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Date Posted: 16:12:56 03/02/00 Thu
Author: Chris Swiss
Author Host/IP: rc36200.rogers.com / 209.112.36.200
Subject: Re: Musicione
In reply to: TimoV 's message, "Musicione" on 08:12:59 03/02/00 Thu

I was in a band a few years ago, we had the same type of history as Spinal Tap. We were big for a short period of time, and our history goes way back. Our philosiphy was similar to the Tap's, just play and play hard and put on a good show. You may have heard of them, The Cheesesticks, there are very few recordings of them, so if you find one hold onto it. We had a spin off band, Mental Albatroos, but they only had one or two hits.

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[> [> Re: Musicione -- Tales, 23:32:19 03/02/00 Thu [1] (proxy1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.2.33)

I've got lots of road stories, but here are a select few:

I was playing bass in a band many years ago and the lead singer/guitarist insisted we do Achey Breaky Heart because it was so popular. We weren't even a country band! I hated it, and was humiliated each time we played it. Well, one night, this same lead singer forgot the words to that song, right in the middle of singing it, and after that night we never sang it again. Thank goodness for that!

Also, in that same band, we used to do a song called Walk, Don't Run. It was an old instrumental, probably by the Venturers or something like that. Anyway, there's a short drum break in the middle of the song, just 8 bars. However, one night we all just walked off the stage and left the drummer there on his own for several minutes! He really earned is pay that night.

And our keyboard player was a bit of a mad man. One night we were doing Satisfaction, and it was his turn to come up front and sing lead vocals, since there's no keyboards in that song. Well, he was jumping around on the stage, really getting into it, and knocked his keyboards over. Lucky for him, they still worked, but ne never bounced around quite as much after that.

As for me, I've been lucky enough so far that the worst thing that's happened to me is a broken string. Except one night we had no roadie and my string broke during just the second song of the night. In that band, I switched between guitar and keyboards, depending on what the song needed, so rather than take a break two songs into the first set, I asked if there was anyone in the audience who knew how to string and tune a guitar. Some guy volunteered and we just jumped to a couple of keyboard songs while he put on the new string. A couple of songs later he gave me the guitar and we jumped right into Proud Mary. Silly me, I hadn't checked the guitar and he had totally wound all the strings tight and it was completely out of tune from top to bottom. I shouted HOLD IT! and ended up tuning right there on stage. Well, I had rushed the tuning and the song sounded aweful, so we ended up taking an early break then anyway. I happened to tape the band that night so somewhere in my garage is a recording of the most out of tune rendition of Proud Mary ever committed to tape.


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