A Guitarist Guide to Surviving the Gig from Hell!
Friday, December 2nd, 2011He could be a good guitar player and cool under stress. He plays for a band called the Psycho Nymphos. They seem to be a 5 piece band with 2 guitar player, keys, drums and bass. The other guitar player also doubles as the crooner. Yet this is Joe’s bad dream.
As a guitar strummer, this eventuality should prompt wild shaking of all body parts and have you soiling your underclothes. This, is the gig from the infernal regions. Thinking that he begins at one thousand, Joe shows up at the location with 2 hours to spare. Well, it might be 2 hours to spare, but Joe got given the incorrect info. They’d been attempting to call Joe on his telephone, although it was switched off. Joe, keeping cool, empties his vehicle in a rush and somehow manages to get everything set up only ten minutes late. The bunch is getting nervous and the bar chief is mad. No earlier than finishing his ultimately fine-tune, the Nymphos start. After another minute of working out what song to play, the Nymphos start their first song. It sounds atrocious, with Joe’s guitar to quiet and bass guitar too loud. The bunch is wondering what the hey is happening, and the bar executive is wondering who he employed and why.
Joe is a little irritated. After standing around working out what to play next, the band starts the second song as advised by the drummer. This one sounds better till the 1st chorus. 1/2 way thru the 1st chorus TWANG.
Joe busts a string. Joe fumbles his way thru till the end of the track. Joe is terribly humiliated. The band stands around for one or two minutes while Joe replaces the damaged string. Actually everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. And their lagers. A bit too much. The Nymphos are beginning to get a little messy and beginning to miss cues. He’s beginning to miss when he is meant to be coming in, and slurring words. While the boys in the band find it funny, the group aren’t. Joe is beginning to get bladdered.
The subsequent song Joe’s guitar starts making funny noises, and the sound starts cutting out.
Source: One Direction