The nadir of my musical career...

[wateroftyne]

I’ve taken a dep in a couple of weeks, which will involve me playing ‘Quando, Quando , Quando’ in a social club. 

30 years of graft for this. Shoot me now. :-D

[chris_b]

. . . . I've not played that but Al Martino's version of Spanish Eyes was a particular difficult 4 mins.

Edited November 13, 2017 by chris_b

[discreet]

Remember, You're A Womble.

[phil.c60]

Chris Spedding certainly does.....

[beely]

I can sympathise.

Many years ago I used to dep for local band when their bass player was on holiday. I often recall it as my "summer job".

I also recall the utter, utter humiliation of having to play Engelbert Humperdink's "Ten Guitars".

I'm still reminded of it to this day.

[Steve Browning]

This is easy, for two reasons.

Reason 1 - The Birdies Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978)

Reason 2 (same night) - a member of the audience (dancing to the same number) died on the dance floor.

Over to you, everyone! :-)

[GuyR]

32 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

This is easy, for two reasons.

Reason 1 - The Birdies Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978)

Reason 2 (same night) - a member of the audience (dancing to the same number) died on the dance floor.

Over to you, everyone! :-)

Might as well lock the thread now.

[Dazed]

9 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

I’ve taken a dep in a couple of weeks, which will involve me playing ‘Quando, Quando , Quando’ in a social club. 

30 years of graft for this. Shoot me now. :-D

We all reach a peak at some point......

[Steve Browning]

Oh I don't know. I'm keen to read the post that can top that though (no pun intended!!). I'm sure someone can. Maybe Joe Dolce is a lurker!

[wateroftyne]

43 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

This is easy, for two reasons.

Reason 1 - The Birdies Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978)

Reason 2 (same night) - a member of the audience (dancing to the same number) died on the dance floor.

Over to you, everyone! :-)

You totally win.

[Steve Browning]

It's quite a nadir I admit.

Who knows, maybe Blue has been involved in a gunfight during Freebird?

Edited November 14, 2017 by Steve Browning
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[stingrayPete1977]

[yorks5stringer]

Smokey's 'Alice' song, with the profanities...

[discreet]

2 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

The Birdie Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978) - a member of the audience died on the dance floor.

Holy crap! You literally killed it!

[Steve Browning]

Yup, you're dealing with a man who has literally got away with murder!

[ead]

We do Shang-a-lang (Bay City Rollers) for which I am obliged to activate my taste bypass pedal.  Trouble is it normally goes down a storm at the end of an evening.

[Cato]

5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

It's quite a nadir I admit.

Who knows, maybe Blue has been involved in a gunfight during Freebird?

Blue hasn't posted since just before the site went down for the upgrade.

I fear we may have to send out a search party.

Or maybe he's been busy with that gunfight.

[wateroftyne]

16 minutes ago, Cato said:

Blue hasn't posted since just before the site went down for the upgrade.

I fear we may have to send out a search party.

Or maybe he's been busy with that gunfight.

Does the gunfight involve railguns? There seems to be a lot of that going around at the mo.

[Cato]

9 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Does the gunfight involve railguns? There seems to be a lot of that going around at the mo.

The rail gun error is a badge of hounour.

[EliasMooseblaster]

32 minutes ago, Cato said:

Blue hasn't posted since just before the site went down for the upgrade.

I fear we may have to send out a search party.

Or maybe he's been busy with that gunfight.

I think he's popped up on another thread under the name "Bluewine." Not sure what's prompted him to set up a new account, but he still signs off as "Blue" on his posts, so we know it's him!

[discreet]

2 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I think he's popped up on another thread under the name "Bluewine." Not sure what's prompted him to set up a new account, but he still signs off as "Blue" on his posts, so we know it's him!

Maybe he had some kind of problem when the new site went live..? There have certainly been some... issues.

 

[Cato]

2 minutes ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

I think he's popped up on another thread under the name "Bluewine." Not sure what's prompted him to set up a new account, but he still signs off as "Blue" on his posts, so we know it's him!

Ah.

The place wouldn't be the same without him.

[discreet]

2 minutes ago, Cato said:

The place wouldn't be the same without him.

Milwaukee..?

[bassjim]

9 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

This is easy, for two reasons.

Reason 1 - The Birdies Song (Portsmouth Radical Club 24/12/1978)

Reason 2 (same night) - a member of the audience (dancing to the same number) died on the dance floor.

Over to you, everyone! :-)

nope can't top that

[bassjim]

17 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

I’ve taken a dep in a couple of weeks, which will involve me playing ‘Quando, Quando , Quando’ in a social club. 

30 years of graft for this. Shoot me now. :-D

The working mans social club gig.   We pretend we do not know it. It waits patiently. It knows we will come. Eventually. And it claims us in the end.  The shame. The despair.     I've done a few of these now over the last 5 years. Not really the scene  I imagined when buying my first bass at 14 ..

 

Edited November 14, 2017 by bassjim