Gig drinking stories... hurt my liver last night

[shreddermon]

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When you are pretty sober you really see how much it affects performances, its a real eye opener. I have played with folks that were actually better after being drunk, I'm not one of them tho [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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+1. I can't play for s**t if I've been drinking.

Not a drinking story, but a somewhat funny bodily fluid one. A couple of years ago, a new local performance venue was about to open up for the first time. The folks running the place were friends, and ask my then-band to come play so they could set the place up right, and do some test recording. Mic / speaker placements, recording levels, etc.

The day comes along and, sure enough, I get a stomach bug that morning. I did my best to tough my way through it, but it was rough. I'd get through about two, maybe three songs worth, and have to run off to the "green room" to let loose. [img]/images/graemlins/fart.gif[/img] Nasty. I must've made 5 or 10 trips tht day. We still had fun with it, though. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[IrfaanSE801]

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When we were young drunken teens, my buddy came home one night extremely drunk. Thought he'd got away with it until he eventually got sick and ran to the bathroom and attempted to projectile hurl Dark Lowenbrau into the toilet. Unfortunately, his dad happened to be sitting on said toilet at the time taking a midnight dump, and he barfed all over his dad.

His dad was a VERY hot tempered guy. I lived across the street and I remember his dad loudly beating the hell out of him for quite a while that night.

I'll never forget that... Hehe...

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Ya know, I type LoL a lot, but goddamn I've never laughed so hard in my life till just now. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[atomic charvel guy]

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it's weird, after i ran out of interest in drinking, i couldn't possibly play without a shot of dope or a speedball. i'm finally starting to break out of that mode and play with just a fatty .sober, i cannot play a guitar. fukkin' horrible situation to be in.

[aldog1330]

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When we were young drunken teens, my buddy came home one night extremely drunk. Thought he'd got away with it until he eventually got sick and ran to the bathroom and attempted to projectile hurl Dark Lowenbrau into the toilet. Unfortunately, his dad happened to be sitting on said toilet at the time taking a midnight dump, and he barfed all over his dad.

His dad was a VERY hot tempered guy. I lived across the street and I remember his dad loudly beating the hell out of him for quite a while that night.

I'll never forget that... Hehe...

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Hahaha, pepsi out the nose burns!! All over the laptop too!! Damn you!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[guitarsjb]

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Last night was our first gig...our singer showed up wasted! Of course we had just had a discussion the day before that we should limit ourselves to 2 or 3 beers before the show, and afterwards we could drink ourselves stupid if we wanted. Well, before we even went on he almost got in a fight with some guy in the bar. The bartender damn near threw us out, we weren't even set up yet..musically, it started out ok...then about 1/2 way through the first set, it started going downhill quick. He forgets words, then lines, then whole verses. Once he had to come ask the other guitar player what the first words were in the next song....
Then he started trying to argue with us saying we were all wrong, we kept telling him to shut up and pay attention to the crowd...he really blew it. Fortunately, we play all originals and this was our first gig, so the crowd really had no clue.

[Ace]

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My singer has stabbed me(in the leg) while drunk, kneed me in the nose, another band member OD'ed on opium(not enough to go go to the hospital, just enough to spend Easter vomiting and shitting himself), our best friend Kevin Fetus has scars down his chest from our playing with burning Everclear(thanks Donnie!!) and all sorts of other good stuff. I usually don't drink more than 1-2 beers before we play, but I've polished off a bottle of Jager and hit the stage before. We played on place in Denver where as soon as we walked in the door they gave us each a huge pitcher of beer. That was a fun show. The more I drink the sloppier I get at first, then I "sweat it out" after about a song or two.

Recently my friends The Ladykillers played a show at the Knitting Factory. They get free beer and a huge bottle of Jagermeister, and I help them throw gear in exchange for free admission and all the booze I can handle. Also there are always over a hundred hot chicks that go to their shows, so that's a big plus... The singer Adam has a big bottle of Jager that he puts in the rider, and as soon as they hand it to him he makes me drink big gulps with him. That night he took the stage and at the beginning of the set he told the crowd to buy him shots of Jager, so just about after every song a girl would come up to the stage and hand him a shot. Halfway through he was starting to play sloppy.

He managed to finish the set, and after they were done he yelled "WHO HERE IS GONNA TAKE ME HOME AND FUCK ME TONIGHT!!!", and several screaming women rushed the stage. He was so drunk that he laid down on the stage and started to pass out, with one chick still all over him. The my buddy Danny one of the guitar players saw Adam put his hand over his mouth with that distressed look on his face. Danny quickly rolled Adam onto his side, and then he puked all over the stage. Even though I was there I had to ask Danny what happened that night a few days later, since I was blacked out drunk myself...

[Jason1212]

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One night my friend Brent got lit after a friends show and yakked all over himself. We tried to convince him to jump in the pool at the apartment complex we wound up at, but he ended taking punches at us starting a fight. One thing led to another and the cops showed up. They were questioning him trying to determine how coherent he was. The cop had a flash light on him and asked him “what’s that on your shirt?” Brent’s reply was priceless “Guns N Roses I got it on the last tour”. The cop actually hung his head, the flashlight's beam dropped to the ground, and Brent spent a night in the clink. We tried not to laugh as it was right up there with seeing a bud get nailed in the jewels, but it was too funny.

[khabibissell]

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I have no idea how people play drunk. Most people can't but seem to think they can. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

The guys in my soon to be ex band drink and smoke themselves into a mess every time we play. The singer forgets lyrics, can't work his pedal board, or play. Our drummer's timing is all over the place in extreme cases. Last spring we had a gig and the drums stopped for at least 30 seconds during a song we just kept playing. To this day I still have no idea what happened. Our bass player has drank himself to the point where he was puking beforehand, but he seems to keep it together for the most part.

Myself, I wait until afterwards. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Inearthed]

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We were opening up for a touring band once and the vocalist decided to go get demolished right after the sound check. We sound checked and had about 45 minutes before the show kicked off. He went out and drank about half a fifth of 151 (supposedly) and got his herbal essence fix. We all were hanging out in the bar and didn't know this was happening, so basically we got told "time to go on" so we started making our way to the stage only to find he was nowhere around. I get charged with the task of finding him (mainly because I don't really warm up before we played) and I find him roaming around the parking lot yelling for his mom at the top of his lungs. After talking to him, he was convinced his mother had been in an car accident that night and for some reason that equated to him running around the parking lot calling out for her. I lured him back into the venue and he pretty much spent the whole show rambling into the mic and pulling off horrible vocals. Every between song introduction was totally random and terrible. I kept signaling other members of the band to start the song since he was just babbling into the mic and doing a great job of making him look like a dumbass.

I have a bad tendency to not eat dinner the nights we play shows, so that combined with alcohol isn't a good combination. I played a gig where I had two jack and coke's up on the stage with me (and we're talking full glasses that were pretty much just a splash of coke). I was fine through our set, but after we finished I downed the second one real quick and went from just buzzed to drunk, carrying heavy gear around.. I fell down twice lugging a bass cab before the other members realized that they should lend me a hand.

[tedgar]

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Simply.. Wow.

[paddok]

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I don't have a gig drinking story, but one night, while intoxicated and surfing ebay, I stumbled across what I thought to be Jackson logo'd schaller floyd on eBay for $60 bucks.

Cool I thought, hit the bin, and was happy to have a new part for a project guitar.

Time passes and I recieve the floyd, man I had just picked out the perfect body for it.

I open up the box and find that I bought one of those crappy charvel single locking floyds instead! Doh!

I ran back to my computer to see if I had just gotten the old switcheroo, turns out, nope I was too damn drunk to tell the difference.


Don't drink and eBay.

[horns666]

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I'm a tedy bear when I'm drunk..I'll hump my worst enemy's leg when I drink..Then I'll puke everyfucking time..

John and I had alot of drunken gigs together..yes he did witness "Panty Man" while I was doing a bass solo..LOADED..I have that on video..I MUST post that!!

John throwing ice cubes at me all night..I thought it was hail..they were pinging off my bass strings..the drunker I am the better I play..No its NOT my imagination..its on tape..best playing I ever did in my life.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

John..gets silly assed when Drunk..chasin' tail..he loves it when I spill beer on him , and he plays just fine...but I spill beer on everyone..Not my beer either..I'm italian..I talk with my hands alot..and if your close to me when I'm talking..bada BING..you'll get a beer bath.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

John and I never were in the same band live together but our bands always played together..him in his metal cover gig ..then Us in Van Halen full make-up and dress.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Ace]

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I almost fell over trying to stomp on a MIDI controller at the House of Booze in New Orleans.

[horns666]

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Ace did you see that Post of us when we met..???

Some pics..that was a fun night dude. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

I'll gig it up ..and you make a post on it of out silly ass meeting..mechanicals bulls , weed , booze , whinos , and ya jammed on all my guitars..and YOU are the only one here that was in the house of Bill Z Bub.. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I'll get it..

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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I've never drank at a show before, but I wanted to start drinking heavily on Saturday...we played a Battle of the Bands that we had to drive 3 hours to get to, we were over an hour late because of my drummer, my bass player's cable broke during the soundcheck(which has been on the fritz for weeks, and I've been telling him to go get replaced),and my singer/guitarist's knee gave out somehow during the first song and he fell on his ass in front of like 250 people. If it wasn't a show on a dry campus Christian college then I would've been drunk by the time the night was over. Instead I was just pissed.