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meanies (or, the dangers of live performance)
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me and the cedar boys just had a very awkward experience with an overly angry touring musician from brooklyn who may or may not have had borderline personality disorder and made us leave a show as fast as we possibly could.
would anyone care to share their best live show horror stories? (e.g. rock bands who hate electronic acts on their bill? sound guys who can't understand you don't have a drummer? audience members interrupting your set to ask if you could play something by justin timberlake? drunks who want to freestyle over your beats? egotistical guitarists who freak out when you need to leave a show to go to a friends birthday party instead of watch their set and start yelling at you about how you don't know anything about community and are a worthless prick and if he wanted to deal with this bullshit he would have just stayed in brooklyn and he's going to delete all your band's music off his ipod because you are such a jerk but really you just have a birthday party to go to and it's not that big of a deal that you're leaving and you're sorry and everything but is all the yelling really necessary?)
...ok, that last one was from personal experience. | |
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06/16/07
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adcBicycle
Tell more about this experience !
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06/16/07
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madeofoak
ah. much like my music, even my blogs are ripped off ideas. everything has already happened.
as far as the story goes, maybe erik (he can jog) will have more elaboration. it was confusing at best. the birthday party, however, was a great time!
06/16/07
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Roshi
We have had our music called weak at house parties. That stuff can piss me off.
But the truth is, I find it harder to deal with general indifference/drunk girls telling me to play something from the 80s.
06/16/07
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rjtuna
back in the day, i remember going to a show, mr. porkchop head, an agrit pop band that specialized in the three chord progressions, and so i looked around the room, into my complete horror/fascination all my ex girlfriends were there, about 12 of them. Not only did I leave the bar, i left the town, i moved 3000 miles away.
rj
06/16/07
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ignatius
LGO told me the best thing ever. he was playing a raging techno set at this club and someone asked him if he had any drum n bass. his response "yeah.. i have tons of it" and then he just kept playing.
usually it's "can you play some hip hop?" to which i say: "the guy after me is all hip hop so stick around. he's dope" then of course the guy after me is not hip hop at all and plays totally fuckt up noise.  or i just say "i'm busy"
most sound guys just want to know how many DI's they need.
06/16/07
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hecanjog
lol rj, sorry dude that sounds like a trip (whoops, pun, sorry)
about our show the other day - AWKWARD. the guy turned on a dime, it was amazing - nick tells the story as it was, the kicker was him telling me he was going to delete all of his decibully. fun stuff, oh well - we all kind of think his girlfriend must have recently dumped him or something, or the tour was going horribly wrong so far. something else had to have been up, it felt like he was just waiting to blow up no matter what...
my worst show was a rave in minnesota where these things happened: drinks thrown at me, insults hurled at me, phone lost, glasses broken, not paid, and stayed until 6am because i thought it was going to be cool and i didn't arrange transportation home until then...
06/16/07
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delete
i'm playing at a festival in my uni, i'm the last act playing after HIM cover bands, blues bands, drum ensembles... the announcer says that the last act will be live electronic music by eskei. everybody (~50 people), except for a couple of friends, left the venue and the sound people started packing up before i even pressed play. i was told to stop after 20 minutes.
06/17/07
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Tripnik
dude, don't eff with brooklynites. You're lucky I was in a good mood that night or I would have REALLY let you have it! ;)
06/17/07
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Analog
We were doing a band dj set once downstairs in a bar, upstairs was someone's 18th or somat. The DJ upstairs must have been really shit, cos everyone kept coming down to investigate us. This girl asked Farny to play some 'funky house'. he said "I'll see what i can do", and put on 'Roots Bloody Roots' by Sepultura.
06/17/07
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quip
when i get asked to play house i program a house beat, drop it, ask em if they recgonise it and when they
say yeah! i take it out again. fools!
06/17/07
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Psyingo
lawl, worst thing i had was during an ambient/drone set some drunkards came in and started yelling at us and heckling some of our friends thus making them leave... few minutes later the one guy comes up to our lighting rig and starts blowing pot smoke at us (i do NOT enjoy pot very much at all) and in canada it's not only illegal to possess its ilegal to just smoke anything inside. soo... we made some really high pitched disgusting feedback loops and made them listen to it for a few mins then pulled the plug and left. we played for about 20 mins. before the feedback finished you could hear the drunk lady yell "MAKE IT STOP!".
06/18/07
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madeofoak
psyingo: torturing drunk dickheads with walls of noise feedback has always been a dream of mine. nice work.
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