Open mic night dilemma

[Tom_C76]

Went to an open mic night the other night with the other member of my acoustic duo. We were to go on 3rd.

First act came on, their opening number was one of the songs we were going to do, and they played what to be fair was a fairly weak version of it. Mentioned in passing to the host that we had been planning on doing said song, he told us to go for it anyway as we would be better at it. So we did, and played a stronger version with a decent solo.

I just have a nagging feeling we put their noses out of joint. Have we committed a musical faux pas here?

[dojo]

nah F**k em... do you know know them?? If they have anything about them it will inspire them to get better.

[Posk]

Ditto. fk'em. Hope you sang/played right at them just to drive it home that you're better.

[Tom_C76]

When they left there was muttering about going home to lick wounds so I don't think the point was wasted.

[davidd]

That is a tricky one, I think you did the right thing though (just don't ever do it to us )

[singlecoil]

If I had other songs available I wouldn't have done it. If I hadn't prepared anything else, then I wouldn't have had a choice.

[scrubchub]

We were the house band at an open mic night the other day. After our first, warm up set, some oldish guy gets up to play a song, needs to plug into my amp. He's using the organisers guitar, so none of his own gear. I'm helping him out trying to dial in a jazzy sound as I didnt have one saved and started to get impatient, before calling my amp (a blackstar id 60) a "piece of st" and saying I should get a "proper amp". All while I was on my knees trying to get a nice tone for him.

I was fuming, tempted to just turn it off and tell him to jog o , but though I would look a tt I front of a decent sized crowd. So I just said next time he should bring his own equipment.

Now that is an open mic night no-no! Insulting the house bands gear while they are letting you use it and helping you get the tone you want! OP I wouldn't worry about what you did!

[ehonda]

This happened to me at my first ever open mic night a couple of months back, since we had to play 3 songs and the list of songs I could play was 3 songs long, I didn't have much choice. No-one seemed to mind though.

[BorkFactor]

scrubchub said:

We were the house band at an open mic night the other day. After our first, warm up set, some oldish guy gets up to play a song, needs to plug into my amp. He's using the organisers guitar, so none of his own gear. I'm helping him out trying to dial in a jazzy sound as I didnt have one saved and started to get impatient, before calling my amp (a blackstar id 60) a "piece of st" and saying I should get a "proper amp". All while I was on my knees trying to get a nice tone for him.

Christ was a wker! That is appalling behaviour.

Reminds me of a time when a good mate of mine had a friend who's input jack packed in half an hour before a local pub performance. Seeing as my flat was literally 2 minutes away, I offered to nip home and grab my guitar if he wanted to use it. He then went on to ask what it was, and when I told him he scowled at me and said "nah mate I don't touch Gibsons". Couldn't believe it!

In the end he didn't play at all. Prick.

[singlecoil]

BorkFactor said:

scrubchub said:

We were the house band at an open mic night the other day. After our first, warm up set, some oldish guy gets up to play a song, needs to plug into my amp. He's using the organisers guitar, so none of his own gear. I'm helping him out trying to dial in a jazzy sound as I didnt have one saved and started to get impatient, before calling my amp (a blackstar id 60) a "piece of st" and saying I should get a "proper amp". All while I was on my knees trying to get a nice tone for him.

Christ was a wker! That is appalling behaviour.

Reminds me of a time when a good mate of mine had a friend who's input jack packed in at a local pub performance. Seeing as my flat was literally 2 minutes away, I offered to nip home and grab my guitar if he wanted to use it. He then went on to ask what it was, and when I told him he scowled at me and said "nah mate I don't touch Gibsons". Couldn't believe it!

In the end he didn't play at all. Prick.

Sounds like he was glad to have even a st excuse not to play.

[dojo]

BorkFactor said:

Christ was a wker! That is appalling behaviour.

Reminds me of a time when a good mate of mine had a friend who's input jack packed in half an hour before a local pub performance. Seeing as my flat was literally 2 minutes away, I offered to nip home and grab my guitar if he wanted to use it. He then went on to ask what it was, and when I told him he scowled at me and said "nah mate I don't touch Gibsons". Couldn't believe it!

In the end he didn't play at all. Prick.

Maybe it was in his endorsement contract he could only play Fender's

[Bebee]

scrubchub said:

We were the house band at an open mic night the other day. After our first, warm up set, some oldish guy gets up to play a song, needs to plug into my amp. He's using the organisers guitar, so none of his own gear. I'm helping him out trying to dial in a jazzy sound as I didnt have one saved and started to get impatient, before calling my amp (a blackstar id 60) a "piece of st" and saying I should get a "proper amp". All while I was on my knees trying to get a nice tone for him.

I was fuming, tempted to just turn it off and tell him to jog o , but though I would look a tt I front of a decent sized crowd. So I just said next time he should bring his own equipment.

Now that is an open mic night no-no! Insulting the house bands gear while they are letting you use it and helping you get the tone you want! OP I wouldn't worry about what you did!

I ran the Charlatans about in the early 90's and tuned Mart's basses at stage right, I remember at one venue 'garbage' turning up to support them with no gear and were told, 'if you want to use our gear, then it's £20 each, they paid up in advance.

I would have told the jazz man to jog on. You're not his fking roadie gear suppler, or ask him to nip home and get his own amp.