Hop On Pop
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9/5/2007 9:44:57 AM
What was your FIRST gig?
Yeah this was inspired by that other thread, over there...
Mine was a "battle of the bands" at the very bestest club in all of Missouri:
The Blue Note in Columbia, MO
We were, easily, the worst band on the stage that night but my fraternity brothers stuffed the ballot box and we won. I thought that was kinda a sucky thing to do (but took the cash anyway). There were about 150-200 people in attendance and, being that the club is so freaking cool, I was kinda freaked out.
Still, a great experience.
You?
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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9/5/2007 3:17:07 PM
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First gig? That was a long time ago. I was about 12. I played my new Gibson guitar and sang for at a Nursery school. I still play that guitar and love it. Both of my kids learned on it.
At 13, I played a bit part in a movie and sold 2 songs to Milos Forman, a director from Czecoslovicia. The name of the songs were, "Plastic People" and "Trinity Ward." Trinity Ward was a soldier who died in the war.
A fun early years gig was at about age 16, I played at Middletown Psychiatric Hospital with my band. It was a huge gymnasium, packed with patients. I had a riot. I felt right at home. (fit right in) :-) I could go on about (first) early gigs. Some of them were hilarious. deb
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Bat Lenny
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9/5/2007 5:06:31 PM
Our first gig was in 1989, at our first tape release party in conjunction with the anniversary of a radio show on a local public radio station. It was in a big open warehouse space. It was a "Bring Your Own Instrument" party. We had dozens of musicians there, with dozens of instruments. It was an absolute blast. Luckily we recorded at least 30 minutes of it on 8 track reel to reel. It was a totally improvised free-for-all, with trumpets, African percussion, toy instruments, mandolin, a Korg M1, you name it. And it featured professional musicians all the way down to complete non-musicians. We named the result "Spontaneous Human Percussion". It's actually surprisingly listenable, and at times quite inspired!
At the end of the recording you can hear me say "The band outnumbered the audience!" Which it did.
-Stegor
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