Kool-Aid???

gjbassist · #1 10-21-2009, 09:38 AM

At a recent bar gig a guy comes up to me and asks if we can play the song "Kool-Aid". He had been drinking so I kind of blew him off and just said sorry we don't know that one. During a break he asked again. He said that he thought it was a Led Zeppelin song. After he walked away we just looked at each other puzzled. He came back over a few minutes later while talking to someone on his cell phone. "My nephew says it is a Led Zeppelin song", he said. Then he sang a line from it. "You need Kool-Aid, momma I'm not fooling". I told him the name of the song is "Whole Lotta Love" and we didn't do that one. After he walked away we all busted out laughing! I laughed so hard I was almost crying! Has anyone else ever had something like this happen?

MonetBass · #2 10-21-2009, 10:06 AM

Wow. Apparently 'ignorant' runs in the guy's family.

PJSShearer · #3 10-21-2009, 11:07 AM

There are soooooo many like that - there's even websites listing the better ones.

OtterOnBass · #4 10-21-2009, 11:10 AM

I hate telling women that they need kool-aid and they just shrug it off. As if I'm fooling.

standupright · #5 10-21-2009, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by OtterOnBass

I hate telling women that they need kool-aid and they just shrug it off. As if I'm fooling.

nice

My name is Mudd · #6 10-21-2009, 02:53 PM

'Scuse me while I kiss this guy...

jgroh · #7 10-21-2009, 03:00 PM

oh man thats too funny! I would have busted a seam. At a recent gig, there were several of these people that kept dancing up front (without their shirt but WITH their suspenders and large gut) and asking for songs Ive never heard of before. At least what I could make out from their mangling of the English language.

millsbass5 · #8 10-21-2009, 03:17 PM

Ha!!Yeah,I have!Many,many times!!
We,the band,have a 300+ song catalog.So,pretty much we can conjure up a set-list for most any type of crowd/age bracket (What can I say??That's what gigging almost every weekend for 14+ years will get you!!).

Long story short:The club owner comes up and says,"Hey,play "Powder Finger",Steve."And,I'm thinkin',"What the hell is he talkin' about??"

Finally,I tell him,"Man,I have no idea what you're talkin' about!"And,he sings a line from the song.Goes like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Yvi...eature=related

P.S.
Most of you young bucks may not know this tune.Here's a flashback in time for you veterans that's grinded it out in bars for years.

RexNFX79 · #9 10-21-2009, 03:25 PM

Bathroom's on the right by Creedence......a classic.

metallicafan18 · #10 10-21-2009, 04:37 PM

This doesn't have to do with a sogn name, but we had played a killer version of "Barracudda", and this wasted guy comes up on stage and goes up to every single member of the band and says, "Hey, you kicked that song's @$$!" So at all of our gigs now we say to each other, "We kicked it @$$." You would have had to had been there for it to be really funny.

CDRhom · #11 10-21-2009, 10:52 PM

Play that song where "The girl with Colitis goes by".

(We eventually figured out it was Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)

jive1 · #12 10-21-2009, 11:40 PM

I played acoustic at an open mic in college. We did Simple Man by Skynyrd, Hey Joe and Voodoo Chile by Hendrix, and One in a Million by GnR. A guy came up to me telling me how much he liked the material, and then asked me if I wrote those songs. I said I didn't, but then the drummer nudged me and said "c'mon dude, give yourself some credit". And then I said, "OK, I did, but the other guys helped".

derrico1 · #13 10-22-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by metallicafan18

and this wasted guy comes up on stage and goes up to every single member of the band and says, "Hey, you kicked that song's @$$!"

I've had that same guy show up at gigs.

That Guy: "Hey, You guys kicked @$$ on Barracuda! Yeah!"

Band: "Thanks, man. Glad that did the trick for ya."

That Guy (5 minutes later): "Wooooo!Yeaaahyeaahyeahhh!! Hey, play Barracuda!"

Band:

bass player 48 · #14 10-22-2009, 01:32 PM

I know that tune...

You need kool-aid
baby I'm not fooling
I'm gonna take some
back to Susan...

PJSShearer · #15 10-22-2009, 05:11 PM

This was told to me as a true story:

Punter: Can you play "Nero"?
Keytard: Nero ... don't know that one, who's it by?
Punter: Don't know......
Keytard: How does it go then?.
Punter: "Billy, don't be a Nero...."

For those of us too young, there was a pop band in the 1970's in the UK called Paper Lace and one of their hits was called "Billy, don't be a Hero".

PJSShearer · #16 10-22-2009, 05:19 PM

From Kissthisguy.com:

You Might as well face it you're a d**k with a glove.

NKUSigEp · #17 10-22-2009, 05:25 PM

Dance to the left...dance to the right...you're the only babe in town! LOL

I tried explaining to my fiance what Jimmy Buffet was actually singing but to this day she swears up and down I'm wrong.

PJSShearer · #18 10-22-2009, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by NKUSigEp

Dance to the left...dance to the right...you're the only babe in town! LOL

I tried explaining to my fiance what Jimmy Buffet was actually singing but to this day she swears up and down I'm wrong.

Not being a Jimmy Buffet aficionado, can you explain?.

PJSShearer · #19 10-22-2009, 05:44 PM

Always get asked for "Memory" - them meaning "The way we were". The first line is in fact "Memories, like the corners of my mind".

NKUSigEp · #20 10-22-2009, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by PJSShearer

Not being a Jimmy Buffet aficionado, can you explain?.

The actual lyrics are:

"Fins to the left, fins to the right
You're the only bait in town"