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03-18-2008, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain | | | Playing with your heroes - how much would you pay?
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Not sure it was done before. But it might be fun.
You often see big money put on the table to have dinenr with celebrities for charity. Latest I saw is Scarlet Johansson putting together more than 40,000$ for a dinner with somebody.
So imagine famous bands allowing a bassist to join them on stage in one of their concerts. You would be given 5-6 mins of glory and of course the chance to rehearse with the band one or twice.
How much would you pay max and for what band?
I'm still thinking what I'd do...
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03-18-2008, 07:30 AM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | | I don't think I could in good conscience pay any amount of money to subject any of my favorite bands with my terrible bass playing...
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...I take that back, I think I could handle Gnarls Barkley.
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03-18-2008, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | A lot of my favourite bands - from Slayer to Metallica to Sepultura to Mudvayne to The Killers to Electric Six to Green Day to whoever else...and for as little as possible, since I'm broke and like someone else said, I'd only make them sound bad! 
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03-18-2008, 10:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada | | I would say Queen, but I'd rather pay an innumerable sum to see Freddie Mercury alive once more, John Deacon to be back, and all playing together again.  |
03-18-2008, 10:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NJ | | | $0.00, they'd think I'm a hack anyway.
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03-18-2008, 01:16 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | Y'know, much as it'd be fun to play with my musical heroes, it would seem so much like...well, like prostitution to have to pay for the priviledge, that I'd have to pass at the offer.
Now, I'd probably waive my fee for a chance to perform with Peter Gabriel, or King Crimson, or Yes, or Ornette Coleman, or Ronald Shannon Jackson, or (as long as we're fantasizing) Miles Davis or Frank Zappa. But I wouldn't pay those guys one red cent just so I could climb onstage with them.
On the other hand, I'd probably pay some exorbitant fee for actual prostitution with a well-known actress or three, so that tells you where my financial priorities are. |
03-18-2008, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain | | By the way... it'd be for charity purposes... you wouldn't pay them... I like your priorities 
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03-18-2008, 01:30 PM
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...how much??? Couldn't be much, as I'm pretty much BROKE...
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03-18-2008, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | I wouldn't.
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03-18-2008, 02:29 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | $0. If I have to pay, then they would cease being my heroes. |
03-18-2008, 03:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I don't know that I have any "Heroes" I'd dig deep to jam with but,
I have a couple of dead friends I'd give anything to play just one more gig with. |
03-18-2008, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve I don't know that I have any "Heroes" I'd dig deep to jam with but,
I have a couple of dead friends I'd give anything to play just one more gig with. |
Hats off man for the great thought
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03-18-2008, 06:36 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | I'd much rather pay for a lesson & then just pick their brains and try to learn as much from them as i can. If Ray Brown was still alive, i'd be willing to pay up to about $200-300 for an hour lesson with him. I feel like that experience would be amazing.
As far as bands-no thanks. It'd be cool, but maybe as part of a contest [e.g. enter to win a chance to play a tune w/]. Still-i'd rather just talk to those guys about what they do & their philosophies & approaches.
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03-18-2008, 08:43 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | I wouldn't really wanna play with my heroes. They're my heroes for a reason, not really my peers. |
03-19-2008, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | Ha, the general reply (which I back), nobody wants to do it. I'd love to jam with Can http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vLewIZEsOw back in the day.
It's bands like Can that make the think I was born in the wrong era.
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03-20-2008, 01:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain | | | Yep... it seems nobody would it ! I'm admittingly surprised, I'd not do it myslef becuase I'd screw it up, but I know I'm not as good player as I'd like to!
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03-20-2008, 12:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: footballscannotbekickediguess | | | It just seems like such a "wannabe" thing to do-
Like those "rock and roll fantasy camps." I'd only pay for the one that Homer Simpson went to. And only if all the rock stars would chase me around in a flame spurting devil-head-mobile.
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03-20-2008, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain | | Quote:
Originally Posted by The Golden Boy It just seems like such a "wannabe" thing to do-
Like those "rock and roll fantasy camps." I'd only pay for the one that Homer Simpson went to. And only if all the rock stars would chase me around in a flame spurting devil-head-mobile. | Yeah... it is a bit of wannabe thing ! maybe we should change it to a private rehearsal/clinic/lesson whatsoever...
anyway... seen that episode of Simpson... funny. I recall when everybody runs towards the guitar kiosk and the guy suggests that somebody plays bass instead of guitar...
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