Road Stories: The Reality Of Playing Gigs in The Canadian Winter! 🥶
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Playing gigs can be difficult in any weather, travelling to and from crowd showing up, staff showing up demanding agents etc. Top it off with Crazy snow, wind and ice storms!! Makes for very interesting and intense working environment for musicians. In this video I tell 2 stories which are gigs directly linked to terrible Canadian Winter weather!!
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Hey Tim, You came on my feed. I saw the title and can relate. I did 3 tours of Canada. 2 in the winter with The Tragically Hip 1990 Road Apples tours. Lots of fun. Cont success.
Thanks very much! Yes that’s cool a lot of travelling especially in the winter! 🥶
Awesome Thumbnail Sir
Great upload
Thank you very much! 😎☝️
I hate winter and winter driving. You’re right about Barrie. It’s a whole other ball game going up there in the winter. I had an uncle who lived in Orillia and Washago, there were times we would go visit him and it would be fine where we lived (Ajax), you’d get onto the road and drive up Highway 12 then suddenly there was a blizzard white out.
Good on you for actually driving and doing the gigs. Most people would cancel or would have turned around and went home, I know I would have.
I don’t hate winter but driving in winter storms can be brutal!! Yeah you are right it’s a snow belt Barrie across to Orillia and even further! We should have cancelled but in the end thankfully worked out and I know the military entertainment agent really appreciated us doing that.
If it's the club that cancels it's ok. If you cancel you'll never be back
100% correct and it doesn’t matter the reason if you cancel that’s the end!! It’s pathetic!
Yep had only 2 events.. 1st was during the early 70's a high school gig. Snow started while we were playing non stop. 4 hours later a rear wheel drive towing a trailer with our PA system, drumas amps etc. Back then was a 45 minutes drive to get there and back. Going back took a few hours, rear wheel drive car slipping & sliding with the trailer doing the same. Gig finished at 1130. Got dropped off at home at 4am as the singer went home with car/trailer a few blocks away.
2nd was a gig in Ottawa on the Sparks St Mall. Drove with my bass gear drummer's minimal kit & guitarist's amp guitars etc. All this in a Dodge Calibre, we looked like a circus clown car. Drive time to Ottawa no weather downtown maybe an hour & 1/2 Gig ends and we load out at 100am. Drove the 417 back from Ottawa to Montreal blinding snow storm, hit speeds of 45km max. Got stuck behind a MOT plow for 15 km, back down to 20km per hour. Drummer lived in the west end of city near me. Took over 2 and 1/2 hours to get there Guitarist lived further east towards central Montreal, dropped him & then got back home at 445am. Good thing it was good paying gig
Wow yes Quebec into Ottawa area is a bad snow belt area as well! Thanks for sharing
🎶🎵 take off to the great White North it’s a beauty way to go take off🎵🎶
Love it Geddie Lee and the McKenzie brothers!
Did a non-stop drive to Thunder Bay in january. THAT was hell. 5 tanks of gas in the cube van. Storms almost all the way. I was the only one eventually who could drive. The two other guys were too tired. I was hallucinating towards the end. We had already been up waiting for the sound man for 24 hrs before leaving. Ugh....it was terrible. We were a day late. Between the surly drunks and the lack of sleep, i almost quit. Just not worth the hassle. Good thing we were all in our 20's. 😂
Shout out to Streetsvlle !!
I dont think it even exists anymore.
Wow that’s crazy! Great story!! I’ve driven to play in Thunder Bay before but never in January. Barrie is as far as I’ll go from Toronto area from December-March but even November and April can get crazy 🤪
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Like you said, agents just dont care.
We called him, wanting to cancel but....
@MWL4466 they are the lowest of the low. Venue owners too. They both don’t care. It’s just get to the gig and do the show no matter what. Sickness, bandmates cancelling bad weather, accidents, there is no concern except for money selling beer and food and agent fee
I totally know the feeling. Had to play Notre-Dam-du-Nord in January back in the day. Our truck got into the ditch because of black ice. Only a little damage, and we did play the gig. No help from agent. Also shout out to Streetsville.
@StageRightMark yes I’ve travelled to Montreal and Quebec many many times for gigs, so I know and feel your pain!!
Metal stairs, snow!= Kaos ,even a small kit is 4/5 trips. Ouch
Yup it’s a nightmare!!
Hwy 400 is the worst! Regardless of the weather and road conditions people drive like idiots because it’s so dead straight. Crazy lake effect snow squalls and still everyone keeps tailgating at 120 kph! Some horrendous massive pile-ups over the years. Worst drivers in Canada on that road. They should build a tunnel!🤪
Yup I agree totally 👍
What no cap?
lol, showing off my new hair cut!
@@drumteacher43 looking good man !
Thanks!!😊