Most recent insulting / embarassing remark from the audience

Steve Spitz · Post by **Steve Spitz** » 13 Oct 2010 4:11 pm

Where do I start? So many moments....

This weekend at some gig a guy comes up and suggests I could use my steel as a walker. "It`s just the right size! or you could make a walker that looks like your steel!" He wasn`t kidding.

I`m 52 years old. Must be hard city miles.

absolutely not the most insulting/embarassing moment,(not enuff band width for all of them), just the most recent.

John Bechtel · Post by **John Bechtel** » 13 Oct 2010 7:19 pm

Do you have any pictures available? I'm 73 and I sure could use some ideas for myself!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 13 Oct 2010 7:26 pm

"Wow, you're Jim Cohen? I really love your music! I bought your CD for a dollar at a yard sale!"
(True story...

)

Steve Gorman · Post by **Steve Gorman** » 13 Oct 2010 7:34 pm

Once a fellow came up to me and said, "Wow, you have really improved since last time I heard you."

Talk about a left handed compliment...

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 13 Oct 2010 8:39 pm

Steve, That's better than [Hey man you suck since the last time I heard you.]

YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

Joshua Grange · Post by **Joshua Grange** » 13 Oct 2010 10:33 pm

'Your sound greats!"

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 14 Oct 2010 12:14 am

"can you play some songs that I know " ?

Rick Batey · Post by **Rick Batey** » 14 Oct 2010 2:03 am

Overheard from a deranged-looking woman concerning our solo support act:

"Wow, he's a great guitar player! Even better than me! And I don't even play guitar."

Ned McIntosh · Post by **Ned McIntosh** » 14 Oct 2010 3:25 am

"Hey you roadies, let us know when the band gets here, okay?"

Diego Sciocchetti · Post by **Diego Sciocchetti** » 14 Oct 2010 4:27 am

wow! u're great! never seen anyone playing a "sewing machine"!

Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 14 Oct 2010 5:02 am

"Didn't you used to be Ken Byng?"

Yep - had that twice now. We all have two lives, one young and one old. Nobody remembers the in between bit.

John Lemieux · Post by **John Lemieux** » 14 Oct 2010 5:10 am

Ned you get first prize

John Rosett · Post by **John Rosett** » 14 Oct 2010 5:48 am

My band was playing at a local bar, and every time I took a solo on my lap steel, this one table full of college kids would just go wild with applause. When we took a break, one of them comes up to me and says "We LOVE your steel guitar playing! It's so corny!"

Other than that, I hate it when someone yells "Play one more!".....after the first song.

Malcolm McMaster · Post by **Malcolm McMaster** » 14 Oct 2010 5:49 am

"Hey can't you guys play something we know" ---Reply "if you had bought our cd you would know them".

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 14 Oct 2010 6:02 am

"Why do you guys wear those stupid cowboy hats?" (from a highly attractive female singer who was working the downstairs bar at Toronto's old Orchard Park Tavern while we were playing upstairs in what was called the "National Velvet Room").

She may also have asked me (memory is a bit hazy - might have been her drummer who asked me) whether I ever played with "good bands", but since she also tried to hire me for a gig I took that as a compliment to me if not the band I was working with. I do remember thinking that her band stunk.

Jim Lindsey (Louisiana) · Post by **Jim Lindsey (Louisiana)** » 14 Oct 2010 6:12 am

Ken Byng wrote:"Didn't you used to be Ken Byng?"

Yep - had that twice now. We all have two lives, one young and one old. Nobody remembers the in between bit.

Ken, I feel what you're saying for sure ... I laid off of steel for nearly ten years and have just gotten back into it in the last year. I've heard people can change over the years, but what happened at a gig a couple of months back made me laugh out loud ... an older guy came up to me and said, "Don't know if you've ever heard of him but there was this guy, Jim Lindsey, who played steel with Ty Herndon some years ago. I went to all their gigs and watched him play that steel all the time. Every now and then you play something that sounds just a little bit like something he'd play."

Steve Benson · Post by **Steve Benson** » 14 Oct 2010 6:41 am

Oh Boy, this could be a real can of worms.
Well besides lap and PSG I bring 8 and 4 string mandolins. After 4 years of touring + 10 yrs of local gigs. I get things like "hey guy love the baby guitar." Or the ladies say stuff like "Love the tiny guitar it's so cute, did you buy it at a toy store?"
This will tend to go on until I put the overdrive on, shred and melt faces. I don't mind. I do it to myself forcing mandolins and steel on folks who thought they were going to a rock show. Another backsided comment I get is "wow don't like the music or the band but you are really good" This will often happen while the band is right next to me. (i'm often a hired gun, that does not help me get work at all) I remember one show where I could hear 3 or 4 very loud boston jock types (redsox hats etc..) saying they thought my "country slide guitar" was for stupid rednecks or something like that. Yes I'm a yankee, but a steel player and lover of country and the south and west. So I told the songwriter to get out of the way blasted these guys with a massive ac/ac/sacred steel style solo. They came up to me after the set and said "that was the biggest dirtest sound we've ever heard in a club this small. You rock!" I like to turn negitive into positive. Overdrive can help sometimes.

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 14 Oct 2010 7:44 am

Speaking of a walker, here's one with a lapsteel on it........

Other quotes. "You really don't play as bad as everyone says"

"How long have you been in country music, yes or no?"

"He went to Nashville with dreams of becoming a big star, he had everything it took! The only things holding him back was his picking and singing!"

........................JH in Va..............

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 14 Oct 2010 7:55 am

I walked into my local VFW last Sunday while a terrible band was trying to play and I asked the bartender if they were going to have live music today?

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 14 Oct 2010 7:57 am

I was playing a guitar gig with my little ZT amp last week and some knucklehead yelled out that looks more like a space heater than an amp...I said ask yer Mom she gave it to me last night.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 14 Oct 2010 9:35 am

"How long have you been playing, roughly?"

Steve English · Post by **Steve English** » 14 Oct 2010 9:56 am

"Play that one that all of you know"

Mike Archer · Post by **Mike Archer** » 14 Oct 2010 10:22 am

I ask a friend of mine the other day if he had heard our bands last cd

he said he..l I hope so

was funny at the time hehehe Mike

Jim Pitman · Post by **Jim Pitman** » 14 Oct 2010 10:27 am

"Play something good." (like I haven't been?)
My brother got that request so much he wrote a song called "Something Good".

Steve English · Post by **Steve English** » 14 Oct 2010 12:03 pm

I think the B side of "Something Good" was.....
"Far,Far,Away"

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Most recent insulting / embarassing remark from the audience

Most recent insulting / embarassing remark from the audience

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