Stroman
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I bet THAT was a pain in the... throne.I played a gig less then a week after a hemorrhoid surgery
I bet THAT was a pain in the... throne.I played a gig less then a week after a hemorrhoid surgery
I wasn't great haha. This situation involved the band I currently play with being the 'backing band' for a bunch of local hip hop artists so it was a lot of steady 4/4 backbeat stuff without much else required by me. If was actually a fun show regardless of my personal circumstances but I certainly was feeling it the next day.I bet THAT was a pain in the... throne.
Mine was a migraine during a church gig. I thought that it went well considering. But when I got the recording of the music the following week, to my surprise, I totally screwed up the beginning of a song and didn't even realize it. The guitar started the song and when the time came for me to join in, well, I had placed the backbeat on the downbeat and downbeat on the backbeat. The other musicians picked up relatively quickly the fact that I was off and they changed their rhythm to match with me. They never said anything, and if it wasn't recorded I wouldn't have known that I messed up at all.
I played a gig less then a week after a hemorrhoid surgery
I have a Tama round rider xl, it has a very wide and thick cushion. It still wasn't fun as far as the sitting part was concerned but the quality throne helped in addition to it being a pretty low key gig.Did you have a well padded throne or a doughnut to sit on ?
Damn!!! I was really hoping you at least made it to the bathroom in time! I know how awful those band uniforms can be, I grew up in coastal Texas where it's hot and humid and for some reason, the band uniform is made out of the hottest and itchiest fabric imaginable!actually, my worst "gig" with sickness happened my sophomore year in marching band:
set up the scene: 90ºF day, with about the same humidity; full wool old school band uniforms; unknowing onset of a really bad food poisoning incident...
we had a contest about 2 hours away one Saturday. Showed up to school feeling ok, but a little "gurgly" in my stomach...which was sort of the norm for me back then b/c I ate like crap all the time. So, we got all packed up, got on the busses to go, and got about 45 minutes on the road, and now I am feeling pretty bad, and starting to sweat. Serious cramping and worse gurgling going on in my stomach.
Got to the show site, got off the bus, and by now, I was clammy, knees shaking and just squeezing the cheeks together for dear life, but had no time to go to the bathroom. Strapped on my 45 pounds of tri toms, whose carrier rested right on my stomach. Got in formation to march to the warm up site - for 45 minutes of warm up. My bowels were just screaming now, and I had a really bad headache from clinching my teeth so much. Try to survive warm up, adn the nthe march to the stadium....brutal.
Played the show...brutal...was just crying. soooo much pressure in my gut, and elsewhere. I had told my parents as we went to warm up that I was in bad shape, and that they would need ot grab my drums as soon as I got off the field. So the show ends. As soon as I cross the out of bounds line on the field, I literally threw my drum set at my dad and ran to the bathroom...but I didn't make it...just an explosion of nastiness all over my band uniform, the stall etc..."both exits" were used...
so there I am, stuck in the mess in that stall in some rural little football stadium...pre cell phone. After about 30 minutes, dad came in and checked on me. I told him he was going to have to go get me new clothes and hopefully some Wet Ones to "clean up" with. I alos told him to tell the BD that I wa NOT risding the bus home. There was NO WAY I could be seen after The Incident.
I ended up cleaning up as best as I could, and we got on the road. We stopped at a motel for me to shower for real. I did not know how I was goign to face everyone at school on Monday
Other than my heart attack, that was the sickest I have ever been. Missed 2 weeks of school.
But we won best drumline that day, so it was all worth it!!!!
Damn!!! I was really hoping you at least made it to the bathroom in time! I know how awful those band uniforms can be, I grew up in coastal Texas where it's hot and humid and for some reason, the band uniform is made out of the hottest and itchiest fabric imaginable!
Did anyone in your band know? Luckily your parents were there, mine never gave enough of a shit about my drumming to see me play.
So YOU are the girl onstage they have that commercial about nowadays about the medication for IBS or Crohn's Disease, or whatever it is.ohh yeah...the whole band knew...my issues with IBS were notorious so it was sort of not a surprise...plus, I didn't end up riding the bus home. Of course I got made fun of for it, but as mentioned above, it was a known thing...one of my nicknames in band was "Schlitz"...and it was NOT b/c I drank the beer
So YOU are the girl onstage they have that commercial about nowadays about the medication for IBS or Crohn's Disease, or whatever it is.![]()
Seriously, though, I am sorry to hear of your troubles. That must really suck!sort of...they know I will be there, but I do sometimes have to delay the beginning of a set
thoughh after I turned 40, it has happened less and less...I KNOW that I eat better now than I did in my 20's and 30's, but nerves will still do a number on my stomach if I am not careful
Seriously, though, I am sorry to hear of your troubles. That must really suck!![]()
ohh yeah...the whole band knew...my issues with IBS were notorious so it was sort of not a surprise...plus, I didn't end up riding the bus home. Of course I got made fun of for it, but as mentioned above, it was a known thing...one of my nicknames in band was "Schlitz"...and it was NOT b/c I drank the beer
Died of what?One time I actually died and I still played the gig.
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