at all.

Goodness, was it his own capo?

Even if it was a new one, you'd expect someone to try it before a gig. Must have been kind of funny to everyone except him ?

Two moments, one gig : We'd practiced the set endlessly and performed it tightly at the venue a few times...But we'd thought we had it nailed so didn't bother running through it the week before our next gig.

The guitar/vocals got drunk - drums and bass (me) were out of sync (bad night I guess) and we couldn't find the groove to our opening signature tune, it was so bad that the thought of it still makes all three of us cringe (and all our mates).

Then guitar/vocals breaks a string (too wasted to change it) and I just happened to have a spare guitar along, just in case...but it was a stock fender strat and he used some seriously noisy pedals - no worries on his LP, but a stock Strat...that hum/buzz through the next 1/2 hour made me want to run off stage and hide under a rock somewhere.

We never gigged again, but remain good jamming mates!

? worst gig moment for me was early in my career after working for a whole month performing with a trio at a restuarant ,fabulous gig , BUT the cheque bounced ...... never taken another biz cheque since that day,

Keira WitherKay wrote: ? worst gig moment for me was early in my career after working for a whole month performing with a trio at a restuarant ,fabulous gig , BUT the cheque bounced ...... never taken another biz cheque since that day,

..the cheque is in the mail..... ?

Vic wrote:

Keira WitherKay wrote: ? worst gig moment for me was early in my career after working for a whole month performing with a trio at a restuarant ,fabulous gig , BUT the cheque bounced ...... never taken another biz cheque since that day,

..the cheque is in the mail..... ?

Heish...reminded me of this



?

My worst gig-moment was self-induced. During the early '90s I used to watch bands at The Roxy almost every night. There were some great bands back then. Tananas, Highway Jam, Count Ash, Diamond Dogs and Backwater Blues Band comes to mind. The Dogs were the ultimate for me and I wished I could join a band like them.
Lo and behold, in about '96 I got a call from an agent informing me that Greg (Dogs guitarist) was leaving the band and they would like me to audition. It was arranged that I would play a few tunes with the band at their next gig. The next Friday nite I arrived at the Jolly Roger in Parkhurst armed with 2 Strats and a Marshall combo. I met the guys in the band and it was decided that I would play the last 5 songs of the 2nd set with them. I was friggin nervous so decided to relax a bit courtesy of mr Jack Daniels. I relaxed a bit too much and when the time came to play I made a total fool of myself. My big chance had been blown. I was too well-oiled to play. Needless to say, I never got a call-back.
About a year later I walked into the Big Easy and the Dogs were jamming without a guitarist. I had my gear in the car and asked if I could jam along. It was a great nite and I've been playing with them ever since.

Well, My Amp had a mini explosion on stage ???

I had angled it so that the amp speakers where facing a little up as opposed to straight, however, the shoddy chair I used to lean it against fell away, my amp fell off, made a giant KRACK!! of a sound, took a good 5 minutes to get back in working condition. 5 minutes of dead silence = 1 hour of dead silence

Arno West wrote: My worst gig-moment was self-induced. During the early '90s I used to watch bands at The Roxy almost every night. There were some great bands back then. Tananas, Highway Jam, Count Ash, Diamond Dogs and Backwater Blues Band comes to mind. The Dogs were the ultimate for me and I wished I could join a band like them.
Lo and behold, in about '96 I got a call from an agent informing me that Greg (Dogs guitarist) was leaving the band and they would like me to audition. It was arranged that I would play a few tunes with the band at their next gig. The next Friday nite I arrived at the Jolly Roger in Parkhurst armed with 2 Strats and a Marshall combo. I met the guys in the band and it was decided that I would play the last 5 songs of the 2nd set with them. I was friggin nervous so decided to relax a bit courtesy of mr Jack Daniels. I relaxed a bit too much and when the time came to play I made a total fool of myself. My big chance had been blown. I was too well-oiled to play. Needless to say, I never got a call-back.
About a year later I walked into the Big Easy and the Dogs were jamming without a guitarist. I had my gear in the car and asked if I could jam along. It was a great nite and I've been playing with them ever since.

At least you got another shot and things worked out for the best. I've tried the same fix, hoping it would steady my hands a little. It didn't. Needless to say I learned from that one.

Adrian Rogowski wrote: Well, My Amp had a mini explosion on stage ???

I had angled it so that the amp speakers where facing a little up as opposed to straight, however, the shoddy chair I used to lean it against fell away, my amp fell off, made a giant KRACK!! of a sound, took a good 5 minutes to get back in working condition. 5 minutes of dead silence = 1 hour of dead silence

Ouch! ??? I always fear something exploding...

Did a gig in the sun awhile ago where we had no time for a sound check.
set up my pedalboard but 3 of my pedals lights didn't look as if they came on so i re routed all my pedals to by pass those three.... only to get home and find that they were working perfectly, just couldnt see their lights in the sun :-[
my sound was terrible....

About my post, ending the thread early....no replies at the time.....apologies

A Moment of Most Worseness..!!

One time when out with the audience during a solo
(radio gear, no lead)
a girl played her air guitar along with but then she suddenly
grabbed the neck of my guitar with both hands and refused to let go..
It took me about a minute to wrestle my guitar off her.

Arno West wrote: My worst gig-moment was self-induced. During the early '90s I used to watch bands at The Roxy almost every night. There were some great bands back then. Tananas, Highway Jam, Count Ash, Diamond Dogs and Backwater Blues Band comes to mind. The Dogs were the ultimate for me and I wished I could join a band like them.
Lo and behold, in about '96 I got a call from an agent informing me that Greg (Dogs guitarist) was leaving the band and they would like me to audition. It was arranged that I would play a few tunes with the band at their next gig. The next Friday nite I arrived at the Jolly Roger in Parkhurst armed with 2 Strats and a Marshall combo. I met the guys in the band and it was decided that I would play the last 5 songs of the 2nd set with them. I was friggin nervous so decided to relax a bit courtesy of mr Jack Daniels. I relaxed a bit too much and when the time came to play I made a total fool of myself. My big chance had been blown. I was too well-oiled to play. Needless to say, I never got a call-back.
About a year later I walked into the Big Easy and the Dogs were jamming without a guitarist. I had my gear in the car and asked if I could jam along. It was a great nite and I've been playing with them ever since.

Great story. Nice one.

eric vaxxine wrote: About my post, ending the thread early....no replies at the time.....apologies

Ag it happens sometimes - weekends and Mondays are traditionally quieter and sometimes everyone misses a thread (or sees it and means to go back, but forget). A bump usually corrects things.

I've posted some of my misadventures at length before, but there's a few I haven't posted before...

~~ Cue wavy lines ~~ and a lap dissolve to dim and distant memories being dredged up...

I played drums for a grunge band in the mid/late 90's (name withheld to protect the guilty - but Simon "Fuzzy" Ratcliffe [no relation] used to call us Achmed Papadopoulos, which is similar). One of our regular gigs, which shall remain nameless here due to being a complete and utter dive (although "Newlands" and "railway carriage" might bring up memories for some) had a stage between two rooms, one in front of the stage and the other behind, which basically meant the stage was a simple riser with no wall behind us.

One night I set up my kit a bit too close to the rear of the stage and when we started playing I found I was squeezed in way to close to the kit. There was no way to move the kit forward while playing as it was big and heavy, mounted on a rack and with serious spikes in the kick drum legs and kick pedal. So I did what I usually did in that situation, and moved my throne back a couple of inches while playing... Now this was not usually a problem, but I was already too far back and there was no rear wall and my throne's one leg went off the back of the stage, tilting me precariously over the edge. I coped briefly, balancing and playing, but eventually gravity won (as is its wont) and I fell off the back of the stage in the middle of the song (fortunately the stage was only about 75cm high). I missed a couple of beats and finished the song standing on the floor behind the stage with a stick in one hand (could just reach the snare rim) and playing the kick pedal with my other hand. Best part? The vocalist and guitarist didn't realise this was all going on behind them (although that says more about them than my skills as a hand operator of drum kits). Apparently looked quite impressive from the front of the stage.

I found I had too many bad moments with a particular band. sometimes you just need to cut your ties. alcohol and drugs get in the way.

This was fun though;
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