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Hop On Pop
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10/13/2009 12:17:17 PM
Do you remember your first gig?
Of course you do.
Where was it?
What do you remember about it?
My cherry was popped at The Blue Note in Columbia, MO in the spring of 1991.
The band was called Brave New World.
It was a "Battle of the Bands" and my frat. brothers stuffed the ballot boxes to make sure that we won. (We really didn't deserve it.) I remember playing bass on Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole" and having the singer take my hat off in the middle of the show to reveal the worst haircut in the history of the world.
It was also the debut of the first song that I ever wrote. I had to sing it, which was not a good idea. (The version at the link is with a different band, with another singer.)
Anyway... share your experiences.
If you like.
Still, a BIG rush. The whole night.
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Bryon Tosoff
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10/13/2009 12:25:02 PM
The gig was at a radio station , it was a competition. I beleive it was CKLG Vancouver rocks flagship station at the time
a 3 piece group like so far back I hate to say the year, hint, the beatles started the whole revolution. now that is way far back in the day
didnt win. but it was cool
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Sly Witt
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10/13/2009 12:38:19 PM
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It was either
67-68 I did some original tunes with my little trio of grade school buddies. The audience applauded...I told them to stop because we were terrible...my buddies almost killed me.
or
same time frame ... my little rock band played "Let It Be" at a Catholic Mass. The next day the bishop forbid rock to be played in church... were we that good? ...or that bad?
actually
My REAL first performance, without planning it, was in 67. I was playing 'Love is Blue' on the school piano by ear and the girls noticed me and thought I was cool for the first time...I was forever hooked after that.
now that I think of it...
my first FAKE performance was lip synching to the Beatles in 64 (fourth grade). I wore my mom's fuzzy russian hat for hair and used one of those wind up play guitars... we won first place.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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10/13/2009 1:48:02 PM
A family backyard BBQ when I was 12. I just remember playing "Misery" by the Beatles and "Proud Mary" by CCR. I had a Fender Bronco Guitar, and a Radio shack PA system. We also did one original...
The memory is pretty clear..... It was steady playing after that, Through Jr High and High school Back Yard Parties. The kind of parties you can't have today for fear someone will get shot. About 100 kids and Kegs of Beer :)
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10/13/2009 2:04:50 PM
I can't remember my first gig. I can't remember my last gig either. This wine is delicious.
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Fade to Black
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10/13/2009 2:34:21 PM
Well, yes. It was at the Village Presbyterian Church, at a Sunday Youth Night in the second floor cafeteria. Lights were low and there were Christmas bulbs strung. We had like 7 songs so we just repeated the cycle, for a little over an hour. Jimmy Rhodes played bass on a guitar. I played rhythm guitar and Ronnie McNaughton was on drums. We were 15. Kids danced. They liked the slow dances best. We were pretty good for first time out. The only thing I'm not sure of was our name. It might have been The Hangmen - at least that's what it became several months later, with a personnel change or two. I was the main vocalist (this was before a year later when Nick Jordan's mom told me I really couldn't sing). :D
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Bryon Tosoff
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10/13/2009 3:00:48 PM
Woody said
"I can't remember my first gig. I can't remember my last gig either. This wine is delicious."
ahahahaha so is my scotch
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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10/13/2009 3:02:10 PM
I was all of 9 years old and taking guitar lessons from an old gal (miss Elaine Moody)
i got some mates together (boys and girls and we performed Bobby Darins "Splish Splash" I was takin' a bath---at the school Xmas concert
We had a washboard, spoons, a recorder, guitar and swimming costumes-----
The audience thought we were Rad---I know we were bad!!
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Chris Hance
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10/13/2009 3:24:10 PM
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I can remember it being one of two gigs, either with Worser Than Louis a pop jazzfunk clubby band in the university union,
or
with Hotlips, avant garde jazz funk madness, in The Blue Lamp
either one was first in 1988 in aberdeen,
I honestly cant remember which...
I was on a lot of painkillers then............very hazy............
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Dick Aven
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10/13/2009 4:41:50 PM
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My 1st gig was in a redneck honkey tonk just outside Talladega, Alabama when I was 14.
I played sax and my best friend, Brad Quinn, played trumpet. It was with a group of dudes Brad's brother went to college with. I recall that they announced the two of us as the "Twin Virgin Horn Section"! Man, that was embarrassing.
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VELULA
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10/13/2009 6:08:36 PM
Nice question to bring some memories to the present ;)
This was in the year 2000 in Amancayas. I was with jairo, daniel, miguel and joaquin ... the band's name was Eutansia. It was my first band and we were all learning to play, so we just prepared four covers from: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Metallica and Angeles del Infierno.
We played over a water container next to a street ... we went up there and took electricity from my friend's house who lived just next door. We invited only our friends but as the concert was going on people walking around stopped and stayed. When we finished we had a great audience asking for more songs ... but we had no more :)
vlad
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Conversation Suicide
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10/14/2009 4:05:57 AM
uhhh... what counts as a "first gig" ??
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VELULA
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10/14/2009 8:39:28 AM
I asked myself the same question. I don't know ... you may tell us about the first time you played for aundience ... with your first band :) ... and now that I'm thinking about those days again I realized it was 1999 .... and not one year later as I said before ... hahahh :D
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Hop On Pop
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10/14/2009 8:42:35 AM
Define it however it makes sense to you.
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Conversation Suicide
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10/14/2009 1:28:05 PM
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My first REAL gig, with people showing up, and some PAY, was at a spot called The Bum Steer, in Tucson. It was 1998, and we were doing MOSTLY covers then, but I have fond memories of overhearing some people commenting: "That guy's a MONSTER on stage....."
And I was, and still am.
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Product Recall
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10/14/2009 2:57:30 PM
2005, The Cricketers
Kingston
Surrey
Along side No Hope astronaught, it was a very rigid and nervous, fairly devoid of much personality affair, we weren't loose at all,. But job done not any major fuck ups, got drunk, had fun. Found a great Thai restaurant down stairs
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Conversation Suicide
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10/16/2009 3:54:41 AM
god I love Thai food- it's the GOOD spicy.
My dad was in Viet Nam/Cambodia/Thailand and shit, so we got turned on to good Thai food from an early age.
Needless to say, a gig followed by Thai food would be the Cats pajamas.
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Anon E. Mouse
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10/16/2009 4:38:23 AM
Please never mention CATS, and Thai food, in the same breath again, Mr. phlegm.
-Doobious DoobieMeyer, the Cat
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Tony Vani and Debbie Hoskin
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10/16/2009 5:56:06 AM
I guess you could say I started gigging at age 5, singing duets with my brother to various audiences.
At 11, I was playing my accoustic guitar and singing to the children at a nursery school.
At age, 18, first actual band gig was at Middletown NY Psychiatric institution. They held a dance for the people who lived there and we were hired as the band.
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