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Quesney Gibbs
From:
Anniston, AL
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 5:48 am |
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A few weeks ago I started a topic called "Musical Morons" about the so called band I was playing with.
Last Monday night the owner of the place where we were doing our sorry thing elected himself band director and told me that I needed to be able to figure out what key his girlfriend was singing in. An impossible task because she is unable to sing in key no more than 30 seconds.
When some idiot who is tone deaf tries to tell me how and what to play it's time to make a move.
Needless to say I departed the scene never to return.
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David Higginbotham
From:
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 8:16 am
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Good for you!
I can't stand when the person running a club thinks they own the band. They want their spouse, relative, or good friend to sit in to sing or play and that person may have no musical ability whatsoever. But, it is the bands fault because they aren't playing right.
Then there is always a critic or two out there with absolutely no musical ability that wants to tell everyone how to set their equipment as well.
Many times these are one in the same! |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 8:51 am
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| Go, Quesney! |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 9:03 am
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Yeah - I'd bail out of this type of gig. The only reason I'd ever do a gig like that is if I really, really needed the dough, and I've tried to organize my life so I don't.
One thing that I think is sometimes not considered. If I play publically with a bunch of real turkeys and it's real bad, it can reflect negatively on me, and hurt my credibility with good people I want to play with. I guess if it's all in fun, the people are fun, and it's not widely disseminated, no problem. But this sounds like a real drag. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 9:45 am nuts out there
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I LIKE THE ONES THAT COME UP TO YOU
AND MAKE SUGGESTIONS WHILE YOU TRYING TO PLAY with a beer in one hand while they blow smoke in your face
and say can yall play rocky top??
or skynerard man???
or can my chic sing one man?
shes d......m good!
last one asked me for rocky top i told him we couldnt play it
we belonged to PART. he said whats that?
i said it was PICKERS AGAINST ROCKY TOP
he said oh man i ddnt know and went and sit down |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 9:51 am
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Well QT, it's great that you went to workafter the inital post with a decided course of action, and carried it through.
You'll find a gig before you know it.
EJL |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 10:30 am
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| I have always tried to get any band I play in,especially if it a decent band to discourage sit ins,UNLESS it's someone you KNOW can cut it,maybe a former band member etc,If you let someone sit in and they really suck,a new group of people may walk in hear it and think this band is bad and leave.Many times over the years I have seem the band let someones wife or girl friend get up to sing,it goes like this,What are going to sing honey?She says Crazy,What key do do it in,she responds [what do you mean]The guitar player spends 5 minutes strumming chords trying to find,finnaly settles on a key,kick it off and she has forgotten the lyrics and is singing out of meter,half a tone flat.I'm sure many of you that has been around a while,know what I'm talking about. |
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Mike Archer
From:
church hill tn
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Posted 17 Feb 2007 1:35 pm sittin in
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yes i feel the same way about people sittin in
unless i know them
the fellow i was talking about in my story
was gettin on my last nerve and i wanted to see if he could back his mouth up.........he didnt
the band i was with was not my reg gig i was just helping
there steel player have a night off
you are 100 percent right thow  |
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2007 8:13 am
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| Some club owners are so obnoxious. They act like they own the place. |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2007 10:32 am
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| That's true Earnest,Working for many club owners over the years,I have noticed the most successful ones will hire the most professional bartenders,waiters,security,and a professional band that knows how to cater to the patrons and keep the croud happy.Unless some SERIOUS problem arises he stays in the background and counts his money that his crew makes for him. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 18 Feb 2007 11:13 am
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| Some club owners are so obnoxious. They act like they own the place. |
Ha! I'd say it's more like "Some club owners are so obnoxious. They act like they own me."  |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2007 12:13 pm
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| Club own'ers are just people,some will try to screw you out of everthing they can,some won't.I remember one couple years ago[Glenn and Betty Graham,ran BETTY'S CLUB]in Phenix City Ala,They bent over backwards to keep our band happy They set up a private band room,provided us each night with anything we wanted to eat[would ask us the night before what we wanted]The first night we played there we complained the bandstand was to small,the next night carpenters had added six feet to the bandstand.At Christmas they gave us a bonus and asked[Is this enough?]Wonderful people,the exception to the rule.I was really sad when Glenn died of cancer a few years back. Have worked for a FEW decent club ower's over the years but Glenn and Betty were the cream of the crop. |
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joe long
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 19 Feb 2007 10:11 am
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I've been there and done that. Several years ago I was playing in a very good band who happened to let sit-ins. I'm not talking about sitting in for 2-3 numbers but sitting in for 2 or 3 sets while the regular member partied. This sit-in was a big show off who had to let everyone know how good a guitar player he was. His music changed to whole character of our band to the point that he wanted to play only the music that he knew. The drummer and I did voice our concerns but we are no longer in the band. Also, the band lost a lot of there regular gigs after we departed.
I have nothing against sit-ins who you know can do a good job but that sit-in can make or break a band on the spot. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 19 Feb 2007 11:22 am
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I can just see this conversation going on in an operating room:
"Hey, Doc, I'm on the board of trustees of this hospital, and I have this girlfriend who wants to break into this surgery racket and needs some practice. No, she doesn't have any real experience, and hasn't even been to medical school. But she has a good, steady hand, learns fast, and she has dissected some rats in biology lab. Whaddaya say? And by the way, if you don't do me this favor, you're fired."
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