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My band Charlie in the Box was booked to play the Raynham Greyhound Park
(dog track just in case you didn't figure it out).It was pretty nice place, so I had my parents,some cousins, my sisters,some friends, & my godparents there, other band members did the same.So we opened up with Fool for the City by Foghat,about half way through the song I see the lady who is the bar manager go up and say something to our soundman.She wants us to play slower songs to appease a birthday party for some 65 year old lady, meanwhile everyone else was digging the tunes.So being the professionals that we were, we did.Keep in mind a rock band only has so much slow material, if I wanted to play that crap I would be in a Barry Manilow tribute band for christ's sakes, the whole time she keeps going up to the soundman *****ing.Realizeing that we weren't gonna be playing for long,I said screw it and told the guys we were busting out Pretty Fly for a White Guy from Offspring, which I sing that line as "All the girlies say I'm pretty hung for a white guy". That was it we were done and if we wanted to get paid we would have to play her cd's for the rest of the night, which was the crappiest disco you ever heard.I personally love some disco (say whatever you want, I don't care)We had people asking us all night why we weren't playing because we rocked, & explain it over and over.Well we did get paid (thank god ,just to cover some of the pain & suffering),so yeah another Spinal Tap Moment in my life. LMAO |
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LoL That's funny ... how come you Hard Rock and Metal band was
invited to play on an old ladies and gent's party LMAO Just cannot imagine them having a dancing swoosh with you playing hard tunes ... Did they bang? lol |
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Excellent I love band stories I got a million of then .
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Note to self, when you get the gig, before you accept, find out who it's
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feel free to post your stories guitarsolo, we would love to hear them
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() audience is first. ![]() ![]() |
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Then I wouldn't have anything to right about 8)
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Really enjoyin hearin your band stories Scotty, thanks for sharin em
wiff us |
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