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so this happened last night

#84
denton57 said:
I played a lawyer office/customer appreciation gig last year. Total country scene and did almost all Waylon type stuff. 3 drunk Hispanic construction worker guys were sitting off to the right, having a good time. Between sets, one hands us a napkin with a request....

Open Arms by Journey
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That happened to us and, fortunately, we had Open Arms on the list. Of course we were a smooth jazz group and it wasn't exactly what they expected.
 
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#86
Also fun are those vague yet detailed requests like: an old song, don't remember the title, but the lyrics had something about the sun, or maybe not about the sun, it was by weird looking people dancing weirdly but they weren't dressed up as monkeys or anything, they didn't need to dress up as monkeys to look weird, the people were white and there was fire in the video. Although the girl who wanted this song is really cute, and a few weeks later figured out what the song was.
 
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pklima said:
Also fun are those vague yet detailed requests like: an old song, don't remember the title, but the lyrics had something about the sun, or maybe not about the sun, it was by weird looking people dancing weirdly but they weren't dressed up as monkeys or anything, they didn't need to dress up as monkeys to look weird, the people were white and there was fire in the video. Although the girl who wanted this song is really cute, and a few weeks later figured out what the song was.
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Wow that was weird. At least the girl was cute.

Now excuse me, I gotta brush up on Freebird.
 
#88
A good friend of mine got married and they (well the bride's parents anyway) hired a "social" band. Probably a pickup band from the local union hall. It was led by an older guy and they played standards, but we noticed that a bunch of the guys were younger and we kept going up and to request things like "So What" by Miles Davis or some Mingus tune. The horn players would get all excited, but the band leader would get apologetic and tell us they couldn't do those tunes. We did it just to screw with the band leader. He should have turned the band lose once or twice. They seemed like some serious players.
 
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pablomago said:
A good friend of mine got married and they (well the bride's parents anyway) hired a "social" band. Probably a pickup band from the local union hall. It was led by an older guy and they played standards, but we noticed that a bunch of the guys were younger and we kept going up and to request things like "So What" by Miles Davis or some Mingus tune. The horn players would get all excited, but the band leader would get apologetic and tell us they couldn't do those tunes. We did it just to screw with the band leader. He should have turned the band lose once or twice. They seemed like some serious players.
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Not quite like calling for pop tunes, though.

Band leaders... feh.
 

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