Onstage Nightmares

Dwight Mark · Post by **Dwight Mark** » 30 Nov 2002 2:30 am

Thought it might be fun to share some onstage nightmares.
I just got home from a gig. Usually when my band takes a break, I get up and play a solo set. I had friends there, so I got out my Weissenborn and went into Cream's "Politician". After the second verse, the high string broke. I managed my way through the song and then went to replace the string, but the string broke at the endpin and the endpin had popped out - nowhere in sight! Even after we packed up, I never found it on the stage. I never thought to carry extra bridgepins. It was quite a bummer.

So anyone have some good onstage stories to share?

Dwight

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 30 Nov 2002 3:11 am

The band I play with is a nightmare all by itself..

Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 30 Nov 2002 4:24 am

HA HA!! Tony, I've worked with that band too!!!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 30 Nov 2002 5:53 am

No, but I just woke up this morning from an actual nightmare in which I was about to go onstage for a solo show and when I sat down at the steel and looked at my set list... I didn't recognize any of the song titles! Actually, it was worse than that: I had made the setlist up using new software and the software didn't even print the songtitles; it just printed the names of the song writers/composers, and I didn't recognize any of them! Showtime!

<font size=1>(Too bad my wife woke me up before I could see how this movie ends; now I'm kinda curious if I woulda played "Bud's Bounce", "Mansion on the Hill", "Steel Guitar Rag" and "Sleepwalk"! LOL!)

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 30 Nov 2002 4:21 pm

Tony, you get a break. I have to work with the same band tonight.

Joel Glassman · Post by **Joel Glassman** » 3 Dec 2002 2:12 pm

Jimbo-
You forgot the part about being naked
onstage.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 4 Dec 2002 4:17 am

Jim you were lucky....I looked in the mirror and didn't recognize the player!

www.genejones.com

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 4 Dec 2002 7:28 am

Hey Joel! I've done that naked thing. It was h*ll for the audience but I dug it!

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

Dwight Mark · Post by **Dwight Mark** » 4 Dec 2002 4:34 pm

Well I was hoping for some more amusing onstage nightmare stories, but if we're talking about naked stage stories. I did have the pleasure of playing on Fat Tuesday in Boulder Colorado, and the women were jumping on stage giving kisses and exchanging beads, not to mention a couple that pulled up their shirts for the crowd. I don't consider that an onstage nightmare though - more like a dream come true.

Dwight

Bill Crook · Post by **Bill Crook** » 6 Dec 2002 12:14 pm

Been there, Saw that, Didn't get to participate in a darn thing.

Ain't life a hoot !!