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11-20-2012, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Stafford, England | | | I don't know about that song, but i'd play another one, Oh what's it called.... place filled with animals... It's on the tip of my tongue...
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11-20-2012, 03:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | Freebird is a great song. Its just over played like most song songs on the radio. For some reason I think the $420 was more of a drug reference. I would have played the song and gladly taken her money.
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11-20-2012, 03:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Los Angeles, Ca | | | I smell troll.
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11-20-2012, 03:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central CA Coast | | I would have started a bidding war between audience members: OK, $420 says we play it, anyone not want to hear the song bad enough to top that? And so on 
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11-20-2012, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer  Really!
I have a friend that can play the guitar solo on a mandolin. It rocks!
I have also heard it done on a fiddle. It brought the house down! | And I'll ruin it with my rendition done on acoustic and harmonica http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YwXtJhOi0 |
11-20-2012, 03:58 PM
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11-20-2012, 04:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Eastman, GA | | | OK a few things:
If the lady looked like she couldn't afford a $420 tip, I would have encouraged her to keep the money and play the song anyway.
If the tip came from a pool of people or she looked like she could easily afford it, I would have taken the money and played the song.
Is it one of my favorites? No, but I would have played it if I knew it. Especially if playing in a cover band. Do I dislike the song, not really......
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11-20-2012, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jive1 | That's really good.
Not $420 good but it's good.
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11-20-2012, 04:26 PM
|  | There are some who call me.......Sactobass | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jive1 | Jive1: your singing sounds WAAAAAAAY better than the original version. And no, I'm not kidding or just being nice. I'm 100% serious.
The sound of LS's singer makes me upchuck almost as much as the singer for Foreigner (......almost).
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11-20-2012, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by PrietoBass My take on this story is that the gal was uglier than heck, she was wasted, and she was trying to pass a wad of Monopoly money for 420 legit dead presidents but Biggbass' bandmates didn't fall for it!
Or, these are men of integrity, and they've taken a solemn oath to never, ever, play that song...  | most of the above...the cash was real but we don't need the money. we're all rich lawyers....(not really)
She was wasted and it felt awkward and cheapening to the band to take her money. We could have plowed our way through like many other local bands might have done and made an unrehearsed mess of it but we politely, humorously declined her offer and continued through our set list, followed our "Tom Landry Game Plan" and were rewarded with a full room standing ovation by playing We Won't Get Fooled Again.
And they loved it.
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11-20-2012, 05:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | | I find it odd that people feel the need to insult someone for their personal decision...its a choice. I guess if you guys feel ok taking advantage of a drunken woman waving money for a song then, so be it. Its your choice. |
11-20-2012, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bassistloaded21 I find it odd that people feel the need to insult someone for their personal decision...its a choice. I guess if you guys feel ok taking advantage of a drunken woman waving money for a song then, so be it. Its your choice. | Well, if no one ever took advantage of a drunken woman how many of us would even exist? 
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11-20-2012, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jive1 | Dude, nothing wrong with that version! You rock!
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11-20-2012, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by bassistloaded21 I find it odd that people feel the need to insult someone for their personal decision...its a choice. I guess if you guys feel ok taking advantage of a drunken woman waving money for a song then, so be it. Its your choice. | So you find it odd that people insult others for their personal decision but then comment that anyone who took the money was taking advantage of a drunken women. You basically contradicted yourself. It is not the band's responsibility to police her behavior. If she was drunk and woke up the following morning and realized that she had given away her money, it have caused her to change her behavior and not put herself in that position in the future. On the other hand, did you ever consider the possibility that she wasn't drunk? She may be financially stable and just wanted to hear the song.
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11-20-2012, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Dallas | | | I call BS.
And for the record, no matter how over played it is, it's still the greatest song ever! |
11-20-2012, 06:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Springfield, Missouri | | If that happened to my band and I refused to play it they would have kicked me off stage and played it without me!  |
11-20-2012, 06:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lakewood,CA. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggbass Last weekend a gal comes up to the band and fans out $420 cash, waving it back and forth in front of us, requesting that we play Freebird.
And we turned it down! LOL!! | 
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11-20-2012, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Baltimore,MD USA | | | If they hand over the $420 first, I'll rap the 'Hokey Pokey'.
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11-20-2012, 07:43 PM
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11-20-2012, 07:54 PM
| | | | $420 wouldn't persuade our band to play Freebird.
I have never had to play it, nor do I ever hope to but, I'd play any song for half that.
Most of the guys in our band are doctors and lawyers and they probably make that much
per minute during the day. So, if you want them to play Freebird you're gonna have to
come up with something much more enticing. I'm just a working stiff so it doesn't take
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