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11-13-2008, 10:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Moondance minimum wage
I think there should be a minimum wage on gigs where Moondance is called. It is a fine tune but not one I choose to play unless I am being paid for it. Thoughts?
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11-13-2008, 10:50 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | +1
It's not a bad song, and I've never found it particularly appealing or experienced a strong urge to play it, but I'll play it if the gig pays well, we're having fun with it, and it doesn't last too long. |
11-13-2008, 11:07 PM
| | | Hahahah, I agree 
The number of gigs I've had to play that awful song which drunken old ladies try to rub themselves up against you, stinking of vomit because they drank too much.... garrrr |
11-14-2008, 02:40 AM
| | | | $50 in the tip jar.
per man. |
11-14-2008, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | I could not agree more. I die a little every time someone kicks that one off. |
11-14-2008, 09:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Nothing hipper than A Minor and old lady vomit.
I vaguely recall discussing a "Menu" of the cost of inappropriate calls.
"Blue Moon" is maybe a $5 song. Brown Eyed Girl is $150. For a grand, we'll play the *&$^ macarina. |
11-14-2008, 09:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | "Last time somebody requested that, they wrote it on the back of a $100 bill...."
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11-14-2008, 09:08 AM
| | | | I did a hit in a band 2 summers ago that did Sweet Home Alabama as part of their regular setlist.
**** that.
That's gotta be several C notes and some sexual favors.
first and last time I did that gig. |
11-14-2008, 09:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | | When it's payin', I'm playin'
I'll play anything the leader wants.
Andy
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11-14-2008, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by von buck  When it's payin', I'm playin'
I'll play anything the leader wants.
Andy | Not for less than $100.
If I'm playing stuff that makes me nuts and making less than a C note. I'd rather stay home and play with my wife and kid.
I prefer to get paid a premium if I'm doing stuff I don't like. |
11-14-2008, 09:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncletoad Not for less than $100.
If I'm playing stuff that makes me nuts and making less than a C note. I'd rather stay home and play with my wife and kid.
. | I don't take my bass out of the house for less than a buck and I consider that minimum wage.
Andy
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11-14-2008, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by von buck I don't take my bass out of the house for less than a buck and I consider that minimum wage.
Andy | I'm hip. And I haven't got a raise in 25 years. My first paying gig was in 1979 for $100. |
11-14-2008, 11:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Fairfield, CT | | | Ain't it the truth?
What is it about these few songs that people just don't get sick and effing tired of hearing them over and over and over and over and over....?
Moondance is particularly irritating because it's basically a 4 minute intro vamp. I guess there's a release/bridge but it's just not enough.
And let me tell you -- if I had a nickel for every time I've had some jacka$$ ask to hear Free Bird (on a jazz gig, no joke), I'd have at least $9.50.
Playing in acoustic and bluegrass groups over the last couple years it seems like everybody wants to play/hear the Eagles. Now, the Eagles are an ok band. I know there was about a two year period in high school when I didn't mind hearing Hotel California 4 times a day every day on the radio. But 17 years later enough is enough already. |
11-14-2008, 01:42 PM
| | | | I was in a band that only did songs off that dreaded list. Freebird, Moondance, Brown Eyed Girl, the whole thing. We even did a medley of Bread songs, "The Breadly". Weddings, hotel bars, country clubs. Those gigs suck the life out of the most talented cats. I've never felt so bad about being a musician in my life before or since. |
11-14-2008, 01:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Those are the kind of gigs when normal meds don't work.... only horse tranquilizers will do. |
11-14-2008, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Uncletoad I'm hip. And I haven't got a raise in 25 years. My first paying gig was in 1979 for $100. | +1
Andy
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11-14-2008, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Maybe in Gig Heaven, we'll get our check for back pay. LOL!.... |
11-14-2008, 04:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Marvelous, Texas | | | My fav all-time request, Hot Club style band, no drummer, guy walks up and says "Can you guy's play anything by Sade?" About died laughing. "Seriously, it's jazz ain't it?" |
11-14-2008, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by txstatebass My fav all-time request, Hot Club style band, no drummer, guy walks up and says "Can you guy's play anything by Sade?" About died laughing. "Seriously, it's jazz ain't it?" | Actually, "Smooth Operator" might work in a Django style. |
11-14-2008, 05:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | Things I just won't do
This is an effing funny thread on so many levels!!! 
It has to be large dollars to play any of those tunes and typically those kinds of gigs don't pay large dollard.
About 2 weeks ago a mildly looped, middle aged lady came into our Thursday night gig (no drummer), and kept shouting, "do something from the eighties, don't you know anything from the eighties?..... This was met with stony silence from the stage... My wife, the vocalist, who is a very sweet person, smiled icily at this loone and proceeded to call "April in Paris" she then told this semi-drunk that the tune was written in the eighties and how could you not know that? our smashed by this time tourist went away happy and confused. 
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