what musical freak outs have you had?

Uh.. No.

But I do remember the first time I was so moved by what was being played, and so deeply into it, that I was sub-conciously doing the bass groove dance while playing. It was kinda like... Hey!... I'm moving!. But probably looked more like that scene for The Jerk.

When I was in college I went and saw the Gyoto Monks Tantric Choir - a bunch of Tibetan monks who throat sing. I must admit though, I was stoned out of my tree. But these guys just did this chant thing for like 2 hours, with horns and gongs and... it was wild. At one point, I had my eyes closed but wasn't asleep, and I the most definite feeling that I was floating in water.

Not quite a nervous breakdown, but levitation is a pretty cool musical side effect, no?

Remember back in the early 70's that I FINALLY got this Girl to go out with me...ended up at her house (parents were away for the weekend)...put on the flip side of the Iron Butterfly In a Gadda Da Vida LP and amply fortified by two bottles of Boones Farm Apple Wine and incense sticks...thought that I was in teenage heaven!

I think we could just file the 70's in general in the freakout category.....I was only born in '74, but most of the musicians I played with in my formulative years were very much from that era - including the two who induced my aforementioned state of temporary musical psychosis.

Must have been something in the bong water methinks :D

never had anything like that while sober, but with my good friend thc, all i have to do is put on headphones and close my eyes. i go into this trance and all my senses except hearing shut off. once in a while, i get closed eye visuals from it. cool, but really trippy.

I have got choked up a time or two at church. A couple of times we have played something that deeply and obviously moved the congregation. As soon as the song is over the place just erupts with emotion. That is a very intense feeling.

My wife and son showed up at an outdoor show I was playing with one of my old bands. The look of pure pride on my boy's face made me fall apart. I was wearing sunglasses so I don't know if anyone could see how overwhelmed I was. I finished our set playing with him on my shoulders holding onto my head with all of his might.

I felt a similar feeling again about a month ago when my boy took my twanger's guitar and played RHCP's Can't Stop with us at a birthday party that we threw for a friend. The only difference is he felt the same way this time. In ten years I've never seen that boy smile bigger than when he caught a round of applause.

as some of you may remember, it told you all awhile back how my last band kind of fell apart after our lead twanger died. he was a very close friend of mine, somebody i really looked up to on many so many levels. anyhoo, in my new gig, we do one of the songs that he and i wrote together buut never did with the old band because it was to heavy. everytime we do play this song i have to turn away from everyone. its just so emotional. i close my eyes while we play it and its like he is standing there with me playing along still. its such a great feeling but at the same time it really sucks.

The only thing close to a freak out I've had was a few years back one of the twangers in the band I was in decided to quit the night of a sold out show,so the 2 1/2 hour drive to the gig me,the stinkey,twanger and singer sat in the back of the van rearanging all the songs in the set,first time in a long time I had charts on stage,high anxiety like a mofo

Kinda like The Chuck, I had 3 shows within a couple of days of my best friend (he was a stinky) dying. He wasn't in my band, but he was all I could think about on stage. I was bawling onstage while we were playing a song that lyrics to the effect of today is the day, a day to be born, a day to be free, a day to be warm, today is the day, a day to decide, darkness for light, wrong or for right. I still keep in touch with his brother, and have driven past the graveyard he's buried in a few times lately, since it's on the way to my new twanger's house.

During the early stages of my old band, we had a halloween show that was litterally outside of a barn. We got screwed over in the line-up, we had some stage props get destroyed prior to the show and I was generally pissed off because my bass had been stolen the show before and I was using a cheap ass back-up. The show went pretty shitty overall so at the end I unplugged myself and proceeded to smash the hell out of my bass and our last remaining stage prop. That's my biggest on-stage freak out.

Off-stage was probably after my last show with obsidian. It was our cd release party and I was moving to MS a couple of weeks later. We had a great show and when it was all over and tore our stuff down, I sat in the backstage area and bawled my eyes out because I was afriad I'd never get to play a live gig again.

Those are the most memorable, I've had plenty of them.

ooh....that's a good one :D

I sang in the church choir when I was young. Once I heard the guy next to me sing clear, true and beautiful. Then I heard my own voice and realized that I would never be able to sing like him... Tears started running and I just sobbed through the rest of the set. I was so ashamed of myself that I couldn't tell anyone why I started to cry, it would've been like asking for loads of forced compliments wich I really didn't want. :o

I had one thing like that happen to me once... It was a science fair of some sort, another school's science fair, and owr school decided to take part as a whole, and they presented a project I did with some clasmates wich was a design for an Ideal City, I cant even remember what was so special, I think it was eco-friendly. Anyways, I had to expose the thing on the last day, and I rocked that bee-otch. I could'v sold it to the mayor if he would'v been there. So anyways, in the middle of the awards ceremony, I started cruying becouse I just KNEW we wouldnt get any awards and all of that job had been wasted... We ended up getting a Special Mention(sp?), so It was good.

Music wise... I'v had one too many freakouts... Let's see. Everytime I liesten to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, It's like if my brain took 5.

I get that trance state you describe quite alot actually... Sometimes w/ open/closed eye visuals, but ususally when Im liying in bed and the lights are off, so it dosnt count.

Maggot Brain also get's me there. The wall... I'll have to think of some more.

i woke up to Psy0pus once....thought i was having a seisure

I've never publicy thanked them, but I'd like to take the time to personally thank the people of Boone's wine. Without them I may never had gotten laid in high school, and perhaps never been born (Mom liked the Boones too I bet).

I felt a similar feeling again about a month ago when my boy took my twanger's guitar and played RHCP's Can't Stop with us at a birthday party that we threw for a friend. The only difference is he felt the same way this time. In ten years I've never seen that boy smile bigger than when he caught a round of applause.

Yeah, I swell up when my boy comes to a practice and shreds all the Metallica songs that are too hard for us to play.

For me I have had many a outter body experience at concerts, but a bag of shrooms will do that to ya.

Once we jammed on a riff for like twenty minutes. It was late and I was all of the above if you know what I mean, and I was feeling like I was in atrance as well, but what was cool was I heard the music like Neo saw the Matrix. I heard EVERYTHING, every little nuance, the sound your fingers sliding on the strings, the click of the twangers pick, the weeze of the singer and the sound of the stinky's bass pedal moving back and forth. I bought a second bag of that shat the very next day. The sound of everything was in my head the rest of that night. I was dumbfounded.