MY WORST GIG (True Story)

This is the story of my WORST gigging experience as a guitar player in a function band. By my own admission a lot of it was my own fault, but still - it escalated pretty fast!
Playing in a wedding band is usually a fun experience but this one definitely tops the list of my worst experiences.
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[@TheMeJustMe75]

I quit my band 4 days before our first gig. We had been asked to open for a popular local band. The problem is that another member decided that doing heavy drugs right before practice was a great idea. He either disappeared or was too messed up to pick up his instrument. I just packed my amp and guitar then went home. The next day the band member called me wanting to know why all my stuff was gone and I told him I quit. That's when he told me we had an opener. I told him to find someone else because I didn't trust him to be sober that day or even be able to play. He chewed me out for 20 minutes then I told him I still quit. That was basically the last time I spoke to him or the other members. I heard that the other members quit days after I did.

[@RobGalley]

A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link.. You can’t be joining a chain with a weak link! Sounds like you did the right thing

[@drummingtildeath]

My guitarist never used a tuner. I told him he should for our first gig. He refused to use it in rehearsal, and used it for the first time at the gig. Do I even need to say more? He didn't understand how it worked, went on stage with it tuned all wrong, tuned in a panic, broke his bottom string and then couldn't play anything properly. He came off stage saying "I think that went well". I told him it didn't go well, he got in a mood for months, and I quit.

[@BackToTheBlues]

Back in the olden days tuners had a six-position slider switch, one for each note. One night the band I was in was just finishing setting up, and the rhythm guitarist/singer is tuning his guitar. The only thing is, when he tuned the B string he them went on to tune the top E but forgot to click the switch along first. So now, without knowing it, he's got a guitar that's tuned E,A,D,G,B,B. he even played an E chord to check it was in tune, but of course with two in tune B's sounding out at the top it doesn't ring alarm bells. The first song is in D. The drummer counts us in, and off we go with his guitar ringing out a glorious version of D which has both a D and a Db coming out at the top. Alarmed looks from me at him, and from him at his guitar, but it's a quick change, so perhaps he was just mis-fretting something. The next chord is an A, and he's playing it at the bottom of the neck, so he's got an A chord with both an F# (which is part of an A chord) and a B at the top again (which definitely isn't), as that mistuned E is ringing out open. It was at that moment we stopped and announced we had a quick bit of tuning to do. If you've got a guitar handy, tune it with two B's at the top and try those chords. It's hilarious. 😄

[@morristhemoron]

I've learned the hard way to eat at least a little something before heading over to a gig, even if I knew the venue served food (whether comped or not). I've had a few experiences relying on getting food at the gig before our set to help carry me through, but for a myriad of reasons we had to wait until after our set (or learn that food wasn't even available/being served). I remember on some occasions feeling super shaky because I was so hungry and definitely affected the quality of my performing. I told myself never again and to at least have some carbs and protein before leaving for the gig just in case I encounter a situation like that lol

[@sapphiremellor8458]

That sounded massively stressful

[@sapphiremellor8458]

Well that was the photographers fault because him not wanting to stay set it off badly

[@indiedavecomix3882]

Sounds like what seemed like a big deal to you, wasn't that big a deal to the customer. Having the perspective of knowing rhe photographer wanted to leave early, to them it was a quick freak out that got resolved quick. Because you all acted professionally, they didn't have the same stress you did.

[@BrianReplies]

This sounds like..... work. It sounds like you're going to work. Like...a job. Where people are constantly wrecking everything up with incompetence and inconsiderate behavior.

[@sapphiremellor8458]

The bride and groom probably knew they did wrong and that it wasn't your fault

[@HowToBass]

I remember this gig. 🤮

[@RobGalley]

Still haunts me 😂

[@fistinair1979]

The wedding didn't feed the band?

[@RobGalley]

Sometimes we don’t get any food. It’s rare though!

[@sapphiremellor8458]

Any chance of autumn Ruin reforming 👀

[@RobGalley]

Technically Autumn Ruin never broke up 👀

[@sapphiremellor8458]

@@RobGalley really? U guys have been quiet for ages

[@sapphiremellor8458]

The the photographer was basically lazy and didn't want to do their job

[@RobGalley]

I’m not saying I wasn’t just as much to blame 😂

[@sapphiremellor8458]

@@RobGalley no it was all him if he had stayed later they wouldn't have had to push the set up and u would have had time for food

[@hai30]

why did you get rid of the tab for your phantom of the opera wtf

[@RobGalley]

I don’t remember having a tab for it?