maxdown
Fractal Fanatic
Wireless systems - oh yeah been there and got the teeshirt :
1. We travelled over to the notorious North England working men club scene to do a 3 gig weekender 'tour'. This was in Newcastle and Gateshead. The crowd sit with their arms crossed at the start of the night just waiting to hurl abuse at you if displeased about something. We opened our first night with Queen's One Vision ... and it was decided the keyboard player would go on stage first and do the intro - then the rest of us would walk out on cue ..... guess who forgot to switch on his wireless pack.....and we'd brought a couple of pyros as well which the guy set off in sync with my dramatic arm swing ....
2. We played a local bar residency gig for years so it was always a relaxed one. I'd a bladder full of beer halfway through the first set and was hopping from one leg to the other - so I told the guys I'm going to the loo and to play something with no prominent guitar for the next song. I actually played the end of the current song as I walked down the bar to the loo. Got to the loo and there was a queue - so by the time I'd actually got standing space at the urinal with guitar slung upside down on my back the band (on purpose) started up a song where the guitar was very much needed after the first verse. I'd just time to zip up before swinging the guitar back to hit the big chords - unfortunately the bloke next to me was pretty drunk and I tapped him with the guitar as I swung it to the front - he turned round to look and forgot to stop pissing. You know the rest really ..... rest of the set with a very damp right leg.
1. We travelled over to the notorious North England working men club scene to do a 3 gig weekender 'tour'. This was in Newcastle and Gateshead. The crowd sit with their arms crossed at the start of the night just waiting to hurl abuse at you if displeased about something. We opened our first night with Queen's One Vision ... and it was decided the keyboard player would go on stage first and do the intro - then the rest of us would walk out on cue ..... guess who forgot to switch on his wireless pack.....and we'd brought a couple of pyros as well which the guy set off in sync with my dramatic arm swing ....
2. We played a local bar residency gig for years so it was always a relaxed one. I'd a bladder full of beer halfway through the first set and was hopping from one leg to the other - so I told the guys I'm going to the loo and to play something with no prominent guitar for the next song. I actually played the end of the current song as I walked down the bar to the loo. Got to the loo and there was a queue - so by the time I'd actually got standing space at the urinal with guitar slung upside down on my back the band (on purpose) started up a song where the guitar was very much needed after the first verse. I'd just time to zip up before swinging the guitar back to hit the big chords - unfortunately the bloke next to me was pretty drunk and I tapped him with the guitar as I swung it to the front - he turned round to look and forgot to stop pissing. You know the rest really ..... rest of the set with a very damp right leg.