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I don't care what you people play.....

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AnchorHoy

Dec 29, 2008
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New Jersey
#1
You're only here to sell beer. If you sell enough beer, you get paid. If you don't, you won't. Any questions?
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No Ma'am. No questions. Well, actually I was kind of questioning how the mile-high-beehive hairdo (think RL version of Marge Simpson) had managed to survive into the 1980's, but I thought it best to keep that to myself for the time being :p

Anyway, as it turned out, Good Ol' Millie really did care after all....

Two sets that packed her little neighborhood dive to the rafters had her smiling wide, along with our good-natured tolerance for people reaching around the band to get to the beer cooler. Cash register is ringing like the phones at a radio station giving away free Rolling Stones tickets. Happy crowd, Happy band, Happy bar owner. All is right with the world. And then we do our Killer encore:

4F Club by the Mentors

After we hit the last chord, you could've heard a pin drop, then about 5 seconds of total, shocked, silence before this voice booms out at 120db

"I DON'T WANT TO EVER HEAR THAT SONG IN MY BAR AGAIN!!!!

It was a learning experience :D
 
#4
AnchorHoy said:
No Ma'am. No questions. Well, actually I was kind of questioning how the mile-high-beehive hairdo (think RL version of Marge Simpson) had managed to survive into the 1980's, but I thought it best to keep that to myself for the time being :p

Anyway, as it turned out, Good Ol' Millie really did care after all....

Two sets that packed her little neighborhood dive to the rafters had her smiling wide, along with our good-natured tolerance for people reaching around the band to get to the beer cooler. Cash register is ringing like the phones at a radio station giving away free Rolling Stones tickets. Happy crowd, Happy band, Happy bar owner. All is right with the world. And then we do our Killer encore:

4F Club by the Mentors

After we hit the last chord, you could've heard a pin drop, then about 5 seconds of total, shocked, silence before this voice booms out at 120db

"I DON'T WANT TO EVER HEAR THAT SONG IN MY BAR AGAIN!!!!

It was a learning experience :D
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Holy crap what were you guys thinking!..lol I use to hang with El Duce back in the late eighties when i met him through a band out of Chicago named Ethrope.. Wow what a character..lol Find um, Feel um, F*** um, Forget Um... lol
 
#6
There was a local college radio station (WTSR Trenton) that used to play it every once in a while and I managed to tape it one night, right off the air. Took the tape over to the rest of the band the next day and we ended up doing it as a rehearsal warm-up tune for a couple of months

Playing it out wasn't really something we'd planned in advance....

I chalk it up to a good youthful lesson in how 'just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should :ninja:
 
#8
Atticus said:
For reference, what are some other things you played?
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Pretty standard cover-band stuff for those days:

Fire - Hendrix
Let it Bleed - Stones
Cat Scratch Fever - Nugent
Peter Gunn
Dirty Love - Zappa

Mostly that sort of thing. Garden variety electric tunes for our area (central NJ). A few oddities like Brain Damage/Eclipse by Pink Floyd and Time Has Come Today by the Chambers Brothers
 
#9
I played in a bar band where the owner was a classic rock lover so we learned some Boston at his request. Being an avid music lover, I think we were there for his personal entertainment and he pretty much liked our setlist but after a while he banned us from doing the handful of Frank Zappa tunes we played for our own enjoyment because he got a few complaints and out of the regulars, the two who actually knew the music apparently weren't buying enough beer to justify it :)
 
#12
waleross said:
Dude, I'm so old that I remember the Fugs......The Mentors are really....good? A the neighborhood Bar.....Like White Lightening..........:p
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Ahh, yes. The Fugs. I favored their "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest" album. Johnny P****** Meets the Red Angel; Ramses II is Dead, My Love; Wide, Wide River; Grope Need; etc.

The Golden Filth album is also good ... "Slum Goddess," "Supergirl," "Nothing," "I Couldn't Get High," "Coca-Cola Douche," and "How Sweet I Roamed."
 

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