tl;dr

Not really a stage performance, but...

>be in year 9
>download audacity
>speed up linkin park songs 2x, bassboost by 32, add reverb and chorus effects at random
>play it to people
>OH UR SO TALENTED

>pop band of 7-8 year olds
>didn't see the disaster coming

Wait, wait, wait, wait...

You were in high school when you were seven?

>>20363412
wat

>>20363443
>high school etc
>etc

>accepted to talent show
>my first performance in front of a good number of people
>must've been over a hundred parents and at least fourty kids from school
>I play Green Onions on guitar all on my own
>I was the opening act
>mfw I was the only act where the audience cheered and clapped in rhythm in the middle of the song and got the biggest applause of the night

>marching band, competition performance
>on bass drum so marching sideways
>shorts under my uniform start to fall down, somehow able to keep going due to crab walk-y style
>march the entire 10 minute show like that

I thought it was going to become one of those horrible moments you can never live down while it was happening but everything worked out and I got an amusing story out of the deal.

>>20363472

>give open ended topic with examples
>own story doesn't fit into one of the examples

Weird format, man. Seriously.

>>20363475
i doubt this highly... they were probably just clapping along so the awkward emptiness of a guitar-
only cover wouldn't be as painfully noticeable

>play Creep badly on violin
>standing ovation
>people say the "grittiness" (my shitty playing) was original
>asian girl from the advanced class plays Flight Of The Bumblebee at 10x speed
>polite clapping

>>20363505
Well, she was Asian. That's nothing special there, really.

>>20363505

That song is just asking for trouble. Everyone knows it and the melody is simple so most people just assume it's easy to play, the sheer technicality is going to fly over their heads. She really should've seen it coming.

>>20363504
to be fair I was stomping loudly to help myself, but apparently they had to clap with it as well.
But still I watched the whole show and I definitely had the biggest applause, and people did cheer in the middle of the song I played which is more than what I could say for the others.

>>20363505
> Flight of the bumblebee 10x speed
MOTHER OF GOD.

>>20363543
>and people did cheer in the middle of the song I played

Confirmed for pity claps. Sorry bro. :/

>>20363503
Ah, my bad. I do have a high school one but it's not as good.

>parents enter me into choir as a birthday present
>oblige
>go to first practice
>keep singing at wrong times
>performance day arrives
>the entire choir hates me
>try to mouth what I have to sing wherever possible
>finally decide to sing the final few lines
>my squeaky soprano voice rings out with the altos
>never get on a stage or sing in public since

>>20363535
This.

So many people knock Creep as some kind of pop-throwaway by a band who went on to do much greater things, but it's actually a very technically stunning song that just learning to play is a triumph in itself.

>>20363559
7/10
Good effort champ

>in stoner punk band in high school
>get invited to play friend's birthday party at the neighborhood pool
>large milling crowd
>nervous as shit
>singing and switching off bass, guitar and singing duties
>run out of songs after 30 minutes 'cause we're 16 and stupid and have no idea how long our own songs are.
>take a break & come up with a covers set
>only thing everyone in the band knows are shitty nirvana, ccr & sublime songs
>crowd goes wild
>climb into a hole and die.

>>20363556
>parents enter me into choir
>as a birthday present

Man, they sure must have hated you.

>senior year
>enter battle of the bands
>play my banjo and sing folk songs for a couple hundred people
>biggest applause of the night
>won 50 dollars
>mfw

>7-8 years old
>'four hot guys' from geography

Wat

>>20363505

Gonna get called out for racism, but whatever. Asians seem to think that technicality >>> all. Ever seen Asian pianists? Sure they can play some of the hardest pieces there are, but a lot (if not all) of them, seriously lack the ability to add emotion to their play.

Personally I think it's both genetic (maybe they genetically lack the genes for greater emotional expression) and environmental. Their parents don't allow their children to express themselves, watch any Asian do any sport/musical performance, there is 0 emotion on their face. Sometimes they can fake it, for example piano players, but you can tell from the music it's not genuine, lots of Caucasians do this too.

Actually I think, as players of music, black people are probably the most expressive. Ever seen some of those old blues players playing guitar? You can tell they're really fucking into it.

>>20363575
Well, I was one of those kids that dreamed of singing constantly and I think my parents did it just to make me shut up and stop begging them. I think it was also to validate the fact I would never go anywhere if I relied on my voice.

>My band is playing our first show
>All of us are really nervous try to fake being confident
>Voice starts to crack as I sing Dust in the Wind
>Crowd notices and starts laughing
>Try to dance
>Cape gets caught in the amp
>Spaghetti falls out of my pocket
>Crowd really starts to laugh
>Can't pick it up because its too slippery
>A piece of popcorn get's stuck in my drummers eye
>Pours out his 7-up to try and get it out
>Makes it worse
>Worst experience of my life

>be 18
>browse /mu/ regularly
>decide to make band
>play guitar
>none of us want to learn music theory because it will take away passion
>we take 7 days to write one song
>play it at a local bar
>nobody claps
>go back to /mu/
>masturbate with spit and tears while listening to math rock
>mfw

>Be in final year or school
>Enter school cahrity talent show as a "comedy pop duo" with friend
>Become a fucking phenomenon, selling shitty spoofed posters of us for the charity
>Get to final of talent show.
>Fuck yea.jpg
>Do another two performnaces, bringing total to 4 because we fucking rocked
>Ctrl+C, Ctr+V poster thing with added gay jokes, selling for charity each time, this time signing them
>People buy posters, like errybody, teachers, parents, pupils
>Posters appear ALL OVER school
>Most of them are still there, left school 2 years ago.
>Kids who are still there always tell us "your posters are still up, anon" when we see them
>My school fucking rocked

No word a troll, /mu/y friends

>>20363607
Did your pokemon key chain break too?

>>20363607
>that feel

>>20363598

>extrovert that only gets other extroverts

>annual talent contest comes
>that socially awkward pakistani kid that no-one likes enters
>he plays Numb by linkin park by himself, singing in the msot terrible manner possible
>he's just standing there playing really loud chords and mumbling
>people take the piss out of him all the way through
>he walks off in silence
>he's furious he didn't win

>>20363594
We called all the boys cute and those four were the ones that most girls in my year had one of those 'little girl' crushes on. Too many soppy fairytales growing up, I say.

>>20363625

Nice, saw me right through the internet. Funny thing is I'm the biggest introvert in the world, I just went 3 days without any peer interaction and I don't interact with peers more than once a week at best.

>Be last year
>Put in random bands for music course at college
>I get landed with a rapper, free jazz guy and a trend following guy who currently likes dubstep
>Despite musical differences everyone in band is total bros
>The fat autist girl who was also in our band was a different matter
>Cries whenever we play a song she doesnt want to play
>Plays keyboard horribly out of time
>Sings like a 5 year old
>insists on being lead vocalist
>Always laughed at by anyone who saw our shows

>>20363598
I think it really has to do with personality, motivation for being a musician, and upbringing. A lot of Japanese music is incredibly wild and out there (Boris, Ruins, Merzbow, Pig, etc.)

>in band for 2 years beforehand.
>school talent show comes up
>we decided to play Thin Lizzys Cowboy song that breakinto the boys are back in town.
>we get up and play and rock the place.
>only win third place since we opened the show and some beat boxing punks won.
>for the rest of the year we are fucking hero's.

>>20363615
>none of us want to learn music theory because it will take away passion

Wat

>>20363643

>introvert that doesn't get other introverts

That's even worse, dude. At least the other one was understandable.

>>20363647
>2011
>not knowing that humans are biologically blank at birth and that environment is the only factor in musical skill

>>20363645

Oh my god, free jazz dub-hop would be so fucking badass if done well.

>>20363647

Right, that's true too. I think I was thinking more about classical music, but then again I did talk about black blues players...

Thing I just thought about is lots of classical musicians are forced to play by their parents from an early age, so that could have something to do with it.

>in metal band in high school
>play first gig downtown houston
>weird rastafarian guy is mc and introduces us
>"hey mon, we got kids here who play the metal put it together"
>first song, polite clapping
>second song, someone from the back screams "good try, kids!"
>third song, same dickhead from the back screams, "it's bedtime kiddies, get the fuck off the stage." this gets some laughs.
>singer gets mad and screams into the mic "I'm gonna skullfuck you bitch!"
>this gets the biggest laugh
>fourth song in, getting booed.
>rastafarian guy comes out in the middle of the song "alright mon. metal kids one love let's put it together."
>playing guitar, no sound
>they pulled the plug.

>>20363615
I lol'd'

My brother won the talent show at his high school when he played Knights Of Cydonia

Kind of lame when you realize how easy that song is.

>>20363660

Welcome to the world of casual musicians.

>>20363686
well that's kind of your own fault tbh. sounds like a poor choice to play a gig, not your scene. sorry to hear though.

>>20363686

>playing metal at a non-metal concert

Oh boy...

>in jazz band for 11th and 12th grade
>we play largely meh songs, and I'm second alto sax, so I rarely get solos
>12th grade, I finally get a first alto score for a good song, Herbie Hancock's Chameleon
>the entire band can actually play it, and I have a hell of a solo on it
>never play it in concert
>only used it when we were playing as something of a house band for the Christmas assembly, no one ever pays attention to us
>my solo was never mic'd
>no one can hear me me play the lead instrument in one of the best songs we ever played, and no one in the audience could have really cared

Oh, I was mad.

>senior year of high school
>picked up drums sophomore year, had lessons for a year but stopped
>not really in a band, but in a sort of group of people that regularly record and jam
>we get asked to play the second half of this absolutely god awful metalcore band's set (bassist was a total fucking bro though)
>by the time the metalcore band is done there's is maybe 15 people in the PAC, started out with over a hundred.
>we go on, have a few "jams" in mind, and one song that is essentially some bullshit chord progressions over me and the bassist just improving, and ending with this sort of zach hill-esque 30 second drum solo.
>look up after the solo
>entire PAC is filled.
>wat.

i mean it was fun, but goddamn. i had been playing in the music department daily my senior year and no one even knew i played drums outside of a few dudes i talked to.

>>20363716

>performing music
>ego
>having priorities in order

Pick one or two.

>>20363487
>crabcore

>>20363732
>human being on earth 2011
>playing like zach hill

Another from my Best Of folder.

>Make ambient music for my entire highschool career, also be in a noise punk group.
>Sign myself up twice for battle of the bands; One ambient act, the other performing with the noise group.
>Get on stage high as fuck, kick out the ambiance.
>Everyone says that this is music for burnouts on the moon.
>"What does that even mean."
Then I went on to play some Arab on radar esque tunes. Shocked parents. Got kicked off 10 minutes early.
Fucking plebs.

>>20363742
I don't have an ego. It was just we had one of our best songs (that, as a bonus, had me with a solo), and we never played it at one of our concerts and the only time we played it no one could have cared.

>12 years old, 6th grade
>revue show for parents and other classes
>plan improv "talk show" parody with mate
>almost get pulled out because we skipped rehearsals
>do surprise interviews with 3 teachers at the actual show
>get actual laughs and applause
>best act by far
>get treated like a king the next couple of days

some of the other kids played linkin park and jumped around with fake instruments

>playing guitar for a year, took lessons on and off
>be shitty player, but always practicing/trying to improve
>see musicians group for my school on facebook
>join it, post i'm looking to play with other musicians
>talk to a band looking for a guitar player
>decide to jam
>have a hard time finding their place, show up late
>they were bros about it though
>they were a ska band for a few years, band broke up because people left for college, etc
>they play some songs they were working on
>try to keep up with them, can't. be completely lost, play like shit.
>they're much better musicians than i was at the time.
>don't play with other musicians again for years, write own music in a DAW

felt bad at the time, but it motivated me to improve, and i've since played with other musicians/consider myself a decent player now.

>>20363598
1/10

>BE IN SCHOOL
>PLAY TEH NEWTRUL MILK HOTELZ
>GIRLS SUCK MY 11 INCH DICK
>PS I'M ALPHA

>>20363686
That's terrible. I'm so sorry, mon.

>niggers

>>20363810

I have a similar story in reverse. This is also somewhat long.

>start band with two friends
>play drums, but not dedicated enough to be very advanced
>one friend wants to play bass, never touched one
>the other wants to play guitar and vocals, not very experienced with either
>experimental mathcore/math rock is the aim
>since we're technically limited the idea is to just write out rhythms for all songs and improvise the actual pitches for each performance
>write out 20ish songs like this, lyrics and all
>learn parts of a couple, other dudes have barely touched their instruments
>guitarist wants to just do vocals now, finds a replacement
>new guy is well known around school as being a great musician
>they want to bring him in for practice, I tell them we're not ready
>do it anyway
>they don't know anything to play, I panic and forget the stuff I've learned
>figure I can at least explain the concept to him, show him some notation
>well, you've got the rhythm...
>can tell he wasn't listening
>he gets on bass and plays some amazing jazz stuff in the corner
>never talk to him again, could tell he thought I was an idiot
>"band" falls apart
>start making solo music

It was such a bummer since I still think the idea has some merit and we might have actually been able to pull it off if we didn't rush it. Instead we just alienated the only skilled musician I knew at the time.

tl;dr version

>start experimental band
>we suck
>almost get new guy
>he's too amazing and leaves
>that feel

>be in the highschool talent show cause im too shitty to be anywhere else
>its the final day, we leave early but im still hungry so i tupperware my spaghetti & celery and backpack it
>get there and set up, we're doing great
>time for presenting comes, and we're up
>so excited that i realize instead of drum sticks i packed celery
>start fidgeting, i begin drum with celery
>black people from the crowd" AHHAHA IS DAT NIGGA PLAYIN DRUMS WITH FUCKIN VEGETABLE???"
>start sweating profusely, rummage through my backpack and fling out the hardest object
>its the spaghetti, it flies through the air and opens mid-air, strewing day-old spaghetti through the crowd
>by now my stomach is acting up and i begin to fart
>singer drops the mic to help me, it lands at my ass
>crowd is screaming, i'm literally performing a gas medley
>announcer says the time is up
>we win 3rd place

true story

>>20364067

>>20364059
>that feel
you should try and collaborate with him on your own. sounds like your band was holding you down. show him your solo music, maybe he'll be interested.

>>20364117

This was years ago, I don't even know where he went after graduation. Since then I have found some other people to jam with but it always ends with either them wanting something less "out there" and leaving or some sort of scheduling/location conflict comes up and makes it exceedingly difficult to continue.

It probably doesn't help that I'm in Alabama and too awkward to seek out the good people.

>>20364067

Avante-garde as fuck.

>>20364067
>carrot drumsticks

>>20364336
>carrot
>implying it's not celery

>>20364456
>implying it's not a potato

>>20364456
Oops, my mistake.
>celery drumsticks

>be in 3rd grade and the class plays theater
>have to play "Puff The Magic Dragon" by Peter,Paul&Mary on guitar (just the melody)
>350 people sitting there
>I am nervous as hell as this was my first concert ever and I had to play solo
>Doing nothing wrong, get extra applause
>everythingwentbetterthanexpected

>be in class 7
>60year old music teacher allows the class to have their own christmas concert
>asks who wants to play for the class
>2 friends and I sign up
>play shitty instrumental versions of Paranoid, Come as You Are and Knocking On Heavens door to class
>no real applause
>teacher holds his ears whenever our shitty drummer hits any cymbal
>thank god no one taped it and there was no youtube at that time.

>be in class 12
>our first gig with my actual band I still have
>school christmas party
>every class does something (baking pencakes and sells them, little games or lotteries)
>some guys organize a concert in the school basement
>play shitty, shitty stage performance, got my guitar detuned and didnt really realize
>people still like it, get drunk at school
>school choir no one likes performs at the same time in the schools staircase
>we blast them with our volume
>they stop singing
>teacher comes and actually likes it.