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10-25-2011, 09:56 AM
| | | | The No Mustang Sally Rule
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From a list of rules for the Blues Competition that ends in Memphis.
Rule # 1 (The No Mustang Sally Rule)
1. Blues Content: Everyone has his or her own interpretation of what is and is not Blues. Thus, any given three-judge panel will include members with varying opinions of Blues, covering the spectrum of Blues whenever possible, from the most traditional to soul blues and rock blues. Bands should pick material carefully. At the Memphis quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals, the judges are Blues professionals, not a bar crowd, and are likely to be unimpressed with song selections that are uninspired. (Call this--with all due respect to Sir Mack Rice (who wrote it and did it first) and Wilson Pickett--the "no Mustang Sally rule.") |
10-25-2011, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cayce, SC | | | Had a request for Mustang Sally the other night and got tipped for playing it.
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10-25-2011, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | I nominate 'Sweet Home Alabama' for inclusion in this list.
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10-25-2011, 10:43 AM
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10-25-2011, 10:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Maryland Suburbs | | | Could this also include a "No Brown Eyed Girl " Subclause?
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10-25-2011, 10:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Treasure Coast, Florida | | | I don't know why, but I still enjoy playing Mustang Sally. We play it at about every other gig.
I know I'm supposed to hate it, but hey... I still like playing it. |
10-25-2011, 10:44 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: AZ mountains | | | We won't play it unless a beautiful girl requests it.
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10-25-2011, 10:45 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Laguna Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by WalWarrior Could this also include a "No Brown Eyed Girl " Subclause? | Personally, I would bump "Brown Eyed Girl" to the top of the list! |
10-25-2011, 10:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Anasleim, CA | | For the right money, I'll play Lady of Spain on accordion in a chicken suit!  |
10-25-2011, 10:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Belleville,New Jersey USA | | | Yeah we do it because the people want to hear it. And will continue to play whatever they want because without them in the place you are headed back to the garage or your bedroom or where ever it is you started your cover band. |
10-25-2011, 10:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Myrtle Beach,SC | | Love Mustang Sally
Hate any and all Jimmy Buffet tunes and Brown Eyed Hurl.
The last guitarist I played with, insisted on doubling the bass track on B.E.G. with his guitar......I couldn't kill him from where I was standing......... 
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10-25-2011, 10:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Herndon, VA - NoVa | | | Every time I play any of the 3 tunes that were mentioned here, I feel like something inside me dies. That said, I've played at least one of these @ each gig that I play.... Oh, and to make matters worse; I have to sing them all as well!
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10-25-2011, 11:00 AM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | FYI, my band competes in the Road To Memphis blues competition every year in the Mpls/St. Paul area. From what we have seen in our particular area, the "no Mustang Sally rule", as interpreted by our local judges from the statement "...are likely to be unimpressed with song selections that are uninspired", is extended to mean "no covers whatsoever".
By the way, this is a competition, not a gig. It is held in a bar and attracts a large crowd, but each band's performance is being scored competitively by a panel of five or so judges. The bar gig rules do not apply here. If we want to place highly or even win, we must play songs that please the judges, not songs that please the rest of the bar crowd.
Richland123 quotes this rule accurately. The judges in our area are indeed "Blues professionals" and the rules of song selection as we (and the other bands who place highly each year) interpret them mean, in addition to no covers, that we must be careful that each song we play in our allotted time is "blues enough".
The first year we competed we received comments that we were "a good rock band". This, of course, meant that some of the songs we selected were not "blues enough".
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10-25-2011, 11:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Tampa, FL | | Who's Mustang Sally?  |
10-25-2011, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Russell L Had a request for Mustang Sally the other night and got tipped for playing it. | 
Same here, most requested song ever by drunk fans ? |
10-25-2011, 11:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | I can understand it for a blues competition. However, we still play it at just about every gig and it always gets people up dancing and singing along. When it fails to be popular with the crowds we play to then we will stop playing it.
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10-25-2011, 11:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Hawaii | | | I drive Ford Mustangs so it would be sacreligious not to play it. LOL
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10-25-2011, 11:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Summerville, SC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gjbassist I can understand it for a blues competition. However, we still play it at just about every gig and it always gets people up dancing and singing along. When it fails to be popular with the crowds we play to then we will stop playing it. | +1
Just be glad you're not in a band who's leader INSISTS you play "Electric Slide" every gig.
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10-25-2011, 11:43 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Well, seeing that that was a rule for a Blues competition....I'd adhere to it. Now if I'm playing a regular gig somewhere and the song gets requested........I'm playing it! You should never deny paying customers the satisfaction! I don't care how bad you hate the song. Make it work, dangit! |
10-25-2011, 11:47 AM
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