To sacrifice or not to sacrifice

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  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Well, we played. We kept getting bumped to play because Kansas was being bitchy and demanding a 5 hour soundcheck. Still, we did okay. We had a train wreck but it was okay. We managed to save it. I must admit, my stage jitters left when I saw an ex band mate and friend and the emotion was put into the music. That really fired me up. We we were bumped off the stage, though, before we could play Yellow Ledbetter. We sounded good enough to get asked to play a few more gigs, though. We have a setlist on our livejournal if anyone wants to read it.
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • ScrapeMySky
    ScrapeMySky Posts: 426
    Great to hear you made it through ok and even scored a few more gigs! But what I keep asking myself is: Why on earth would anyone need a 5 hour soundcheck??
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Yeah, we were pissed when we heard that. We were originally supposed to go on at 1PM but we kept getting moved back. We were finally told to open at noon. When we got to the stage (at 11AM), they said we were going on in 20 minutes. The venue wasn't even opening up. No one was really there. To make matters worse, we had to speed songs up and take songs off the setlist.

    I guess Kansas was throwing a temper tantrum and wanted to be treated like kings. They haven't had a hit in 20 years. Chill out
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • cableguy119
    cableguy119 Posts: 114
    Yeah some of those bands on life support, nearing end of life or that have been delegated to state fair status still think they deserve the full red carpet treatment and then they throw diva tantrums guess that is one of the few ways they feel important. Almost understandable so when you get perched so high for so long I guess that is one of the ways absolute powers absolutely corrupts.

    I recalll an incident I saw with Cinderella playing a gig lead singer throw his guitar to his tech like 20 feet away. Tech barely catches it guitar tail end barely hits the ground and singer just starts glaring at him starring him down. Didn't have much respect for them to begin but lost all once he treated his tech like shit. with went to see George Lynch but stayed for the hair band.

    Nice to see PJ treat techs failry well even when they give them the wrong guitar and not berate them in front of audience. (Like in DC in 2008 Evacuation) Or eddie poking fun at george webb during solo shows. You could tell they are friendly and treat each other decently.
    So many amazing shows! Thank you.
  • xtremehardy388
    xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Oh yeah.

    We found out we were opening for Kansas and we were like '...ohhh...neat...'
    We knew who they were but didn't really care. No one has heard from 'em in so long. It was sad to see it from them. We never got to meet 'em. They showed up two hours late for the 'five hour soundcheck'. You'd think bands would be nice to their tech's, too...they DO tune your instruments....
    Grand Rapids '04, Detroit '06
    JEFF HARDY AND JEFF AMENT USED TO LOOK THE SAME
    "Pearl Jam always eases my mind and fires me up at the same time.”-Jeff Hardy
  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
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