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What questions do you wish people would stop asking?

#82
truand85 said:
"Can y'all do Freebird?"
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My personal fave was “Whut kinda Skinn-erd y’all got fer us t’night?”
We had Hendrix, Santana, lots of blues and rock, even a punked up Johnny Cash meets The Clash medley, but no Skynyrd. On our third break, we worked out a reggiefied Sweet Home Alabama to open the last set. The crowd went able sugar. :D
 
#84
Nephilymbass said:
Not so much at gigs or on forums but just in general the thing that bugs me the most are people asking for shortcuts. For example people learning to play looking for a shortcut because they don’t want to put in the time with their instrument. But it’s even more annoying to me because as a musician who’s always checking out gear demos on YouTube I get suggested a lot of ads that are exactly that. People trying to sell shortcuts to beginner players. And sure I get that shortcuts might fool some people but for me, anyone who tries to learn that way it just ends up where everything they play sounds the same.
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I see this both from students and teachers. Obviously, everyone wants to have a frictionless experience, but the reality is that learning any instrument is going to take a lot of hours, repetition, and sweat. Any teacher who promises shortcuts should be avoided. There's no replacement for simply doing the thing (correctly) over and over until it's second nature.
 
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#86
Shepsdad said:
I never understood the whole Freebird thing, I mean, I love Skynyrd, I’ve been to a lot of the old hangouts in Jacksonville, been to most of their graves, even Leonard Skinners, but I just never got the obsession with freebird.
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It all goes back to their live album and "What song is it you wanna hear?"
 
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I've got mixed feelings on the Freebird requests. I've heard my share and the bands that I played with would never comply. It was a standing rule, "no Freebird". A bar owner who was already paying us $100/player for the night's gig offered us each an additional $100 to play Freebird with him on the drums. It was the longest and most profitable six minutes of my musical career. We ended up performing the 3 minute version at half speed.
 
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fhm555 said:
My personal fave was “Whut kinda Skinn-erd y’all got fer us t’night?”
We had Hendrix, Santana, lots of blues and rock, even a punked up Johnny Cash meets The Clash medley, but no Skynyrd. On our third break, we worked out a reggiefied Sweet Home Alabama to open the last set. The crowd went able sugar. :D
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:D like someone above said, I could never understand the obsession with Freebird. It's just one of those songs.
 

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