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What if the worse happens and......
What if the worse happens and......
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tookatooka
578 posts
Oct 01, 2009
10:41 AM
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Your drummer just broke his leg getting up on the stage and the guitarists just got electrocuted due to a faulty cable. It's just you and you're obliged to entertain the crowd on your own with just one number. there's nowhere to run or you'll get lynched. What you gonna play, on your own, all the way through with no backing?
There are no excuses and you can't just crack a few gags.
Whoops! I spotted the spelling mistake. Should be worst and not worse.
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Last Edited by on Oct 01, 2009 10:43 AM
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ricanefan
23 posts
Oct 01, 2009
10:58 AM
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First: "suck it up, drummer boy, it's only one leg. You've still got another plus both arms!"
Second: did the electrocution start a fire? Shut down power?
OK...enough hassling...I get your point - I've got to go it alone...I'm sticking to the songs we were planning as a group. I'll have to do more singing, and will have to modify arrangements on the fly, but I know the songs, and we expected them to be appropriate for this crowd...
Oh...and I'll take off my shirt to entertain the ladies...
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Jim Rumbaugh
94 posts
Oct 01, 2009
11:00 AM
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Maybe this isn't the answer you want, but.....
Here's hoping you lerned how to chord I, IV, V on the harp, After 8 years, someone showed me this summer.
I = Draw 1,2,3,4 (some or all the holes) measure 1-4
IV = Blow 1,2,3,4 (some or all the holes) measure 5,6
I = Draw 1,2,3,4 (some or all the holes) measure 7,8
V = draw 1 and 4 only doing a split tounge block
------------------------------------------- measure 9
IV = blow 1 and 4 only doing a split tounge block
------------------------------------------- measure 10
I = Draw 1,2,3,4 (some or all the holel) measure 11-12
that will lay a foundation you can build and jam on.
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jawbone
96 posts
Oct 01, 2009
1:23 PM
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Hoochie Coochie Man, Linin' track, Twisted Metal (My Original)(train chuggs between lyrics)
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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KingoBad
102 posts
Oct 01, 2009
1:26 PM
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Evening Sun. Trouble in Mind(Big Walter Version). Then Hoochie Coochie Man with lots of carrying on, yelling and bravado.
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mickil
550 posts
Oct 01, 2009
2:05 PM
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Been there. Well, that's a bit of an exageration, but, I did play for about 10-12 mins solo at an open mic night the other month. Just pretended I was busking again. I couldn't have done it though without some of the 'dirt' that Doc has taught some of us to use around holes 123, 345, and a few tongue slapped octaves here and there; that's more or less all I did in HPC2.
As for drummers breaking their legs, blowing up, suffering from a fatal case of internal combustion, or other things that stop them from playing all of their drums all at the same time even on the quietiest of songs, well, that would be good at some of my local jams.
EDIT: or stops them from constantly speeding up willy-nilly. I know you'll all think I'm mad, but I turn round and discretely say, 'Stop speeding up!' It actually works sometimes.
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Last Edited by on Oct 01, 2009 2:29 PM
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nacoran
209 posts
Oct 01, 2009
2:52 PM
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First of all, are you talking about real electrocution or just a shock? A lot of people confuse those two terms. Real electrocution is fatal, so you can through the corpse into the crowd like Alice Cooper's famous chicken and don't start playing until they recreate a scene for scene remake of 'Weekend at Bernie's' with the body, but make sure to cut them off before they start the awful sequel!
Second, I was always partial to Axl Rose, so if your opening act's lead singer immolates himself, I say let them riot; it's only Toronto! Just make sure to warn Oda and the other forum who were talking about being in Toronto the other day.
Third, what type of music did the crowd come to see?
Let's assume it's real electrocution and 'Weekend at Bernie's' chew up enough time so it's down to three really rocking songs and despite all the Napster lawsuits the fans still prefer a Metallica approach to a Guns 'n' Roses style hissy-fit, but they are up for any type of music...
I'd play 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and something by Journey with a reference to 'Family Guy' and let the crowd sing along, follow that with 'When the Saints Go Marching In' and finish it up with an Irish sounding number I wrote called 'Woodpile Calling'. You play it faster each time through. Then I'd steal my friends loop pedal and lay down something chugging on a C harp and play a melody over the top for the encore.
I know more challenging pieces but I still choke a bit in front of a crowd.
If you are wondering why I wouldn't bother setting the drummers leg first it's because my drummer is also my guitar player so he's already dead.
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jonsparrow
1133 posts
Oct 01, 2009
3:17 PM
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id yell "MEDIC!!!" an run away.
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harmonicanick
397 posts
Oct 01, 2009
4:15 PM
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Take a LO harmonic minor and blow them away........
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RyanMortos
346 posts
Oct 01, 2009
5:33 PM
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I'd call Buddha or Bluzdude or jonsparrow or something and mic the cellphone :D
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~Ryan
Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
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jonsparrow
1134 posts
Oct 01, 2009
5:56 PM
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lol
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