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10-07-2007, 08:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | My band won the "FORTUNE Battle of the Corporate Bands"!!!
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Just wanted to share some news about my weekend.
Last night my R&B cover band "Soul Focus" took first first place in the "Battle of the Corporate Bands", an annual nationwide contest sponsored by FORTUNE Magazine. The contest is for bands that consist mostly of employees from the same company. It's basically a corporate fundraiser for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio, and that's where the final round of competition is held. Was an incredibly good time, a great party, and I met some really cool people from all over the country (especially the bass players, of course). 
Ours is a 10-piece band with horns, multiple vocalists, etc. Our set consisted of such tunes as "What Is Hip?" by Tower of Power, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" by Chicago, "Feelin' Alright" by Traffic/Joe Cocker, and "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder -- all fun tunes for a bass player! 
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10-07-2007, 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Vandelay  Just wanted to share some news about my weekend.
Last night my R&B cover band "Soul Focus" took first first place in the "Battle of the Corporate Bands", an annual nationwide contest sponsored by FORTUNE Magazine. The contest is for bands that consist mostly of employees from the same company. It's basically a corporate fundraiser for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio, and that's where the final round of competition is held. Was an incredibly good time, a great party, and I met some really cool people from all over the country (especially the bass players, of course).
Ours is a 10-piece band with horns, multiple vocalists, etc. Our set consisted of such tunes as "What Is Hip?" by Tower of Power, "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" by Chicago, "Feelin' Alright" by Traffic/Joe Cocker, and "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder -- all fun tunes fot a bass player! |
WOW!!! 
Congrats all around.
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11-17-2007, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | Bump, since I finally have a good quality online video of my literal "15 minutes of fame"! Here's our live performance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, check it out! http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1487989sachssTP
Definitely the highllight of my amateur musical career! I'm really proud of our set -- I got to cover bass lines from Rocco, Nathan Watts, Carol Kaye, and Peter Cetera. I'm fairly new to the world of bass (this is only my 2nd year playing), so it's been a great ieducation. Although I flubbed about 5 seconds of the Cetera. 
By the way, the main prize for winning is that each band member earned 2 free tickets to any Continental Airlines worldwide destination. My wife and I are planning to go to Italy next July.
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11-17-2007, 03:22 PM
| | I <3 Darkstar | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Riverside, CA | | | Listening to it right now. You guys sound great!
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11-17-2007, 03:27 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | I hope you play many corporate parties. |
11-17-2007, 03:28 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | nice jams. i love the Rock hall, when you were in C-town you should've told TB/me, i would have come to check it out. |
11-17-2007, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fenderhutz I hope you play many corporate parties. | I hope so too, those things pay pretty well!
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11-17-2007, 03:49 PM
|  | I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize! | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | | A french horn! Very cool.
You guys sounded great. Congrats! |
11-17-2007, 04:24 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | Wow. I don't recall ever seeing a French Horn in such a setting!
That looked like a LOT of fun! Congrats on the win, and I can see why y'all were chosen. Very good stuff.
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11-17-2007, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kansas City | | | Congratulations! That french horn on What Is Hip is nuts! |
11-17-2007, 05:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester, NY | | Feels good doesn't it? I'm happy for you. Congratulations!! 
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11-17-2007, 06:36 PM
| | | | What is hip is a badass song, Prestia is the ****. I like what yall did to it. Congrats. |
11-17-2007, 08:26 PM
|  | Knowledge is Good - Emile Faber | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Pleasant Hill, CA | | | Very cool! I have a friend that is in the Raving Daves, the Peoplesoft band that won that several years ago. I sat in with the Daves once and had a great time.
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11-17-2007, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: WI | | | Great jams man! You guys sound awesome. Congrats on the win.
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11-19-2007, 11:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | Thanks guys! Yeah, I realize it's unusual to see a French horn with this genre of music. It actually happened pretty organically. She's the wife of our trumpet player, and they both come from a classical music background. She was already in our band as a backup singer, and after a while we started doing songs where having a 4th horn would be really helpful, so she started playing. It works!
Thanks again, you guys on this site have helped me a lot for the past two years!
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