Tragically Funny Show Bloopers...
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If you read one of my previous blog posts (and why haven't you?) then you'd know that I recently played a show at the Trocadero Balcony in Philly. It was pretty much the biggest and most important show of our respected careers. I'll talk about the show later. But events that occured that night reminded me of all my embarrasments on stage, including the first blunder that happened on stage. I immortalized this funny little incident in a FAQ/Walkthrough for Guitar Hero. Before I wrote reviews, I wrote walkthroughs for video games... and I usually left them incomplete. This show that I screwed up at was the first time I played guitar on stage. It was the Cultural Festival for my school and the school's jazz band was playing. Being the cocky man I am, I said to my boys something along the lines of "so this is the beginning of my career of being a guitar god". Heh...
Intro:Hello young Guitar Hero, and welcome to my guide for the incredibly addictive,always rockin' Guitar Hero. In case you didn't know, Guitar Hero is arythmn based music game where you must wield you're holy axe and become thegreatest guitarist since Page and Hendrix... by playing covers. Like in otherrythmn games, you can use a certain gaming peripheral. For DDR, it was adance pad with four button variations you had to push. In Guitar Hero, youuse a imitation guitar with five buttons, a whammy bar, and a strumming bar.
With experience of playing a guitar, I can say that they are both similar incertain areas. Of course, the Guitar Hero guitar doesn't have six (or 12, Mr. Page) strings, but like a real guitar, you have to move up and down theneck without looking much. You can also use hammer-ons and pick-offs (but, seriously, doing them in real life is easier) and you can goof around and jump around like a real guitar.
Another cool thing about the game is, if you miss notes, the music will beaffected. Unlike a game like DDR, if you screw up, the music will sound bad.If you can't do a solo, you will fail the song because there will just be ablank segment of music. It's awesome, unlike a real gig where if you screw upand you can't push retry... like this one time, I was on stage and I was aboutto do a solo with my wah pedal. Unfourtunetly, my pedal was working on batteries and they were almost all the way depleated, and when they are depleated, the volume goes really far down. So I turn it on, unsuspected that the batteries were dead and when I started my solo, you couldn't hear it.So, I'm just standing there playing stuff no one could hear.
Fortunetly, I turned the stupid thing off and the best and fastest part was heard. And even more fortunetly, on the next and final song we did, the wah pedal started up again and my cooler solo was heard by about a hundred people.It rocked... oh, I got a tad bit off topic... Ok, so let's start this guide. I hope you have fun with the game and find this guide helpful.
-Dated 1/30/06
There was definetly not a hundred people there. But anyway, since that day, the only thing I'm nervous about on stage is having my equipment freaking out. So right before I went on stage at the Troc, I turn to my trombone player and go "the only reason I'm scared is cause I think my guitar strings gonna break, just because I'm on stage". And speak of the devil, my friggin' string broke in the middle of a song! I have brokeastringphobia. Well, it was to late in the song to stop playing but to early to walk it off. I also had a guitar solo during that song and you can guess how that went. Oh, in case you didn't know, if you break a string, all the strings go out of tune. But hey, it can't be that bad. You screw up one song, you put a new string on, and you're good to go. See, this is how my brain was thinking at the time. Unfortunetly, I totally forgot that my guitar isn't the best around. The string (which was a low E) wouldn't come out of the bridge. The little bullet jawn wouldn't come through and you kind of need it to go through to put another string on.
So, my band's stalling and I end up needing another persons guitar. Thank God a band we knew was there. I got a sweet Mexican Telecaster from the greatest dude ever and we went on playing. All was well... until the last song. Each band had thirty minutes on stage, and we thought we had ten minutes left. Oh no we did not, we had five. We were on our final song and then we decided, hey we've got time, let's do Cute Without the E... what a mistake that was. You see, it's supposed to be a funny funny joke, but I think the Philly ska crowd thought we were serious. And then after that, we started up our last song, but they sound guy cut us off cause our time was up. Heh, heh, what a story right? Besides those errors, the show was great. We've never sounded better on stage and the crowd seemed to be into us. Also, when you enter the Troc, you have to tell the people who you came to see, and after our set and into the second bands one, we were second behind Bomb the Music Industry. But that may have changed later on.
Here's the band myspace: www.myspace.com/theretrotones. The first song on there ("Ode to a Beautiful Jacket".. I don't know, ask Andy) was recorded by ourselves and was the song that got cut off. The next three were from the Troc. The first was with my guitar, the second with the Tele (which I've decided is the guitar I want), and the third is just a mixture of jokes said during the set, mostly from the stalling while I found a guitar to use.
