Please don't put your life in the hands...
Please don't put your life in the hands...
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V8mate

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45,899 posts

212 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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...of a rock 'n' roll band.

A bit of an anecdotally musical thread; but have you ever been let down by a band?

Maybe it was a band you were in, where you ended up being the only one with a vision, whilst the others drifted off.

Or a band which you knew personally and which didn't, much to your annoyance, go on to fulfill its potential.

Or even a band with whom your relationship was never anything more than a few gigs or even just a poster on your bedroom wall, but who left you with a lasting bitter memory? Maybe simply because their song was playing when Mandy Roberts dumped you hehe

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

278 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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My wife's chastity belt wouldn't come off when I returned from travels once...

Does that count...?

sleep envy

62,260 posts

272 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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I bought tickets to see Aphex Twin - he was ste

is that what you mean?

CypherP

4,425 posts

215 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Someone I knew well at College played in a band and was pretty good. Slept with my girlfriend at the time behind my back. So I pissed in his guitar in the Drama block where their equipment was kept, and then gave him a right jab to the gut later that afternoon.

He didn't end up doing that well with the band, although they were probably worthy of some decent gigs. So perhaps that's more of a victory for me. I don't know.

Steamer

14,106 posts

236 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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CypherP said:
So I pissed in his guitar...
rofl

Brilliant! that must have stunk when it started to dry out.

V8mate

Original Poster:

45,899 posts

212 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Steamer said:
CypherP said:
So I pissed in his guitar...
rofl

Brilliant! that must have stunk when it started to dry out.
As must his girlfriend.

Mr Roper

14,145 posts

217 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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I went to see Leo Sayer play his hit song 'I'm a one man band' when in fact he had a full backing group....

Does that count?







(none of the above actually happened, i'm just bored)

CypherP

4,425 posts

215 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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V8mate said:
Steamer said:
CypherP said:
So I pissed in his guitar...
rofl

Brilliant! that must have stunk when it started to dry out.
As must his girlfriend.
She was fine, up until the point that that happened. I never did see the guitar played again. Thought it was genius at the time though. In hindsight, it was a nice guitar so probably a little silly.

Mr Roper

14,145 posts

217 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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CypherP said:
In hindsight, it was a nice guitar so probably a little silly.
He was boinking your misses!

ashes

628 posts

277 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Way back, went to my first gig at the BBC Paris theatre (still there? doubt it!) John Peel live show with a band called The Third Ear Band.

Mind blowingly rubbish. However, next on was Gary Moore's Skid Row. Unbelievable. They started before the recording and John Peel had to stop them!

Still a bit deaf from that night......

Twincam16

27,647 posts

281 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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My cousin plays the drums for various bands in Leicester as a spare-time hobby. About fifteen years ago, a band approached him, saying they liked his work and they wanted him to join them. He said 'OK, send me your demo tape and I'll decide whether I like your stuff or not'.

He didn't like it and turned them down.

They were Kasabian.

Arnold The Bat

2,423 posts

224 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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I was once in a band and we were due to release a single and so we needed to arrange a few gigs to promote it. We were approached by another band who asked us to fill a second support slot at a gig they were organising which suited us as it was a gig with minimum effort from us to organise.

We turned up on the day successfully soundchecked and retired to the bar where we noticed a poster advertising the gig. It seemed this was some kind of benefit gig for a young girl with cerebal palsy which was a little awkward as the single we were promoting was called 'Cripple'.

We eventually split up after our singer got throat cancer which really is a sign from above that you should give up although he did eventually recover.

Zod

35,295 posts

281 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Twincam16 said:
My cousin plays the drums for various bands in Leicester as a spare-time hobby. About fifteen years ago, a band approached him, saying they liked his work and they wanted him to join them. He said 'OK, send me your demo tape and I'll decide whether I like your stuff or not'.

He didn't like it and turned them down.

They were Kasabian.
He had good taste though. Kasabian are st.

fatpasty

1,561 posts

189 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Twincam16 said:
My cousin plays the drums for various bands in Leicester as a spare-time hobby. About fifteen years ago, a band approached him, saying they liked his work and they wanted him to join them. He said 'OK, send me your demo tape and I'll decide whether I like your stuff or not'.

He didn't like it and turned them down.

They were Kasabian.
kasabian are decent!! bet he feels a fool now!

Twincam16

27,647 posts

281 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Zod said:
Twincam16 said:
My cousin plays the drums for various bands in Leicester as a spare-time hobby. About fifteen years ago, a band approached him, saying they liked his work and they wanted him to join them. He said 'OK, send me your demo tape and I'll decide whether I like your stuff or not'.

He didn't like it and turned them down.

They were Kasabian.
He had good taste though. Kasabian are st.
Speak for yourself. Got all their albums and seen them live twice now.

andrew_huxtable

936 posts

211 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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I saw The View live,piss poor gig left after 4 songs

V8mate

Original Poster:

45,899 posts

212 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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andrew_huxtable said:
I saw The View live,piss poor gig left after 4 songs
Do you feel that your life took a turn for the worse because of that evening?

fatpasty

1,561 posts

189 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Twincam16 said:
Zod said:
Twincam16 said:
My cousin plays the drums for various bands in Leicester as a spare-time hobby. About fifteen years ago, a band approached him, saying they liked his work and they wanted him to join them. He said 'OK, send me your demo tape and I'll decide whether I like your stuff or not'.

He didn't like it and turned them down.

They were Kasabian.
He had good taste though. Kasabian are st.
Speak for yourself. Got all their albums and seen them live twice now.
yeah i agree ... seen them live three times! brill live brand ... wiped the floor with kings of leon at v last year!!

serge!!!

Zod

35,295 posts

281 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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fatpasty said:
yeah i agree ... seen them live three times! brill live brand ... wiped the floor with kings of leon at v last year!!

serge!!!
talk about damning with faint praise!

Soovy

35,829 posts

294 months

Wednesday 6th April 2011
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Many years ago a mate ran a pub in London. He booked an unknown band called Oasis.

They pitched up demanding champagne on the rider.


My mate told the mouthy lead singer that he'd get beer or nowt. Gallagher grabbed him by the lapels and growled "listen up, no Chandon, no band on".

hehe