How was your gig last night?

[Chienmortbb]

18 hours ago, knirirr said:

 

Standard practice for jazz! 😉

Once is a mistake, twice or more is jazz.

[casapete]

Our first gig this year at The Lookout on the Pier in Scarborough harbour.

The weather had improved so apart from some patchy fog the journey was fine. 
 

Usual full house of diners with plenty of requests, some of which I’d not

played for ages. These included ‘Waterloo’, ‘Moonlight in Vermont’, 

‘Losing you’, ‘Starman’ and ‘Ever fallen in love’. ( We couldn’t manage

’Peaches’ but swapped it for ‘Golden Brown’ !!). 
We are there again at the end of the month and it’s always a pleasure to do. 
 

 

[dmccombe7]

1 hour ago, casapete said:

Our first gig this year at The Lookout on the Pier in Scarborough harbour.

The weather had improved so apart from some patchy fog the journey was fine. 
 

Usual full house of diners with plenty of requests, some of which I’d not

played for ages. These included ‘Waterloo’, ‘Moonlight in Vermont’, 

‘Losing you’, ‘Starman’ and ‘Ever fallen in love’. ( We couldn’t manage

’Peaches’ but swapped it for ‘Golden Brown’ !!). 
We are there again at the end of the month and it’s always a pleasure to do. 
 

 

This just looks like such good fun to watch.

Dave

[casapete]

2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said:

This just looks like such good fun to watch.

Dave

It was a particularly fun gig Dave - this is me after I messed up ‘Duelling Banjos’

would you believe……

 

 

[dmccombe7]

39 minutes ago, casapete said:

It was a particularly fun gig Dave - this is me after I messed up ‘Duelling Banjos’

would you believe……

 

 

Yet still everyone's clapping so they must be enjoying it.

Dave

[Franticsmurf]

12 hours ago, casapete said:

It was a particularly fun gig Dave - this is me after I messed up ‘Duelling Banjos’

would you believe……

 

 

 It's moments like these (not the messing up but being able to laugh at the messing up) that make playing in bands so enjoyable for me. It's difficult to describe. I have a photo that sums up why I love playing in a band, and it's not unlike this one above.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Franticsmurf said:

 It's moments like these (not the messing up but being able to laugh at the messing up) that make playing in bands so enjoyable for me. It's difficult to describe. I have a photo that sums up why I love playing in a band, and it's not unlike this one above.

 

On Saturday,  after one of my more egregious cock-ups I discovered that I'd reacted by sticking my tongue 👅 out for rather too long...

[dmccombe7]

10 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

On Saturday,  after one of my more egregious cock-ups I discovered that I'd reacted by sticking my tongue 👅 out for rather too long...

If Gene Simmons can do it then why not. ? 

Dave

[casapete]

1 hour ago, Franticsmurf said:

 It's moments like these (not the messing up but being able to laugh at the messing up) that make playing in bands so enjoyable for me. It's difficult to describe. I have a photo that sums up why I love playing in a band, and it's not unlike this one above.

We end up doing a lot of laughing at our gigs, and usually the audience are laughing with us rather than 

at us ( I think anyway…). We do have our serious moments too of course, and the best gigs are when the

balance of the two are just right. We like to think our audiences leave the gig with a smile on their faces. 

Thinking about this, looking back to gigs I’ve seen over the last 50 years, the best ones are those which

made me smile too - usually those when you can tell the band are really enjoying it. I don’t have much time 

generally for overly serious stuff, happy upbeat music is what mostly floats my boat. 😄

 

[Obrienp]

I thought it was forbidden to smile as a bassist, let alone laugh. I’m told I look like I just heard my Mum died when I am playing but I feel quite the opposite inside. I think I need to work on my bass face!

[dave_bass5]

A very rare shot of us all smiling. Had a good gig last Friday. Might be the last (for a while) with our dep singer, who has such a similar voice to our normal singer that it's like we dont have a dep. 

As REM say, that's me in the corner (not on bass).

 

[Franticsmurf]

2 hours ago, casapete said:

We end up doing a lot of laughing at our gigs, and usually the audience are laughing with us rather than 

at us ( I think anyway…). We do have our serious moments too of course, and the best gigs are when the

balance of the two are just right. We like to think our audiences leave the gig with a smile on their faces. 

Thinking about this, looking back to gigs I’ve seen over the last 50 years, the best ones are those which

made me smile too - usually those when you can tell the band are really enjoying it. I don’t have much time 

generally for overly serious stuff, happy upbeat music is what mostly floats my boat. 😄

 

100% agree.