Anyone who has played any gigs at all has had something weird happen. I thought it might be interesting and fun to tell about them.
I'd like to tell about the time I played at a new restaurant and dance place. The restaurant part was separated from the dance hall. I think the building used to be a barn or something of that sort.
Anyway, we were the first band to ever play there. We were up on the stage rocking away. The lights were down low. People dancing. I think we were playing "Money" (the Kingsmen's version), so we were making a lot of noise and the place was vibrating a lot.
I was really getting into it. Really having fun when suddenly I noticed a big spider coming down from the ceiling over my ride cymbal. It sort of freaked me out, but I wasn't to worried. As soon as the song was over I would take care of it.
But, suddenly I noticed another spider twirling down. I started thinking that it was getting scary. Before I could decide what to do about that one I noticed that there were spiders coming down all around me. It was like some kind of horror movie with me the victim.
At that point I forgot all about playing and yelled and jumped of the drum seat and weaved my way through the spiders as fast as I could and jumped off the stage. The rest of the band thought I went crazy, and the crowd stopped dancing and was watching me sort of like when Michael J. Fox got done playing his guitar in "Back to the Future".
I was yelling something about spiders, but noboby was listening. I think they all thought I just flipped out or something. But, finally people started noticing the spiders (which were only coming down around the drums). Some girls screamed and ran out of the dance hall and into the restaurant with their boyfriends following right behind them.
Everything came to a halt while the owner dealt with the problem. After a while it was ok to go back and play, but for the rest of the night I must say I was very nervous. These were BIG spiders.
I always wondered why they came down just over me. I guess they either liked or disliked my drumming. I thought that was weird.
This is the song we were playing - "Money".
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