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Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:20 pm
by snipelfritz
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6hijsqO8H0[/youtube]
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:10 pm
by WayToHip
snipelfritz wrote:WayToHip wrote:I don't know what is weirder: playing in a art gallery's backroom that you couldn't leave (literally, the doors were locked by the promoter) or a laundromat.
I vote laundromat.
Why did he lock the door? To keep bands from leaving? To keep the audience(who presumably had already paid) from leaving? Sounds like mondo fire hazard all around.Aside from the locked doors aspect, ILFest '11 was held in an art gallery's backroom actually, so there's quite a few people on here who could share that experience.
The doors were locked so it wont get it shut down by cops, being an illegal venue with cheap ($1) cans of beer and tons of drug use.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:35 am
by fiddelerselbow
I booked a gig on a short tour and ended up playing a wedding reception in some trendy middle aged peoples bar. Wierd as fuck.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:30 pm
by Chaosmic
That would have to be either: in the back of a tattoo shop in Rocky Mount VA, a condemned warehouse that had been turned into an improvised skatepark in Southern Pines, NC, on top of a mountain above Mountain Lake outside of Blacksburg, VA at an event called the White Trash Luau, the basement of one of the biggest Ecstasy dealing houses in VA, or at an NC State Women's Rugby Team Jello wrestling party at The Brewery in Raleigh....
I'm sure I could think of more but these come to mind first.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:24 am
by masked elwood
my first gig was a post masters convention. 1977
band name: the armpits
they pulled the plug during the second song: "let's play death".
my rig was a 65 strat, distortion +, sunn beta lead into a sunn 4/10.
you'd think we had killed a puppy by the looks of terror on their faces.
it was awesome.
100% true story.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:26 am
by theavondon
masked elwood wrote:my first gig was a post masters convention. 1977
band name: the armpits
they pulled the plug during the second song: "let's play death".
my rig was a 65 strat, distortion +, sunn beta lead into a sunn 4/10.
you'd think we had killed a puppy by the looks of terror on their faces.
it was awesome.
100% true story.
This is why you're my hero.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:32 am
by masked elwood
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:39 pm
by kaboom
i'm playing a barber shop this weekend.
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:26 pm
by CBGB
As part of a quartet?
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 2:27 am
by RR Bigman
Chaosmic wrote:at an NC State Women's Rugby Team Jello wrestling party at The Brewery in Raleigh....
mad jello bro *badum-tiss*
Re: Oddest place youve ever played a gig
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:06 pm
by kaboom
CBGB wrote:As part of a quartet?
now that you mention it, yes. brb, gotta go arrange some 4-part vocal harmonies...
