I don't want to mention the band in this tale because then it would be obvious who this tale came from and i don't want to do any stirring, so i will refer to the people and the band involved by means of a fiendishly complex alphabetical code.
Our story begins sometime during the mid 1980's while the person we shall call 'A' was helping out the band who we shall refer to as band 'X'. anyway, it was as person 'A' was at a gig one night replacing a usual member who was off sick or something, and the band was backstage while they were waiting to go on stage and things were a bit dull. person 'A' said that things were not quite going as rock and roll as the legends pretend and that there had been just a joint or two and a few cans of lager drunk all evening.
When it came time for the band to take the stage, a person we shall refer to as 'B' who was also the singer, suddenly produced a half empty bottle of wine from his baggage, uncorked it and put it to his lips as he walked through the dressing room door on to the stage (i will admit that it was at the old marquee, and the dressing room doorway was behind the stage next to the drum kit, good for dramatic entrances!), and as person 'B' walked through the doorway he suddenly began to stagger and pretend he was drunk! person 'A' initially found this embarrassing enough but when person 'B' staggered over to the mike waving his bottle and screamed the words "whooo, lets get pissed!", 'A' said that he just wished himself into a hole, it was so badly done that it made person 'A' want to run away from the stage and onto a bus home.
funnily enough the band released a half decent album (and one that Ive never heard) and were for a short time quite popular.
Its been twenty odd years ago now but the story still makes me smile.
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