ECVail
Senior Member
To go along nicely with the Most Embarassing moment thread, we all have stories of bandmates doing ridiculous things on stage. What's your personal experience the silliest or most "lacking common sense" moment on stage?
Here's mine:
We were playing a daytime show on the mountain in Beaver Creek ski resort (Red Tail Camp for those of you familiar with BC). Our guitar player/vocalist was singing backup to the bass player on the bluegrassy version of Gin N Juice (a crowd favorite by the way that can be cleaned up if needed). The bass player, singing lead, realized that this was a daytime show, in a public place with lots of kids around and that we were hired by the resort. Unfortunately, the guitar player either did not comprehend where we were or didn't care. He plowed ahead with all of the cuss words in the song and even seemed to be emphasising them - like he could not figure out why the bass player was omitting them. As I sat there in horror, knowing Beaver Creek would never book us again if he kept it up, I was struck by genius and chucked a stick at him, popping him nicely on the back of his noodle. He whipped around, nasty scowl on his face and I was able to mouth to him "STOP CURSING YOU IDIOT." Thankfully he stopped singing altogether.
Later at the bar at the base of the mountain we were all having beers and he came in fuming at me. Yelling things like "don't ever throw sticks at me," and "you were way out of line." I took his verbal abuse and responded with one question, "do you ever want to play here again? Because if you do, you won't blatantly cuss on stage in the middle of the daytime, in public when we are hired by a ski resort who caters to families."
He got it pretty quickly and apologized. But I still cannot fathom why he thought it would be OK in the first place.
Here's mine:
We were playing a daytime show on the mountain in Beaver Creek ski resort (Red Tail Camp for those of you familiar with BC). Our guitar player/vocalist was singing backup to the bass player on the bluegrassy version of Gin N Juice (a crowd favorite by the way that can be cleaned up if needed). The bass player, singing lead, realized that this was a daytime show, in a public place with lots of kids around and that we were hired by the resort. Unfortunately, the guitar player either did not comprehend where we were or didn't care. He plowed ahead with all of the cuss words in the song and even seemed to be emphasising them - like he could not figure out why the bass player was omitting them. As I sat there in horror, knowing Beaver Creek would never book us again if he kept it up, I was struck by genius and chucked a stick at him, popping him nicely on the back of his noodle. He whipped around, nasty scowl on his face and I was able to mouth to him "STOP CURSING YOU IDIOT." Thankfully he stopped singing altogether.
Later at the bar at the base of the mountain we were all having beers and he came in fuming at me. Yelling things like "don't ever throw sticks at me," and "you were way out of line." I took his verbal abuse and responded with one question, "do you ever want to play here again? Because if you do, you won't blatantly cuss on stage in the middle of the daytime, in public when we are hired by a ski resort who caters to families."
He got it pretty quickly and apologized. But I still cannot fathom why he thought it would be OK in the first place.