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airbornestrat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:27 pm

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

I have a few. Great thread idea!

One I've told before here is when I lived in New York, our gig got canceled thanks to the big blackout of 2003 and we were already behind on the rent cos we kept drinking it. After being rendered homeless on the mean streets of Manhattan we slept in the bushes in Strawberry Fields in Central Park (just off 72nd where John Lennon lived and died for those who dont know) cos we figured John's ghost would keep our instruments safe for us. It was almost a week before we had another booking. Thank god it was summer or we would have froze to death!

Another is again in NYC, we were playing DUMBO (a music scene that stood for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Our drummer had clearly had too much and decided to sleep it off in the back of another bands van..................he woke up the next day on his way to Philadelphia!

CC

Bro,
You should have called me I had a great apartment up on West 109th and Amsterdam...I was never there because I was always with my then girlfriend now wife..

You could have stayed free in my place..

ABS

airbornestrat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:33 pm

Back in 1985 I was in a really great band and we went on tour of the NE US with Honeymoon Suite and 38 Special. Well we were all totally excited for our first show which was in front of 24,000 people. We didn;t know the crowd size at the time and as we are on stage waiting for thr curtain to go up and the noise was deafening...our keyboard player was asking is that a jet...our road manager says nope...that is the crowd...well old Paulie goes and gets a huge stein of beer and drinks it down in 3 pulls...then...right in the mniddle of the 3rd song has to take a leak...well the show stops for no one so he had to pee himself...his new name Paulie pee pants...LMAO from then on he was not allowed any beer before we went on stage.

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:38 pm

airbornestrat wrote:

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

I have a few. Great thread idea!

One I've told before here is when I lived in New York, our gig got canceled thanks to the big blackout of 2003 and we were already behind on the rent cos we kept drinking it. After being rendered homeless on the mean streets of Manhattan we slept in the bushes in Strawberry Fields in Central Park (just off 72nd where John Lennon lived and died for those who dont know) cos we figured John's ghost would keep our instruments safe for us. It was almost a week before we had another booking. Thank god it was summer or we would have froze to death!

Another is again in NYC, we were playing DUMBO (a music scene that stood for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Our drummer had clearly had too much and decided to sleep it off in the back of another bands van..................he woke up the next day on his way to Philadelphia!

CC

Bro,
You should have called me I had a great apartment up on West 109th and Amsterdam...I was never there because I was always with my then girlfriend now wife..

You could have stayed free in my place..

ABS

OMG, if only I knew you back then bro. It was a nightmare at the time but looking back it was an adventure and a half. We were close by there on West 102nd and West End Ave! Thats insane! Theres a great little pub on Amsterdam I love called The Dead Poet. I also love Rancho's and the Gin Mill! I get so homesick for NYC all the time man.

CC

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:41 pm

airbornestrat wrote:

Back in 1985 I was in a really great band and we went on tour of the NE US with Honeymoon Suite and 38 Special. Well we were all totally excited for our first show which was in front of 24,000 people. We didn;t know the crowd size at the time and as we are on stage waiting for thr curtain to go up and the noise was deafening...our keyboard player was asking is that a jet...our road manager says nope...that is the crowd...well old Paulie goes and gets a huge stein of beer and drinks it down in 3 pulls...then...right in the mniddle of the 3rd song has to take a leak...well the show stops for no one so he had to pee himself...his new name Paulie pee pants...LMAO from then on he was not allowed any beer before we went on stage.

lol, I've had to do it a few times myself, never to a crowd that big though. Thats so cool bro.

Another reason why I ALWAYS play in black jeans, you can't pi55 yourself in blue without people knowing!

CC :lol:

airbornestrat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:02 pm

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

airbornestrat wrote:

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

I have a few. Great thread idea!

One I've told before here is when I lived in New York, our gig got canceled thanks to the big blackout of 2003 and we were already behind on the rent cos we kept drinking it. After being rendered homeless on the mean streets of Manhattan we slept in the bushes in Strawberry Fields in Central Park (just off 72nd where John Lennon lived and died for those who dont know) cos we figured John's ghost would keep our instruments safe for us. It was almost a week before we had another booking. Thank god it was summer or we would have froze to death!

Another is again in NYC, we were playing DUMBO (a music scene that stood for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Our drummer had clearly had too much and decided to sleep it off in the back of another bands van..................he woke up the next day on his way to Philadelphia!

CC

Bro,
You should have called me I had a great apartment up on West 109th and Amsterdam...I was never there because I was always with my then girlfriend now wife..

You could have stayed free in my place..

ABS

OMG, if only I knew you back then bro. It was a nightmare at the time but looking back it was an adventure and a half. We were close by there on West 102nd and West End Ave! Thats insane! Theres a great little pub on Amsterdam I love called The Dead Poet. I also love Rancho's and the Gin Mill! I get so homesick for NYC all the time man.

CC

HOLY $h!t...I was the head bouncer at the Gin Mill and Jake's Dilemma back then and used to hang at the Dead Poets...I bet you were onf of those crazy Scots I used to look after...if only we knew back then!!! No wonder we get along so well.

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:12 pm

OMG, thats insane man! I take it you know Gerry then from the Poet? Or even Ken Botte? He's a super in a building around the corner on B'way and I used to work for him for rent money, helping him out maintaining the building, he's never out the Dead Poet, has hs name on the Guinness wall and his own stool.

I was probably one of those crazy Scots big time! I used to play at The Parlour at W 86th and B'way too which is near by. Thats crazy man, thats my neck of the woods NYC style. I lived in those bars!

CC

airbornestrat · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:45 pm

Celtic Cyclonus wrote:

OMG, thats insane man! I take it you know Gerry then from the Poet? Or even Ken Botte? He's a super in a building around the corner on B'way and I used to work for him for rent money, helping him out maintaining the building, he's never out the Dead Poet, has hs name on the Guinness wall and his own stool.

I was probably one of those crazy Scots big time! I used to play at The Parlour at W 86th and B'way too which is near by. Thats crazy man, thats my neck of the woods NYC style. I lived in those bars!

CC

Wait a minute...you used to hang out with them?? I would hang with them and a bbuddy of mine named Mario...Kev, I bet we have thrown back several pints together and didn't even realize it!! Well you know that whereever we are you will always have a roof over your head a hot meal on the table, cold Guinness and hot Teles all ready for you!

nickbeatnik · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:51 am

Haha, you NYC guys... it's a small small world, even in a big big city huh?

I have a million stories from touring, but one that always puzzled me was when we played in Former Yugoslavia, during the war in '94... we had a couple of shows there, and were a bit worried about the whole war situation and the possibility for things to go horribly wrong. Turns out we had no hassles, although changing Yugo Dinars for Deutschmarks with heavily armed men at 4 in the morning before we drove out was more than a touch nerve wracking.
Anyway, the next day we drive across the border into nice, neat, peaceful, orderly Austria for our next show - and get flagged down a mile past the border by a soldier, then a couple of jeeps pull up and we're surrounded by soldiers pointing rifles at our van! They check our passports, ask a few questions, then let us go. So weird to have just come from a war zone where we expected that and didn't get it - then in a peaceful country to get surrounded by guns.

Celtic Cyclonus · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:09 am

The world is too small! Thats just crazy Eric.

These stories are great guys, keep them comin, I'll add a few more when I remember them.

CC

Johnny B. Goode · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:05 pm

Ok, so I don't have a lot of experience touring nor are my stories that great but every time I think of some shows I helped with equipment for a friends band I just can't help but laugh....

So there were a couple of local shows (for a competition like battle of the bands I think) and I would always go out and watch them practice and hang out with my friend so they asked me to help with equipment (loading the van, unloading the van, set up, etc). So at the first of these shows I show up at the drummers house (practice space) and help them load up the van and follow them to the venue. We set up and they play (they were this deathcore band... who have since broken up) and we start loading up and the rhythm guitarist/clean vocalist and another guy helping with equipment start singing Wanted Dead or Alive by Bon Jovi at the top of their lungs and after a while everybody else joins in yelling WANTED (at the appropriate place in the song) and a good time is being had by all. Needless to say this became a post-show tradition....

So yeah, that's my story... a bit long winded but hey, that's how I tell stories... no detail too small lol

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