What's the dumbest request you ever got?

Marc Jenkins · Post by **Marc Jenkins** » 21 Jan 2008 2:52 pm

Playing in a hippy-rock band in my early 20's in a town called Provost, Alberta (the supposed KKK Kapital of Canada) this HUGE guy with incredibly long hair, tight tight jeans and no shirt approached the stage (they tried to throw him out, but couldn't, apparently). He yelled 'play some f$%^'in Dio!' after every song. He even threatened our bass player.

He eventually got bored and punched a bouncer, and got arrested late in the night...

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 21 Jan 2008 3:06 pm

Play something I know !!!!!

or even better

Play something you know !

Terry Kinnear · Post by **Terry Kinnear** » 21 Jan 2008 3:13 pm

I always get a least 3 request, every time i play. sit down, shut up and go home. and thats from my band. Tk

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 21 Jan 2008 3:18 pm

"You're good on that keyboard," was once said to me by a slightly intoxicated patron. She was standing over my steel at the time. That was the kind of compliment I could live without.

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 21 Jan 2008 3:43 pm

PLAY "FUNNY BUTT!"
I said,"no such song."
Drunk guy says,"Yeah they're is, it goes, "I'm in the mood for love, simply because you're near me. Funny, but..."

Joe Minor · Post by **Joe Minor** » 21 Jan 2008 5:26 pm

I know it has happend at least 6 times by different people would ask for the devil went down to georgia and I have never been in a band with a fiddle.

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 21 Jan 2008 5:41 pm

Drunk... Play something GOOD!!

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 21 Jan 2008 6:07 pm

Besides the rock gig requests for Dolly Parton and Britany Spears,
the request to play something solo on my Kay upright bass,
and then saying how much he loves "trombone solos" ranks up there.

Jack Ritter · Post by **Jack Ritter** » 21 Jan 2008 6:39 pm

we had this gal that asked us to do "walk all over Texas"!!

Mickey Adams · Post by **Mickey Adams** » 21 Jan 2008 6:54 pm

Anyone who comes to the stage and sees 5 guys, and asks if we know any "Judds"

Dale Tiemessen · Post by **Dale Tiemessen** » 21 Jan 2008 7:15 pm

I had request the other night,but I told the guy were getting paid to play till 1:00

John De Maille · Post by **John De Maille** » 21 Jan 2008 7:38 pm

Had a written request for "Hows by You", that was scratched out, then written under it "Blue by You".
My wife, the lead singer in the band, did "Blue Bayou" adding both lines in the song. It was simply hilarious to us, but, nobody else caught on. It's a wonder what alcohol will do.

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 21 Jan 2008 7:53 pm

Years ago when playing the "Dunes" in Honolulu, a cute young female brought up a written request for "Born Too Loose". Of course I had to make a big deal of it, and it made her cry. I felt like the north end of a south bound horse.
Jim

Dave Harmonson · Post by **Dave Harmonson** » 21 Jan 2008 7:54 pm

I worked with a bass player back in the 80's who kept all the "fractured" coaster requests. He wound up with a rather large collection. One of my favorites: "Angels Falling Too Close On The Ground". I used to play a Gib Gilbeau song called "Bon Soir Blues" and we had one guy who would send up a coaster asking for "Barn Swallow Blues".
Always loved that story from John Prine when he had a request for the "Happy Enchalada Song". Turned out they wanted to hear "That's The Way That The World Goes 'Round" which includes the lyric "half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown". So John sang it for them, "Happy Enchalada and You Think You're Gonna Drown".

Bill McRoberts · Post by **Bill McRoberts** » 21 Jan 2008 7:55 pm

1. A drunk girl staggers up to the stage and shouts "Play something we can dance to!"

2. A guy asked us to play "Kansas City". I told him "We Just did". He says "Noooo! You know", and his starts singing.."Kansas City, whoooa, Kansas City Ooooh Kansas City,Oooooo what yer doin' to me".
I think he meant "Can't You See" by Marshall Tucker

Tommy Young · Post by **Tommy Young** » 21 Jan 2008 8:08 pm

WHO'S GONNA CHOP MY BABY'S KINLIN WHEN I'M GONE ---THIS WAS FROM AN OLDER GUY COME TO FIND OUT IT IS A SONG BUT NONE OF US HAD EVER HERD IT

TOMMY YOUNG
MAX-TONE MODIFICATIONS
WHEN YOUR GUITARS TONE HAS TO BE ITS VERY BEST

Bill Moran · Post by **Bill Moran** » 21 Jan 2008 8:14 pm

Bill Miller wrote:We used to have a guy who kept after us to play something by Ricky Snaggs.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 21 Jan 2008 9:10 pm

An Aussie offered us a $100.00 bill back in the 70's if we could play " Waltzing Matilda" . The funny thing about it, there had just been a movie out with this song in the background throughout the movie. Myself and the bass player remembered enough words of the song to get us through it and the Aussie handed us a $100.00 bill. The Aussies are some of the greatest people in the world. Country musicians are sometimes stranger than fiction. Jody.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Jan 2008 10:01 pm

Jim Florence wrote:Years ago when playing the "Dunes" in Honolulu, a cute young female brought up a written request for "Born Too Loose"...

I always thought it was a French song, you know, 'Born Toulouse'.

.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 21 Jan 2008 10:02 pm

Had a club owner that asked us to please "put your notes closer together"..........?????????????????

Never figured that out, but I have used that line many times when I needed something to say just for the sake of something to say.

Al Michalczak · Post by **Al Michalczak** » 21 Jan 2008 11:34 pm

Had a guy ask for the trans-gender song, I told him I'd never heard such a song and he said it was "that Bob Wills song, the one that says: are you ready for this? "Betty's gonna be a man someday"
Al

Steve Hitsman · Post by **Steve Hitsman** » 22 Jan 2008 4:51 am

"The Electric Slide" when I played with a blues band.

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