The captain's gig of H.M.S. Mercury was being rowed to H.M.S. Neptune.

The " Fender Bass " was a revolutionary new instrument, one that could easily be played by an electric guitarist, could be easily transported to a gig, and could be amplified to just about any volume without feeding back ".

But his first real gig was at the Rascals Comedy Club as part of the TV show The Rascals Comedy Hour on October 18, 1990.

In the early 2000s he was performing in the Flower Power Concert Series during Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival, a yearly gig he would continue until his death.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.

Page described the performance as " one big disappointment ", and Plant said that " the gig was foul ".

For their first gig, at Harris-Millis Cafeteria ( a location students fondly call " The Grundle ") at the University of Vermont on Dec. 2, 1983, the band was billed as " Blackwood Convention.

The Cornish pilot gig was designed and built to ferry harbour and river pilots to and from ships in fierce coastal waters.

On June 24, 1993, the band was playing a gig at Xerox PARC while elsewhere in the building, scientists were discussing new technology ( the Mbone ) for broadcasting on the Internet using multicasting.

Strachan told band members he intended to leave — but it was not officially announced for six months — he continued regular shows until his final gig with Skyhooks on 29 July.

While in California the band also performed live, and one gig at the Long Branch Saloon in Berkeley was later issued as a live album.

" Five years later, he was working as a doorman at the Heritage nightclub in San Diego — where artists of every genre performed — when he did his first paid gig for $ 6.

The band's debut gig in March 1984 was supporting The Saints and The Triffids at the Old Civic Theatre in Perth.

Shuttleworth decided to leave so a final gig for the band was arranged which drew a large crowd.

Sharkey was also responsible for giving the band their first name: at the introduction to a gig at Saint Joseph's Secondary School in Derry on 16 March 1976, Feargal Sharkey was asked the name of the band and quickly replied " The Hot Rods ".

The double sided vinyl was finally released just before The Chemical Brother's much anticipated New Year's Eve gig at the famous Turnmills in London.

Their first Roxy gig was only their second live appearance.

The band including original bass player Paul Dean, played what was described as a raucous comeback gig and in front of an audience of 3, 000 full at The Roundhouse in London on 6 September 2008.

The gig was a delight to recall when they performed Germ Free Adolescents in its entirety, with the exception of " Plastic Bag ".

A failure to find a suitable vocalist left the band on hold until 1993, when they came across vocalist Ray Wilson, who had been in a road traffic accident and required a lift to make the gig he was performing later that evening.

The Saints had relocated to Sydney ; in April, they and Radio Birdman united for a major gig at Paddington Town Hall.

As Brown and Squire began collaborating more closely on songwriting, they decided that they should take a larger slice of the money than the other band members ; Couzens and Wren left the band in protest, although they soon returned, and Couzens played an ill-fated gig with the band at the end of May before being pushed out of the band by Evans after flying home alone while the rest of the band returned in their van.

As with Geen Ballade the album got limited promotion ; a few television appearances both live and playback ( Countdown ), and one acoustic solo gig the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

Rothery and keyboardist Brian Jelliman completed the first line-up ; the first gig with this line-up was at the Red Lion Pub in Bicester, Oxfordshire, on 14 March 1981.

* November 27, 1995-Liroy co-headlines a gig in Gdansk with Lordz Of Brooklyn-next day Liroy and Lordz ... record one track in Liroy's studio in Gdynia ;

Siouxsie Sioux was particularly influential on the dress style of the Gothic rock scene ; Paul Morley of NME described Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1980 gig at Futurama: " was modeling her newest outfit, the one that will influence how all the girls dress over the next few months.

In early 1973, James Williamson was briefly fired due to pressure from the band's management company ; guitarist Tornado Turner replaced him for a single gig, but Williamson soon returned to the group.

Boosted by critical praise, on 12 June 1978 the band played their first live gig together at Bar 2 in Sheffield's Psalter Lane Art College ( now Sheffield Hallam University ; a plaque now commemorates the spot in what is now a computer suite.

) Eric's last gig with the Bluesbreakers was 25 June at the Flamingo ; the Cream made a warmup club debut 29 July in Manchester and its " official " live debut two days later at the Sixth National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor.

At a gig 15 November 1988, advertised as ' Sonic Boom and Jason of Spacemen 3 ', only Kember and Carruthers performed ; Pierce spent the whole time at the bar with Kate Radley, whom he was now living with.

label, but without ' Take Me to the Other Side ' and an alternate take of ' Suicide ') which represented the first release of the band's live work from their lengthy 1989 contintental tour ; and Revolution or Heroin, a bootleg of performances from the band's 1988 gig at the University of London Students Union.

Surface Detail even mentions competitions to take the place of avatars on SC ships, eagerly sought after ; “ Poor fool won some sort of competition to replace a ship ’ s avatar for a hundred days or a year or something similar ... if I ’ d really been sneaky I ’ d have left the dumb fuck with a batch of implanted false memories full of whatever Contact-wank fantasies he ’ d been imagining before he took the gig in the first place .”.

Napier-Bell said of Bolan that after the first disastrous electric gig, " He didn't have the courage to try it again ; it really had been a blow to his ego .... Later he told everyone he'd been forced into going acoustic because Track had repossessed all his gear.

Jurek also gave note to how Rick Rubin made the two-discs sound like it were recorded at one gig, writing " Producer Rick Rubin stays out of the way ; his production seems to be in terms of shaping the live sound to make it sound like this is all one gig.

At one gig they said, ' Oh, go on, smash it up ; it's only worth a fiver.

* Micky Burt ( Drums ) ( 1989 ) ( did not actually play any gigs ; he was not available for the May 1989 gig in Berchem, Belgium, so Keith Warrington was brought back )

Both agree that he died in a traffic accident ; he was apparently hit by a car when leaving a gig at the Las Palmas restaurant.

" Santiago also played a benefit concert for drummer Wally Ingram in February 2007 as part of The Martinis ; the band's first gig for six years.

Niklas made his departure known by failing to appear at a gig at Bältesspännarparken on 6 August 1990 ; he preferred to attend a Rolling Stones concert on the other side of town.

* Ann Glanville, born 1796 ; champion gig rower who lived all her life in Saltash.

In November 2011 the Pointer Sisters toured Australia and played one gig in New Zealand with a lineup consisting of Ruth Pointer, Sadako Johnson and Issa Pointer ; the last-named was a last minute and presumably temporary replacement for Anita Pointer, who did not feel up to travel due to an unnamed health concern.

Joining COUM, Tutti initially helped in building props and designing costumes, and was there when the group began changing its focus from music to performance art and more theatrical happenings ; one of these involved the group turning up to play a gig but intentionally not bringing any instruments, something Megson considered " much more theatrical, farcical and light-hearted " than their earlier performances.