The greatest warning from club management EVER

[Commreman]

We play the Tiki Bar in Point Pleasant Beach NJ a bunch of times every summer. It's a great, fun gig, but it comes with a dire warning posted inside of the canopy over the stage in a place where only the band can see it:



It never fails to crack me up, and no, we have NEVER even attempted to play that song there!

[Gard]

...beautiful.

I'm guessin' that the twin .50 cal mounted behind the bar backs that up?

[Otter]

Some one care to explain the inside joke to the clueless....

[Commreman]

No inside joke whatsoever. The Tiki Bar is one of the more popular spots along the Jersey Shore. This is a song that I guess the management never wants to hear again. Either way, it's funny!

Gard, about those "guns" behind the bar, you would be amazed!

[Otter]

Originally Posted by Commreman

No inside joke whatsoever. The Tiki Bar is one of the more popular spots along the Jersey Shore. This is a song that I guess the management never wants to hear again. Either way, it's funny!

Gard, about those "guns" behind the bar, you would be amazed!

Thank you!

[Stinsok]

I can't believe that someone would actually play that!

[Richland123]

Hey, I guess my band can play there since I have never played that song in a band in my life.

I have played a few places that forbid Mony, Mony

One place asked the bands to never play Mustang Sally.

[Richland123]

Originally Posted by Stinsok

I can't believe that someone would actually play that!

You would be amazed at how many bands play Build Me Up Buttercup and how popular that song is with people of all ages. We get request for it often too.

[4001]

Originally Posted by Richland123

Hey, I guess my band can play there since I have never played that song in a band in my life.

I have played a few places that forbid Mony, Mony

One place asked the bands to never play Mustang Sally.

I'd forbid all of those tunes too.

[engedi1]

Can we add "brown eyed girl" to the never play again list.

[SR505bassman]

Thing is, as boring as those songs may be to play over and over, the people (management excluded) are usually very happy when you play them...

[edbass]

Originally Posted by SR505bassman

Thing is, as boring as those songs may be to play over and over, the people (management excluded) are usually very happy when you play them...

+1

Everyone I know who plays for money hates those beat to death tunes, but I've always thought that if you were in a cover band your job was to entertain the crowd, not yourselves.
Cover bands are just glorified juke boxes, and if you want to entertain the cover band crowd; keep 'em dancing and drinking, IMO you should give them all those nasty standards they want to hear regardless of how repugnant it may be to the band personally.

If you want to exercise your artistic integrity and give the crowd what you want them to hear, shove your personal taste in music down their throats, then struggle and starve in an original band.

As hackneyed as those tired old tunes are, it seems the average bar crowd can't ever hear them enough; to me a bar banning one or any of them is a blessing.
When the requests come you can just point the drunken patrons towards the bartender/manager/owner to take the heat off you.

[Gard]

Originally Posted by Commreman

Gard, about those "guns" behind the bar, you would be amazed!

...I had a house gig on Bourbon St in NOLA...not much amazes me afterward...

[Staccato]

Originally Posted by Richland123

You would be amazed at how many bands play Build Me Up Buttercup and how popular that song is with people of all ages. We get request for it often too.

My -ex chose that as our song, and being the woman that she was-she never asked me, first. Yuck!

[::::BASSIST::::]

Originally Posted by edbass

+1

Everyone I know who plays for money hates those beat to death tunes, but I've always thought that if you were in a cover band your job was to entertain the crowd, not yourselves.
Cover bands are just glorified juke boxes, and if you want to entertain the cover band crowd; keep 'em dancing and drinking, IMO you should give them all those nasty standards they want to hear regardless of how repugnant it may be to the band personally.

If you want to exercise your artistic integrity and give the crowd what you want them to hear, shove your personal taste in music down their throats, then struggle and starve in an original band.

As hackneyed as those tired old tunes are, it seems the average bar crowd can't ever hear them enough; to me a bar banning one or any of them is a blessing.
When the requests come you can just point the drunken patrons towards the bartender/manager/owner to take the heat off you.

Big +1

[Gard]

Originally Posted by edbass

+1

Everyone I know who plays for money hates those beat to death tunes, but I've always thought that if you were in a cover band your job was to entertain the crowd, not yourselves.
Cover bands are just glorified juke boxes, and if you want to entertain the cover band crowd; keep 'em dancing and drinking, IMO you should give them all those nasty standards they want to hear regardless of how repugnant it may be to the band personally.

If you want to exercise your artistic integrity and give the crowd what you want them to hear, shove your personal taste in music down their throats, then struggle and starve in an original band.

As hackneyed as those tired old tunes are, it seems the average bar crowd can't ever hear them enough; to me a bar banning one or any of them is a blessing.
When the requests come you can just point the drunken patrons towards the bartender/manager/owner to take the heat off you.

Yup, never forget: If you're in a coverband, playing in a bar, your primary function is as a beer salesman/woman. Smile, play it like you mean it, and get 'em on the dance floor.

No loss of status or honor in it, and if you do it RIGHT, it's fun for you too...if you aren't having fun, you're doing it wrong.

(..."original only" snobs, no offense, but this doesn't apply to your holier than thou too cool for school attitudes - I totally dig a good original act, have done it myself, but there's no dishonor in making a crowd happy by playing what they want to hear, and if you have an attitude about it, the P!$$ off, hmmkay? )

[Commreman]

Originally Posted by Gard

Yup, never forget: If you're in a coverband, playing in a bar, your primary function is as a beer salesman/woman. Smile, play it like you mean it, and get 'em on the dance floor.

No loss of status or honor in it, and if you do it RIGHT, it's fun for you too...if you aren't having fun, you're doing it wrong.

(..."original only" snobs, no offense, but this doesn't apply to your holier than thou too cool for school attitudes - I totally dig a good original act, have done it myself, but there's no dishonor in making a crowd happy by playing what they want to hear, and if you have an attitude about it, the P!$$ off, hmmkay? )

Couldn't agree with you more. My band has two records out, but we still do the Jersey Shore/Atlantic City cover thing because first and foremost, it's a lot of fun! It pays well, and the eye candy never hurts. We will do all original shows as well, but they are normally opening slots for national bands coming through, or festivals like we will do next weekend. Tonight, it's a cover show (we will throw in a bunch of our own stuff as part of our sets) at another popular shore spot. As long as you are out there gigging and the folks dig it, there is no dishonor.

[Richland123]

Last night, we played to a small but very appreciative crowd at a place that we do very well but the holiday weekend resulted in a smaller than usual group. Anyway, there was a couple there who love our band and the songs we play and even though they really like that we play lots of great dance, party songs that most bands do not play, they requested 867-5309 (Jenny), Old Time Rock & Roll, and Pink Cadillac and we honored their requests. Have to keep the customers happy and coming back.

P.S. They told the owner how much they love our band and to keep having us back. It does pay off.

[JimB52]

I used to go to Martell's on the boardwalk all the time.
Now I know why I never heard Buttercup there.
Heard plenty of other lame songs, but not that one.

[Big Brother]

Originally Posted by Richland123

Hey, I guess my band can play there since I have never played that song in a band in my life.

I have played a few places that forbid Mony, Mony

One place asked the bands to never play Mustang Sally.

Sounds like my kind of place.