Talent show gone horribly wrong...

During my senior year of high school, me and my friends played gigs for parties every couple weekends. Our band became pretty well known, and everyone regarded us as the best musicians around. Well, after a few months of this none-serious gigging, we decided to hit up the school talent show. Well, we got placed dead last on the program, which was exactly what we wanted. We got more applause when we came out onto the stage than anyone got AFTER performing their material. We did our song ("Betterman" by Pearl Jam) including an improvised solo that I nailed perfectly near the end of the song and we were the only act to get a standing ovation from the crowd. Well, everyone (including the other performers in the show) told us we had 1st place in the bag. Then they started calling out the winners... they called us up for Honorable Mention (which is approx. 9th place out of about 15 performers). The audienced started booing and yelling "F*** the judges!" and almost half the audience literally got up and left. The next morning there were shreds of like 20 talent show fliers scattered on the ground outside the auditorium. The crowd's reaction to our losing was quite wonderful in my opinion, but our bass player went a bit overboard... he has quite the temper. After they handed him his trophy he went outside and slammed it into the ground, breaking it in half. He then proceeded to kick a hole in the wall of a shed outside the auditorium.

I probably made that seem like it happened a long time ago, but I'm 18, and still a senior and high school. This happened earlier this year, and people STILL can't get over the judging... (and we're still deemed the best band around... no one else in school gets asked to play at parties other than us)

[Edited by TheDirt on 03-18-2003 at 09:31 PM]

Thats awesome dude.
My band will be doing talent shows and such once we can find a damn singer.

Who won the talent show??

Probably some dweeb juggling chainsaws.

A guy playing keyboard and one of his friends on drums won... an instrumental on keyboard of the gospel song, "Jesus is Real". Two things about this upset me.

1: I let him borrow my keyboard to play the song because his sucked... he won playing on MY KEYBOARD!!!!

2: He did a good job, but I can play the same song on both piano and guitar better than he did (although I do considerably better on guitar).

2nd place was a singer who most people said wasn't very good (sang C. Aguilera's "Beautiful")... there was a very good singer that participated and she got 6th place (sang M. Carey's "Hero")... I thought she at least deserved 2nd. The judges SUCKED!

That does suck dewd. When I was in school everyone who went to the Talent show got to vote for the winners. Of course then you risk, the 'popular' person always wins. I wouldn't worry about it, you got your support. That's all you really need. I won all but 1 of the talent shows I was in, but they are pretty stupid so I didn't care.

Well, I think you should not give a damn at all. When it comes to awards there are always arguments and doubts about who should have won. Look the Mtv/Grammy/whatever awards...would you ever vote for those who won?

So what was wrong with the show then?In my definition of winning,I think you did.