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09-09-2010, 03:41 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | We got asked to play total **** at a party gig
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I put together a scratch band to play a party gig (pretty well paid) at very short notice. The punter wants us to play "Macarena".
The more I listen to this rubbish, the more I'm thinking "No way - I'll play an mp3 through the PA and they can like it or lump it."
Maybe I'm getting old, but my capacity for playing stuff like that has reduced drastically recently. I can get gigs where I don't need to play stuff that depresses me as much as this vile nonsense. I'll let others do that for some good money, and good luck to them too.
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09-09-2010, 03:44 PM
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09-09-2010, 03:48 PM
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09-09-2010, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I put together a scratch band to play a party gig (pretty well paid) at very short notice. The punter wants us to play "Macarena".
The more I listen to this rubbish, the more I'm thinking "No way - I'll play an mp3 through the PA and they can like it or lump it."
Maybe I'm getting old, but my capacity for playing stuff like that has reduced drastically recently. I can get gigs where I don't need to play stuff that depresses me as much as this vile nonsense. I'll let others do that for some good money, and good luck to them too. | Haha. +1
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09-09-2010, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by tangentmusic I can't believe they even want to hear Macarena in the UK!! | I can't believe ANYONE could say with a straight face, "I want you to play Macarena."
Normally, I'd say suck it up, quit being a poophead and just play the dang song. But no way; the Macarena is taking it a little too far.
+1, begrudgingly play the mp3 and go get you a beer.
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09-09-2010, 05:17 PM
| | | | I thought the Macarena has long been pushed out of society's collective conscious and locked away in the pop culture pandora's box, never to be opened again. Why would anyone in their right mind request that song?
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09-09-2010, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by macaroni tony I can't believe ANYONE could say with a straight face, "I want you to play Macarena." | Quote:
Normally, I'd say suck it up, quit being a poophead and just play the dang song. But no way; the Macarena is taking it a little too far.
+1, begrudgingly play the mp3 and go get you a beer.
| There are a lot of songs I wouldnt want to play but still would for the right price. Then there are a few, like the Mac, that I wouldnt touch for a million dollars. Ok, I lied, everything has its price, but some people just can't afford what they want.
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09-09-2010, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by bassybill I put together a scratch band to play a party gig (pretty well paid) at very short notice. The punter wants us to play "Macarena".
The more I listen to this rubbish, the more I'm thinking "No way - I'll play an mp3 through the PA and they can like it or lump it."
Maybe I'm getting old, but my capacity for playing stuff like that has reduced drastically recently. I can get gigs where I don't need to play stuff that depresses me as much as this vile nonsense. I'll let others do that for some good money, and good luck to them too. | i dunno bill,it's an annoying song but hardly worth losing sleep over.....i don't see it as any different than third violinists sawing away on whole notes on material they played hundreds of times in the conservatory......besides this gig might get you another real one down the road.....put on your game face and play through the pain
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09-09-2010, 05:30 PM
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09-09-2010, 05:56 PM
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09-09-2010, 06:02 PM
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Espcially if it wasn't a metal gig.
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09-09-2010, 07:42 PM
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09-09-2010, 07:49 PM
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09-09-2010, 07:55 PM
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09-09-2010, 08:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Michigan | | | what other songs you are playing? Honestly I dont see any difference between Macarena and other million pop songs that I have heard covers band playing. |
09-09-2010, 08:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | How about a poll? Play the song or not?
You're entertainers. I say, "entertain".
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09-09-2010, 08:28 PM
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Give 'em a recording during your break.
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09-09-2010, 08:37 PM
| | | | The girls will like you more if you played it!!! |
09-09-2010, 08:42 PM
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09-09-2010, 08:42 PM
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