The nadir of my musical career...

[Steve Browning]

I hand you my crown. Father of the bride trumps member of the audience.

Must have been awful. In my case the chap had had open heart surgery and been told to take it easy or risk just dropping and he decided to carry on and dropped.

[taunton-hobbit]

21 hours ago, taunton-hobbit said:

In total desperation I played Hot Chocolate 'You Sexy Thing' to a New Years Eve party of the living dead.

It worked - for about two minutes, until some ba8tard who had been boozing all day had a heart attack

& killed the night for everyone - sad to say he survived (I'm all heart).

In my defence - the guest actually had died - it was lucky that there was a trained paramedic amongst the 'revellers' who managed to get him to restart.

[DaveFry]

The late legend Lloyd Brevett , Godfather of Reggae Bass :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1maACujPu6w

[Dan Dare]

If you don't like playing social clubs, there's always a nice job shovelling sh1t for minimum wage going somewhere... Counting one's blessings and all that.

[Graham S]

On 11/14/2017 at 12:17, yorks5stringer said:

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

NNOOO!!!!   Every b****y gig I do here seems to have to include this.  It's a bad enough "song" in its original form, but really - do I HAVE to....??

[Graham S]

On 11/16/2017 at 13:58, Happy Jack said:

A few years back we were offered a pub gig in a rural village, but only on condition that we played Sweet Caroline.

We assumed that this was intended to be humorous but we rehearsed the song anyway and went to the gig ready to take the piss all the way through.

Hit the opening notes and ... the entire pub froze, stopped whatever they were doing, stood up, and sang along to the entire song.

It was the pub's song, and every band who played there had to be able to play Sweet Caroline.

I imagine there was a back story to it, but we fled into the night without discovering it.

 

What is it about that number? We have to do it time & time again all over Limassol. I feel I ought to have a bag over my head in case anyone I know sees me playing a Neil Diamond song!

On the other hand, the professional side of me says, if they want you to play crap, and they're paying you to play crap, then you have to put good taste to one side and play crap. You don't have to enjoy it, though.

[yorks5stringer]

8 minutes ago, Graham S said:

NNOOO!!!!   Every b****y gig I do here seems to have to include this.  It's a bad enough "song" in its original form, but really - do I HAVE to....??

It was a long long time ago, possibly in the 90's but I still cringe.....

[karlfer]

Lonely this Christmas, could never get that doll out of my mind