My most recent embarrassing stage moment happened within the last week while doing a christmas gig at a local university.

We were playing in one of the largest of the university ballrooms for a local business christmas party. Our agent had given us the wrong starting time so we arrived too late to set up our PA system. I decided to use a small mixer and plug into the existing house PA system.

What I didn't know was that the university had recently upgraded to a new computer controlled PA system that automatically adjusted the levels of the microphone inputs.

It worked fine while I introduced each song but would completely turn off the PA when we started to play our instruments and sing!

After two songs, we were told to leave the stage! I then asked the venue manager to inform the poet (who followed us on stage) to lengthen his set and finish the show without us. The poet misheard the request and thought we wanted him to end his show early (after two poems).

I received the blame for that mistake as well!

It could have been worse.   I had a friend of mine who accidentally tucked the end of a roll of toilet paper into her panties before a gig and then wandered on to stage with ten feet of the stuff trailing behind her.....

Mike