| Title: | The UK Music Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome (back) to UK_MUSIC on node MARVIN. |
| Moderator: | RDGENG::CROOK |
| Created: | Mon Mar 28 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1381 |
| Total number of notes: | 39269 |
I remember this incident vividly,as if it was last night,I
was doing a gig with a band called "Third Time Lucky" (groan)
in "The Twisted Wheel" in Carlisle,which has a disco downstairs
and a public bar and dancefloor up stairs. We were playing
upstairs and in the middle of our second set belting out stuff
like "Booggie-oogie-oggie","You make me feel,Mighty Real (?)"
"Long Train Running","I'll go where your music takes me","Blowin'
Free" etc,we arrived at a number that I can't remember the nameof
but started of with a bass-drums disco 16s beat and broke into the
same beat in the middle of the song.
As was normal in this song our keyboards player jumped onto the
dancefloor and boggied around for a while,except this time because
there was a small stage he did a summersault from the stage on to
the floor,this seemed to go ok,until in the last quarter of the
song I look over to watch him playing the keys and he was frantically
pointing to an empty mouth where his false teeth used to be !!!! The
result of him mis-calculating the summersault.
It did ZERO for the bands image when he scampered onto the dance
floor at the end of the song to crawl on his hands and knees to
find the teeth in the dim lights.
Ah such memories....mcbill_who_is_going_through_a_nostalga_phase
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152.1 | is this a family conference? | AYOV28::MDONNELLY | The Alligator man is snap happy | Fri Jul 22 1988 15:07 | 8 |
C'mon Bill, tell them about the fancy-dress night at the
Covenanters in Newmilns with the drummer wearing the shorts....
...mm, then again, maybe you shouldn't bother.
Michael
| |||||
| 152.2 | ..yeah,an' there was when we were at... | BONNET::MCALLISTER | Tue Jul 26 1988 10:16 | 16 | |
This one was in the Pagoda Resturant in Carlisle,we were getting
dressed in the "Dressing-room" before starting when I took an
uncontrollable urge to empty my bladder into an empty pint mug.This
being done we went ahead and did our set. Ajourning back to the
dressingroom a couple of the local "shielas" came in,whom we'd met
before we started,they came in and started to chat when without
pausing for breath one girl said "Is this lager,I'm desperate for
a drink" and deposited a quarter of the contents of the aforementioned
pint mug down her throat before realising that something was sadly
wrong........................needless to say,none of the lads went
out with her that night !!!!!
Cheers (excuse the phrase ).....mcbill
| |||||
| 152.3 | As we're in nostalgia mode... | BREW11::LAWTON | There ain't no Sanity Clause... | Sat Apr 08 1989 11:55 | 23 |
Back in the late seventies , when I'd just started gigging , my
band got involved at a local college's Christmas " do " . At the
time , we did a pretty lively version of "Stairway To Heaven "
( didn't everyone ? ) . Anyhow , during the last section of the
song , you know , the " And as we wind on down the road.." bit ,
we'd arranged to ahve a strobe light on us ( Woooooodstock ! ).
The vocalist decided to leap about the stage , in simulated slow
motion , which was fine until he leapt into the drums , sending
them over in a graceful , slo-mo topple.
Roadies galore came rushing on stage and stood them up again,
we finished the song , curtains came down to rapturous applause,
and just as the clapping died down , the drummer , who was none
too enamoured with the singer , shouts at the latter , " You
stupid f------- w----- !!!!!!" , not realising that the P.A. had
just relayed his measured opinion to the audience , which , on this
particular night , included parents .
We didn't get asked to go back the next year....strange that...
Phil
| |||||