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If this happened at one of my gigs I would absolutely cry...

#45
Not a fail by the bassists. I'm sure these guys have their own songs that people sing along to as well. He probably just didn't give a rip about playing an AC/DC song. I was in a band that had a big following and the fans would sing back songs we wrote all night exactly like that, but then every now and again the guitar player would pull something like this and I remember I'd be like "Why"? It's a guitarist thing especially with a crowd and an AC/DC riff.

Plus you bassists out there are the only ones looking and listening to the bassist.:)
 
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obimark said:
It isn't about what you want/like to play. It is about what the crowd wants to hear and will react to. Period.

Even this half-baked attempt at AC/DC with poorly played bass got a great reaction. My advice, learn this song well and play it.

You just need to leave your ego at the door and realize, it isn't about you.

My last band could get no gigs because the "leader/singer" never learned this lesson. Wanted to play all obscure Hard Rock songs (which are fun to play) rather than what the people wanted to hear.
So I quit per TB policy.
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I'm pretty sure when your an original band it is about you.
 
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troy mcclure said:
This happens at my cover gig every night.... funny the guys hate playing the most popular tunes that the crowds love...you shook me all nite long, hwy to hell, enter sandman, man in a box... I put them on the setlist and they skip them.
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I agree with this. People who have been working all week and are coming to a show to unwind typically just want to hear songs they know and can sing along to, or at least are familiar with. A lot of times they are not interested in wacky arrangements or b-sides, they want the hits!
 
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That would be soo freaking awesome!!!!! Holy crap even concerts when the original band is playing hardly ever gets that much crowd interaction!!!! I was listening to some live cage the elephant... yeah the audience was not nearly as into it as they had anticipated... LOL
 
#53
Like poster corinpills on page 2, I also know the guitarist, Aaron Tap, from back in the day. Having heard him play this song in his basement when we were in middle school, I was not surprised at all to see him pull this off so wonderfully when this video surfaced some time ago. Aaron is a great guy, and serves as the "musical director" for Nathanson. Both of them grew up (as I did) in Lexington, MA, a Boston suburb, and Aaron did great work for many years in the Boston club scene before moving to LA, where he performs regularly when not on tour with Nathanson and produces other artists.

Matt Nathanson's band is, as others have noted, not a cover band, but a group that backs up the singer-songwriter Nathanson under Aaron's directon - the guys used on recent tours have all been session guys, except for Aaron. The fact that they could do this song has everything to do with what Matt and Aaron were listening to as kids (though they did not get to know each other until the Boston club years, as Matt is a few years younger than Aaron.) I met the guys in the band in the video when they were on tour last summer, and while the bassist is catching TB heat for not jumping in, he does do a great job on Nathanson's stuff - and should get bonus TB credit for playing a P-bass through an Ampeg fridge! :)
 
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Stewie26 said:
I thought they pulled it pretty well considering it was a spontaneous moment. The bass player was a total fail since he did not seem to play along with it much. The bottom line is the crowd enjoyed it.
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Yeah, nice spontaneous detour from the setlist.

About the bass player: that was one of the first songs I played along to on the very first day I got my bass, just be ear.
Must be a piece of cake for an experienced player to figure out those 5 notes in a sec.
 
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subtlestew said:
Like poster corinpills on page 2, I also know the guitarist, Aaron Tap, from back in the day. Having heard him play this song in his basement when we were in middle school, I was not surprised at all to see him pull this off so wonderfully when this video surfaced some time ago. Aaron is a great guy, and serves as the "musical director" for Nathanson. Both of them grew up (as I did) in Lexington, MA, a Boston suburb, and Aaron did great work for many years in the Boston club scene before moving to LA, where he performs regularly when not on tour with Nathanson and produces other artists.

Matt Nathanson's band is, as others have noted, not a cover band, but a group that backs up the singer-songwriter Nathanson under Aaron's directon - the guys used on recent tours have all been session guys, except for Aaron. The fact that they could do this song has everything to do with what Matt and Aaron were listening to as kids (though they did not get to know each other until the Boston club years, as Matt is a few years younger than Aaron.) I met the guys in the band in the video when they were on tour last summer, and while the bassist is catching TB heat for not jumping in, he does do a great job on Nathanson's stuff - and should get bonus TB credit for playing a P-bass through an Ampeg fridge! :)
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P->SVT->8x10 is as perfect as you can get. But really, he can't pick up a three chord whang on the root tune? Does he not know the trick of watching the guitar's left hand? Has he been in a foreign country where AC/DC is outlawed?
I'm not familiar with any of these guys, but this did look like a lot of fun.
 
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I got, um..., Overly Excited on Liquid Refreshments at a show we were playing a a Dive Bar in Molalla, Oregon. It was a METAL SHOW. No WOOSIE music allowed! Just metal. So, during a little break in our set, I decided to grab my Guitarists Guitar (commonly known on TB as Guitard and Guit' Fiddle) and started Drunkenly playing Poison Songs as Loud as I could. A Drummer from an opening band joined me, along with a Bass Player from I have No Idea Where. The Crowd Sang 3 songs before we stopped and I had Women in the crowd sticking money in my pants before we stopped. These are the GREAT Moments in gigging band. :bassist:
 

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