Wacky Events at Concerts - What's Yours? (Page 1 of 2)

Roy - you will be very disappointed if you think I'm red thong material - I think mine is in
the same league as Dawn's.  But for Mick, I needed something special - we practiced
throwing them the night before in the motel room because I knew I'd only have one chance.
And for once in my life, I made a good throw - they landed right between his feet.  I befriended the security guard in front of me so I wouldn't get kicked out.  He asked me
what that red thing twirled around my wrist was - I said it's a present for Mick, so just
look the other way!  He laughed too.

Ahh....Patty your right, you probably dont want to hear some of them, you'll be embarrased to meet me! Maybe JDAWG will share one with you via e-mail that I shared with him. I had to shave me beard off, I'm not bull****ing, women were hitting on me, and I aint that pretty!

I'll tell you a quick post gig snafu between me and my brother. Had to be 15 years ago, we went to see some local shredder in the bay area. We were drinking real good, got back to my house afterwards and continued to hammer them beer bottles. My brother loves to get physical with me, thinks he can whip me when he's got a few pops in him. So we start off sparring, the next thing you know were going at it good, he picks me up and body slams me on Debbies new couch, it  broke in half at the back. We stop as neither one of us could stop laughing, Deb comes running from the back of the house, were lying on the floor in tears of laughter with nothing but our underwear on!

Shred

That is too funny!

Had a similar experience at Alpine Valley, WI - between sets (Kid Rock/Aerosmith) - the
bathroom line was SO long I said to the girl in front of me "We'll miss Aerosmith if we
wait here" - so we headed off to the bushes with the guys.  Terrible at my age!
Jaci

should i eb=ven get into the stuff i have seen and done at shows . frank zappa the girls we where with took of there panties and tossed them up on stage frank and the boys all took a sniff and they threw one pair back i thought that was funny as hell . at a grateful dead show theses people in the row behind me decide to make love on the floor and we were watching the whole thing while we where tripping and tell the guy to go faster that was funny as sh*t and when the girl got of the floor her as* had all cigarette buts stuck to it lol. they ran off somewhere but it was funny . i will leave out the stuff that happened to me at shows everyone knows i'm alittle offthe wall anyway so you can kinda figure out what i have done . at hot tuna my buddy threw his fathers hush puppies (they are shoes) on stage and jorma was laughing at that and when his dad was looking for his shoes the next day he told him that jorma took them ...............i have a bunch more but that should do for now ...........lol joe

I am going to say Scott's name...so I am sorry in advance.  I have been to many shows, but this is a blues show one.

I first met Buddy Guy when I was a producer of a blues fest in Kaukauna.  I was honestly scared, it was the largest check I ever wrote for talent, and I was scared of him too.  All those stories and what not.  He had just released Sweet Tea, so you have a time frame.

So I called my friend Scott and asked him for some advice in dealing with Buddy.  He told me what to do, and how to be.  So that is what I went with.  He also told me a story to tell if I got in trouble.  Well I thought I got in trouble, and I started telling the story.  So it is me and Buddy and I think his manager in the back of the limo, and Buddy got real quiet and serious.  Looks at me and scowls and says, "How do you know that story?"  The F word was in there too.  I nearly crap.  I mean, I am dying.  I just want to hand him the check and run, and call my mom.  Its bad.

Then he starts laughing, and the whole deal.  And I nearly die.

So that is not bad enough.  I get out of the car and go to the edge of the stage in the backstage area.  So there we are, and Buddy is doing the "You like Jimi thing?" and playing Jimi.  SRV, playing SRV.  Asking people who they want to hear, were getting Clapton, Jeff Beck...all the greats.

Well I decide for fun I am going to yell something.  I have a big voice.  My inside voice is louder than your outside voice in most cases.  So I yell out "Scott Holt".

At which point Buddy stops.  On stage in front of 5000 people, and turns toward me and says (into the mic), "I know that ##%@$".  And goes back to playing whatever.

I stood there unsure as to what to do.  Sure he was going to have his guitar tech kill me.  It was funny to all of my friends.

And I can laugh now, but only years later.

Another story...

I bumped (literally) into Johnny Cash in an alley behind a theatre the Carter family was playing at.  Literally ran into each other.  He apologized, and then remembered meeting me three years earlier and said, "I was wondering if you were here tonight Dino.  Your from here, and I remembered."  I had met him in Los Angeles, and bumped into him in Wausau.  When he said my name, I nearly pee'd.

Reading these posts just cracked me up.  I don't have any real "wacky" events to share, but a few years back when my husband and I were at a KWS show, someone stole my husbands cigarettes from his back pocket.  When they realized the pack was empty, they chucked them at the back of his head.  I thought it was funny, but he didn't.  At a different KWS concert, my hubby and I got to do a meet and greet with the band and I was so nervous standing in between Kenny and Noah that I forgot that the band was there and said to my husband who was taking our picture, "He's sooo soft", referring to Kenny's leather jacket.  Shortly after that, I looked at Kenny and asked him if I could take him home, to which he replied, "Absolutely hun, rock on."  My husband later teased me and said I was absolutely glowing the whole time with perma-grin and gawking at him.  Poor Kenny, good thing he's used to that.

When I was 17, I was good friends with a couple whose 9 year old girl I was teaching guitar.  They were going to be out of town the day that tickets went on sale for a Van Halen show at Alpine Valley, so they gave me their credit card and said to get them four tickets, which included one for myself for calling for them.  I literally called all day and finally got through only to end up with grass seats.  We had to watch them through binoculars, but there were shooting stars that night and it was so serene.

This one's not necessarily wacky, but it sticks out in my mind:
A couple of my buddies wanted to bring dates to a Blue Oyster Cult show at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. I was a big Blue Oyster Cult fan at the time and sorta against date night at a show, but they set me up with a friend of one of the girls and she was certainly worth looking at! Anyway, some back up band plays and after a short break, BOC comes on. Things are going pretty well at this time and me and my date are getting along fine. 3 or 4 songs into the set, I get tapped on the shoulder and told that "we're leaving". To which I answered... "What are you talking about? I'm not going anywhere". Since I didn't drive, I had no way to get this girl home. So the 5 of them left and I stayed and watched the rest of the show. I wound up taking the bus home.
It was a great show, but maybe not the smartest decision I ever made in my life. I think I offended this girl by picking BOC over her, since I never did see her again.
Sorry, this is sorta tame after Lynch's story. I thought about throwing a dumpster in there to spice things up a bit!