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Topic: What Was the Worst Audience Reaction to Your Music ? |
Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 8:47 pm |
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Did your music every drive people to tears ?
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Edward Meisse
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Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 8:57 pm
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Alan, you're shameless!  But in answer to your question, the worst thing that anyone's done to me so far is to ignore me. Generally, the few gigs I get are into apropriate venues. That's really the key to a good reaction, I think.
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John Drury
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Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 3:12 am
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One time I got a walking ovation!
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 4:04 am
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Stares and silence.  |
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Rick Nicklas
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Verona, Mo. (deceased)
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:17 am
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Has anyone else noticed that ole Bush has got his hillbilly G position a fret higher than it should be...  |
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John McGlothlin
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:28 am
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One time I looked out at the audiance and I said to the rest of the band...THEY'RE STAYIN HOME BY THE THOUSANDS.
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Bob Knight
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Bowling Green KY
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:31 am
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| What Was the Worst Audience Reaction to Your Music ? |
Playing the Jukebox while we were playing. 
| Rick Nicklas wrote: |
| Has anyone else noticed that ole Bush has got his hillbilly G position a fret higher than it should be... |
Has he ever done anything right? 
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:35 am
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| Over the decades in roadhouses across this wonderful land,I've had drunks throw bottles,ashtrays and billard balls at me,had one guy spit at me and another guy flip a lit cigarette in my face while I was playing because he thought I was looking at his girlfriend. One night in the late 80s down at Johhny White's Little Nashville club in NoHo I came close to getting my head blown off when some raving maniac stood in the parking lot and emptied a clip of 9mm through the front door of the joint and was shooting the windows out of parked cars when the cops came for him. I was on intermission though so I guess that doesn't qualify as an audience reaction. But mostly I'm quite happy to be ignored. |
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:36 am
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| Rick Nicklas wrote: |
| Has anyone else noticed that ole Bush has got his hillbilly G position a fret higher than it should be... |
The official talking points say that there is an invisible capo on the first fret.
America will buy it.
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Stopping talking for a moment and looking up to see why the music has stopped. |
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:42 am
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| Nothin' dramatic. But the shovel headed line dancers got really pi$$ed off when we inserted a bar of 3/4 into the middle of "Achey Breaky Heart." Ruined the whole extravaganza for them! We were laughin' our butts off watchin' the multiple collisions and reigning confusion! |
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Curtis Alford
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BastropTexas, USA 78602
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:42 am Bush
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Rick, I resent associating or refering to Bush and hillbillys. This is very insulting to the basic musicians in this country. And you are from MO.
ha ha
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John McGlothlin
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 6:02 am
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| Now on the political side of this issue...Bill Clinton was the president who was a fine musician...that stupid A$$ George Bush wouldn't know anything about that. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 6:03 am
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| Ab Chord! |
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Steve Norman
From:
Seattle Washington, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 6:19 am
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His song went on to long because he has no exit stratagy to get off the g#!
sorry that was a stinker.
having someone pulling my amp plug out of the wall.
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Al Risbeck
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Iowa, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 6:32 am wrong chord ??
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| I think the lady crying there is his music teacher or then it could be she had been expecting Mr. Clinton ! |
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Duane Reese
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 6:40 am
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| John McGlothlin wrote: |
| Now on the political side of this issue...Bill Clinton was the president who was a fine musician...that stupid A$$ George Bush wouldn't know anything about that. |
This isn't a political forum, guys. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 7:33 am
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What Duane said!
My worst was when a high school student council hired my *bluegrass* band to play their Sadie Hawkins' Day dance (this is the beach - they didn't know country from bluegrass and assumed we could mix in other music). We set up, played about 3 songs and the assistant principal came up and said "maybe you guys should play some of your rock stuff for a while - nobody is dancing". So after our bluegrass version of 19th Nervous Breakdown, she came up again and said "that's not exactly what I meant...and where's the drummer?". Errr.....
I think the room was empty of all but about a dozen of 400 kids within an hour....but we DID get paid!
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Buddy Castleberry
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HAWKINSVILLE GA USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:26 am
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I USE TO HAVE A CUP HOLDER HANGING ON THE CHANGER END
OF MY GUITAR .HAD THIS LITTLE GUY THAT WOULD WALK AROUND THE DANCE FLOOR ALL NITE WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS . HE STROLLED BY IN FRONT OF ME ONE NITE GOT ABOUT TWO STEPS PASS ME THEN HE BACKED UP
AND TOSSED A HALF DOLLAR IN MY CUP OF GIN WITH
A TOUCH OF GRAPEFRUIT JUICE IN IT . THE ONLY TIP I EVER GOT |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 8:34 am What a hillarius thread, in a sad sorta way.
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The worst reaction from an audience I've ever had was Friday at my first 'gig', where I got solid applause from a steel class of 15-ish year old kids (and a few adults) who really didn't know shit from dung-ola, and I wasn't the later..., but it was a pretty cool day.
Alan, you nailed it in a nutshell. Nero has nothing on this guy. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:12 am
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| John McGlothlin wrote: |
| Now on the political side of this issue...Bill Clinton was the president who was a fine musician...that stupid A$$ George Bush wouldn't know anything about that. |
Actually the most musically talented president of recent times was Richard Nixon. Nixon played piano and cello, and composed his own music. There is a clip of him performing one of his compositions on the old Jack Parr show, circa 1963 or 4.
BTW, Senator Robert Byrd plays the fiddle.
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Dale Hansen
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Hendersonville,Tennessee, (USA)
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:19 am worst reaction?
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February 1989, El Paso, Texas.
"The collapse that was heard 'round the world."
I was with a local celeb fiddle player doing the mid-perf entertainment at the winter Pro-Rodeo.
It was indoors, yet cold enough to freeze a stream of pee before it hit the ground.
They pulled us out to the center of the arena on a rickety flatbed.
There were probably 3 to 4 thousand people in attendance.
The sound in that huge metal building was already very loud, and resonant to begin with.
Halfway through the first song, my Session 400, which had been leaning back against a chair couldn't bear the animated antics of the fiddle player.
I should've done something right after I heard the first couple of spring "tings". I didn't, and one more leap from the fiddle player sent it reeling over backwards with the most hellacious crash in history. It took the sound engineers a few moments of scrambling to find the source. Even after they got it shut down, the continuing echo from the buildings ribbed interior kept it coming for a good while longer. Afterwards, I looked all around, and saw that the entire audience had their hands cupped over their ears. Some of em' even had handkerchiefs to stop the bleeding.
That was the worst reaction I ever got.
Game over. I win.
(On a lighter note)
Later, back at the motel room, CNN was reporting on a strange phenomenon happening in El Paso, at around 9:30 PM that evening.
It seemed that hundreds of illegals in El Paso were suddenly streaming out of every crevice at a dead run, and clearing the Rio Grande with a single leap, to get back into Juarez.
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Darrell Urbien
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Echo Park, California
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:21 am
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Lordy, how'd it ring!
You could hear it talk!
You could hear it sing! |
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John Drury
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Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:34 am
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I see that "Flat Top One" is a SC, he's fixin to play notes so high a dog won't hear them, kinda like his budget numbers.
I figured Dubya for a high dollar Martin, are Collings made in Texas maybe?
I sure would like to ditch my canoe paddle for one of those, must be nice to have money out the ying-yang.
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:52 am
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Jim Sliff's post about playing for the high schoolers
brings up a similar memory. Our local American Legion
Hall dance band was hired to play for a school dance,
to be held at the Legion. We knew it was bad idea, but got talked into it.
After about thirty minutes of no response, a teacher
came up and indignantly huffed, "We just can't dance
to your music!" Without a moments hesitation, the bandleader came back, "Well lady, if you'll come out
here Saturday night, I'll show you about 400 people
who can!"
We got paid, packed up and left and they played records, so I guess everybody won.
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Scott Shipley
From:
The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:58 am
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I average 200 plus gigs per year, and I've been lucky enough to have only had one heckler ever.
It was one night in Erfurt, Germany in an Irish pub. It was at the end of a two month long tour, and I was whipped. Everyone in the crowd was diggin it except this one lady. She sat there making audible rude comments at the end of every song. She answered her cell phone (after of course letting it ring for about 30 seconds) and asked them (after about two minutes of conversation) to call her back, and they did. The crowd was getting irritated too, and after about twenty minutes of this, I was almost ready to blast her. Luckily I was able to hold my tounge, and I asked myself, "what would Johnny Cash do?"
So, the remaining thirty minutes of the set I dedicated to her, and began firing off every murder ballad I could think of.......specifically regarding the fairer sex.
Delia's Gone......Snow Dove......Knoxville Girl......and several of my own darker selections.
The crowd roared in approval, and she finally got it. Even sent me up a drink before she left.
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