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I might be wrong but I don't think so.The other night my Wife and I went to hear this band. We got there and I said to her good a steel player in this band.Well the band played two sets.This woman came over to talk to us .I said when is that guy going to play the steel Guitar? She said he plays it the last song and he plays Last date.Now here is the best part of the whole thing.There is a Sax and a trumpett in this band and it was killing me to sit and listen to that----.I will never go to hear that band again.You could not hear the keyboard player or the lead player.It was all drums,Bass, Sax and trumpett.What a big disapointment that was a nice steel sitting there and not being played. I told my wife i should get up there and play that steel and blast the sax and trumpet play out.Terible terible.
Sam White<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Samuel E. White on 11 January 2003 at 07:07 AM.]</p></FONT>

Sam, Boy do I know what you mean. I just quit the band I've been with for 13 years because of the sax. The band leader hired him 2 years ago for some of the 50's rock that we do. I told him then that it wasn't going to work and everyone else felt the same way but I was the only one with nerve enough to say anything. Well I put up with it for 2 years of that thing blowing all night long in my left ear on every song and even doing my steel breaks. I finally quit and I'll just play at home before I put up with anything like that again. Right now I'm just sitting in with different groups and having fun and no horns.

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S10 Emmons p/p Nashville 400

This was several years ago we were at a Bar-B-Que that was suppost to have a live CW Band. As they were setting up they had no steel & I had a feeling this was going to be country rock or what ever. We just ordered Tea before we ordered any thing elese, & yup I was right It wasn't Country.
I told the waitress we came to hear Country
Music like was advertized & we were disappointed & were leaving. She was sorry
& that the tea was on the house.

The average nightclub "goer" cannot differentiate between music and hysteria. This also has spilled over into TV commercials. By far, most TV commercials today have someone "percussioning the holy urine" from a set of drums.

I truly believe that a drummer can even screw up some rock songs.

Drummers and electric bassmen simply do not understand the concept of "change of mood" in performances. It is an everlasting blend of "bang and thud".

Rick

The definition of a gentleman:

A man that can play the saxophone.....
but doesn't!!

Moved to the 'Music' section of the Forum (assuming that what Sam heard was, by someone's definition, 'music').