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10-24-2008, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DudeistMonk  Only having 1 parliament album in MP3 I had no idea.... Now that I understand why the aliens came to our unfunky UFO (thank you google), that picture makes a lot more sense. It also makes a lot more sense when it is large  | It's Sir Nose, from a non-album, large format painting by Overton Lloyd. |
10-24-2008, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Busker I guess they want to do it, and I'm worried that the singer will call for it at the gig we have coming up. We played it at rehearsal. Its a "humorous" song filled with crude sex jokes. I mean really crude, really dumb, and not funny, IMO. I would not be proud of the band if they decide to do this in public, which they did before I came along, with mixed reactions according to them (no! really?).
I told them, "no offense guys, but I'm hoping we never play that song again." I should just flat out refuse to play it, but they probably already feel I complain too much, and this is just one more thing. Screw it. I'm telling them I don't want to play the song, and let the chips fall where they may.
Our first real paying gig (since I joined) is coming up. I could see this song costing us return gigs, possibly. Maybe even some fans. | Want a tissue? 
Honestly man, get over yourself. Time and a place for everything and unless it's some ritzy formal gig, it's always the time and the place. Everyone loves a dirty joke and the people who love it will far out-number the people who are actually offended...if anyone at all.
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10-25-2008, 10:04 PM
| | | | What you describe doesnt sound very good to me. Pretty lame in fact. So dont do it. The most suggestive song we do is, Rodney Carringtons, "Show Them to me", but we always do it in the 4th set so the drunk girls will. We do it quite well though with 3 part harmonies on the chorus and alot of dynamics.
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10-25-2008, 10:10 PM
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10-25-2008, 10:49 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Call me crazy, but I like dirty songs. Must be because I'm a Howard Stern fan. I've written several myself. But it's pretty risky for a regular covers band trying to make money to do them. I'd try to talk them out of it.
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11-19-2008, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by azureblue Nillsons' "You're breaking My Heart".
Want a hit tune to play for a bunch of drunks, male & female? This is it... | Dude, thank you. Harry Nilsson is one of those guys I keep meaning to dig deeper into. I know the usual suspects; "Without You", "Everybody's Talkin'", "Jump Into The Fire", but I'd never heard "You're Breaking My Heart" before just now. If my band won't play it, it's going into an open mic/acoustic set. Just awesome. |
11-19-2008, 10:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Southwest Virginia | | | I've refused songs before. I get assigned all the AC/DC vocals in my band 'cause I've got the voice, but I won't sing Highway to Hell or Hells Bells, and I'd leave the stage for Marylin Manson crap. (Actually, I changed the lyrics to Hells Bells the one and only time the band pushed me to sing it - I made it very pro-christian/anti Satan... Nobody in the crowd noticed, but the band never put it on the set list again)
But I'm still there ten years later. Fact of the matter is, if you're a good enough bassist that the band finds you more valuable than the song(s) you object to, then you're safe. Get real good. Make yourself hard to replace.
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11-20-2008, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by acleex38 My college band covered Hey Joe. We played a gig that was a benefit for the Feminist Student Union - we took it out of the set list but used it (without vocals) as a sound-check. We got to chuckle about it without offending anyone. | Ha! Forget Hey Joe, you should have played, "Payin' The Cost to Be the Boss" by B.B. King...I'm sure the lyrics of that song would resonate strongly with the people at that gig.   |
11-20-2008, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by The Golden Boy It worked for Frank and Sammy... | Frank and Sammy could get up on stage loaded and have a great show.
I know personally....not so much. |
11-20-2008, 12:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: uk | | | I've only ever refused to do one song in 20 years...
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