I was thinking about something that bothers me since my first day on stage:
Can you ever watch/listen your own concerts fully happy with the result?
I mean, every time I watch one of our own shows there’s something bothering me: look, I sucked on backing vocals here, I sound like a choked goat, fuck! Or damn, the sound was horrible, or I don’t know, like, one time it happened that Costin, the lead singer in my band jump right to the chorus when he wasn’t supposed to. We ALL looked at him asking ourselves WTF happened?!!
It happened that I(cheers: yeaaahh!) entered earlier with the solo (stupid me!) and none of us realized that…After the damn solo, the math of the song told us to go on with the lyrics while Costin, the lead singer, knew that after the solo comes the chorus. So he entered that…
OK, but that’s something that happens once in a while, a very rare while, I hope it never happen again on stage. And the fact is that nobody in the crowd realized that, it was one of our own songs, the lead singer realized at one moment something was definitively wrong and he improvised something so we could all stand proud at the end of the show. Nothing happened!Ih!
But the main idea was not to speak about the moments we/you screw up, but about the normal shows that you watch on tape later on. Is there any perfect show there?!
1) Can you happily watch your shows saying well, yeah, that’s one heck of a show right there!!!
And 2) because I started the parallel thread here: what’s the worst screw up on stage you’ve ever experienced?
I will start here by telling you about a contest we were part of somewhere around 1999 I guess, we were playing this song here, “Doar tu” is called (translation:Only you), the song has some breaks here and there and at one moment, the drummer started on the wrong hand, I mean he started half a measure later or God knows what happened, because after that moment we played that song half measure earlier than our drummer who only realized something was wrong when we all finished the song and he kept on playing…
We were close to killing him for that at that moment. The fact is that the next year, in the same formula we won the second place in this national contest, with this song here, the song brought us a contract so we didn’t actually suck, generally speaking, right? Don’t get that impression, OK?
So, here’s the song, in an acoustic version, no drums or bass, but you get the point.
So, now, honestly speaking, what was the worst moment you have experienced on stage!?
Come on! Amaze me!
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Ovidiu OprescuRomania, 31 years
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Marko
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
The worst moment ever on stage for me was during my final performance for my B.A. degree.
I had a total blackout in the middle of my required Classical guitar solo pieces and had to back up to the beginning of the section again.
At first, I felt really humiliated and devastated and my only thoughts at the moment were, “It’s over, forget the degree. :-(”
That also was the best thing that could have happened to me - because from then on, the rest of the performance I just played and I nailed it.
Got my degree too.
Ovidiu
October 24th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
It happens when nervous, I have seen it happening also.
Kyle
October 28th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Honestly my worst moment was being the only member of my band to show up 40 minutes late to a show that was only 1km or 2 away from where I lived.
How embarrassing
silviu
November 10th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Most embarrassing. One concert at the end of the world on a mountain. The electricity was extremely bad (i think there was a generator). During the concert, my processor broke down, in the way that all the lights were on, but the sound come out very seldom (never happened again). This happened on song 2 out of 10. I was forced to plug the guitar directly into Marshall so I played the whole concert with one clean and one distortion, which is not desirable. In song 4, the great Marshall got an extremely loud buzz. Louder than the distortion itself. Nightmare? Yes. I am just sorry that I wasn’t drunk enough not to care.
Ovidiu
November 10th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I have another one. In a playback show that we were part of (I think like 8 years ago), the acoustic guitar that I was playing was not anywhere. All the other instruments were there on the CD, except mine. And we were on stage, “playing”. OK, so the song starts with a keyboard intro and then only the acoustic guitar remains there. Or at least it should have been there. Instead, it was one stupid guy “playing” the guitar on stage without any sound. It was something related to the fact that the guitar was doubled by the recording engineer in studio and then he reversed(he says) the signal and put each signal on a channel. In that show it was a mono signal so they canceled each other . At least that is what he says…