A Letter from Bridezilla's parents

[MakiSupaStar]

SO are "bandwiches" anything like scooby snacks?

 

[mimaz]

SO are "bandwiches" anything like scooby snacks?

Actually, I believe they are made in the same factory. Primary ingredients are beaks and lips, as well as floor scraps.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Actually, I believe they are made in the same factory. Primary ingredients are beaks and lips, as well as floor scraps.

LMAO.

 

[CoDBassPlayer]

LMAO.

Ruh-Roh Raggy!

 

[AdlerAugen]

Tux Rental: $125 per person
Equipment purchase surcharge to each gig: $50 a gig per musician
Band Payment: $50 per hour if you allow them to pick everything, you're not an a**hole, and you give them free run. Anything else will run $75-$125 per hour per bandmember.
Food and Beverages: unlimited access. Let them pig out.
Breaks: at least once an hour. Gotta have time between sets.

Total Fee for 4-person band over 4 hours: $2700. I wouldn't do a wedding for cheap, at all.

 

[cdef]

That was a good laugh. Had to send that to our guitar player, who's been preoccupied with "The Black Page" for a while.

Now if there was a wedding band in the world capable of complying with requests like those they'd certainly be wasting their time at $350... even including the "bandwiches".

 

[plexibass]

wow. the first wedding i ever played with my cover band was for one of my best friends weddings. we played in a small satellite room off the area wher the food was being served. the band was sitting in the room just talking when the bride cam in and asked us what we were doing. she told us to get in there and eat/drink as they had alread paid for us to eat. since we were only charging her 300.00 to play for 4-5 hours, including the dozen or songs that she had requested.......that was a fun as hell gig. at the end, her father promptly gave us a check, with an extra 100.00 and each of us a bottle of crown royal.

 

[Stinsok]

With the exception of the songs listed, I have experienced all the items listed. Not all at the same gig, but it does happen.

 

[Vandelay]

I've been playing country for most of the last 25 years, and I've had many a good laugh while playing a totally inappropriate "bummer" song at a wedding. You don't realise how many of those you typically play, until it's a wedding! For instance, "I Will Always Love You". If you check the lyrics, it's about a couple breaking up! But damn if they don't ask for it at every wedding! Go figure.

Yes, I attended a wedding last summer where the young couple exited down the aisle to Stevie Wonder's "Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)". But if you pay attention to the verses, they're all about the guy messing up and asking for forgiveness from the girl. Dumb kids.

It's a good lesson to learn early on really, no matter what music you are playing, keeping your cables tidy and cases out of sight is a good idea.

I definitely agree with this -- I'm always the one in my bands who's gathering up everyone's cases and hiding them away, I'm always the one who is tidying up the cables, taping them down, etc. And it's funny because I'm definitely NOT a "neat freak" in my home or work life, probably just the opposite. I guess I take my "hobby" music career more seriously than I do my everyday job!

And I'm always the one who insists that we should set up EARLY so we can have time for a proper soundcheck. Seems like we're always rushing at the last minute, sound checking while people are arriving, and I hate the way that looks. But the bandmates never seem to figure out, "oh, this could have been avoided if I hadn't shown up 30 minutes before the start time".

 

[SBassman]

This is funny stuff.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I've been playing country for most of the last 25 years, and I've had many a good laugh while playing a totally inappropriate "bummer" song at a wedding. You don't realise how many of those you typically play, until it's a wedding! For instance, "I Will Always Love You". If you check the lyrics, it's about a couple breaking up! But damn if they don't ask for it at every wedding! Go figure.

Yes, I attended a wedding last summer where the young couple exited down the aisle to Stevie Wonder's "Signed Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)". But if you pay attention to the verses, they're all about the guy messing up and asking for forgiveness from the girl. Dumb kids.

Ha! Of course the situation is somewhat different here since many people don't care about foreign language lyrics, but I've always laughed at the fact that grooms ask most of the times for an instrumental version of "Yesterday" to be played on the serenade offered to the bride the night before the wedding. It means one of two things: People never cared about the song's lyrics and just see it as a "cute" song (most likely) or grooms REALLY KNOW what they're doing with that request ("Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay").

 

[Juniorkimbrough]

HILARIOUS!!

but I actually think the last paragraph is quite true.....

"In between songs, we don't want to hear any musicians practicing "licks," or
running up and down high speed scales. Nothing sounds worse than hearing
musicians all "fooling around" at the same time. I believe you people like to call
it "noodling." or something like that. But, it is a terrible habit. It's very unprofessional.
You don't hear the members of the Berlin Philharmonic "noodling around" between
movements, right?"

 

[mimaz]

HILARIOUS!!

but I actually think the last paragraph is quite true.....

"In between songs, we don't want to hear any musicians practicing "licks," or
running up and down high speed scales. Nothing sounds worse than hearing
musicians all "fooling around" at the same time. I believe you people like to call
it "noodling." or something like that. But, it is a terrible habit. It's very unprofessional.
You don't hear the members of the Berlin Philharmonic "noodling around" between
movements, right?"

Truly one of my "pet peeves", and an easy way to separate the wannabes from the pros.