benthedrum
Senior Member
I found that it is virtually impossible to keep a solid groove while being in hysterics with laughter......and tears in your eyes.
How did this happen?
Well.....the guitarist suffers from hyperhidrosis of his hands and is prone to breaking strings.
Anyways, we had just started "All Fired Up" by Pat Benetar. The intro was done and we had just launched into the first verse......all was well.
The guitarist then snapped a string....."PING!"
However, his guitar strap also broke and he caught it at the last minute between his elbow and his waist. What got me started laughing was the squealing and the scratching noise he was making as his elbow was rubbing against the strings. He was determined not to let it go.......so he wasn't actually playing at this point.
I was maintaining things well, but I was laughing.
However the bass player decided to get all "Rock n Roll" and proceeded to lift up one of his legs and place his foot against my drum rack.
He totally missed the distance and his foot sailed right past the rack and he tumbled forward, his glasses fell off and his fedora he was wearing slid forward over his face and he steadied himself after going down.
Well that was it.....I was done. I had a guitarist on one side who was out of action, the bass player was out of action. I was laughing and crying so much I was unable to keep things going effectively.
My groove became a quiet, slowed down version of itself.
It is incredibly difficult to keep playing while you are laughing hard. It's like a challenge in Independence.
How did this happen?
Well.....the guitarist suffers from hyperhidrosis of his hands and is prone to breaking strings.
Anyways, we had just started "All Fired Up" by Pat Benetar. The intro was done and we had just launched into the first verse......all was well.
The guitarist then snapped a string....."PING!"
However, his guitar strap also broke and he caught it at the last minute between his elbow and his waist. What got me started laughing was the squealing and the scratching noise he was making as his elbow was rubbing against the strings. He was determined not to let it go.......so he wasn't actually playing at this point.
I was maintaining things well, but I was laughing.
However the bass player decided to get all "Rock n Roll" and proceeded to lift up one of his legs and place his foot against my drum rack.
He totally missed the distance and his foot sailed right past the rack and he tumbled forward, his glasses fell off and his fedora he was wearing slid forward over his face and he steadied himself after going down.
Well that was it.....I was done. I had a guitarist on one side who was out of action, the bass player was out of action. I was laughing and crying so much I was unable to keep things going effectively.
My groove became a quiet, slowed down version of itself.
It is incredibly difficult to keep playing while you are laughing hard. It's like a challenge in Independence.