hey there guys i dunno if this has been done yet but here goes.
i have recently become pretty superstitious when it comes to shows and have started a ritual that we have to do before the show or else we don't perform as well as we should. i would love to hear if any of you guys are doing the same or having simmilar experiences regard live performances.
my first superstition regards the dreaded on stage string break, i know that it happens t everyone but it happened to me for the first time a few months ago and it only happened when i mentioned the words "break a string" on the day or evening of the show. it has happened like that for three shows in a row (with virtually brand new strings, a week old) and when i didn't say those evil words it was fine. we played another show on wednesday and i accidently mentioned it to our bassist and 5 min later the guitarist in the openong band broke his D string..... it shut me up once againand really got me thinking about stage voodoo. he reached over picked up his second guitar played 2 songs and broke the G string on that one aswell.
when we were i was luckily able to put my mind to play softer and made it through the gig without a string breakage.
my second ritual that we as a band have adopted is the group hug and best wishes before the performance thing, i have found that if we don't perform this ritual we don't play to the best of our ability and things start going fishy on stage and weird stuff happen like for instnace i might amost trip over a cable or almost fall off the chair at an accoustic show, etc.
please don't tell me that i am the only one............
i have recently become pretty superstitious when it comes to shows and have started a ritual that we have to do before the show or else we don't perform as well as we should. i would love to hear if any of you guys are doing the same or having simmilar experiences regard live performances.
my first superstition regards the dreaded on stage string break, i know that it happens t everyone but it happened to me for the first time a few months ago and it only happened when i mentioned the words "break a string" on the day or evening of the show. it has happened like that for three shows in a row (with virtually brand new strings, a week old) and when i didn't say those evil words it was fine. we played another show on wednesday and i accidently mentioned it to our bassist and 5 min later the guitarist in the openong band broke his D string..... it shut me up once againand really got me thinking about stage voodoo. he reached over picked up his second guitar played 2 songs and broke the G string on that one aswell.
when we were i was luckily able to put my mind to play softer and made it through the gig without a string breakage.
my second ritual that we as a band have adopted is the group hug and best wishes before the performance thing, i have found that if we don't perform this ritual we don't play to the best of our ability and things start going fishy on stage and weird stuff happen like for instnace i might amost trip over a cable or almost fall off the chair at an accoustic show, etc.
please don't tell me that i am the only one............