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Location: Miami | So I'm doing my solo rendition of "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd at a sports bar tonight (I don't use tracks, it's just me and my O).
All of the sudden a kids' soccer team walks into the place in uniform. They all sit down and start singing the part of the song where all of the kids sing on the recording: "We don't need no education.... We don't need no thought control... No dark sarcasm in the classroom....Teacher leave us kids alone...HEY! TEACHER! LEAVE US KIDS ALONE!!!"
Oh my God! I have goosebumps as I write this! It was SICK. When the song finished, all the grownups in the place went NUTS!!! It was freaking PERFECT!!! LOL
As if I wasn't wired enough from the gig. Man, there's a sight and sound that's burned into my mind forever! I'm in pure rock heaven right now. That was a gig I will never forget. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Wow, sounds awesome! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Those are the moments that make a lifetime... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | That's great Joe, wish I could have heard it. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Dontcha just love moments like that? Nice. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | What's not to love eh? :cool: |
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| I do a bunch of older Floyd in my solo stuff and it always goes quite well. I have an odd set of Floyd songs that almost no one does acoustically or solo so its fun to spring this stuff on an audience and always fun to see the reaction. I was playing "Fearless" one night and like you I had a crowd of soccer players there. They were loud all night and not as attentive to the music as some of the other people near the bar were. When I got to that song though they knew it right away and they started the chant at the end......I still to this day am not sure what the words are I know it is some traditional song sung for these sporting events but all in all a very British thing.....it was just the coolest dam thing to see.... anyway it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up just like yours did there is something very special about being an entertainer on the stage and having the audience click with you like that.
It has been many years since that happened. Enjoy it! Music and Audiences are becoming more and more distant it seems. Of course I play a lot of classic rock peces so it might just be I am getting farther and farther from the center of things. But I notice it is harder and harder to get a bar crowd interested in anything your doing even if its newer material and I do have some of that as well. Best fun you can have when the audience is with you......longest nights there are when there not. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Great stories guys. I had a simular experience at a Jam one night Playing "Brain Damage". Very cool when that happens. :) |
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Location: Miami | Originally posted by Northcountry:
Music and Audiences are becoming more and more distant it seems. Of course I play a lot of classic rock peces so it might just be I am getting farther and farther from the center of things. I'm sorry you're experiencing that. I've been blessed with the opposite. Whenever I get kids in the crowd, they not only get into it, they seem to know the words to half of the songs I play, especially the 70s and 80s rock! Maybe you should come to Miami! Classic acoustic rock is rare and quite appreciated down here! But last night took the cake. It was magic. I have to start videoing these things, I swear! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Day-um Joe, I got geesebumps just reading that! |
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| Interesting how music can be geographic. I have one venue I play in the summer that has some real nice crowds. Thye are mostly summer people who come up here to the Adironcdacks to use their camps and summer homes each year. That crowd is great they have requests for Older Classic Rock from bands I love to cover like Floyd & Zep and they fill the tip jar as well.
The locals all seem to like the Neil Young but the rest of it I do from Peter Gabriel or Supertramp or even Dire Straits they just don't get. It's either Country for the older crowd or Metal for the younger. And I am not interested in either of those so I plug away as an alternative music source. I do get lots of complimants and at times have good nights but it is not often anymore.
I am busy with a classic prog tribute band right now so I won't be playing again this winter at all anyway.
Keep the stories coming, Cliff, one of the guy's who used to post in here had all kinds of cool stories as he played out a lot and did some Floyd as well but I don't hear from him anymore. |
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Location: Colorado | That's cool Joe. I'll bet everyone in that place will remember that experience. |
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| goosebump moments while performing/playing/listening or joining in are always really cool... congratulations!
in my case they are in fear and disbelief as to how poorly I play though.
your response/experience sounds much better.
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| Those moments are indeed rare, I've had fewer than five or so in all my years of playing, but each one memorable. Don't try to make them happen - they just do. |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away. If ever a time when this quote was appropriate...
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I just had the best singalong experience of my life
