Have You Ever Screwed Up?, (On a gig) |
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Have You Ever Screwed Up?, (On a gig) |
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May 19 2009, 07:38 PM |
Hey Marcus
Have you ever screwed up on a gig, I meen like you where playing a song and you screw up totally and have to stop playing (The ultimate nightmare scenario). |
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May 25 2009, 12:37 PM |
Lol, OF COURSE I already had such a moment on stage, but in BG we follow the most important Rock'n'Roll rule ever:
Whatever happens, NEVER stop playing!!!! If one of us gets lost, we continue the song, and the lost one will find his way back into the song, sooner or later (hopefully sooner ) And to give you one example, my fave nightmare was on the last tour, while we played the Bard Song. Since 1992, when the song was released, we played it at every singe show, but on that night I just had a black out and got completely lost right after the first chorus. Andre started to play the solo and I just had no clue at all about the chords Took me about 10 seconds (which felt like 1000000 years in that moment) to get back into the song but then everyting was fine again, the only effect was that I practiced the song again before the next show We are all human beings, also professionals screw up from time to time. -------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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May 31 2009, 04:45 AM |
Before the show stars, I have to go to the bathroom, no matter what. If I don't, I will surely screw it up. And it already happens!!. One time, I forgot a whole part of one solo, and I was just like "What the hell is coming right now!!??". And I just play notes without know why and luckily, I find the line later. But that happened because I didn't go to the bathroom!!. Jajaja. So I know how it feels Marcus.
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Jun 25 2009, 01:19 PM |
You just didn't care about another golden rule when it comes to playing live... never, and I mean NEVER think about what you are playing, just play!!! Sounds weird? Mabye, but it for sure works. As long as I don't think about the parts of our songs I never have problems, the problems only start as soon as I start to think about what I am actually playing or what I will have to play next. Just trust the autopilot ( Well, to be able to do so you will have to properly rehearse before the show of course)
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Jun 25 2009, 02:00 PM
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I have no problem believing that. IT is like football (soccer). If you ever start to wonder how you are actually shooting the ball, you will fail - big.
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Sep 6 2009, 07:11 PM |
Of course it happens, to everybody, we all fail from time to time And people that have seen us at Bloodstock this year might have realized about the biggest failure in BG history... lol
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Nov 6 2009, 11:50 AM |
Hehe, isn't it a weird feeling when sometimes you just forget about everything that happens in a song and you are there on stage wondering what the heck comes next?
About Bloodstock... well, for this festival season we played a new song, Sacred. We wrote it for the computer game Sacred II and before those festivals we never played it live, so there was no real routine to that song yet, the autopilot didn't work properly yet, but until Bloodstock we always played it very well. Well, and then came Bloodstock :-) Everything was fine until the first chorus, but then I jumped in the wrong part, I played the part that is supposed to come only after the second chorus... and this triggered the catastrophe Normally when one of us gets lost we just look at each other shortly, pay attention to what the others are playing, and we are back on track immediately... this time that didn't work cause my little improvisation made everybody lose track of what should be played, and for about 30 seconds all of us played something different.. only after that we got back into the song and finished it without problems. But of course something like this can mess up with your mind big time... after that we played Lord of the rings, a song that we played a billion times, and in the moment when Hansi announced it I had a complete black out, I didn't even know the key of the song anymore But here the autopilot stepped in again, I had no clue what to play, but I just played, and the version was very good -------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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Nov 7 2009, 02:52 PM |
Yeah, I hate them, but as I said, normally the autopilot works pretty fine
-------------------- Guitars: various Gibson Les Pauls / Gibson J 45
Amps: Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifier / Triaxis / 2:90 Poweramp / Rectocabs Effects: Rocktron Intellifex / Rocktron Xpression Homepage: www.marcussiepen.com www.blind-guardian.com Check out my video lessons! |
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