Rock and Roll StoriesMy personal Spinal Tap moment came when we got locked into the Festival Hall in London by accident. We ended up wandering the maze of backstage corridors carrying a three foot high piece of cheese looking for the one door that would lead us to salvation.
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jun 2006, 13:47)
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School PA systemAll the gigs I've played in have either been in someone's garage or in a school hall. The ones in garages were better. The school assembly hall is not very good acoustically and the PA system is shite, as are some of the people who run it.
First time we ever played was at a school talent show and we were doing a cover of some song off Achtung Baby by U2, and we were actually favourites to win rather than the usual girl on a piano singing some nice song about being emancipated. Unfortunately the first band who were on blew the amp doing a Limp Bizkit song (badly) and the sound guy had turned the volume down and forgot to put it back up. So we had bass and drums but no guitar. So I keep playing the intro bassline until it gets fixed, but when it does Iain is playing the song as if the guitar was working, so the guitar suddenly comes on with him half way through the first verse. Eventually it goes better.
Then, the last year we did it we managed to be worse. The singer was wasted, and the sound people had insisted we plug our instruments straight into the PA rather than through amps. This makes Iain's guitar sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain, Creevy's drums are so high in the mix that they drown out most of what Jamie was singing (which was off key shrieking mainly that was so tuneless we had to start a bar again halfway through just to make sure he was still in time) and my bass couldn't be heard. But it could be felt. It sounded a bit like a shite post-rock band. It was meant to sound like the Rolling Stones. My bass solo (which I didn't want to do) made people leave to have a lie down somewhere.
We came last. The other band came 3rd and their singer came 2nd with the Michael Jackson act he'd been doing for 3 years in a row (he just changed hats). A girl on a piano came first, singing a nice song about emancipation. The other band's song sounded like a moany version of the spoof Blur song from Rock Profiles.
Happy days. We once had a song called AD. Because they were the only chords in it. We made the lyrics up as we went along. Annoyingly enough the rest of the band like the music I do since we left school. Shame we all live in different cities now.
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