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Brown Eyed Girl

#21
Ndrameda81 said:
Yes, please any hints on making the solo more interesting would be appreciated.
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Turn it into a 5 minute solo.

interp said:
I've been playing and singing Brown Eyed Girl for 46 years.

The only thing about it I'm tired of is having to listen to people complain about playing it.
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If you were standing in front of me right now, I would just slap you!

Then I would buy you a beer, a real beer. :D
 
#23
Ndrameda81 said:
Yes, please any hints on making the solo more interesting would be appreciated.
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I slap the hell out of that solo or play it like Rocco Prestia.
Somehow I make it fit, or not.

A guitar player I once worked with had the best line for when B.E.G. would inevitably requested.
"Sorry, that was my late wife's favorite song. I used to sing it to her all the time. She passed away last year, and I can't play it anymore" The first time he used that line, I started singing "you are the wind beneath my wings"
 
#24
ZenG said:
I once was in love with a brown-eyed girl.

At about the time the song came out.

The relationship was a disaster. She wasn't in love with me.

Now whenever I hear that song I clench and unclench my fists, start breathing in labored breaths as a dark cloud of despair and futility sweeps across my mind. I then feel totally inadequate and vulnerable. Sometimes I break down and cry.

We broke up 45 years ago.
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Wow, only 45 years ago! Hang in there, you'll recover soon! ;)
 
#25
Hi,

TuneIn said:
sure beats playing "Sweet Home Alabama" for drunken tards!
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Yes! That's one I would not miss if I never played it again.
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Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
 
#26
I have no problems playing it. More than once my band was tipped to play it a second time. We played it three times in a row one night, someone tipped us for it, we played it, they tipped for it again, we played it again, they tipped for it again, we played it again. easy $$

We would mash up the chorus from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" over the sha la la's at the end of the song.
 
#28
BassCliff said:
Hi,

I love playing and singing that song. I never get tired of it. Never. Seriously. :)

If it's done well it's fun for the band and the crowd.

Now, "Proud Mary" is another story. :p


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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I'm with Cliff. As much grief as everybody gives this song, the crowd loves it, and the bassline isn't bad at all.

And as much as I like Creedence, I'd rather stick a needle in my eye than play "Proud Mary"... ;)
 
#29
I tell you, it was a shocking realization to discover that some people actually didn't like some of the songs that I liked. What's more, some folks actually somehow like songs I can't stand! Go figure, people actually don't have the same excellent musical tastes that I have :)

A huge breakthrough however was when I discovered that it was actually possible to perform songs that I personally didn't care for--and still find a way to enjoy playing them! The first example that comes to mind: when they told me one of the songs that went over well was Baby Got Back. What? No way?? Trust us, they said, just do it. And when the singer broke into "I like Big Butts ..." suddenly every girl in the joint was on the dance floor shaking it. At that point a light bulb came on for me. Eventually we went on to throw in "Word Up" and "Wild Thang" (Tone Loc, not Troggs). Of course we kept on playing all the other songs folks can't seem to stand playing: Brown Eyed Girl, Sweet Home, Mustang Sally, Proud Mary, etc. We smiled and tried to put on a show even though we had all played those songs hundreds of times; the dance floor was packed and people were having fun listening to us play. So hey, Margaritaville? Sure! 867-5309? Sure!

I found out how much fun it is to allow other people to have fun, so I play what they want to hear. Then when I get in my car, I play what I want to listen to.
 
#31
Nashville bill
You are 100 % correct
I don't understand why musicians don't get the fact the IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU!
It is about the venue, by the way is your employer, oh no one told you it was a job bo the #### hub.
It's about the venue giving their customers a reason to support their business.
We are there for the people they are not there for us unless we give the what they want.
So
Do you want to play out and make some cash or not?
 
#34
nashvillebill said:
A huge breakthrough however was when I discovered that it was actually possible to perform songs that I personally didn't care for--and still find a way to enjoy playing them! The first example that comes to mind: when they told me one of the songs that went over well was Baby Got Back. What? No way?? Trust us, they said, just do it. And when the singer broke into "I like Big Butts ..." suddenly every girl in the joint was on the dance floor shaking it. At that point a light bulb came on for me. Eventually we went on to throw in "Word Up" and "Wild Thang" (Tone Loc, not Troggs). Of course we kept on playing all the other songs folks can't seem to stand playing: Brown Eyed Girl, Sweet Home, Mustang Sally, Proud Mary, etc. We smiled and tried to put on a show even though we had all played those songs hundreds of times; the dance floor was packed and people were having fun listening to us play. So hey, Margaritaville? Sure! 867-5309? Sure!

I found out how much fun it is to allow other people to have fun, so I play what they want to hear. Then when I get in my car, I play what I want to listen to.
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It's similar to me playing in Country bands. If you told me at 17 that I would someday be playing Country, I might have committed suicide. My friends from Chicago (where Country music is outlawed) ask me if I actually like Country music. I tell them that I have been classically conditioned into liking it. I didn't care for the music at first, but I like getting paid and watching pretty girls dance. Now, I like Country music more now that it has more positive associations.
 
#35
Re "Brown Eyed Girl' - my wife (who has brown eyes) loves it, her friends love it, I funk up the bass solo and lengthen it out to make it more interesting for me, it's never failed to get people singing along or out on the dance floor... so f--- whatever personal feelings the band might have, I will play that song til I can't play no more...
 
#37
When the song is requested from my band, we always sing it as "blue eyed girl," and in the first chorus, when the singer does the "do you remember when we used to sing sha-la-la-la" I come in and say, "No, I don't remember that at all...."
 
#38
jive1 said:
It's similar to me playing in Country bands. If you told me at 17 that I would someday be playing Country, I might have committed suicide. My friends from Chicago (where Country music is outlawed) ask me if I actually like Country music. I tell them that I have been classically conditioned into liking it. I didn't care for the music at first, but I like getting paid and watching pretty girls dance. Now, I like Country music more now that it has more positive associations.
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That is where I was, I absolutely could not stand Country music growing up but money and pretty dancing girls changed my outlook.
 

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