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Location: Boise, Idaho | Since I don't play for anyone else, I only play what I want. I've never turned down a request because I've never had one. Sounds like my life is much simpler than yours. |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | Skynyrd, Neil Young, Stay Here and Drink by Merle Haggard. But, if someone drops a $20 in the tip jar, I'll play just about anything. A guy handed our drummer a hundred bucks one time to play Wipeout. He handed it back. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally by mymartind35:
A guy handed our drummer a hundred bucks one time to play Wipeout. He handed it back. Wow! Even I can play Wipeout...
Or at least I could last time I tried.
And for a hundred bucks I would try again. :eek: |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Ok.. from the "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes" category..
In the Early 90's a friend of mine and drummer in my band was a DJ at a club in DC (and VA) called Deja Du. Huge venue, several rooms, capacity probably near or over 1000 easily and on weekends there was a line around the block.
It wasn't just a "dance" club as that was actually just a small part of the establishment, but rather than live music, they had a DJ who needed to be prepared for everything. This was DC afterall where there might be a large group of seniors coming from their ballroom lessons to 20-somethings out barhopping.
So I'm hanging with Rob at the DJ booth and the crowd was hopping, dance floor full. Rob had a nack for playing the tunes to get the dance floor full, winding them up, than changing things so that group would want to leave the floor and go drink while the next demographic got in there. Being a drummer I think helped and he was a walking encyclopedia of music.
Ok.. It's a Saturday night, packed house, about 11:00pm, so here comes this older guy and he asks Rob to play some old Sinatra era tune (although the name eludes me at the moment) and Rob just kinda points to the dance floor and tells him it's gonna be awhile. The guy sais it's his girlfriends favorite is there anything he can do. Rob sais, hey, I'll work it in, but it will be about 30 minutes at least. The guy reaches into his wallet and Rob whispers to me "Whatcha think, a $5 or a $10 or a $20?" Well I didn't see the bill right away, but as soon as the guy handed it to Rob, he got out an album that I couldn't see from where I was standing, then he made a very dramatic move with his pointer finger directly onto the currently spinning record stopping it while placing the other record on the empty turntable and announced, this next song goes out to whatever-her-name was and played the guys request. Then Rob turned to me and showed me the $100 dollar bill he was handed. |
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| Well that was a bit of a let down; I was expecting it to be at least $1,000 and certainly not $100. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | It was the early 90's. When C-notes were cool. :) |
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| ... and $100.00 went a good bit further than it does now...lol |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Moody said it for me, a Taylor
there are a lot of songs I'd never do, but when you're up there playing with Davis and he says, "We're doing this one", you do it |
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Location: Michigan | "The Who"...I leave that to the experts ala Brad and Brian. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Kenny Loggins- Pooh Corner
Anything by Barry Manilow
Almost anything from Elton John |
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Location: Texas | Originally posted by dark bar:
Kenny Loggins- Pooh Corner There was a time when that one was guaranteed to melt the hearts of the vast majority of women I knew, so, I must admit that I used to play that one (a few hundred years ago.). |
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Location: Nashville TN. | NO Free bird
No Stairway to Heaven |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Never say never again.
Sean Connery :-)
(though I haven't played Take Me Home Country Rhodes since the late 70's) |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Smoke on the Water
Freebird
Sweet Home Alabama
Stairway
Cocaine
Show me the Way
Do you feel like I do (just had to use that talk box)
Purple Haze/Foxy Lady
These were the obligatory, gotta play songs back in the 70's when I played in bands. I played them so many times I don't even want to hear them again.
Unless I can find a way to make these songs completely different.
It's kind of funny though, I played a few other songs to death but still have fun playing them:
Rocky Mountain Way
Funk 49
Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo
Badge
Go figure... |
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Stuff you refuse to play - ever!
