Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Thu Apr 7, 2005 3:45 pm

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Well my proper first show was seein The Who, 'The Kids are Alright' tour Sept 89, ever since then rock has been in my blood.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Fri Apr 8, 2005 9:20 am

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First show I saw would have been either Nine Livez, Midori and Ransom at the powerstation (all ages gig) circa 1992 or possibly seeing a friend of mine at the rockquest finals at the town hall (the band was called Quietus).
International act would ave been Iron Maiden.

first gig performed, loads of classical stuff as a kid but probably rockquest. We did Van Halen's 'poundcake', except for our bassist who started off playing Crazy Train due to nerves and/or being a braindead asshole. Our singer got hit big by the nerves too and decided to forget how to use a microphone. no consolation that one of the judges told me he thought I was a very good guitarist- the whole thing was a fucking shambles.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Sat Apr 9, 2005 2:16 pm

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First rock show i saw was when Less Than Jake was a here a few years back, they were absolutely incredible...

The first rockquest we played in was utter "shambles" too. We blew the fuse (or something like it) to the stage on our first chord so the lights, amps, mics weren't working for a while. Awesome way to start i guess...

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Sat Apr 9, 2005 7:04 pm

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that is cool, far better than playing two different songs simultaneously.
Gig horror stories, could be a good topic......

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Sat Apr 9, 2005 11:31 pm

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My first was Summer Jam of March 2002, it was only local bands like Tadpole and The Feelers, but they also had Silverchair who were kool. Ahh..good times. My first Big day out was in 2003, man that was awesome... Foo Fighters, Janes Addiction AND Queens of the stone age

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:49 am

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Alice Cooper @ aucklands big tent.
back in 1990? ish some time?

had a few small jams, gigs kinda things, but the first gig in a bar with a band that was called JackHammer. (which was a heavey metal cover band) we got about half way through the first song and my guitar string broke, so while i changed that the band played on into the next song, i joined in just in time for the power to blow a fuse. everybody stopped, excpt the drummer, who laughed at everybody and yelled over himself that he doesn't need to rely on power..
the power came back on, did a couple more songs before i broke another string and missed out on fisnhing the set up with the band as it toook forever to find the hole in the back of my strat in the dark.
but that wasn't my worst gig

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:13 pm

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Pretty sure mine was either George Thorougood (circa 1990) but I think that year I also went to Tracy Chapman and Dire Straits. It is all such a blur!!! Best gig I ever went to has got to be Metallica during the black album tour at the Supertop. I was about 1993, I was a 17 year old long hair leather pants black singlet wearing metal merchant. I was about 10 people away from the stage, my ears were ringing for about 3 days afterwards but fuck it was worth seeing Metallica in their prime!

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:16 pm

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Oh yeah. my first proper gig. I was 14 (15 years ago), I played lead guitar on Black Magic Woman and Shake 'yer Money Maker with a group called the Blue Baffoons. They were one of the resident bands of the then Java Jive in Ponsonby. The other band at that time was called "The Low Down Dirty Blue's Band" who later changed their name to Supergroove.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 4:46 pm

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First show I played in was with Pussy Glitch at the KA.
We had to fill the bill for that Friday, and it was Monday. We Wrote two songs in the afternoon, jammed again on wednesday and made the other 3 songs then practiced Friday afternoon and played that night. It was fu**in choice as.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:37 am

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Get some professionalism dude, you're an embarrassment!


ummm



Are we still beating up on thei guy for joining Jonny and the robba?

OK

Knee jerk reaction.

Go about your business pilgrim.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:52 am

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Our first gig went really bad, as did our second and third, so I qiut and became a surf bum.

End of story

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:57 am

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Yeah, coz music's all about the money aye... You need to get some creativity and have some respect for those who have it already.
I could go on about all that 'music is an expression' bullshit but you should already know that.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:06 pm

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you're an embassassment cause you seem to think it clever to just throw some shit together and present it to Joe Public. I couldn't give a fuck if you had a good time, I'd imagine the crowd didn't, the punters who shelled over their cash to watch you do a half assed job. Don't disrespect the audience you little wank.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 3:20 pm

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So you were there....
Well, you might have seen people actually enjoying a raw, rhythmic, musical experience that surpasses the generic shite that you think the audience wants to hear. I think it's a waste of time trying to write stuff for the masses, it ends up sounding the same as everybody else.
I can't be bothered defending something as ambiguous as choreographed sound and it sounds like you have made up your mind about what music should be anyway so it's a fruitless pursuit.
Hell, you can even consider this as a minor little victory over me. I concede to your superior knowledge of music, o cynic!

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:27 pm

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Congratulations carpentry you have probably gotten a troll on your back now.
The cynic can be very nasty and he doesn't go away, except on the occasional three day bender. In any case
Enjoy.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:35 pm

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Back on topic
Worst gig, Nov 23rd 2000.
Kings arms, a little quiet but not the problem.
Problem number one the first band shows up late with no gear expecting to use ours. I tell them to fuck off home and bring their gear back with them, or failing that just fuck off. That doesn't throw me, I can be very good at being unpleasant to dickheads. A txt does throw me a little. Followed by amp trouble an oncoming headache, all survivable then. New song where, for some inexplicable reason we'd decided to capo the guitar on the fifth fret (didn't really need one) being not too good a night I accidentally put capo on 2nd. Singer reacts well and follows guitar though sounding way too low. Bassist doesn't and comes across looking like a dick for my fuck-up. I couldn't look across the stage to the guy the rest of the gig cause he was all pissed off and I felt so guilty. Brought the whole karma of the gig right down.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:47 am

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Worst gig was quite recent. Prior to joining an originals band, I played in a work covers band. Had a couple of cool gigs (the first was an absolute blast: playing in front of 300 drunken office workers in fancy dress ) but the band had never gotten a replacement drummer after I left the company, and they asked me to do one more gig.

Did all the practicing we needed to, and it turned out that it was going to be the last day for the keyboard player, so it was going to be a fun night.

Then when we get set up, the place has OK projection acoustics, but I was hearing virtually nothing except for the drum monitor. That would have been fine, had the sound guy actually put through some bass and guitars, but all I was getting was keyboards and vocals.

Oh, and the keyboard player was totally plastered before we started. Apparently she'd been 'socialising' since lunchtime and hadn't stopped

God knows how we managed to get through it with only a couple of f@@k ups...

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:42 am

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Right mister tools missing in woodshed where to start.
you fuckwit
the argument that having chops, ie having talent negates having feel
one word
bullshit!
Listen to any cd of Stevie Ray Vaughan and you are hearing a ton of emotion and huge technical abilities
listen to the berlin symphony orchestra and the vibe is massive
listen to nirvana and actually stop and think, they played pop songs for a new generation, raw and all, but pop nonetheless and well orchestrated.
sonic youth, wonderfully choreographed, otherwise it would fall flat on its face.

Buying into the 'but he's playing with soul, it doesn't matter that a retarded monkey could do better' argument is to lower music to sonic toilet paper, you may as well wipe your arse on it and throw it away.

People are getting generic shite from you every time you play, don't be so arrogant to think because you are not doing Korn or Britney you are not generic, you belong to a genre of some description, whether you like it or not, usually the one you listen to most. No one is unique, it does not hold up to scrutiny.
Saying you aren't generic, ie you sound like no one else is a ridiculous misnoma and shows your ignorance of both music and what it is you are actually doing.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:36 am

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Stevie Ray Vaughan is the Arnold Schwarzeneggar of the guitar world...loved by millions because of his predictability. Don't think there's anything clever about growing a little lower mingus, putting on a hat and ripping off Jimi while trying to pass it off as "his" style. No denying the guy was technicially proficient at what he did but he played without about as much feel as a T808.

RE: Your first gig, memory of the rock
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:59 pm

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what can I say, cynic?
You really got me on this one, your accuracy of correctness, your complete knowledge of all things in general.
How, oh how could I possibly resist your unrelenting and airtight argument?

Well for a start, I wasn't arguing that having chops denies feel. If anything, chops can make the feeling more accessible.
Secondly, just because I made a band and 5 songs in a week and then played at the KA doesn't mean I'm a crap musician or an embarrassment to music.
YOU are an embarrassment to music.
You are making people's freedom of expression, or in this case, the all-singing all-dancing by-product of marijuana and boredom, a bad thing.

Who the FUCK are you to say what is good or not? Sure, you can say what you think is good or bad but wake up sunshine, we are all different.
I think Pussy Glitch is cool.
I think Stevie Ray Vaughan sucks ass.
I think you're a complete tosser.

Chill-out or fuck off.

This message was edited by Carpentry on Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:01 pm.