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Strange Evening

#21
These types of walk-on's are always a crap shoot. Reaction time and ear training is about all you get out of them most of the time. Still worth doing...on occasion, especially if they pay. 1st-impression drinking ain't a good long-term strategy tho'.

I had a similar walk-on gig but the guys were older and quite good natured and the main singer-guitar guy would holler; "Geee!" and about 3 measures in I'm hearing; "Green Grass of Home", cool...got it!. And a few songs later, He hollers; "AaaaY". And it's a 1-4-5 Country song but I could latch on ok.

It worked out well and I stuck with 'em for almost a year. Then the venue owner changed things up and a few of us were out. I was ok with it as we were moving to TX soon anyway.
 
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Spidey2112 said:
I'm not sure how people do this.
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It's not fun for the most part. Band I'm in runs with no set list, BL calls the songs based on audience, and it's been working like that for about 20+ years for 'em. BUT, the hundreds of songs called are ones we have played or learned at one time or another. Only rarely does a song never played/learned get called but it does happen on rare occasion(if 2 or 3 of us know it, we're doing it). It does keep you on your toes. Best way to describe it is to play/hear the song in your head and play along with it in real-time.
 
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Ekulati said:
Yup, what everyone else said.

Gotta ask though since no one has yet. I've listened to and played a fair amount of country, folk, "Americana," blues, and all manner of "roots" music. What's red dirt? Have not heard that term.
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It’s a distinctly Oklahoma take on a modern offshoot of outlaw country, a loosely defined mixture of country and rock, somewhat related to the old Tulsa scene, but more related to the town of Stillwater. Cross Canadian Ragweed and Jimmy LaFave are a couple of representative acts.
 
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I did a gig an awful lot like this one, except I was called THAT MORNING for the gig. I did my homework, and when we started, the BL changed all the questions so my homework answers were wrong. And then he started drinking, and off we went. At least I got paid and nobody recognized me.....
 
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Spidey2112 said:
I'm not sure how people do this.
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fretlessman71 said:
I did a gig an awful lot like this one, except I was called THAT MORNING for the gig. I did my homework, and when we started, the BL changed all the questions so my homework answers were wrong. And then he started drinking, and off we went. At least I got paid and nobody recognized me.....
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That's the kind of crap that would tempt me to pack up and leave after the first set. Whether or not I would might depend on some other factors, but I do not want to be associated with train wrecks, dumpster fires, and drunken horror shows.
 
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2112 said:
That's the kind of crap that would tempt me to pack up and leave after the first set. Whether or not I would might depend on some other factors, but I do not want to be associated with train wrecks, dumpster fires, and drunken horror shows.
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The drummer and I began to view it as a challenge. It was nearly funny enough to not be really sad. Nearly...
 
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Michedelic said:
It’s a distinctly Oklahoma take on a modern offshoot of outlaw country, a loosely defined mixture of country and rock, somewhat related to the old Tulsa scene, but more related to the town of Stillwater. Cross Canadian Ragweed and Jimmy LaFave are a couple of representative acts.
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Ah got it. I was worried it was another "post punk modern art deco thrash dub death shoegaze bro doom." Whew!

This snarky old guy will stick with Cosmic American. ;)
 
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Johnny Crab said:
It's not fun for the most part. Band I'm in runs with no set list, BL calls the songs based on audience, and it's been working like that for about 20+ years for 'em. BUT, the hundreds of songs called are ones we have played or learned at one time or another. Only rarely does a song never played/learned get called but it does happen on rare occasion(if 2 or 3 of us know it, we're doing it). It does keep you on your toes. Best way to describe it is to play/hear the song in your head and play along with it in real-time.
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I hear defense/justification for this way of doing things, but I reject that it's really that necessary other than very few changes here and there.

fretlessman71 said:
I did a gig an awful lot like this one, except I was called THAT MORNING for the gig. I did my homework, and when we started, the BL changed all the questions so my homework answers were wrong. And then he started drinking, and off we went. At least I got paid and nobody recognized me.....
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That's the kind of gig (If I ever decided to try one) where I'd go dressed in black, wear a hat, play with my head tilted down, and position myself in back next to the drummer. :D

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Red dirt (music) - Wikipedia


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Doesn't sound like music with any recognizable bass licks, just kinda bouncing around the root notes. Good music for the kind of gig where ya don't know the songs. :D
 
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Ekulati said:
Ah got it. I was worried it was another "post punk modern art deco thrash dub death shoegaze bro doom." Whew!

This snarky old guy will stick with Cosmic American. ;)
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Well, it could be PPMADTDDSBD too, you never know if there’s an offshoot emerging down in Norman, or somewhere near 11th in Tulsa. Keep checking on who’s playing Cain’s. But definitely nothing to do with Cosmic American; I know all about that as I live about 20 minutes from where Gram’s body was burned.
 
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