First rule of the bandstand

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 30 Jan 2016 12:02 pm

First rule of the bandstand:

"Everything is OK until it isn't"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4q18m4m4ic

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 30 Jan 2016 12:28 pm

Wow! He's lucky that wasn't really nasty with all that plate. I've noticed that all those places along lower Broad have the bands all stuck back there in a postage stamp sized area by the windows. Looks really close. Almost touching elbows. Even uncomfortable.

I once played a Halloween thing under an enclosed tent like thing with a makeshift elevated stage. The drummer sat right on the edge. Following his final big flourish, his throne went right off the back of the stage with him doing a backwards summie as he went. Fortunately, he'd had enough jack and coke that he wasn't hurt [or at least didn't know it if he was.]

John De Maille · Post by **John De Maille** » 30 Jan 2016 9:20 pm

I was working at the Lone Star Cafe in NYC in the early 80's for a special show for a soap opera actor, country singer wanna be. They added a piano to the show and set it up next to me at the end of the stage. The guy came up to play and he honestly weighed about 400+ pounds and sat on a typical bar chair. We got to playing and there was a terrible crash to my left. Guess what? The chair collapsed and he and the chair wound up on the floor about 3ft. down. We had to wait for the ambulance to take him away because he broke his arm and injured his back. It's wasn't funny, but, I saw the tape and couldn't help but laugh at the way he went down. That's about the best I got!

Dennis Smith · Post by **Dennis Smith** » 30 Jan 2016 10:56 pm

I was at a show in the Agora Ballroom in Atlanta one time when the light guy had a girl up with him that step on a sky light and feel through on people below and the police closed the place and everyone had to leave. It was the 70's I don't remember who was playing.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 31 Jan 2016 3:19 am

Smashing ending to a smashing version of Ghost Riders.

Don R Brown · Post by **Don R Brown** » 31 Jan 2016 6:13 am

The chair collapsed and he and the chair wound up on the floor about 3ft. down. We had to wait for the ambulance to take him away

It ain't over till they take the fat piano player away.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 31 Jan 2016 7:31 am

OK, that's it. Now I HAVE seen it all.

Hilarious !

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 17 Feb 2016 5:25 pm

About 1969, I was playing a military base close to Bakersfield (CA).We were working a trio with bass, drums, guitar.
About halfway through the second set, the drummer had an epileptic seizure. Drums cymbals sticks went everywhere. I was unaware that he suffered from epilepsy. He was taken to the emergency room on the base and was treated and stabilized. He was released the next day and he drove home.

The bass player and I visited him at home the next day, and he asked what we did after his misfortune. The bass player told him...Quote " We didn't know how to follow your act, so we packed up and went home. " Not a nice response but funny as heck to me.

John Booth · Post by **John Booth** » 17 Feb 2016 5:36 pm

One of my first gigs back in the 60s was at a public swimming pool.
The concrete was wet and I didn't have sense enough know I shouldn't play
an electric guitar barefooted on a wet concrete surface.

I learned quickly tho when my lips touched the microphone and for a brief
moment I think I saw God.

JB

Jeffery Self · Post by **Jeffery Self** » 21 Feb 2016 6:11 pm

John Booth wrote:One of my first gigs back in the 60s was at a public swimming pool.
The concrete was wet and I didn't have sense enough know I shouldn't play
an electric guitar barefooted on a wet concrete surface.

I learned quickly tho when my lips touched the microphone and for a brief
moment I think I saw God.

JB

DANG!!! I laughed for ten minutes after reading your post JB

frank rogers · Post by **frank rogers** » 23 Feb 2016 12:19 pm

John De Maille wrote:I was working at the Lone Star Cafe in NYC in the early 80's for a special show for a soap opera actor, country singer wanna be. They added a piano to the show and set it up next to me at the end of the stage. The guy came up to play and he honestly weighed about 400+ pounds and sat on a typical bar chair. We got to playing and there was a terrible crash to my left. Guess what? The chair collapsed and he and the chair wound up on the floor about 3ft. down. We had to wait for the ambulance to take him away because he broke his arm and injured his back. It's wasn't funny, but, I saw the tape and couldn't help but laugh at the way he went down. That's about the best I got!

Loved working that place but yes, it was cozy.