mikem
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Post by mikem on Jan 6, 2020 16:50:19 GMT -5
This past fall I was playing with a German band at a two day outdoor beer festival in Plymouth, MA
While on a break a lady comes up to me, compliments the band, and proceeds to tell me that she also plays in a band..... Me: "what do you play"? Lady: "tambourine" Me: "what else" Lady: "that's it....'really adds alot to the music...the band loves it...I play with them every week" Me: "uh....ok...."? Lady: "I've got my tambourine in the car..." Me: "uh....ok...."? Lady: "I can play with your band if you want me to.." Me: "uhhhhhh......" Lady: "it'll add alot...." Me: "I don't think so...."
Mind you, I am dressed in full lederhosen and the band is very authentic; yodelling, alp horns, polkas, etc.
She was serious....
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jan 6, 2020 19:24:15 GMT -5
Free Bird.
We were an all-originals 90’s alternative band.
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Post by gato on Jan 7, 2020 10:55:47 GMT -5
We were playing at an outdoor classic car show. A guy walked up during a break and introduced himself as an Elvis impersonator. He had driven his 1957 Chevy to the gig, dressed in his Elvis outfit, so he definitely had the look, right down to wig and shades. As it happened, we had "Burnin' Love" on our set list, so our girl singers took second mic for backups and we started the new set with "Elvis" up front.
The guy was great! He was indeed a "hunka-hunka burnin' love".
Unlike the usual singin'-in-the-shower types that stagger up from the bar.
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 7, 2020 14:10:12 GMT -5
Free Bird. We were an all-originals 90’s alternative band. likewise, we're a jazz band |
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Post by tahitijack on Jan 7, 2020 18:34:44 GMT -5
Our instrumental surf music band was starting its second set. For those unfamiliar with the genre, we don't sing. Not even Beach Boys...so just one mic on stage. Essentially we are a Ventures type band. After a couple of songs a nice young lady approached us and requested we play some Bee Gees. The bass player and I knew a couple of songs and were willing to give it a try but got out voted.
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Jan 7, 2020 20:01:16 GMT -5
My buddy, an incredible guitarist, and I were doing a 'background dinner party' music
gig for an Italian-American Club dinner. We told them up front that we weren't
a band (Hot Tuna, Scott Joplin, Leo Kotke), but the drunken partyers kept yelling
for something they could dance to (including a 90 year old Sicilian woman who kept cursing
us out in Italian).
So we did a loud version of 'Take Five'. Kind of hilarious watching them enthusiastically
dancing, but falling over themselves on the fifth beat...
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Post by badger51 on Jan 7, 2020 20:53:38 GMT -5
I was in a classic hits dance band whose members were all men in their late 50’s. We did Credence, Elvis, Stones, etc and we got a request for an ABBA song. We were dumbstruck
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 7, 2020 22:07:33 GMT -5
Many years ago the band was on a break during a bar gig and a guy wearing a very expensive suit (he looked like a big-city wiseguy) came over to the table and offered us a house-band gig at a strip club. At the time it seemed like a not-so-good idea.
NOW, however, I'd probably have waymore interesting stories if we had bitten on that.
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 8, 2020 4:22:33 GMT -5
My buddy, an incredible guitarist, and I were doing a 'background dinner party' music gig for an Italian-American Club dinner. We told them up front that we weren't a band (Hot Tuna, Scott Joplin, Leo Kotke), but the drunken partyers kept yelling for something they could dance to (including a 90 year old Sicilian woman who kept cursing us out in Italian). So we did a loud version of 'Take Five'. Kind of hilarious watching them enthusiastically dancing, but falling over themselves on the fifth beat... Lol |
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Post by mikem on Jan 8, 2020 8:29:17 GMT -5
Playing in my classical trio at an upscale black-tie wedding in Newport, RI when, between songs, a middle-aged guy approaches us and asks for our business card.
As I am handing him our card he says: "your group will be perfect for my son's wedding next year....do you play any Kenny G"?
my response: "sir, people hire us because they do not want to hear any Kenny G..."
We actually scored the gig...
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Post by Ryder on Jan 8, 2020 14:39:03 GMT -5
Years ago, playing in a band that hosted a Wednesday night jam. At the bar, during break, woman next to me says, do you want to go home with me and use the hottub. I said, hmmm, no thanks. I have to go to the bathroom now. She says, so do I, but you go first so I can watch your butt. Helloooo.
Get back the bar and she has moved to the next guy in line. I got a kick out of her Walkin' on down the Line!
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jan 8, 2020 20:20:41 GMT -5
Many years ago the band was on a break during a bar gig and a guy wearing a very expensive suit (he looked like a big-city wiseguy) came over to the table and offered us a house-band gig at a strip club. At the time it seemed like a not-so-good idea. NOW, however, I'd probably have waymore interesting stories if we had bitten on that. That’s awesome. When I was in college, one of my professors set me up with an audition/interview to do sessions for background music for films. Turned out to be adult films. I left with a check for $1,000 as an advance, and a contract which was basically a porn actor’s contract with a handwritten “* Musical services only” written at the top. I lost the contract years ago, which still upsets me because it was funny. The company then went out of business, I never made any porn music, and I got $1,000 for nothing. |
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Post by Ragtop on Jan 9, 2020 7:59:36 GMT -5
Not exactly a "request," but....
My previous house was right next to a little par-3 golf course. When the weather was nice, my band would rehearse in the garage on Sunday afternoons.
One evening, after playing a set at a big venue for a charity thing, we were packing up. A lady, 40-ish, walks up and says "do you live in Elkhorn?"
"Yes I do," says I. "Why do you ask?"
She said, "I play in a Sunday afternoon ladies league at the golf course, and we listen to you guys when we play. We love you guys!"
It was a nice compliment. I had no idea that we were so loud that the golfers could hear us.
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Post by i Digz WEEZER on Jan 9, 2020 9:56:26 GMT -5
I'm a solo acoustic cover guy.
"Can you play something we can clog to?"
I obliged them with Rocky Top. They linked arms and tore the floor up.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Jan 9, 2020 11:07:49 GMT -5
"The company then went out of business, I never made any porn music, and I got $1,000 for nothing." You are a God Among Men if you can honestly state you made $$$$ working in the porn bidniz  ) Seriously though, the music in those films is really terrible. In many cases it's all computer generated with tools like Band In a Box. |
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Post by Duke on Jan 9, 2020 12:02:09 GMT -5
We were asked if we played anything by Barbra Streisand.
We're an all male blues band?!?!
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 9, 2020 20:01:57 GMT -5
"The company then went out of business, I never made any porn music, and I got $1,000 for nothing." You are a God Among Men if you can honestly state you made $$$$ working in the porn bidniz ) Seriously though, the music in those films is really terrible. In many cases it's all computer generated with tools like Band In a Box. And how do you know these things Peeg? ;<) |
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Post by dolemite on Jan 9, 2020 20:57:52 GMT -5
Theme from The Little Mermaid.
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Post by 69tele on Jan 10, 2020 9:29:04 GMT -5
We played a wedding once when the bride asked us to play this anthem from a little known Caribbean island a few mins before the event. It was in an unwritten creole language the islanders only knew.
Needless to say we played the recorded version from a CD for them !
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 10, 2020 21:27:37 GMT -5
4 PC. Rock band, requested to play Hava Nagila. We were like really,oops got censored. Anyway, we thought it was strange.
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Post by stratmanx on Jan 11, 2020 19:05:34 GMT -5
I've been gigging in Memphis for the last 34 years.
Come up with your craziest sh$& and triple it..
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Post by jeffscott on Jan 12, 2020 2:39:09 GMT -5
Free Bird. We were an all-originals 90’s alternative band. Free Bird. We were an all-originals 90’s alternative band. likewise, we're a jazz band The Top 40/Disco band I was in during the mid-late '70s were walking into the Christmas party for GE in Ravenna in 1977, and one of the people standing by the doors yelled out, "The POLSKA BAND is here! We (the band members) looked at each other and laughed, then told the guy what kind of band we were. Turned out the crowd/employees were thrilled to not have to listen through another Polka band, finally!  At another gig, I was asked me by one of the better looking women who came to see us and dance, for something that I cannot mention on this forum, but I can say that the request was completed to both of our satisfaction (we didn't play that song, sadly).  In the mid '70s a friend of mine and I did an acoustic/electric folk music duo at bars in the NEOhio area. Someone called out the usual, "Play Freebird!" We looked up and said, "Come back next week." (this was a regular weekly gig for us at this one bar in Chagrin Falls) The following week we did "Freebird" and the solo section at the end, we morphed that into "Würm" by Yes (the last section of "Starship Trooper", a great segue, actually). |
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 13, 2020 14:41:56 GMT -5
Along the same lines as others above, all male band called "Shindig", already through 3 sets of Motown, Stax, etc., and Britnee asks me if we play any Madonna. I couldn't resist and turned to the bass player who looked remarkably like Higgins from Magnum PI and asked "Hey man, did you bring your cones?".
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Post by Bbendfender on Jan 13, 2020 16:57:57 GMT -5
This is true. Late 1970's at a cowboy dance club in East Texas. Our lead guitar player and his friends were all sauced and acting out with the crowd. Not sure what caused him to do it but the lead guitar player dropped his pants and mooned someone in the audience. We were up on a 4 foot stage. He did it several times. Just a little later there was a commotion in front of one of our big PA speakers and I stepped out to the edge of the stage to take a look. Well, one of our lead guitar player's friends was standing on top of a table. His pants were down, around his ankles and he was flapping the front of his western shirt and spinning around and around. I swear this is true. These boys were really "tore up" than night. Years and years later, the lead guitar player (cowboy) had spent several years in prison for drug use and drug dealing. Didn't surprise me. Sad because he was a hell of an entertainer when he was not so drunk. By the way, the crowd loved this activity.
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Post by Rick Knight on Jan 14, 2020 17:57:44 GMT -5
A girl who said "Well, can you try anyway?" when I told her I'd never heard of the song she requested.
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Post by jazzguy on Jan 14, 2020 23:08:28 GMT -5
A girl who said "Well, can you try anyway?" when I told her I'd never heard of the song she requested. Yeah, "c'mon, you know it goes like this, da da, da, da da..." |
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Post by mikem on Jan 15, 2020 9:18:51 GMT -5
A girl who said "Well, can you try anyway?" when I told her I'd never heard of the song she requested. hahahahahahahahahhaha!!!
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jan 15, 2020 11:49:21 GMT -5
A girl who said "Well, can you try anyway?" when I told her I'd never heard of the song she requested. Oh, that is a fabulous framing of some of the dim bulbs I've encountered. Lemme guess, she approached you with this important request in the middle of singing a song? I love those scenarios. You stop the band and announce "wait, wait wait...what is your name? Brittnee, with two E's? Ladies and gentlemen, Britnee has something important to ask that couldn't wait". *turns mic to Britnee*. |
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Post by rickyguitar on Jan 15, 2020 18:27:56 GMT -5
A girl who said "Well, can you try anyway?" when I told her I'd never heard of the song she requested. In high school I knew a drummer who said pretty much that, at practice. Our last practice in fact. |
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Post by cagey on Jan 15, 2020 19:04:45 GMT -5
Middle of a gig last year, drunk lady walks through the packed dance floor, gets up on the stage and asks our keyboard player, while we are playing, if we can play something she can dance to. She didn't request a specific song, apparently just didn't find our song choices danceable. Keyboard player told her "we're doing the dance songs next". Note: her and her hubby were the last ones to leave the dance floor. Guess they figured out how to dance after all.
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) Seriously though, the music in those films is really terrible. In many cases it's all computer generated with tools like Band In a Box.
