Best Gig Travels

[Alnus Rubra]

We played an RAF airforce base, a gig in the officers mess.

At the end of the night, an officer kept buying us malt whiskies, doubles. It ended really messily. I woke up in a pile of my own vomit, in a TV room.

I had to write a letter of apology to the Base Commander!

Oops!

In my defence it was a lot of years ago and I was young and daft!

 

[veinbuster]

We played an RAF airforce base, a gig in the officers mess.

Was it in a mountain?
I did one of those, it was pretty cool. What happens in the mountain, stays in the mountain.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Was it in a mountain?
I did one of those, it was pretty cool. What happens in the mountain, stays in the mountain.

Not in mountains. But yes a lot of things that happened at gigs stayed at the gigs!

 

[Permanent Waves]

Banff looks a great place to gig! I've done pretty much all my gigging only within a few hours of my home in Ottawa, Canada. We were booked to play BB King's in NYC in 2005 but despite having done our due diligence research ahead of time, we got blocked at the border due to Visa issues, which pretty much caused problems any time I needed to cross the border to the US after that.

In 2010 I ended up in a rock band at my company, and we entered the Fortune 500 Battle of the Corporate Bands. We played the semi-finals at BB King's in Nashville and the Finals at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I had brought my Les Paul as a backup but at the last minute, left the PRS as a backup and used the LP since we already had a PRS and 2 Fenders in the band .

 

[alantig]

I get to my room and, no kidding, there’s a coin box… one of those like you used to see on rocking horses for the kids to ride in front of the grocery store, but it’s connected to the bed! Further investigation revealed it would make the bed vibrate if you put quarters in it.

 

[RickP]

It was Zappa-worthy

 

[Tele295]

I rarely get more than a single consecutive night in a given place. Always on the move