Nerves.........why me?

[Conan]

[quote name='Leen2112' timestamp='1349789817' post='1830540']
there is a youtube video of the particularly bad gig where during the guitar solo over 13/16 i just kind of stopped!!![/quote]

And at least you know what 13/16 is - which gives you an advantage over most of us!

[LiamPodmore]

If i concentrate on playing, i f*ck up. So my mind at gigs is usually What've they got at the bar that looks good, will they serve me, she's a fiiiine looking lady, where did i put my bottle of water, and in one case, why the f*ck did you just grab my crown jewels?!

Liam

[spinynorman]

I assumed that people don't notice bass mistakes because they listen differently from me. But now I think about it, in years of hearing other bands, I can't remember ever hearing a bass player make a mistake. So either, when I'm in the audience my ears switch off like everyone else's, or it really is only me that makes mistakes.

[Dr.Dave]

Anybody else do that thing of playing the wrong note then waiting till the next verse comes nd playing the same one wrong again on purpose........ that's jazzzzzzz !!!

I doubt many folk forget who plays bass in our band. It may well be that there are higher and more satisfying ways to be imortal but if I can keep them saying 'he was a foul mouthed fat bastard with an overly offensive T shirt and a stupid flowery bass and a voice like a fog horn' then I'll remain happy.

[Donnyboy]

I find all this reassuring. I try not to get too uptight , because then you worry about being uptight etc.
I can almost guarantee that , when we do play - which TBH isn't that often these days, that I'll get" Brain - Fog" at some point , and forget something that should be effortless - we don't even play complicated stuff!!! It does annoy me though.

The mind wandering as said above somewhere, can be a problem " Oh look at them leaving/having a good time/starting a fight..." " I need a pee...."

A few years ago after a lay-off of 10 years at our return first gig we did a cover of a Maria McKee song " I've Forgotten What is Was in You, That Put the Need in Me" Guess what , I'd completely forgotten.Don't think I played any of it right came in on a big sliding note - the wrong one, of course - think I turned down & pretended to play- still haunted by it and still get very nervous about playing it .

[bremen]

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1349794216' post='1830624']
Which can be a problem at times, and just shows that nobody is immune!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrO6CI41KEg[/media]
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"2112 gone wrong"? I'd pay good money to be able to recover seamlessly from such a mistake like Rush did. The uploader obviously never played live

[Norris]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1349726096' post='1829763']
Bizarre thing is, as long as I'm distracted I keep playing just fine. As soon as I [i][b]realise [/b][/i]that I'm distracted, I can fall apart.
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This

[spinynorman]

[quote name='Dr.Dave' timestamp='1349862460' post='1831348']
Anybody else do that thing of playing the wrong note then waiting till the next verse comes nd playing the same one wrong again on purpose........ that's jazzzzzzz !!!

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We had a gig in June which was the first for a long time, with one rushed rehearsal. As I hit a glorious sequence of notes in completely the wrong position, I thought "Better not do that again, people will think it's jazz.". And then proceded to make exactly the same mistake three times (and no, not on purpose).

[paul_5]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349785036' post='1830432']
...the guitar player and I played a 12-bar blues in which we played the whole thing a semi-tone apart (he was in Bb, I played it in . What''s more, we alternated so, after each chorus, we swapped. No-one noticed. You may be agonising over that sharpened 5th but, trust me, no-one else is, possibly not even the rest of your band.
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Taxed - can't wait for the next 'dinner' gig.