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Worst stage screw-up.
| Message Board > General Chitchat > Worst stage screw-up. |
| Der | What's the worst screw up you've made on stage? - Sat, 10 May 2003 12:07am | ||
| shannon hoon | i'll tell ya one thing, it WASN'T pissin on the crowd at the Commodore... - Sat, 10 May 2003 12:33am | ||
| jay brown User Info... | When I played in Fuckpig we played at the Queens in nanaimo, and I was wearing my moms old boyfriends shirt. It was a support your local Outlaws shirt. The Hells Angels rivals. The bar was full of H.A.s all flying their colours, and after setting up my drums and wandering around on stage for about a half hour I realized that about fifty H.A.s were all staring at me, then I looked down. I of course almost pissed my pants on the spot and took the shirt off real fast. My guitarist figured we were going to die anyways so he went into the can and did himself up in full drag and walked back out on stage. We knew they were going to kill us as soon as we were done so we just went off on stage. About half way through our set our guitarist just started smashing his guitar into his amp, then took it off and whipped it into the audience. It of course landed on a table a bunch of H.A.s were sitting at and slid down the table knocking over all their drinks. There was dead silence in the bar and we just waited to get dragged out and killed. This one biker got up and picked up the guitar and walked up to the stage with it. He motioned our guitarist over and when he got to the edge of the stage he handed it to him, nodded and said, "you guys rock". and walked back to his table. We finished our set and just stood around for a few minutes waiting to die. I had to go to the can so I ended up at the urinal and two of them walked in and stood on either side of me. They were giving me the up and down and I figured that was it. They asked me about the shirt so I told them where it came from. They said that it was probably in my best interest to not put that on in nanaimo. I was so scared I couldnt think of anything else to do so I just started laughing. They must of thought I was all right because when we went back out they went back to their table and talked to the others and one of them came back and asked us if we wanted to play a show at Angel Acres. We said we'd think about it and went back to victoria where the band promptly broke up. - Sat, 10 May 2003 1:03am | ||
| der | Ah, that's a good one. - Sat, 10 May 2003 1:24am | ||
| The Ref | Mannnn! That's a great question! I have some killer road stories, just don't have the time to relay them. Would take forever with my typing skills. When I have some time, I will definately add some funny stuff to this thread, shit right outta Rob Rhiner's mind! - Sat, 10 May 2003 1:24am | ||
| Anonymous | Giver Ref...yoo no how tolrant wee all r of spellin, we wanna heer yer stories phonetically - Sat, 10 May 2003 2:14am | ||
| juanita drinkalotta | jay brown has the best stories - Sat, 10 May 2003 4:07am | ||
| Mr. Hell User Info... | Playing with SYL in Van at Richard's On Richards. Capacity crowd. We're getting wicked response...mosh, etc. The set is going perfectly. Last song. Bass break. A millisecond before I am going to start the section I step on my cord and it comes right out of my bass. Total silence. Had to reach down in front of 600 people and pick up my cord and put it back in, then resume. The lamest part is I usually wrap my patch cord around my strap, but I was having technical difficulties during set up and had to rush, thus forgetting to wrap the cord. Not too bad, but certainly somewhat embarrassing. - Sat, 10 May 2003 5:48pm | ||
| Brandy | That would have been fun times eh? Makes for a more character filled show! - Sat, 10 May 2003 7:06pm | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | Not really a screw up, but way back when The Jizzwailers played at the Brickyard(I miss the days of punk and pizza!). Some hippie dude was smashed and up front slamming around. He kept hitting me so I swung around to give him a shove at the same time as he was bringing up his elbow. POW! My nose is pouring like a busted faucet. Rather than stop I decided in my drunken state that it was much cooler to bleed all over myself as I'm flying through tables. Wish I had pics. - Sat, 10 May 2003 9:23pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Fuck ya Ty, I was there that night! You never missed a word that was cool. That dude ended up between yer gut and the wall while you screamed lyrics to "sweet on" into his nostrils. Classic. I loved that dump.... - Sat, 10 May 2003 9:45pm | ||
| helen von trumpkin | i totally remember that show at the brickyard....the floor was all spit blood and beer.....how many chairs did you break in all the shows you had?? I miss those shows too..to bad the hotel owners were so whinny and complained. - Sun, 11 May 2003 12:19pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | helen's all "eehh..." and I'm all "YAAWHATEVA..." - Sun, 11 May 2003 12:24pm | ||
| helen von trumpkin | that song bugs me - Sun, 11 May 2003 12:25pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | helen's all "that song bugs me eehhh..." and I'm all "YAWHATEVA..." - Sun, 11 May 2003 12:34pm | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | The final tally on broken tables and chairs at the Brickyard was never fully confirmed, but one time I was picking up some gear in the basement and noticed quite a pile of lumber. That was the coolest little venue in town. The bands always got paid(plus free beer and pizza!) and it always would up being a blast. My favourite memory of the Brickyard was my wedding reception show. I booked it for a private function and had 8 of my favourite local bands play. Rod Iron Haulers(first show) Ted Bundy Project McGillicuddys Betty Ford The Pricks Lid The Sweathogs The Jizzwailers My wife and I bought a keg and sold drink tickets for $2 each. It was a total gong show. I'm gonna have to watch the video again! - Sun, 11 May 2003 3:12pm | ||
| Anonymous | hey i was there.....it was awesome...Blind mark was hitting on every girl in the place!! - Mon, 12 May 2003 1:01am | ||
| Anonymous | that was before frank was in the band and chris was singing right??? - Mon, 12 May 2003 1:02am | ||
| helen von trumpkin | do you remember the shows at the blues house, with the crazy bouncer who would let blind mark dance cause he was hitting people with his cane ted bundy/lid and jizzwailers played that night - Mon, 12 May 2003 1:05am | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | shit yeah! man it's been a while...i got our security camera video tape of the show from that night! oooold school... - Mon, 12 May 2003 1:46am | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | yeah I got our security footage of that show too! - Mon, 12 May 2003 2:04am | ||
| lily_liquor | Wasn't that show TBP, Jizzwailers, and the Boner Dogs? - Mon, 12 May 2003 4:22am | ||
| ML7 Mike | ML7's worst screw up is everytime we play. Fuck we suck....balls - Mon, 12 May 2003 9:31am | ||
| helen von trumpkin | yeah maybe it was the boner dogs, I was pretty drunk and it was awhile ago - Mon, 12 May 2003 12:39pm | ||
| ML7Mike User Info... | Hahaha.. tell me about it! - Mon, 12 May 2003 12:54pm | ||
| helen von trumpkin | I promise, when I become rich I will open my own pizza place where bands can play, and ty your band(what ever it will be then) can open and break my chairs!! I just need 100,000 more dollars and a sweet location!! - Mon, 12 May 2003 2:05pm | ||
| Anonymous | What about a show at a sushi bar? Call it the seaweed slaughter house. - Mon, 12 May 2003 2:20pm | ||
| The Ref | Okay! Here goes! This story is what took me off the road. I stopped touring because of it. 1998, played in Yellowknife. Not a great town for any that have been. Anyhow, had a good time. It was the week of Xmas that we were returning. In order to get back to BC, you have to cross the Mackenzie river. During the winter, there is an ice bridge that is built for vehicles to cross. This year, it was unusually warm and they could not create the ice bridge. The ferry could not run either as the river was frozen, just not enough to make the ice bridge. We got stuck in a small town (about 200 people, don't remember the name). There, we were held hostage. Breakfast cost 15 bucks. The guy that owned the motel was making a killing because he knew that he could. We were there for a week!!! The TV's only got CBC!!! We had been in Yellowknife for a month. So all the money went in that week! Finally, we got across and I vowed never to return. On the way back, we had many close calls because a snow storm had been hitting Alberta. About 70 Clicks from High level, we ran outta gas. Had to get a taxi to High Level to get a few canisters full and then back to the fucking van!!! Finally on our way again. Just approaching the BC boarder (about 100 miles) and the guy that was driving decides that he wants to smoke a doob. I had said, no one smokes while driving. I, of course was asleep and it was my van. He smokes and decides that he's tired of following this pickup truck, so he pulls out and loses control. I wake up and we're spinning into the oncoming traffic lane! Luckily there were not semis coming. We went into the ditch and flipped over. Now we're stuck in Meander River, axle is fucked, I have whiplash and it's gonna cost $800 to fix it. There goes the Visa card limit! The Guitarist decides that he has had enough and that the van is cursed! He says "I'm goin back to Toronto"! He buys a bus ticket and heads back to TO from Meander River! We finally make it back to Vancouver! About a year later, and for some stupid reason, I find myself back in Yellowknife playing for a month!!!! I figured, hey, it's summer!! What can go wrong??? We leave after the last night at about 3 in the morning. We're on the Hwy (if you can call it that). I tell the Guit player to take it easy as there are many bison on these roads. Does he listen?? No, he speeding around a corner, there in front of us is a (Fortunately) baby bison, Waaaam, we hit it. The van is not going anywhere and the baby bison is toast! So we pull over a semi and he calls the nearest gas station with a tow truck. We wait for about two hours and there it is, the tow truck. We all pile in and to my shock and amazement, it's the same fucker that charged me and the last band $15 for breakfast! He says to me, hey bud! Saved your same room for ya, CBC and all! I almost started to cry! We went back to the same fucking shit hole town. Paid fucking $15 for our food (Adds up to about $50 per day) and we haven't even talked about the room costs!! He has a junk yard in his back forty! There we find an exact model of the van. He tells us that we have to strip the parts ourselves. So we do that, three days later, the guy comes out (after a three day drinking binge) and decides that he'll start working on the van. Needless to say, we got out again, but I won't even fly over Yellowknife now!!! True Story!!! - Mon, 12 May 2003 2:54pm | ||
| The Ref | I believe the name of the town was centenial. I might be wrong though! - Mon, 12 May 2003 3:32pm | ||
| True Canadian | Very funny stuff, even though it's more of a road story then a crew screw up! Killed myself laughing! - Mon, 12 May 2003 3:32pm | ||
| ML7Mike | The Ref has the best story Ive ever heard! :) - Mon, 12 May 2003 4:26pm | ||
| helen von trumpkin | ha ha ha i will keep my distance from yellow knife - Mon, 12 May 2003 4:37pm | ||
| ML7Mike | We almost hit grandpa Elk in Jasper on our way back from an Alberta tour. We had no high beams, and Japser is dark at night. This sucker was the biggest Elk I ever saw.. just standing in the middle of the road staring at us. We stopped about 10 feet from the thing and it didnt budge. Huge antlers. I got out to film it, with thoughts of When Animals Attack going through my mind, somone flicked a lighter and it was gone. Actually, when we did BC a few years ago, we almost hit a big male deer, going down a hill in the dark at full highway speed, the sucker jumps out into the highway ( single lane ) and just stands there.. I totally had to roast the brakes to stop, everybody went flying ( they were in a camperette in the back ) and a small sports car behind me couldnt stop in time, whizzed by us, and almost hit the female deer, he just barely deked between the two of them.. Our brakes were actually smoking after that one :) - Mon, 12 May 2003 4:44pm | ||
| The Ref | Strangely enough, I have several that are almost as funny as the one I posted before. I have done allot of touring in my time, so there are many funny stories. Partying with Ozzy & Jake E Lee in the basement of a club across the street from the Montreal forum after his show. Watching my bass player go into deep a deep depression after meeting his hero, Getty Lee and being blown off like a peeon! Wearing tux pants on stage, with the fly down (anyone that's worn tux pants know how big the flys are)bending over while singing and having it open up like a sideways mouth everytime I bent over. Biker stories up the yin yang, played allot of biker functions. The greatest crowd known to mankind! Trying to be cool and walking on tables while singing and getting stuck on a table that wasn't steady, frozen in front of 300 people. Fucking every lyric up because I didn't want to fall on my face! All the wipe outs that I have seen of players trying to be cool and landing on their asses! - Mon, 12 May 2003 4:56pm | ||
| Anonymous | maybe you wouldn't fuck up if you weren't such fat fucks - Tue, 13 May 2003 10:34am | ||
| The Ref | ??? Love these innocuous little anon posters with nothing pertinent to say! Go away dink! Go bother your mother or something! - Tue, 13 May 2003 11:58am | ||
| Anonymous | fuck you cock sucker - Wed, 14 May 2003 12:25pm | ||
| The Ref | Now, now, you're reading the wrong bible, it's fuck you cock sucker! - Wed, 14 May 2003 12:26pm | ||
| helen von trumpkin | no its FUCK YOU, COCK SUCKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL - Wed, 14 May 2003 12:35pm | ||
| The Ref | Yea Vaveee!!!! - Wed, 14 May 2003 12:57pm | ||
| jackass | somewhere in Eastern Ontario in the no-mans-land between Winnepeg and Thunder Bay...about 3 or 4am, been driving for 15 hours or so, many more to go. Way up ahead I can see the rear lights of a semi trailer blinking on the side of the road, figured he had pulled over for a snooze. Cruising along at 110-120km/h. Hmmm, sure enough, that's a semi pulled over. Must be a light weight, can't drive through the night. LMAO. Hey, what's that huge big black lump in the middle of my lane directly in front of me approaching at 120 km/h? Holy shit, it's a dead moose! Heart stops. Swerve, swerve, swerve, people all over the inside of the van, coffee spilled all over the dash. Heart starts beating sporadically again. Damn near hit a dead moose in the middle of the road. That's why the truck driver was pulled over, cause he smoked it first and put it there. Note to self: semis pulled over to the side of the road in the middle of the night are usually pulled over for a reason. - Wed, 14 May 2003 1:05pm | ||
| curtis | at the drink in edmonton...I wanted to crowd surf, but htey let go before I had my feet back on the stage and i did a face plant and basjed my head off the stage and knocked myself out! - Thu, 15 May 2003 9:50pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | Working stage security the first time Green Day ever came through town, at the big fernwood. I was on stage and all these people were jumping up and stage diving. I didn't want them to jump off the monitors, but I wasn't going to be a dick and try to keep them from having fun. So I started putting my hands together and giving them all lifts off the stage as they were jumping. Well it'd been going on for a while and I started not really paying too much attention. I was having a good time as well and watching the band. This guy comes up so I just put my hands out and he went up. Well I looked up and buddy weighed a good two fifty. I was on my knees on the edge of the stage at the time. He came down right on top of me. My whole body went over backwards but he was still on my legs,so I bent at a right angle, backwards. The back off my head connected with the side of the stage and k.o.d me. I woke up on the floor, and I couldnt feel anything in my whole body. Couldnt even move a toe or a finger. The band stopped playing and somebody phoned an ambulance. I was freaking because I was sure I'd broken my back and that was it I was in a wheelchair forever.They took me to the emergency, and did a shitload of tests on me. It turned out I'd pinched a nerve in my lower back and got feeling back about ten hours later. But that was it for the show, I managed to get Green Day's first show in Vic shut down half way through their set. - Thu, 15 May 2003 11:15pm | ||
| Anonymous | Now that is either complete bullshit or something you can think about when you lay in bed and try to decide what to dream about. - Fri, 16 May 2003 12:26am | ||
| Nathan Brophy | One time when i played in a jazz band i was too confident that my bass was in tune so i never tuned it. And it was so out, and i had to solo infront of a HUGE crowd. I was so mad at myself. With undergo on tour outside of regina, i thought i had a lot of stage to my side. but i didn't. And i fell off the stage so badly, for one of our biggest turn outs. And i fell right onto some other kids drumset. But i thought it was kinda funny. - Fri, 16 May 2003 12:28am | ||
| jay brown User Info... | Ask any of the old time punk rockers in this city they were all there. It was definitely a moment captured in time. I remember Tony Harper standing beside me laughing when I was being carried out in the stretcher because I always seemed to be the guy that got hurt at shows. I was the classic wrong place wrong time guy. - Fri, 16 May 2003 4:10am | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | and you got KO'ed at the show tonight. some things never change! - Fri, 16 May 2003 4:28am | ||
| Anonymous | Your a fuckin' idiot - Fri, 16 May 2003 4:29am | ||
| Trailer Park Boy Julian | ... and you probably suck cock.... not that there's anythin' wrong wid that.... - Fri, 16 May 2003 4:48am | ||
| jay brown User Info... | your a fucking idiot... bwahahahaha. fuck that was a good one. Man you kill me, how do you think this shit up? - Fri, 16 May 2003 5:28am | ||
| Pink Pussy | Hey man how you doin it's a drunken Heather.What's new. - Fri, 16 May 2003 6:37am | ||
| laura | I remember that well, Jay. Seeing a friend carried off on a stretcher is certainly one way to sober up fast. I had to hold Miss Knapp's hand through that one. All these near brushes with death sure give you an in with the ladies, huh? - Sun, 18 May 2003 3:50pm | ||
| Anonymous | DONT LISTEN TO JAY BROWN< HE HAS NEVER PROMOTED A SINGLEBAND IN HIS LIFE< NOR HAS HE PLAYED IN A BAND< NOR DID HE EVER HAVE HAIR PAST HIS ASS LIKE A GREASY DIRTY METALHEAD< NOR HAS HE EVER RUN A HOUSE THAT HAD WICKED WEEKEND PARTIES WITH BANDS FROM ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA THAT WAS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE LIQUOR STORE ON QUADRA AND 5th STREET< AND WHATS THAT YOU SAY, THERE WAS A LIQUOR STORE AT QUADRA AND 5th???? WHY YES BILLY< THERE WAS. - Sun, 18 May 2003 4:06pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | finally an anon post I like. - Sun, 18 May 2003 4:47pm | ||
| Anonymous | You don't even have a back and you've never lived in a house either, bitch. - Sun, 18 May 2003 5:34pm | ||
| The Jolly Green Storyteller | Once when I was performing on stage, I fucked your mom and she was all "AHHHH!" and I was all "YAWHATEVA!". - Sun, 18 May 2003 6:07pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Yes, there was a liquor store, but now it's ABC Electronics after the jar store moved to just off Hillside. - Sun, 18 May 2003 8:49pm | ||
| jay brown User Info... | I remember when we had N.O.F.X. and Lagwagon come play at the house. We were all up all night drinking and about 7:30 in the morning we had collected all the empties from the party and there was about 60.00 bucks worth. So we went into the living room where Lagwagon were all passed out and woke them up to see if they wanted to start drinking again."Oh my god, you fucking canadians are crazy, I want to die". I do believe those were the exact words that came out of the singers half asleep, really hung over mouth. They ended up thanking us on their next album, the hillside hellhouse. I thought that was pretty cool. N.O.F.X. did an interview when they got home and when they were asked where their favorite spot on the world tour was, they said Jody and Jason's basement in Victoria. Ya good times, good times. - Sun, 18 May 2003 9:43pm | ||
| wolfgang | i remember one time we were on stage and i look over and ross b ay is standing there, holding a bass... worst stage screw up ever! - Sun, 18 May 2003 9:53pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | Hey you mean that house to the left of the slumlord tenancy/apartment buildings on Fifth street?!? I was tempted to rent that house, would make an awesome studio/venue. - Mon, 19 May 2003 4:45am | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | Hey at least I don't ever plug the fucker in kid! That would be a disaster... - Mon, 19 May 2003 11:46am | ||
| Jimmy Bay | Ma Cuzin' may not be any good at pickin' Bass or geetar er other musical instrumint but he shore is good at pickin' other things that we won't mention. Yep, thas a fac' - Mon, 19 May 2003 1:30pm | ||
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