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Post by zontar on Apr 25, 2021 2:25:42 GMT
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Post by johnreardon on Apr 25, 2021 9:50:41 GMT
Not quite.
In this one, me and the chap playing the tambourine could smell something awful coming from around the other chap
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Post by Bill h on Apr 25, 2021 14:38:27 GMT
I’ve had moments when I forgot what I was playing while I was playing it.
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 25, 2021 15:32:04 GMT
Not quite.
In this one, me and the chap playing the tambourine could smell something awful coming from around the other chap
Yuk!
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 25, 2021 15:33:35 GMT
I’ve had moments when I forgot what I was playing while I was playing it. I've done that, where I am playing background chords for a soloist and I confused the song with one with similar chords
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Post by infant on Apr 25, 2021 15:43:00 GMT
Not quite.
In this one, me and the chap playing the tambourine could smell something awful coming from around the other chap
This ^^^^ I have come across! As for not knowing where we are in a song, I’ve mentioned before where I was playing with another band a few years ago and my bass player and I informed them in mid-February that we couldn’t continue playing with them after the end of April and since they had two months off after April, they had ample time to find replacements. So they went out and got a new bass player right away at a point when I told them I couldn’t rehearse as I was helping my son renovate the house he had just bought. The next gig we played with the new bass player, I was lost all night as they changed keys of many songs without telling me and they also had the keyboard player taking many of solos that I used to take again with no indication. The gig was a huge clusterf**k and I almost quit right then and there. Needless to say, they called the old bass player back to finish off the gigs.
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 25, 2021 17:21:52 GMT
Not quite.
In this one, me and the chap playing the tambourine could smell something awful coming from around the other chap
This ^^^^ I have come across! As for not knowing where we are in a song, I’ve mentioned before where I was playing with another band a few years ago and my bass player and I informed them in mid-February that we couldn’t continue playing with them after the end of April and since they had two months off after April, they had ample time to find replacements. So they went out and got a new bass player right away at a point when I told them I couldn’t rehearse as I was helping my son renovate the house he had just bought. The next gig we played with the new bass player, I was lost all night as they changed keys of many songs without telling me and they also had the keyboard player taking many of solos that I used to take again with no indication. The gig was a huge clusterf**k and I almost quit right then and there. Needless to say, they called the old bass player back to finish off the gigs. Boy that's rotten- changing keys and not telling you. Almost a guarantee of disaster on the bandstand...
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Post by infant on Apr 25, 2021 21:06:20 GMT
This ^^^^ I have come across! As for not knowing where we are in a song, I’ve mentioned before where I was playing with another band a few years ago and my bass player and I informed them in mid-February that we couldn’t continue playing with them after the end of April and since they had two months off after April, they had ample time to find replacements. So they went out and got a new bass player right away at a point when I told them I couldn’t rehearse as I was helping my son renovate the house he had just bought. The next gig we played with the new bass player, I was lost all night as they changed keys of many songs without telling me and they also had the keyboard player taking many of solos that I used to take again with no indication. The gig was a huge clusterf**k and I almost quit right then and there. Needless to say, they called the old bass player back to finish off the gigs. Boy that's rotten- changing keys and not telling you. Almost a guarantee of disaster on the bandstand... It was a complete disaster when the intro involved a guitar lead-in and after a bar you realize that you aren’t on the same page as everyone else. After it happened a few times, I started asking them before starting each song...”what key is this one in?” or “is this in the original key?” I think they were getting pissed at me for doing so but there would have been at least 2 or 3 more screwups if I hadn’t. As for the guitar solos that they gave to the keyboard player, I didn’t care. I just went home that night pissed at everyone. The next day, my old bass player was back in the band for the remaining gigs
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 25, 2021 21:25:13 GMT
Fortunately I always give the musicians a lead sheet in the key for their instrument. It can't feel good to not know what key the others are playing in
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Post by zontar on Apr 26, 2021 2:40:58 GMT
Having a lead sheet helps But you can still get lost
Or the leader can forget to remove his capo
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Post by infant on Apr 26, 2021 4:22:13 GMT
Or the leader can forget to remove his capo Happened to me......
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Post by johnreardon on Apr 26, 2021 8:35:49 GMT
Fortunately I always give the musicians a lead sheet in the key for their instrument. It can't feel good to not know what key the others are playing in I always put the keys against songs in the set list, but there's still mistakes or jazz as we call it.
Worst that happened for us is when we played our reunion gig back in 2013 on this day in fact.
I had included Midnight Hour and Knock on Wood in our set list. As normal, we often skip over songs depending on audience reaction. Anyway, I think we were due to play knock on Wood when I decided to skip a couple and play Midnight Hour. The stage was very crowded with 13 people so I shouted Midnight Hour. My side of the stage started playing that and the other started Knock on Wood. As you probably know the intros to both songs are very similar except Midnight Hour goes up and Knock on Wood goes down. I realised something was wrong but not entirely sure as I couldn't hear the other side. Singer in the middle could and he shouted stop, which we did. Everyone went quiet, including the audience, so I could at least get it across that we would play Midnight Hour.
It was my fault I suppose in that I should have place myself in the middle instead of extreme stage right. Interesting though
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 26, 2021 12:01:27 GMT
Or the leader can forget to remove his capo Happened to me...... I've reached wrong on a chord at the beginning of the song where it was supposed to be a Bb and absent-mindedly I finger a B. Boy does that screw up the horns
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Post by Die Bullen on Apr 26, 2021 12:02:57 GMT
Fortunately I always give the musicians a lead sheet in the key for their instrument. It can't feel good to not know what key the others are playing in I always put the keys against songs in the set list, but there's still mistakes or jazz as we call it.
Worst that happened for us is when we played our reunion gig back in 2013 on this day in fact.
I had included Midnight Hour and Knock on Wood in our set list. As normal, we often skip over songs depending on audience reaction. Anyway, I think we were due to play knock on Wood when I decided to skip a couple and play Midnight Hour. The stage was very crowded with 13 people so I shouted Midnight Hour. My side of the stage started playing that and the other started Knock on Wood. As you probably know the intros to both songs are very similar except Midnight Hour goes up and Knock on Wood goes down. I realised something was wrong but not entirely sure as I couldn't hear the other side. Singer in the middle could and he shouted stop, which we did. Everyone went quiet, including the audience, so I could at least get it across that we would play Midnight Hour.
It was my fault I suppose in that I should have place myself in the middle instead of extreme stage right. Interesting though
Oh man, that is not a great thing. Probably a good thing that the singer called stop early
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Post by zontar on Apr 27, 2021 19:17:21 GMT
Or the leader can forget to remove his capo Happened to me...... Me too I was playing bass and it sounded wrong So I was able to see the leader’s guitar neck and figure out which fret the capo was on & just play that many frets higher
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