The music must match the wine (rant)

[Jim Nazium]

The sax player in my band is trying to get lucky with this chick who is a "wine expert". She wants us to play at a dinner / tasting she is hosting, and she wants the songs to "match" each wine she is serving.

Since neither I nor anyone else in the band has any idea how a song can match a wine, I suggested that we try to match the origin of the wines to the composers of the tunes. Like, we could play a set of bossas and sambas with South American wines, tunes by french composers with French wine, etc.

But oh no. That's not what she wants. "She was very specific that the music motion, tone, and notes must reflect the wine." Great.

Just send me the set list please.

[end rant]

[lowfreq33]

Pretty pretentious.

[treekiller]

Surely there must be an easier way to get him laid.....

[somedumbguy]

Wine "experts" are seriously arrogant.

[cap'n crunk]

I was a professional chef for a decade and am used to food and wine people being, ahem, particular about details. Still, though, this is unequivocally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. She gets a live jazz band playing at her tasting; she ought to be satisfied with that.

[Crockettnj]

See posts 2 through 5 above

[guy n. cognito]

That chick had better be super hot!!

[jaxlaw]

Simple Dude Ballads for Reds and uptempo for the lighter stuff Whites Zinfedells (sic) after an hour they will be feeling it and think you're great easy gig if you don't want it pass it on!http://www.talkbass.com/forum/images...rs/biggrin.gif

[Marco A. Mayer]

During the second set, I don't think they'll care if the music matches the wine.

[greggster59]

What song goes well with Thunderbird?

[Vincent P]

Originally Posted by jaxlaw

Simple Dude Ballads for Reds and uptempo for the lighter stuff Whites Zinfedells (sic) after an hour they will be feeling it and think you're great easy gig if you don't want it pass it on!http://www.talkbass.com/forum/images...rs/biggrin.gif

exactly. Unless they are true wine connoisseurs, then they swish and spit it out

[Darkstrike]

Play really badly, then say "well, the wine wasn't any good either"

[reedo35]

Originally Posted by lowfreq33

Pretty pretentious.

Exactly. So what you do is say what she wants, that every song was carefully selected to complement the character of the wines they are tasting, then play whatever you want. When they ask you to explain how you you chose them, just roll your eyes, and say "Do I really have to explain the obvious?"
Rather than admit they don't know, they will hail you as a genius!

[Atticus]

I seem to recall reading about a wine tasting experiment where two bottles of the same contents were given different labels: one labeled as a bottom shelf POS, one was labeled as a high quality drink. The wine tasters gave the first one low marks and the second one high marks. Again, they contained the exact same wine.

If she won't give you a set list, then inform her that's she's utterly insane. Or go play some Slayer and see what happens.

[mophead]

Set 1 Employ some strings for a classical touch.

Set 2 Bust out the MD 20/20, Thunderbird, and Boones Farm,
kick in some blues and rock and roll and watch the wine
snobs have a good time for a change. I would bring along
some Mardi Gras beads just in case some of the ladies
wanted to earn some.

More than likely this will become the wine tasting party EVERYONE wants to attend instead of the traditional and your GF will get rich and you can share in the wealth.

Or not.

[invader3k]

When in doubt, play some Slayer.

Seriously though, tell your saxophone player to check his vagina at the door. No outside person has any right to dictate what your band plays. They book your band, you play your stuff. They don't like that? Go pay someone else to do it.

[nobodysfool]

Originally Posted by reedo35

Exactly. So what you do is say what she wants, that every song was carefully selected to complement the character of the wines they are tasting, then play whatever you want. When they ask you to explain how you you chose them, just roll your eyes, and say "Do I really have to explain the obvious?"
Rather than admit they don't know, they will hail you as a genius!

That's called out-pretensious-ing them. Take the pretentious BS to a higher level. Pretentious people are so clueless, that you can do this, just act more pretentious than they do. They won't catch on that you're mocking them, they're too full of themselves to see that.

That being said, I hope that piece of a** is worth the BS....and with pretentious chicks, it's not likely.

[ozzyismetal]

Maybe some Village People for the 'fruity' drop?

[pasta4lnch]

hysterical . . . any pics of the chick?

[Zitch]

i'll chip in a buck for a hooker.