madagascar Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 hey anyone that gigs here, post how u were on your first gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Shit scared,i was right at the front in some death metal gig that my mate wanted to go to. lmfao!! Well.. Death Metal gigs are scary.. It's like King Diamond who keeps talking about shit.. aaaaaah he scares me so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Well my first was a small battle of the bands gig that my guitar teacher's band played in (and won) but my first big concert was about a year ago with Queens of the Stone Age. I remember it was all nice and calm with the opening band and I was thinking "hmmm, man, this crowd is pretty mellow" then QOTSA came on and the whole place just exploded, it was definately a shock though, jump or be jumped on lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Well my first was a small battle of the bands gig that my guitar teacher's band played in (and won) but my first big concert was about a year ago with Queens of the Stone Age. I remember it was all nice and calm with the opening band and I was thinking "hmmm, man, this crowd is pretty mellow" then QOTSA came on and the whole place just exploded, it was definately a shock though, jump or be jumped on lol. jumped on? Man, you're so not lucky.. It's amazing lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gash Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Well my first was a small battle of the bands gig that my guitar teacher's band played in (and won) but my first big concert was about a year ago with Queens of the Stone Age. I remember it was all nice and calm with the opening band and I was thinking "hmmm, man, this crowd is pretty mellow" then QOTSA came on and the whole place just exploded, it was definately a shock though, jump or be jumped on lol.jumped on? Man, you're so not lucky.. It's amazing lol No I didn't get jumped on, I meant, you had to jump otherwise you would get jumped on. So I jumped along lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcam Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Didn't he mean anyone that gigs (as in plays) with their own band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Well my first was a small battle of the bands gig that my guitar teacher's band played in (and won) but my first big concert was about a year ago with Queens of the Stone Age. I remember it was all nice and calm with the opening band and I was thinking "hmmm, man, this crowd is pretty mellow" then QOTSA came on and the whole place just exploded, it was definately a shock though, jump or be jumped on lol.jumped on? Man, you're so not lucky.. It's amazing lol No I didn't get jumped on, I meant, you had to jump otherwise you would get jumped on. So I jumped along lol. lol I got it.. But imagine being jumped on.. that would definetly hurt.. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindy Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 Didn't he mean anyone that gigs (as in plays) with their own band actually I was thinking about that too.. But hey.. people can still tell about their own gigs B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rufus Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 U wanna go see less than jake,they are fucking nuts.Circle Pits,mosh pits and fricking chickin fighting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockerman Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my therapist has been deeling with me on that issue for years. Our first gig was a highschool Dance. 'Cowtown' Wyoming is a long way from LA (where my Guitarist and bass player had just come back from after going to GIT)and anything different especially with long hair brought out the best in the local sheep fuckers. They taunted and jeered from the get go. We had a dance crowd of about 125. Our Drummer was a freshman in highschool whos mommy wouldn't ever let him practice after 9:00. He had an awesome set of Pearls. really the only reason he was in our band. He didnt like hard rock but give him some Spandou Ballet or Tears for Fears and he was happy.We set up and got ready to go. We ripped into Bark at the Moon by Ozzy and my mike went dead...... So I smacked it against the stand and did a psychotic dance. (probablymore entertaining than the singing anyway) We got the back up mike going for Smoking in the Boys Room the place rocked.... started to do Alone again by Dokken and forgot the words.... so I pretended that the mike was dead.... that song seemed to last like 2 hours and 45 minutes....Got into the middle of Summer of 69 and the drummer stopped drumming. The bass player puked back stage..... and the crowd booed. I sttod petrified in the spotlights like a deer caught in headlights. The principal came up and and wanted to do an anouncement against public displays of affection... I said "heY Im all for it"He proceeded to remind us all that" Nobody wants to buy bruised peaches at the supermarket and he thinks all the girls are a bunch of peaches at this school and public displays of affection will not be tolerated"Me...in the back ground.... pipes up and says "Uhhh Mr. Smith... its been my experience that the girls in this school aint a bunch of peaches.... they were a bunch of cherries.....We launch into Mony Mony the crowd is laughing at the principal- who then gets pissed off when he realizes what I said and what it meant..... so he promptly walks over to the wall and yanks the cord out of wall.... the guitarist amp goes dead but I keep singing we get to the part of "get laid get fucked !"and the crowed is singing it...finally a little crowd participation!he gets even madder and trys to take my mike (ol Sure sm58 that I stold from a school choir event in Cheyanne ) away from me but I wont give it to him......I prance around avoiding him. He is insistant on stopping the production when one of the prize A #1 sheep fuckers decides hes gonna be a hero and he jumps on stage and tackles me. We wrestle around he pops me one in the nose.I bleed. I get pissed... I get ragged. I get up and proceed to smack him upside the chops with my mike stand.....I get suspended from school for assault with a deadly weapon for 1 week and 1 week inschool suspension for disobeying the principal.End of The Neighbors Kid GIG #1. We punted the drummer after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeanGenie Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 On my very first ´gig I played an irish song from the corrs or cranberris don't know exactly but I just made the rhythm section. I played Fly Away from lenny kravitz and I made a solo improvisation. All in all it was a good evening it was a small bar with about 50 or 70 people first I was afraid but than it came to fly away where I could play my solo and all girls started to cry something like:" Ohhh sweet" and so on. Very nice for the first time. I don't have to tell you what happened to me after the gig. But the second gig was horrible I played in front of 300 people on a pretty big stage with spotlight and stuff like that. I played Wanderwall from Oasis, American Woman, and Supreme from Robbie Williams in that song is an instrumental part that I arranged for guitar it was a killer but exactly in that part I made a mistake it was no drama but I still hate myself for that because it was such a cool solo. After the show people came to me and said "It was a good show Supreme wasn't that good but all in all it was really impressing"I have to add that the rest of the band wasn't really good prepared for that song so it wasn't just my fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madagascar Posted October 20, 2003 Author Share Posted October 20, 2003 yep i did mean gig as in you playing not going to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White_Raven Posted October 20, 2003 Share Posted October 20, 2003 (edited) ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my therapist has been deeling with me on that issue for years. Our first gig was a highschool Dance. 'Cowtown' Wyoming is a long way from LA (where my Guitarist and bass player had just come back from after going to GIT)and anything different especially with long hair brought out the best in the local sheep fuckers. They taunted and jeered from the get go. We had a dance crowd of about 125. Our Drummer was a freshman in highschool whos mommy wouldn't ever let him practice after 9:00. He had an awesome set of Pearls. really the only reason he was in our band. He didnt like hard rock but give him some Spandou Ballet or Tears for Fears and he was happy.We set up and got ready to go. We ripped into Bark at the Moon by Ozzy and my mike went dead...... So I smacked it against the stand and did a psychotic dance. (probablymore entertaining than the singing anyway) We got the back up mike going for Smoking in the Boys Room the place rocked.... started to do Alone again by Dokken and forgot the words.... so I pretended that the mike was dead.... that song seemed to last like 2 hours and 45 minutes....Got into the middle of Summer of 69 and the drummer stopped drumming. The bass player puked back stage..... and the crowd booed. I sttod petrified in the spotlights like a deer caught in headlights. The principal came up and and wanted to do an anouncement against public displays of affection... I said "heY Im all for it"He proceeded to remind us all that" Nobody wants to buy bruised peaches at the supermarket and he thinks all the girls are a bunch of peaches at this school and public displays of affection will not be tolerated"Me...in the back ground.... pipes up and says "Uhhh Mr. Smith... its been my experience that the girls in this school aint a bunch of peaches.... they were a bunch of cherries.....We launch into Mony Mony the crowd is laughing at the principal- who then gets pissed off when he realizes what I said and what it meant..... so he promptly walks over to the wall and yanks the cord out of wall.... the guitarist amp goes dead but I keep singing we get to the part of "get laid get fucked !"and the crowed is singing it...finally a little crowd participation!he gets even madder and trys to take my mike (ol Sure sm58 that I stold from a school choir event in Cheyanne ) away from me but I wont give it to him......I prance around avoiding him. He is insistant on stopping the production when one of the prize A #1 sheep fuckers decides hes gonna be a hero and he jumps on stage and tackles me. We wrestle around he pops me one in the nose.I bleed. I get pissed... I get ragged. I get up and proceed to smack him upside the chops with my mike stand.....I get suspended from school for assault with a deadly weapon for 1 week and 1 week inschool suspension for disobeying the principal.End of The Neighbors Kid GIG #1. We punted the drummer after that.HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!! good stuff! lol. too funny.....mine wasn't too bad. it was just me all alone though, well me and my guitar. only my mom started crying really loud and i had to pretend i didn't know her. hehe Edited October 20, 2003 by White_Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This_Guy Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 first time we ever got up on a stage i was so drunk that i didnt remember a thing the next day. apparently i had severe stage anxiety and i needed to take the the edge off with enough alchohol to mutilate a small micronesian village.i guess we were good and from that night forth my stage persona (the guy that comes out when i'm blitzed) has been known as "motor fuck"don't know why, that's just who he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosmith87 Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 My first gig was at some highschool thing, we sucked total ass, we opened with KISS's Shout it Out Loud, Cat Scratch Fever, Van Halen's Ice Cream Man, Surrender, Smoke on the Water, and then closed with Rock n Roll Alnite ....Horrible, the only thing that was alright was Shout it Out Loud, the second gig was really good though, i'd do anything to forget that first gig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slashs_servant Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 (edited) Our first gig was at the school talent quest. It wasnt that bad although i was really nervous, we just done one original... But i was like uber nervous, my hands were trembling like i was in the antartic. I got a comment from a mate who told me i was a tree playing a guitar... 2nd gig was at a 16th bday, and i had bein spiked with exctacy before we went on to do the 2nd set> And slowly during the set, i was starting to trip out, everythign was shakin, and i was just fucked up !!! We finished acdc - tnt and went in to paradise city, and i was just goin skitz, i didnt know wat i was doin, i couldnt stand up, 2 mins later, i done a axl, and just walked off stage, with my guitar on the ground, and crawled outside. Thats the last i remember, than i woke up next mornin on the grass =| Edited March 7, 2005 by slashs_servant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnEskimo Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 My first gig is comming up pretty soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abitestranged Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 I was in 8th grade and it was during our school rock concert. Usually its a high school activity but the student government invited the 8th graders too and so me and my friends got a band together and practiced "Ain't it fun" (GNR version). Well we got on the stage and the whole highschool is looking at us middle school kids. I was shit nervous so I stood still the whole song and played all the solos standing like a statue. My other rhythm guitarist too stood lifeless on the other side of the stage. I don't remember how the singing went cause I was too nervous but it went well....ofcourse it didn't sound anywhere near GNR like but but it was not too hard of a song and so we did well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highvoltage Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Hahaha! I'm not in a band, I don't play an instrument, and I most definately cannot sing. But I had some friends that wanted me to sing "Otherside" by the Chilli Peppers at this school thing. I agreed to do it.I walked out on stage, reached into my pocket to pull the what I thought were lyrics to the song out, found a piece of paper and looked at it. Here's what it said:"PLEASE EXCUSE CHRIS FOR NOT HAVING HIS HAT FOR SPORT TODAY, AS IT WAS IN THE BACK OF HIS FATHER'S CAR, AND HIS FATHER HAS GONE TO SYDNEY. THANKING YOU, *mum's signature*"I freaked. I didn't know the words so well, but I thought I could pull it off. I got through the first verse and the chorus - but then we got to the second verse and I forgot the words. I laughed, looked at the bass player and then remembered where we were up to."....still a SLUT" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucket13 Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 WOW is this old.Ah well...Really nervous, but we did ok. Not our best but ok. :krider: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-fukaji Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 we absoloutely fucking killed everyone.didnt bother gettign on stage, set up at the backkablam, everyone spazzed out and we went down a storm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GunsnRoses0522 Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Well, we don't have a singer so we did an instrumental of SCOM. It went good, i was a nervous f*ck. We have another gig coming up soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudes Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 My first gig was back in -93 It was my hugest at the moment... It was calld YOUNG -93 FESTIVAL and we preformed whit our band (ex. BONBOROZA)for the very very firstime, infront of 350 young fanadic/dieharts!! IT WAS THE BEST an last gig that i won´t never ever forget!!!Hopefully someone else has the same feel´n of their ownone´s B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boy Sixxx Posted April 9, 2005 Share Posted April 9, 2005 my first gig wit my current band was awsome coz i have a shit hot guitar player and everyone was 'holy shit can that boy play' coz basically we're pretty much the only metal band in the area (apparently we're somewhere between 80's metal and thrash ska, i have no idea myself!)before this one we just played got clapped and a few 'hey nice set fella' but nowt special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratomaster Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Ha! Our singer sort of stopped singing about 30 seconds into the very first song. He got very nervous.So the show became more of an instrumental than anything. It wasn't that bad actually and we got a round of applause at the end after managing to pull it off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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