If you have any funny stories about other bands you've played with - chime right in.....

We played a show last night. This anonymous band who would be coming on after us, was back stage ranting and raving about how they're the best band ever, and continually explained how they're so diverse, that they're basically just hard rock, and that they're kind of like Guns N Roses meets STP (somehow forgetting that that would be Velvet Revolver).
Here is why they were both crap and not crap:

1)The guitarist, after spending a plethora of cash at an arts and craft store, made his Ibanez RG60 into a Van Halen guitar

2) They played "Breaking The Law"

3)the guitarist couldn't get his hat to fall off while he was 'shredding' so after about 4 backhands to the brim, it fell

4) Two attempts at throwing his hat to the fans, but hitting the front of the stage forced the singer to kick it 4 more times till it tottled over the edge.

5) followed by the drummer who, throwing a drum stick (after his second stick twirling stance) missed the crowd and hit the stage, then got up and dropped it off the edge

6) forgetting which pedal does what on your guitar solo

7) playing sweeps and that van halen triplet thing for every solo no matter what song

Having the curtains close while performing a really bad version of "Ohio -And We All Die Young"

9) Being in a hair band with a singer who sings falsetto for all the high parts

10) The guitarist's dad coming back stage to tell him "No it was....good."

Honestly, if the band weren't such pricks about how awesome they were, they'd be not crap.


Jeremy

They weren't called The Darkness by any chance were they?

not crap:

Ibanez RG60

I have this in hot pink, hahaha

forgetting which pedal does what on your guitar solo

hahahah


playing sweeps and that van halen triplet thing for every solo no matter what song

doesn't everyone do this? ahahaha


Having the curtains close while performing a really bad version of "Ohio -And We All Die Young"

oh man, this thread is acesisms. I'm laffing so hard.

Being in a hair band with a singer who sings falsetto for all the high parts

um, what's wrong with that? LOL

The guitarist's dad coming back stage to tell him "No it was....good."


hell, I wish my dad cared. If the band isn't all male wearing cowboy hats, cowboy boots with an accordian and lots of fringe, I can't tear my dad from watching futbol.

Honestly, if the band weren't such pricks about how awesome they were, they'd be not crap.

so who are they? If you don't want to say openly, PM me.. I am REALLY curious. heheh

Rotten Tanx wrote:They weren't called The Darkness by any chance were they?

You beat me to it.

jeremy forgot to mention the part where the lead guitarist pulled out a harmonica and played a solo of sorts.
that was awesome.

i play drums in SHOW (in which Jeremy plays guitar and sings) for those who fail to see my relation to this thread.

oh yeah the bands name was ... "alpha omega."

ive played a show with them before when i was in a different band, and the alpha omega guitarist attempted a classic rock-star slammer and smashed his guitar on the stage, breaking part of the stage, and being fined for it, and having everyone in the crowd thinking he is not cool.


haha
that was not crap

revrantMeat wrote:jeremy forgot to mention the part where the lead guitarist pulled out a harmonica and played a solo of sorts.
that was awesome.

i play drums in SHOW (in which Jeremy plays guitar and sings) for those who fail to see my relation to this thread.

oh yeah the bands name was ... "alpha omega."

ive played a show with them before when i was in a different band, and the alpha omega guitarist attempted a classic rock-star slammer and smashed his guitar on the stage, breaking part of the stage, and being fined for it, and having everyone in the crowd thinking he is not cool.


haha
that was not crap

LOL, this is the stuff Spinal Tap is made out of. Someone needs to follow this band around with a video camera.

Thank you for that story. I know I must have stories similar to this one, but I don't think as good. What a Golden Night you had.

An ex-band played in Atlanta once with a band called Call Me Daddy. This band, the Call Me Daddy, she was awful. They were exactly what you might imagine a band named so from Knoxville TN to be. They were a hard rock band. Their site is no longer up, but here you my witness their awful, awful music.
Their "lead" guitarist's hott lixx were featured in Vivid pictures. Really. The singer mentioned this, and I looked it up. These are porn movies. His day job was porn guitar.
A different time in Atlanta we played with a band called Hoggnutt. They were a metal band, and I did not hate this band. They were friendly, and unpretentious, as most metal-types are. But they were called Hoggnutt, they had a Hoggnutt banner, and that is funny.
I think people who book clubs get a kick out of these odd pairings. Especially in the ATL. At least these instances were funny to us as well.

edit: spelling.

Jeremy wrote:Honestly, if the band weren't such pricks about how awesome they were, they'd be not crap.

My story is, sadly, nowhere near this good but I am reminded of one of the bands that played before us at the only show my last band ever played, in NYC - they were fairly boring, but the guitarist had some pretty good moves and I respected what he was doing, so after they were done I made a point of tracking him down in the crowd and giving him his due props. Motherfucker did not say a single word to me, but instead handed me his business card and walked away.

I don't remember the band's name, nor did I keep the business card, but man that pissed me off.

In a strangley similar sounding situation my old band Colossamite was on tour with 90 Day Men in 1998 and this horrible major label band called "Buck Cherry" "opened" for us in Columbia, SC. Unfortunately this involved many Anvil cases, large trucks and vocal warm-ups in the restroom. Later we were treated to the sort of surreal sight of them playing to exactly not one person in an empty bar (OK, we were there). Apparently the band was sentenced by Dreamworks to some kind of gig circuit in SC to see if they could build up an audience. Guess it didn't work. Their roadies packed up all their stuff and they left before we played. Not a trace.