Tell me your horror stories

[tubesorbust]

This one is pretty fun... taught me a lesson..

The band I play with has been around for 23 years and I was the rookie

I'd only been with the band for about 4 months when we had a big gig.. about 1000 people outside in the middle of a town (an open air concert, my high school home town).. I thought I knew the words for the songs I sang really well... but

When I was supposed to start to sing I drew a big blank.. we kept playing the opening bars over an over again as I walked from member to member asking....how does this song start... everyone said I don't know..

So I sang what I knew... the 2nd verse twice and the chorus three times.. the audience started singing it for me..lol

We finally gave up, quit and went on to the next song..

At the end of the set I found out that the other singer had the words on his music stand but didn't tell me.. he wanted to make me sweat.. I laughed and the band members said... "welcome to show Business"... at first I was mad.. then realized I was now considered a member now..

Now I always have the lyrics on the music stand beside me..

I've been with them 2 years now and it has never happened again..

[Pick_Master]

hehe thats a good one

[gorham]

lol that must have been hard going.

[Gibson075]

good lesson

[Lazy Bee]

After our first three months on the road we came home to do a Sunday afternoon gig at the park. Big crowd, family, friends, and I decide to do a big rock star kick and I landed flat on my back. I thought "what would Jim Morrison do?" So I decided to writhe around a bit...further embarassing myself. Did I learn my lesson? No! A few years later I did my best version of David Lee Roths Chinese splits off a tall drum riser and hyperextended my back on the landing. The nerve to my kidney was pinched for 36 hrs before I got to a chiropractor Monday morning. What a yutz I was!!!
Lesson to you youngens out there, learn the guitar, leave the rock star stuff to the ego maniacs. "The singer" :D

[tdu]

I was playing a show out of town, and borrowing one of the other bands amps. They had 2 guitar players and 2 amps I could choose from. One Marshall and one crazy looking homemade job. being the type of person I am I went for the crazy looking homemade thing because it looked cool. The guy using the amp did not sing though, and I did. I touched my lips to a mic by mistake and I guess that amp wasn't grounded. It got blown stumbling about 15 feet to the back of the stage. My toungue went completely numb. I felt weird, but ok the rest of the night probabaly mainly because I as drunk. The next morning though I woke up and couldn't get out of bed because all my muscles seized up and I had to go to the hospital.

I also did a 'jump of the stage' at a show and cracked 2 ribs. When I landed I landed kind of hunched over and the guitar pushed up on my ribs. It cracked them right where they meet the spine.

[Puddlegum66]

Think the worst thing that happened to me was in my high school band. I went to tear up a solo on a song we had written and it just sounded terrible. Come to find out, I was playing it a half step off key. Talk about embarassing.

[rocky]

I played in a band and had another guitar player come sit in with us , well i felt like i was a beginner next to him and my playing showed it, so to my thinking i was blown away by this guy finding out later that was the only song that he knew how to play , however he did mention to me that i had a good knowledge of chords which i did have , well to make this short i played with him again a few years later , he was still playing the same stuff so in effect i did learn one thing very important and that is to keep going farther and farther into your musical knowledge and you will progress above others that stand still .So if that ever happens to any of you dont worry about it just keep learning and one day you ll put that guy on the shelf for good.