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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:45 pm
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Mine was a few months ago. It was just me and a few other friends playing some songs at a school coffeehouse. Nothing major, but it was fun for 2 days of practicing and nothing else before hand. People seemed to like it as well, so all went well, except I forgot to detune in the little outro jam we had, but it was only me and the drums, so it was a different key, no big deal.


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I'm a hobbyist. Didn't realize I was doing gigs everyday. I play in a music room that's a screened-in patio, at low volume. That way, my ears are saved and it doesn't bother my wife or the neighbors. So I'm taking out the garbage and a woman - not young either - is walking a dog. She walks right up to me and she says, "Are you the guy who plays that jazz horn all the time."

Now, I'm thinking faster than usual, although that's still pretty slow. She may want to complain. I don't play a horn - a Stratocaster - and I don't play jazz - blues. So, I say, "no."

She says, "Oh, I thought it was from here."

"So how do you like it."

"Ooh, we really like it."

"It's me. It's a guitar. The blues. Doesn't bother you?"

"No it's great."

I also play at the church occasionally. I'm going to branch out and go to the coffee shop. Maybe I'll play, "Smelly Cat" but as a blues in "C."

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4th or 5th grade. Me and two other kids did Joy to the World at a school talent show. I'm sure we sucked.

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My first professional gig was at the Nite Life Cafe in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn 5/4/2000. At the time I was playing the keyboards for this extreme black metal band. Everything that could have gone wrong did on this night. The sound guy was coked out of his mind as was the promoter. The PA was acting up, fights were breaking out, but the good thing was that there were hot half naked chicks all over the place, so that was enough motivation to get us to play :twisted: The sound guy fu**ked up so many times. We gave him a cd that had our intro on it. He cued this CD about 3 times while we were in the middle of other songs which threw the whole band off, on the last occurrence that this happened we were in the middle of a song when the sound guy climbs over my keyboard rig for reasons unknown. I had my keyboard tune down a whole step due to the guitars being tuned to D when he hit the transpose button putting my keys back in E and off went every member of the band into their own world, lol! Looking back at the video it is obvious when the sound guy hit the transpose button the sound was so off and it was like chaos. The beauty of this gig was that the crowd was drunk and could not tell the difference and they continued to party as we played and in the end there was a nice after party with some of the girls from this gig :wink:

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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:52 pm
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Very Cool Question. I am assuming that you are talking about any type of live performance playing a musical instrument?

If that be the case, mine was playing Clarinet in the School Band. I was nervous as hell (I was only 10). But it turned out to be a blast. I continued to play in School Bands (Marching and Concert) as a Clarinet and Saxophone player until I left High School.

Me too, though I put down the clarinet at the age of 13(or right before, my sense of time is pretty $@!&*%) and never played saxophone(though I would love to give it a try)
And my first live performance wasn't a blast, broke my only two 'leaves'(for the mouthpiece), the sound was horrible :shock:
Played 2nd clarinet in the communal kids orchestra and some school stuff as well

My first live performance on a string instrument was as a bass player(15 years old) in a Nirvana jam, just some guys from school, we played at the annual spring concert at our school
We where the last act, only playing two songs, the audience managed to stay during SMTS but as soon as we began playing Rape Me half the audience left, at the end of the song the hall was almost empty :P :lol: 8)


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Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:55 pm
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Well I did piano recitals when I was 9 or so.
I did choir & choral stuff in school (up to grade 5).

But I don't know that they count. I have little memory of them--they're a blur. Not due to time, but due to them not seeming important at the time.

In a band?
A disaster. We weren't properly prepared--we didn't rehearse enough. We were missing at least one person at most practices. And my mind went blank. One song I actually turned down my volume & faked it. (I was playing rhythm guitar) I broke a string. Our drummer had to sit to the side and couldn't properly hear us. To this day when I hear the songs we played I still cringe a little. I'm over it now--and I can laugh about it, but I still cringe a little.

But it was a good lesson on preparation. That group of musicians never played together again, although some of us did in smaller combinations.

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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:42 am
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I guess for me it would be like a couple memorial days ago. the "band" consisted of me, my sister, a couple of our friends, and one of their brothers.
We had 3 guitarists, one bassist, and one drummer...who just started playing! and the one guitarist sang (she actually could sing pretty well) and I sang too...and the one reason I sang was because I was the only knew the exact timing on when to come in and stuff.
We started off planning on doing 3-4 songs...but as we practiced we realized that wasn't going to work...so it went down to 2, and then maybe one super easy one. But nobody liked that idea for some reason...except me! lol so we went down to 2 songs. However, the day of the "gig" came, and we didn't really feel like the second was ready cause we only could do like half of it well, then the second half just fell apart. So we just did 1 song. then everyone wanted us to try our second song, so after some persuation we did the 1/2 of the song that we knew.
OH! and the mic was plugged into my little G-dec amp! haha
it was....entertaining to say the least! That band didn't exactly work out...but it was a learning experience I guess. Between the lack of experience, clashing personalities, and too many people who were tying to be leaders, it just didn't work.

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My first gig was everyone in the bands first gig minus one person who had played for around 20 people. We have it on video. We were all just sticks. And there were several messups but it was a learning experience for all of us and we just went back and practiced our asses off.


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I don't exactly remember my first gig, but I'm sure I was nervous.

I still get a little nervous at the first gig after a while without any gigs.

Try to channel it into aggressive guitar playing on that first song.

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My family really started practicing together about a year ago. We have played a time or two for basic get-togethers. We are now set to play for a dance at the local VFW club in August - our first paying gig. We are excited but a bit nervous since it is mostly your retired and older couples that attend these things. We hope that our musical tastes are appealing and entertaining to them. We are also going to go into the recording studio the very next day to begin recording a selection of our repertoire. This was something that we wanted to do not to make money and sell CD's (we aren't going to sell any) but rather to help us remember that in the summer of 2008 this is what we sounded like.


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mine was last year at our highschool art show

we practiced one day before with our singer and he really sucked

we weren't very good


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It was a high school talent show. I was 15 and playing my guitar (a Fender !!) on stage in public for the first time. All I remember is bright lights, not being able to see past the first few rows, and standing there in sheer terror of screwing up in front of all those kids. I guess it went well enough, no one dumped on me the next day. I can't even remember what song I played. All I can really remember is the fear.


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