Pro Musicians Tell Their WORST Gig Story!
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- All of my musician friends are incredible storytellers, and they definitely have stories to tell! I asked some of them to tell me the story of the worst gig they've ever played. Please check them out below!
Eric DeFade: ericdefade.weebly.com/
Brandon Lehman: / itsbrandonlehman
Anton DeFade: / antondefade
Diego DeMicheli: / diegobyrnesart
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:31 Eric DeFade's tour of terrible gigs
2:48 Brandon Lehman played a CRAZY college party
9:16 Anton DeFade and wedding crashers
16:27 Diego DeMicheli almost fought the groom
21:38 Come see me play live!
21:48 My worst gig story
Come see me play live (RIP I didn't put this out in time for the show I'm sorry😭)
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You can ignore the live show I briefly mention I didn’t put this video up in time rip:(
I’m just glad to have content. Even if it isn’t an Omegle video
@@jz_7717 thanks so much for watching 🥺🙏🏻
@Lucas Gawor maybe some but that Kenny G ones are top-tier
Thanks to all the cats who shared their stories. I loved this so much! More of this content please :D
They're all linked in the description make sure to check them out!! Glad you enjoyed it, I'm going to try and convince more people to tell me their stories🙈
Man, i just had a gig last Sunday. There was a planned jam session after the gig and there was a really good pro keybordist i really wanted to listen to and then jam with (she was planned to perform first). Well, the linup messed up and she was performing last. I thought that the gig ended, this was the jam session and accidentally joined her in her actual performance (and she was recording live). Well, it was a mixture between free jazz with some modal stuff (that i messed up real bad). After the gig i went to say sorry, but the thing is she actually liked that, but im filled with unbearable cringe. If youre reading this- im so sorry.
Oof I’ve had my fair share of moments like that😅 usually everyone is understanding though!!
You did fine... probably.
I do have a "good gig" story....
Background: a barn dance in a rough-ish area of North London. "Barn dance" there meant English, Scottish, Irish folk music with dancing in square or parallel sets.
The initial impression was not good. There was a warm-up DJ who was in his late 50s and dressed like John Wayne. At one point he was playing Achy Breaky Fart and singing along emoting like Meatloaf - the lyrics obviously resonated deeply with him in a way we couldn't understand.
Anyway, our turn came to get them dancing... Couldn't get hardly anyone to stand up and especially the men - they clung fearfully to their pints. That was a problem; the art with the men is to get them up and dancing before they get tanked-up (at which point their participation is no longer desirable).
Anyway we did a few dances with the ladies and tried persuasion and cajoling to get the men up. Still no luck.
Then came an unlikely hero - John Wayne. He went around and worked on the blokes to get them to overcome their fear, let their hair down, and have some fun. He kept at it and wore them down. We owed him a big debt of gratitude and learnt a life lesson about first impressions.
That guy not only saved the gig but made it into one of our most successful gigs. Ever since then, whenever I hear Achy Breaky I think of that unlikely saviour and wish him well.
Been gigging for about 15 years, mostly bars, wineries, cafés,
Ugh that’s so brutal. Especially when you give the musician everything they need ahead of time and try to set them up to succeed. Definitely will make or break a gig!
After years of Dj'ing ... I always said i should write a book... sounds like you guys have had simular experiences to me :)
Ohhh yesss I'm sure you have some crazy stories too!!😂
@@FoolishFrankiehaha... yeah...
The “long tones” bleep is insane 😂
LMAOOOO brooo glad you liked it🙈🙈😂
Haha I loved it too!
Watching this video is the perfect validation for all the times I trusted my gut after that first contact with a bride to be said ended up saying NO to or referred the bride to be to someone else. It’s a shame there is so much “extra stuff” that has to be dealt with just to do our work. This video is very well done!
So true!! Thanks for the kind words and for watching!🙏🏻
I'd love to hear more stories!! The first story was a little hard to follow because I don't know the lingo or how a band works together, but your explanation at the end was really interesting! Thanks!
Love this type of content. Trying to start gigging toward the end of this summer so it's nice to hear what it's like out there 😨😂
I stumbled upon your content through Reels. Found your UA-cam channel. Subscribed to it. I'm enjoying the heck out of it. It's phenomenal stuff.
Wowww thank you so much I appreciate you coming to check out my UA-cam!!🥺🙏🏻
This video is a great idea dude, such a natural and fun extension of your gig vlogs. Awesome content.
That means a lot thank you 🥺🥺
Phenomenal video, would love to see more of this
Loved this video! As a music major it’s fun to hear from other musicians:)
Ahh awesome I'm glad you found it interesting!!
Had some fun gigs. One wedding the bride's father had no cash or cheque to pay the band (the terms he'd agreed with the agency were cash on the night). You don't want to spoil the event but the agency already had their cut so it's up to the band to collect as nicely as possible.
Another bunch hadn't sold enough tickets to cover the overheads of their charity gig but didn't ask us to play for free until AFTER we'd played the gig - funnily they didn't try to pull that stunt on the caterers! We insisted on being paid. They complained to the agency but we'd already told the agency we would never gig for that client again.
❤ oh I’m so glad I ran up on this beautiful content. But I could tell a few of these stories myself good job on this.
Absolutely love your content! I’ve been playing for almost 4 years and want to start doing jam nights soon to dip my toe into playing live. I hope some day to play a gig like it’s nothin! Your videos have givin me a little bit of in sight into how I could do that!
Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoy them!!
Send it, don't wait, I love hitting jam nights from time to time, super cool and fun... \m/
Great one. More please.
I love that 8bit big band music in the background! Really interesting video and when I heard that beginning sting to still alive I had to replay it to make sure I wasn't hearing things lol.
Benny Benack III who sings it is from Pittsburgh! Thanks so much for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻
Lol I heard the same thing, you cant miss that one hit right before he starts singing.
This is was wonderful! Is it possible to make this series?
I have another video where musicians tell their worst New Year’s Eve gig story! Going to try and make more:)
Video was fire love the longer content
Hey thanks so much I appreciate you watching the video!!!
Follosh Frankie's voice is sooo nice and his laugh its too good!!
This was a lot of fun would love to see more of this kind of content
Thank you I’m going to try and do more!!🙏🏻
@@FoolishFrankie excited for it!
dope video! love to hear musicians speak and not just play
Niceeeeee... we need a BEST gig Story video :)
I was expecting there to be a gig where the alto had to play careless whispers 😅 extra bonus if they called it jazz.
Oh that's just a normal Saturday😂
Don’t know anything about this life or know anybody associated with it . But I must say, this type of video has something about it that is captivating. Sometimes it’s okay to laugh at other peoples expense & bad story but it isn’t that.
It’s whether you’ve been in that exact position or not at all, we can ALL SOMEHOW relate to these types of stories and or feelings and just get it😂.
Side note: I have a whole new appreciation for you guys. Already had some for the fact you guys are talented and do cool stuff..but was highly uneducated about the sh*t you have to go thru and put up with just to please people but also do what you love.
Much respect
Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Our cover band played for a friend of a friend out in the middle of Eastern NC. Our band shelter was a place where normally farm tractors were stored. There was a double wide mobile home in the middle of corn fields, which was a family’s homestead. Guess where I went to pee? That’s right, in the corn field. Next to the shelter was a storage container where the family who lived there were making moonshine as we played. In the middle of the gig, I’m playing tenor sax hanging around the drummer at the back of the shelter when this overpowering stench of rotting clams and other seafood wafts over the band. The homeowners had a pile of old clams and oyster discarded shells nearby. It was awful smelling. The folks who hosted us were nice, but I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I didn’t care about getting paid for the gig, I wanted out. I blocked out the rest in my mind.
Haha the first guy from Denton, my ears perked up, that's my county in Texas and I know Golden Triangle mall lmao.
This is great
great content! Not many on youtube can make such a great video, incl edit and keep anyones attention for 25 min is an achievement
Thank you so much!!
Very good video, and very well edited ^_^
Thank you so much 🥺
His jazz saxophone is only comparative to that of the best.
Got a gig at a marina restaurant- solo acoustic so as not to disturb the guests- and when I showed up for set up, I found there was no one there that knew why I was there. The manager forgot to tell anyone I was coming. They stuck me in the corner by the bar. No PA, no mic, no stool. The kitchen door was behind me so I had to dodge that. The waiters had fun messing with me though. Finally towards the end of the first set, the bartender told me to stop playing because the guests couldn’t hear me anyway. I packed up and left and called the manager over the couple days over payment. She finally called and told me that she hadn’t expected me to show up but I reminded her that she had signed a contract I had previously emailed her promising to pay me. She said for me to consider it an exposure gig and good experience. I showed up that evening with the contract and confronted the marina owner. He paid me but told me to never expect to play there again.
Wow that’s awful 😰😰
I love the narrative that it's about the people you play with. Music is about people
This should have a million views
🥺🥺🙏🏻
i absolutely love the lick at 7:18
I don’t really know why I’m commenting again… but Hello, you’re awesome, and can’t wait to watch the video!❤️
Thank youuu🥺🙏🏻
Semi-related to your last story, I did a wedding once where there wasn't really a wedding coordinator, just a friend of the bride helping organize everything. It was so unorganized that they weren't ready for the dance set until 30 minutes before the end of the gig. It was 3 1/2 hours (minus breaks) of dinner music. We did all of our dinner songs twice.
Omg😅
Good video!
Thank you!
Omfg I love this. My worst gig experience was when I was made to sing happy birthday for a girl whose name I did not know. They were just kind of like “her.” So I decided not to do gigs there anymore because I’d get put on the spot in embarrassing ways. Funniest part is it was my grandma putting me on the spot since she was paying to have me there. My best gig, a 3-hour solo set (hell yes, I’m proud of myself), one of my earrings fell out, so I just took the other one out and kept going like a badass.
Edit: yes, I’m a professional, but no, I haven’t really had terrible experiences yet. My voice has cracked a couple of times and I’ve made mistakes, but I just keep going. I’m really proud of myself. I’ve had crippling anxiety since I was 8. I started performing in middle school, started gigging in high school, became a professional in high school. I’ve since dropped out ✨ because it turns out my school was corrupt af and it really just wasn’t worth my time, it was way too easy, so I decided to pursue my music career and here I am now. Not gigging consistently as I’m currently working on an album, BUT I made some hella dough when I was a biweekly entertainer for a friend’s restaurant and then I made the mistake of blowing it all on a boy. So that’s fun. I’m getting my groove and my money back though ✌️
What an amazing idea for a video!
Thanks so much!!
Moral of the story, never play at weddings.
LOL unless you like having fun stories to tell:p
Wow! Never had it as bad as in these stories. The worst gig I had was in a very cold Portuguese Hall. I was afraid my fingers wouldn't work . . . but once a few hundred people showed up all those bodies warmed up the whole hall. The other hardest gig was guitar (his gig), bass and drums. First and only time in that group.
Love a bad gig story. Have a couple myself and can relate when it all goes to shit. Keep up the good playing and good vid work Frankie🖕👍👍
Ayyy it’s what bonds musicians!!! Thanks so much for watching🙏🏻🙏🏻
In the first story i could hear the 8 bit big band playing still alive in the background 😂 great choice in music
Benny Benack III sings that song and is from Pittsburgh!! He and Eric have worked together :)
@@FoolishFrankie oh really?! That would have been awesome to see live
I can't decide on the worst. There was the wedding rained out during setup -- outdoors with no tent... or the one where we got chased out of town by the angry fans of the theatrical metal band we beat in a battle of the bands... or the one where they gave us bad directions and we loaded into the wrong hotel... but the one that stings the most was getting kicked out by the venue owner who told us to set up the sound for ourselves with his gear but then got upset and accused us (falsely) of trying to steal his stuff. The other guitarist and his gf had driven over an hour to get to the venue and were coming up the back stairs, late and frantic, while we were coming down with our gear... when i said, "never mind, we're not playing", his gf thought it was a bad joke and slapped my face.
i heard your laugh at the beginning, instantly funny.
This is why I can't ever see myself playing in a band. Ever. Under any circumstances.
Ah yes diffrent timezones
Guess I aint going to bed anyway, gotta watch this video first🥴😂
LOL I'm sorry😅 I appreciate you watching!
Lol no need to apologize! I'm just glad you're uploading, It's awesome😊
If I recall correctly Frankie is at a timezone
I kind of wish I had a good "worst gig" story but I havent played gigs often. My band was playing in another town at a small festival and 30 minutes beforehand we realise one of our PA's cables has gotten damaged and I need to rush to find the only audio shop open on a Saturday in this town. Then on stage, one of my bandmates starts having an anxiety attack about the surgery he's going to have on Monday and he's missing cues and just generally putting in a terrible performance. At the time I didnt know he was having an anxiety attack. And the next band on after us is sitting in the front row, talking loudly.
The next day we have to perform again but this time it's just 15 minutes ourselves, then another band for 15 minutes, and then we'll join that other band on stage and we'll do some songs that we all know. So, while we feel like crap for that terrible performance the previous day, we console ourselves that at least today's gig will be short.
It turned out to be our best gig ever. Just played the songs that had been well received at previous shows, people were singing along, the festival provided a better PA than ours so the audio was good, our performance was tight and then the other band were an awesome bunch of guys and we had so much fun on stage together.
It's weird that our best and worst gigs were at the same festival, but there you have it.
I’ve had gigs like that where you start out thinking it’s going to be terrible and it turns out being one of the best!🙌🏻
21:20 lol definitely have met piano players like that
“I want energy” but then they don’t know their music and ask for songs that directly contradict their wishes … awesome (sad trombone)
Some of these experiences sound like pranks, unreal
So you’re from Southwestern PA? I’m only assuming because you mention the show in Pittsburgh, AND you used a getgo photo as a lil editing joke. Just asking because I am too, and I find it hard to network here.
I’m in Pittsburgh!
First comment and like🎉🎉🎉
First comment on the first comment be like 🎉🎉🎉
Doing.. *long tones* in the bathroom 😆
Lololol😂
17:11 Awful story, just terrible terrible stuff. But more importantly:
Is that a container of *spackle* in the bookshelf???
I could watch/listen to stories like this for H O U R S !!!!!! Love it
Plot twist - is it possible Anton was playing the wrong wedding, and that other DJ was meant to be playing his? Like, they somehow swapped wedding parties?! 🤣
LOLOL
Hilarious 😂😂😂
Yes
What app do you use to write and look at your music on your ipad?
ForScore!
Day One Of Asking If You Can Play "Cumbia Cale" From The Banda " EL Super Show De los vaskes"
I can’t sorry!
Hey random question which I pad do you have/use for your aerophone?
I have an ipad pro but you can use a phone too, I think there are apps for both android and iphone (I don't know for sure about android cause I have an iphone but it's worth looking into!)
@@FoolishFrankie I have the app for my iPhone XR I was was looking into getting a new ipad but I have been out of date with the ipad so I was just wondering.
W vid
W person for watching🙏🏻
The Princeton gig story wasn't too surprising. The nuttiest Princeton one I played was a beach theme complete with
a makeshift pond and wall to wall sod laid out on the floor. The humidity was off the charts and with hundreds of
feet treading on it, turned literally into very smelly mud.
Oh no🥴🥴
doing long tones in the bathroom 😊
Gotta get that tone!
why does diego only have sunburst guitars/basses ?
I’m not sure but they look good and he sounds great on all of them so🤷♂️
Dude how do I get In touch about commissioning a cover song please?
I don’t do commissions sorry!
@@FoolishFrankie dude I only ask as a 2 minute song, and it would never be shared, I've just split with my lady of 6 years. It would have been "someone you loved" I'd pay you as well and I'd write a contract that it would never be shared or sent, just for myself. I'd pay £100
Aint nothing more nefarious than longtones in the bathroom
Lmaaoooo😂
Second comment be like 🎉🎉🎉
If they pay you like shit, the probably treat you as such (edit: to the second guy)
Depends on the gig! I've played plenty of gigs where I was paid very little and had so much fun, and gigs where I was paid a lot and it sucked
A lot of these just sound like dealing with trash people… never been a fan of weddings for all the ceremony and entitlement that comes with
You can find trash people with every job. Most wedding experiences are positive, but that’s not what I asked for
5th
Third comment???
Guess I’ll abandon this idea before I get my own worst story.
You will have bad days in any job. Thats life