I’ll be keeping an eye on this one: BlunderPop:
This blog is dedicated to the horror or real-life Spinal Tap that a music festival can become. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an artist, an organiser, a volunteer or a visitor. Sometimes, it just goes terribly wrong…
… reminds me of that time when, as part of the late great (?) rocking combo Moonbug, I mounted the stage in some club, all pumped up on adrenaline, whereupon I not only hit the set’s opening chord but broke three strings of my Telecaster simultaneously — filling the place with some of the most squealing feedback I’ve ever heard. Those were the days!
July 28th, 2006 at 9:04 am »
Thanks for the link. If you have any Spinal Tap stories yourself (-selves), feel free to send them in. Because they keep the thing going, after all…
July 29th, 2006 at 5:43 am »
No Tap moments here (tho’ have been in a few Tap bands), but I did once play an entire scene - from Sweet Charity, I was the ‘Latin’ lover Vitorio - with my fly open. Luckily, I was wearing underwear - dark blue. Unfortunately, I was in a white suit…
July 29th, 2006 at 1:09 pm »
Ooh, that’s a good one! A pity Blunderpop doesn’t cover non-muscial (stage) performances as well… Maybe there’s an idea…
August 30th, 2006 at 10:18 am »
It’s really amazing… I was hoping someone’d send me some Zappa / Beefheart Blunder stories, but so far: zip. Come on! They must be out there! Do your best!