Aaah... sweet revenge...

[arcureo]

I'm almost sure everyone of you has been told how beatiful you "cello" was. Of course while pointing at your upright BASS.
Me, I've almost grown tired of explaining to neighbors, audience members, you name it, that it is a *bee-ay-ess-ess*!!! It goes "boom-boom" and so on...
Well, for once in a lifetime I tasted how sweet revenge can be.
I was reading, on a local newspaper, the comments on a gig I had played on... and it happened that in the band's line-up also a cello player was featured!
Well the "journalist" (inverted commas are a necessity, trust me) was describing the stage set-up and he named me on upright bass (correctly! ) and then the poor guy who played what the sucker called "a... well.. 'small upright bass'..." (yes, he was actually uncertain about how to name a Cello, and he wrote it down! )
Oh how I enjoyed that moment!!!

Ever happened something similar to you?

Hiya...

Alex

[Marc Piane]

Classic.

My favorite...

I was doing a gig at a bar. The crowd was really getting into it especially some really nice "scenery" at a table closest to the stage. After the set one of the girls (who was really cute but also really drunk) came up to me and started flirting.

She put her hand on my shoulder and said in a sultry voice.
"You know, I think the cello is a really sexy instrument"

My response,
"****, too bad I play the bass"

[reedo35]

Dang, you missed yer chance!! You should have added
"It goes a little deeper"

[Marc Piane]

<rimshot>.
Reedo will be here all week. Remember to tip your waitress. Drive safe.

I'm happily married. Even when I was single I would have stayed away. She was so drunk it was amusing. It added to my amusement when I saw her face after my response. Utter confusion.

Last night I did a dinner gig where part of the deal is discounted food. It was a long gig so I grabbed a bite. The waiter wrote the instrument names on the back of our checks to keep them straight. On mine he wrote "chelo".

[mcnaire2004]

Originally Posted by arcureo

I'm almost sure everyone of you has been told how beatiful you "cello" was. Of course while pointing at your upright BASS.
Me, I've almost grown tired of explaining to neighbors, audience members, you name it, that it is a *bee-ay-ess-ess*!!! It goes "boom-boom" and so on...
Well, for once in a lifetime I tasted how sweet revenge can be.
I was reading, on a local newspaper, the comments on a gig I had played on... and it happened that in the band's line-up also a cello player was featured!
Well the "journalist" (inverted commas are a necessity, trust me) was describing the stage set-up and he named me on upright bass (correctly! ) and then the poor guy who played what the sucker called "a... well.. 'small upright bass'..." (yes, he was actually uncertain about how to name a Cello, and he wrote it down! )
Oh how I enjoyed that moment!!!

Ever happened something similar to you?

Hiya...

Alex

That is a beautiful moment

Originally Posted by fingers

She put her hand on my shoulder and said in a sultry voice.
"You know, I think the cello is a really sexy instrument"

My response,
"****, too bad I play the bass"

LOL

Originally Posted by reedo35

Dang, you missed yer chance!! You should have added
"It goes a little deeper"

Double LOL

Originally Posted by fingers

Last night I did a dinner gig where part of the deal is discounted food. It was a long gig so I grabbed a bite. The waiter wrote the instrument names on the back of our checks to keep them straight. On mine he wrote "chelo".

You should beat his ass. He not only couldn't call you by the right instrument, he couldn't even call you by the wrong one.

[Steve Boisen]

Originally Posted by fingers

<rimshot>.
The waiter wrote the instrument names on the back of our checks to keep them straight. On mine he wrote "chelo".

There was a similar story in which a double bassist would receive his pay in an envelope marked "base vile".

- Steve

[.matthew e wengerd.]

When the Meyer Disc with the Gran Duo came out, I called to Best Buy looking for it. He said "You mean con-sair-to for sell-o? (concerto for cello)". Wearily, I said, "yes."

[Stan Haskins]

I got a message from the school secretary yesterday. Apparently, someone called me looking for a "string on sombo"

[Marcus Johnson]

I heard a story once of a music teacher who had a student who referred in a test paper to the composition "Rap City In Blue".

[theshadow2001]

It reminds me of an advert on TV for a comedy show about prostitutes can't remember the name.

Anyway...

Prostitute looks at a Double bass in the corner of a clients room and says in true bimbo style:

"oh I didn't realise you were musical"

The customer replies, "Its just a subterfuge"

Prostitute "Really??? I thought it was a cello"

.......meh it would be funnier if you saw the actual sketch

[John Sprague]

Nah, it was pretty good just the way you told it.