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03-14-2004, 06:43 AM
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I subbed in a piano/bass duo last night.
I got there first, so there's just me and the bartender, a pretty 30-something.
She said "Are you playing alone tonight?"
I said "Yes."
Has anyone else been asked a question that just sets you back? I'm not talking about the stupid-a$$ jokes, like "How do you get that under your chin?" I mean sincere questions that make you laugh, or scratch your head.
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03-14-2004, 08:21 AM
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03-14-2004, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Pacman I think she was waiting for you to say "Why don't you play with me?" At least, that's what I would've said |
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03-14-2004, 01:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I had someone ask me, on a cruise ship out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, "Do you live on the ship?" Uh...
Just last week I got the old "Nice cello" comment again. The commenter was a dead ringer for Elle Macpherson, so I just said "thanks". |
03-14-2004, 06:03 PM
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I'm always getting comments, usually from nice looking ladies it seems, and they always set themselves up......." It must be awful, carrying that big thing around with you all day!" And, of course I have to say...." It's no picnic hauling this bass around either!"
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03-14-2004, 08:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: St. Louis, MO USA | | | I was asked not too long ago by a kid at the community center's open acoustic night:
"Does that have the same notes as a regular bass?"
My reply: "Yep, and a whole bunch in between." |
03-16-2004, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Don Higdon I subbed in a piano/bass duo last night.
I got there first, so there's just me and the bartender, a pretty 30-something.
She said "Are you playing alone tonight?"
I said "Yes."
Has anyone else been asked a question that just sets you back? I'm not talking about the stupid-a$$ jokes, like "How do you get that under your chin?" I mean sincere questions that make you laugh, or scratch your head. | That was a set up question and before wife and kids (BWK) I'd of fielded it. Now I would have just stood there with that 'deer in the headlights' look - and said 'Yes'.
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03-16-2004, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Chasarms I was asked not too long ago by a kid at the community center's open acoustic night:
"Does that have the same notes as a regular bass?"
My reply: "Yep, and a whole bunch in between." | Fabulous reply!
By the way, anybody notice what the kid assumed to be a regular bass? Now THAT is depressing.
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03-16-2004, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Don Higdon Fabulous reply!
By the way, anybody notice what the kid assumed to be a regular bass? Now THAT is depressing. | Yep. There have been a few threads pop up over on the TalkSlab side about this very issue. Pups bent out of shape that people call their slab a guitar. When people like me sound off that I don't mind it because, in fact, it is a guitar, they really get upset. |
03-17-2004, 07:21 AM
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..." It must be awful, carrying that big thing around with you all day!" And, of course I have to say...." It's no picnic hauling this bass around either!"
| LMAO! Thanks to Paul for this one! You just made a potentially suck-ass morning all better.... |
03-17-2004, 07:24 AM
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03-17-2004, 08:01 AM
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I get called to play quite a few pick-up gigs for private parties, where the host will invariably say "You sound great! How long has your group been together?" whereupon we all look at our watches.
It hasn't happened yet, but I'm waiting for someone to ask "How many members are in your quartet?" or "How late does the band play?" so I can reply, "About a half a beat behind the drummer."
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03-17-2004, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Yeah, a common question we all hear is: " Do you do this for a living?" My answer is: "Not a very good one"
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"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself." Phil Urso, 1980. :atoz: |
03-17-2004, 09:07 AM
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03-17-2004, 09:18 AM
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My band was discussing which way we should end a song and I asked the guitar player which one he liked.
He said, "well, it's ten of one, a half dozen of the other."
I looked at him with a puzzled look on my face and he said "it's an expression my mom used to say. It means that it doesn't matter."
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03-27-2004, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sausalito, Ca | | | On several occasions, when flying to a show, some young suit, knowing we were a band, would approach and declare that he'd like to hire us for a small party, just him and his skank. The answer was a delicious "not on your best day, sport." |
03-27-2004, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | I had a newlywed groom corner our quartet once, after the wedding gig, and ask us to service his new bride up in the room, saying "I can't keep up with her". She was standing right next to us, smiling and nodding. Since I'm very happily married, I declined; not sure about the other three "members"  |
04-08-2004, 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson I had a newlywed groom corner our quartet once, after the wedding gig, and ask us to service his new bride up in the room, saying "I can't keep up with her". She was standing right next to us, smiling and nodding. Since I'm very happily married, I declined; not sure about the other three "members" | Folks, we have our winner. |
04-09-2004, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada | | | As I slipped my Chrissy into her case last Monday night...
"Is that a bass fiddle, or are you just happy to see me?"
I was actually stuck....
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