You gotta here this!

[Scott Henderson]

If yuo have ever done a gig you've been there....
It's a hoot....but sadly true...

http://casavaldez.posterous.com/the-min ... n-you-sing

[Roger Miller]

Scott, I've been there. I feel the pain. It's when you record with them and they want to put your name on the liners. yeeeeeoooooowwwww.

[Michael McGee]

LOL!! pure genious... putting into song what EVERY musician has suffered through at some point.

Great link, Scottmeister. So... when will I hear this one in your set??? :>)

[Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)]

Absolutely, been there, done that. Great post, Scott.

I agree with Michael that this song is genius ... describing the pain we've all felt at one time or another.

I know what you mean, Roger. I've gone in for sessions and, after hearing the singer(s), literally made the request "Please don't put my name anywhere in the credits, I'd like to remain anonymous."

[Scott Henderson]

I don't know Mike it's aweful swingin for me....
Might have to do a more country version LOL

I used to orchestrate talent shows...not by choice

Brought back a lot of memories..er nightmares hehehehe

[Scott Henderson]

Jim I used to base my studio scale on the scratch tracks. charged one guy $250.00 for two songs hoping he would find someone else...Sure enjoyed the money but didn't care for him putting me on the credits

[Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)]

Scott, sounds like yours was a similar experience to something that happened at a studio in Dayton OH once. I got called in to lay some steel tracks on an album that a lady named Sister Ivy had cut and she decided, at the last moment, she wanted steel added on it. I'd recorded at that studio before and the studio manager, normally a very cheerful and jolly sort, seemed a little depressed and said, "Man, you're not going to believe this one."

While we were listening to the tracks before I played, the studio manager referred to her as Sister Poison Ivy and said that he'd charged her $300 per song in the hopes that she'd not like the price and go elsewhere, but she whipped out the cash, paid for the session and there was not much he could do but go for it.

When I asked him if he could mute out the vocal tracks while I laid down the steel, he laughed and said, "Are you kidding me? We all had to endure this and you will, too!"

[Billy Tonnesen]

Sometimes they bring a large cadre of family and friends who clap a cheer loudly and demand they do another song. I remember one woman at the Elks Club who always sang "Oklahoma" in falsetto. It was so bad us guys in the Band would just crack up but try not to be disrespectable as she had a lot of friends in the audience.

[Dick Sexton]

She made um go like hours, I had a month with three weeks in it.

[Paul Wade]

priceless!!!! been there a few times

[Paul Graupp]

Posted this before but it fits here...

I worked for a singer in Raleigh who had a guest on stage one night and ego got the best of him when he moved it up a whole tone by his desire, not her's. He did it again on the bridge and her voice cracked at that key. She ran off the stage totally embarressed and I was ashamed to have been a part of it so it can be a two way street,

Regards, Paul

[Roger Rettig]

Hilarious, but isn't the playing terrific?

I loved it!

[Bill Cunningham]

Hey Dick Sexton.

This reminds me of the Marine from Texas that played Papa Joe's in Newport, NC back in our Cherry Point days around 1978. He insisted on playing Rocky Top in 3 chords only (G,C,D.) For the life of me I can't remember the name but it was a step up to go from him to Hank Hancock.

[Scott Henderson]

Roger
the playing is really nice hard to beat a upright bass and brushes.....

[Roger Rettig]

I agree, Scott - but that pianist makes me wish I'd taken that up instead of steel!