Barking Spiders Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 In these PC times I'm not sure whether anyone is now allowed to attach a ciggie atop their head(less)stock (EVH stylee) and take a puff while riffing, smoke a pipe like Duck Dunn or sup from a can of Red Stripe while on stage in a public venue?? Or can they. Anyone here apt to have a few beers on stage, nibble on a biryani, read a book, watch TV etc while performing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I always have a drink on stage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len_derby Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 A flask of tea and a corned beef sandwich these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Does a glass or bottle of water count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) I find a Pot Noodle fits nicely into my drinks holder on my microphone stand.... Edited February 20, 2018 by yorks5stringer 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbandit599 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I'll usually either have the one beer that I have to string out all night, or coke or water - less 'necessary' now with LED lights giving off no real heat, but used to sweat buckets under old style pars. Food never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I don't eat or drink anything on stage. Usually, with the bands I play in, there is no time (dead space) between songs. I've been in bands who like to take it easy during the set and have a drink, a chat and a joke amongst themselves. I always hated that. IMO we are here to entertain so we should be socialising off stage. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petebassist Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Of course mate, especially in the jazz venues ;-) 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 In one band I used to play in back when I lived in that there London we'd not only like to have a snack on stage and swill a couple of beers but socialise with the punters too. I've never liked the them and us approach viz gigging but prefer gigs to be more like parties. If we could get people in the 'audience' involved in joining in playing something all the better 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntLockyer Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Always drink beer on stage, if there is a TV I'm often watching it especially if the audience are too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicko Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Generally have a beer or two on stage. Our last gig was at a bar with a huge number of TV screens and I was caught watching the cricket at one point - in my defence it might have been during Sex on Fire. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) - Edited February 25, 2022 by Jus Lukin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 The vocalist in my bands usually have a drink of some description on stage. Totally necessary to keep the vocal cords lubricated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I never bother with a drink on stage anymore. At best it will be ignored, forgotten and warm by the end of the set. At worst someone will knock it over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Ya can't smoke inside public buildings, so its either booze /or food. I occasionally have a babycham but rarely indulge in nosebag at gigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 A bit of sport on TV whilst playing has been a welcome distraction at some gigs. Can't say I've ever had any food onstage, might lead to strings getting covered in foodstuff. Bit like BRX, a drink (lager in my case) on stage doesn't get the attention it deserves & ends up warm and flat. But I do have bottles of water to hydrate, but as a drink, water is less "needy". So....food & drink on stage..probably not. TV? Absolutely! But I do insist on subtitles if it's a detective show, as it's so hard to hear above the racket coming from the stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted February 20, 2018 Author Share Posted February 20, 2018 3 hours ago, Nicko said: Generally have a beer or two on stage. Our last gig was at a bar with a huge number of TV screens and I was caught watching the cricket at one point - in my defence it might have been during Sex on Fire. Fair play. If I'd had to play Sex on Fire I'd have knocked up a bacon butty,, watched a bit of rugby and got myself a pint of Shipyard at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Mentioned on here before - Rick Wakeman famously ate a full Indian meal. "It was 1973 and we had released Tales from Topographic Oceans, which I didn't particularly like. The third piece in the show was a particularly long percussive piece and I didn't have much to do. Now, I used to have this roadie that worked for me, he would lie underneath my keyboard ostensibly to fix things, but mostly he would just mix me drinks and pass them up. So on this occasion he asks me if there's anything I need, but I heard it as him asking what I felt like doing after the show. I just replied 'oh, I'll probably go for a curry' and then he asked me what I would have so I started naming various menu items, 'onion bhaji', you know...and then, 20 minutes later there is this smell. Of course you know that curry is a smell that wafts, you detect it. And he's standing there under the keyboard rig with these bags of takeaway curry." The story, a classic pull-the-other-one, is "absolutely true". And Wakeman says he proceeded to "lay out the meal across my keyboards to have some." If you are thinking Spinal Tap right now, remember this is 10 years before that film. And Wakeman chuckles as he adds the coda, "I've probably been offered curry at gigs a couple of dozen times since, I don't have it on stage, but I'll arrive backstage to find that someone's sent a takeaway curry to me, or it's been ordered, or there's a takeout menu there. It's nice. It's funny. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambient Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 I don’t drink anyway, but drinking on stage to me at least seems very unprofessional, also though it seems like you don’t care somehow. Alcohol would surely affect how you play? I would possibly have a bottle of water on stage, I have been known to have coffee too, very rock and roll 😊. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 Swigs from a bottle of water yes, but food or watching TV? Why is it even on while the band's playing? We once had a keyboard player who insisted on eating crisps during gigs from a packet he kept on top of his piano. We sacked him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 5 hours ago, Barking Spiders said: In these PC times I'm not sure whether anyone is now allowed to attach a ciggie atop their head(less)stock (EVH stylee) and take a puff while riffing, smoke a pipe like Duck Dunn or sup from a can of Red Stripe while on stage in a public venue?? Or can they. Anyone here apt to have a few beers on stage, nibble on a biryani, read a book, watch TV etc while performing? i think Duck only smoked a pipe in the Blues Brothers movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 6 minutes ago, ambient said: I don’t drink anyway, but drinking on stage to me at least seems very unprofessional, also though it seems like you don’t care somehow. Alcohol would surely affect how you play? I would possibly have a bottle of water on stage, I have been known to have coffee too, very rock and roll 😊. Manager of a function band I was in quite rightly used to say that if the audience saw any of the musicians with even half a beer, they would assume the whole band was pis*ed. Vodka in the bottled water maybe the answer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) 6 minutes ago, casapete said: Vodka in the bottled water maybe the answer... Vote for me! I'll add vodka to the mains supply. Vote! Vote! Edited February 20, 2018 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 (edited) - Edited February 25, 2022 by Jus Lukin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted February 20, 2018 Share Posted February 20, 2018 22 minutes ago, discreet said: Vote for me! I'll add vodka to the mains supply. Vote! Vote! Or even...no, maybe not. Just ignore my profile pic, nothing to see here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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