I was given a cake whilst playing a song and I passed it to Crow
(on the floor) and mid song he stepped into it! We tried to finish
the song under much giggling!
Hagar gave the band a sack of flying saucers and Flash/Crow
decided to tip the remaining 2000 flying saucers over Pete
the drummer on the last song!!! Absolutely covered the whole kit.. and him!!
Played a private party in Chepstow and I drank too much..
In the second set I failed to come in on time on Paper Plane
(Status Quo) and Sweet Child of Mine (GnR) was a “bail out, bail out,
deploy parachute” moment.. much to the amusement of the band!
When recording the band CD we all stood in the “wooden floored”
studio to stamp/clap “We will rock you (Queen). The audio mics
were picking up Al’s tracksuit bottoms that were “rustling” so
he removed them. As he was in his pants, he decided to hide behind
a screen and stomp/clap. This is the funniest studio experience ever!
Did a gig in Southbourne and I broke a string on my Vigier Guitar.
Goose decided to change the string for me whilst I used my PRS Guitar.
He took about 4 songs to change it. I realised when I tried to tune it
that he had put an acoustic string on it and needed to use a pair of
pliers to try and bend the string around the machinehead.. doh!
Played a gig in Linwood (New Forest) and I started getting electric shocks
from my vocal mic. After two big shocks I decided to sing “far away” from
the mike and Gray just turned up the gain! Al suggested that I should “try
his mic”.. my reply was “If it’s me that has the earth problem it’s still
gonna shock me isn’t it!!”. The band got a lot of mileage out of me that night
Again in Linwood, Flash (Roadie) went out to the van (mid song)
to get a spare lead. Two songs later we announced over the mic
“has anyone seen flash? Has he locked himself in the van?”..
The girls popped out to find him LOCKED in the van! He got in the
van (van pointing downhill) and the gravity shut the doors behind him.
It was too dark to find the handle to get out! The band was playing so
no one heard their phones ringing! Ha ha