Stupid things drunk people do at gigs

Cheezus! That's worse than sitting on the bass drum for sure. At least he complimented your drumming.

The "compliment" was really back-handed, though. Firstly, it was following a real compliment from someone else, and it had the caveat. He was basically of the impression that drummers who don't use a double pedal at all times are "held back" from their true potential and that everything I played could have been better if I had put double bass notes at every opportunity. I think he literally said something like "it's always better with two pedals".

And nobody sat on my bass drum, he stood up on it fully (one foot, the other dangling). I guess he saw some other rock stars doing it and figured the hoops were made for it?
 
Saw so many brawls break out at local punk and rock gigs because some guy's girlfriend accidentally got her beer knocked out of her hand by somebody moshing.
 
OMG there's so many funny stories here...every one of them is funny...Just tonight I saw a crying woman so falling down drunk, something bad apparently had happened to her...She was saying she had no place to go....She fell onto the sidewalk...it was amazing she didn't brain herself. Earlier some guy was playing with the bandleaders Ipad....Then a different guy was holding an unlit lighter at the back of the bass players amp. (our backs were open to the street) He said bass amps can blow a lighter out by the air they move. Wack a doo....Oh and he used to be the audio technician for Squeeze. And Bruce Springsteen fired him. And he just finished building an "experimental" recording studio. Lol. People are wacky. This one couple was making out for most of the night. But drunk girls are great, right? It was a fun night. There was a lot of fun people too. Nothing says social lubrication like alcohol lol
 
Was watching a local band one night, when a group of drunk chicks came in. One of them was overly plastered and turned green. She looked around in a state of confusion, grabbed her friends purse, filled it up with vomit, then decided to use it as a pillow. She was escorted out of the bar. About 30 minutes later she comes back, partying hard once again, dancing on a bench seat. She puked again while dancing, all over the bench seat, then slipped in the vomit and did a face plant off the seat. Funniest damn thing I've ever seen. Once again she was removed from the bar.

While playing, a friend of mine came to the show and lost his balance in the moshpit. He fell into one of the stage monitors and broke his arm. He continued to mosh throughout the rest of the show. Other than that it was usually fights.
 
many moons ago I was in a local band called 'The Murmur'; music was pretty good, sort of hard edged indie rock. Anyhoos, we did a gig at the local hospital social club and we had a full house of people who actually came to see us!! about half way through the set a couple of guys (who we knew well, small town, same age etc) started their own 2 man mosh pit; bouncing around and spitting at each other. Some of the crowd 'spoke' to them to calm down, one did,one didn't!
So we had a one man mosh pit...Cap'n Mosh then must have got a little bored so he started bouncing up and down in front of the singer guitarist, about 12 inches from him but 2 feet lower as we were on a small stage.
The mosher is bouncing up every 3 or 4 seconds and then decides to start spitting...at the singer....2nd lot hits singer (Andy) full in his face...Andy, true professional that he was, waited until the instrumental break and launches a mighty swinging right hand punch at the mosher as he is at the peak of his bounce!!
Mosher travels backwards some distance before landing on the back of his head on the dance floor and lays there without moving; Andy and us finish the song, crowd give us a massive ovation (more for the punch I think) and we finish the set. Mosher was helped out eventually by his special friend...I will never forget seeing this horses ass travelling at a height of possibly 6 feet in a perfectly horizontal position past other, better behaved, music fans!! Great night....probably not for him tho..
 
Also had a drunk couple fall over my (Paiste Sound Edge) hats and cracked the centre of the top cymbal, which had to go o the bottom from that time on to keep the crack from worsening.

A couple of years ago some drunk guy yelled out to the Mabels to "play some rawk and rawl". Might as well yell for as ACDC to play ballads.

Mosh pits are definitely a hotbed of drunken stupidity.
 
The first stupid thing is getting drunk to begin with. I've been there so yes I have been stupid as well. Since the singer is only using one hand for the mic, it is his job to fend off all drunks in the center of the stage, and stage left. The bass player with the rock hard wooden bass is responsible for stage right. Also put a monitor or two in from of and off to one side of the bass drum. Then stupid is as stupid does, be a hard ass and let on one on stage. I don't think the level of experience of the band has anything to do with it. I really wanted to ask Bermuda if I could sit in at the Weird Al show but thought better of it. It's your stage, keep others off of it.
 
I've lived such a sheltered life. No drunken band stories to tell. I feel so ashamed.

Something's got to change.

Davo
 
Gotta post this even though it doesn't involve alcohol.

best thing i ever saw, years ago i played drums in a hardcore band, lots of fun but our singer ended up with a mad case of LSD (lead singer Disease) leading to the end of the band. but this one gig at a local youth centre he went all out to prove his awesomeness.
mid set in front of maybe 20 people in this tiny youth centre he got really into the song moshing around and singing, and then doing some rad hardcore singer move brings his knee up high at the same time moshing his head downwards. low and behold.
He Breaks his Own NOSE!!!!! was priceless!!! one of my fav memories of many random gigs.
played till the end of the show and then headed to hospital, we have never let him live it down, Straight Edge kids can stupidly hurt themselves too.

im chuckling even as i write this
 
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the drunk chicks are the best!. I don't have any cool stories, except one gig, some drunk dude came up on stage and sat next to my lead singer,( he sits behind keyboards) and starts singing along with him. My singer just started laughing and looked around at us like" ok, what do i do with this guys?". The guy eventually got up and left after about 2 minutes or so.It was pretty funny. Ugh, that was a lame story......
 
and then doing some rad hardcore singer move brings his knee up high at the same time moshing his head downwards. low and behold.
He Breaks his Own fucking NOSE!!!!! was priceless!!! one of my fav memories of many random gigs.

Ding ding ding! Pretty friggin funny Ken....How embarrassing. How stupid. How uncoordinated! Yes please don't let alcohol be a prerequisite for a good story. Glad you posted.

I like when people who drink beer yell. Beer makes people yell.
 
I play a regular gig at a ski-resort during the winter. People come up from all over and drink until they think they are on another planet. Here's just a few:

Very drunk guy falls backwards into my bass drum after tripping over monitor speaker. Slams his back into the lugs, which hurt me to even watch. He didn't spill a drop of his drink though, which was quite impressive. He goes to a chair next to the "stage" and proceeds to wet hit pants before being escorted out. On the way out, he tries to fight the bouncer and falls down the stairs... Throws up at the bottom of the stairs.

Drunk dancing man spinning around on dance floor. Bass player and I try to get him to fall down by overplaying. Mission accomplished.

People dancing with decorative plants.

Ladies pushing butts against outside window.

One amazingly hot woman (who turns out to be a stripper) starts flashing her tits at my bass player. He blushes and is shy. Next set she bends over in her dress. No panties... While loading out she is gratifying herself in the window with one leg up as a number of gentlemen with cellphone cameras take video. It was quite disgusting actually.

Fights, fights and more fights. Girl fights, boy fights, husband and wife fights...

Booze turns people into animals...
 
I play a regular gig at a ski-resort during the winter. People come up from all over and drink until they think they are on another planet. Booze turns people into animals...

Oh, lordy. That's another thing: the combination of booze and altitude is a sure-fire killer, of which many folks from sea level seem *blissfully* unaware.

Did you ever notice how easy it is to get buzzed on just a couple of airline drinks? Long-haul airliners pressurize their cabins to an equivalent altitude of about 8,000 feet. The low partial pressure of oxygen really amplifies the effects of alcohol for the unwary.

There used to be a sign over the bar at the base lodge at the Crested Butte ski area (elevation about 9,000 feet) that said "Tourists: DO NOT attempt to outdrink the locals"...

We live at almost 6700 feet here, so I'm pretty much acclimated to this effect- but it is always amusing when folks come from sea level to visit. Conversely, when we get to sea level, we have developed a reputation as pretty much bottomless drinkers, for better or worse.

Haven't done any ski resort gigs yet, but I'm likely to have some coming up. I'll have to take notes!
 
Gentlemen please keep yor responses clean. There are younger readers on here that dont need an education yet. Play nice or it will be closed
 
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Interesting skod. I had no idea that altitude made a difference in regards to alcohol.
 
My favorite was a girl who was playing tambourine. She came up onto the drum riser and put her arms around me, then sat down beside me and held on to me, leaning against me as I tried not to screw up. It was damnably hard to play, but she was gorgeous and very friendly.

I had two tambourine chicks right beside me once and, let's just say they didn't have great timing. It is really difficult to try and ignore something like that. It's like trying to do math in your head when someone is shouting out random numbers.
 
Interesting skod. I had no idea that altitude made a difference in regards to alcohol.

me neither...............may have to prove it to myself one day.

I guess I've had the same type of experiences as most of you......................almost all revolve around alcohol and women......................comes with the territory I guess. At least us drummers have a little protection from the crazy ones....................
 
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