The Night Everything Went Wrong, My Worst Gig Ever

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[teytucker]

We played a similar gig. Right off the bat I knew something was wrong, and the drummer knew just as quick. Something just sounded horrible. I go to my rythm player and tell him to tune, he does and nothing changes. We faked the set and the crowd loved the show, but the musicians in the crowd were like wtf. I was trying to figure out who was out of tune or who was playing the wrong chords/ notes. Long story short, after a rough few days the lead player and "best" musician in the band at the time had lent his tuner to another band and the settings got changed. He played the 30 minute set a half a step that was embarrassing

[razorm]

One of my first shows ever we had put flyers out to self promote and a woman came up to us and asked if we would be willing to play a party at a place called house of pizza. We all got excited we all showed off our tats and looked all metal as you do. When we got to the pizza place we saw tons of balloons and streamers we looked at each other like wtf. The birthday boy walked in all 6 years old of him and a bunch of kiddos. We were doomed lol. Well we played puff the magic dragon and i did a bit of twinkle little star but we played musical chairs and made the best of it. We made some cash and had pizza that was almost 30 years ago wow

[musicatorproductions]

So I have definitely had stuff like this happen... we were playing a show outside during summer here in ca.. I was playing on a borrowed Fender 5150 second song in and the amp keeps turning off? not sure why so i keep turning it back on then the fan comes on.. and the speaker no longer works and the screws are melting into the amp... I was the lead guitarist so I started to panic are rhythm guitar player was also the singer so I took his amp and just let him sing while I played only Rhythm no lead... It was horrible....but we made it through.... also it seems like any gear you've had over the years will break as soon as you play a show lol

[brapperdan]

Sounds like a real shit show. I broke a low e string on stage recently, swapped guitars but accidentally kicked my mic away from my amp. On top of that the house sound system was cutting out on my guitar. It really sucked but what can you do?

[dallasslim]

One time I completely forgot how to play a original we had then right after I lost a stick and only had one pair hahaha good times I kick myself on that show