Philosofy
352 posts
Apr 20, 2010
7:12 PM
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I'll start. When I was young and naive, and heard Muddy Water's "Mannish Boy" for the first time, I wondered (out loud): "Who's this guy ripping off George Thorogood?"
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Kyzer Sosa
418 posts
Apr 20, 2010
8:25 PM
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im still such a novice in so many ways, ill be sure to post it here when, inevitably, it happens...
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jbone
309 posts
Apr 20, 2010
9:27 PM
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hmmmmmm.... stepped on my mic cable and yanked it out of my mic during a solo when we opened for bobby rush?
blew out 4 of my only 7 harps in a single night? long time ago.
of course there was the time i called a song off in G and grabbed a D harp, wondered who in the band was playing the wrong key.....
there's probably more in there someplace.....
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The Gloth
348 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:13 AM
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Some twelve years ago, I had several years of playing but had no experience with a band or playing with other musicians. I went to a bar to see a band named "The Good Time Rollers" and was invited to play harp on "Johnny B Good". Comes my solo part : it goes well, but I had no idea of how long the solo should be, so I went on playing while I should have stopped. In reaction, the band stopped playing in the middle of the song and the drummer yelled at me something like "You must listen to the others !". That was quite embarrassing... but it teached me a very valuable lesson.
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earlounge
37 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:05 PM
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I was at a gig in NYC about 5 years ago where I bent down and split my pants from ass to ankle. This act of grace was performed BEFORE my set when I was positioning my large Furman pedal board.
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congaron
838 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:38 PM
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Guitar player decides to play a song off the cuff at a gig..he calls out .."in A" to me and I grab my D harp. In my mind, not out loud, I am wondering why we aren't playing it in E this time.....turns out we are and I end up accidentally muddling my way through my very first third position live solo intro....and not very convincingly at that, if you ask me. Nobody else noticed and one person even said they liked that one. Go figure.
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Buzadero
352 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:49 PM
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My embarrassing "blues" moment:
I was driving from my former home in Santa Barbara, Ca to catch a workboat that was headed offshore for a job. It was a gloomy, foggy early Sunday morning. I'm rolling down Pacific Coast Highway in my fully restored 1965 Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck when I get the urge for another cup of coffee. I pulled into the Starbucks in Trancas, Malibu and walked in. As I came out and start walking back across the parking lot towards my truck, I see a guy standing next to it and giving it the full inspection lookover....he's under the truck, nose against the glass, etc. I'm used to the gawkers, so I acknowledge him and he starts asking me questions. We talked for a while and he points to an old Chevy Nomad wagon parked across the lot and tells me it's his.
At some point he spots a couple of loose harps sitting on the passenger seat that I keep to blow on while I'm driving. He asks me about them and we talk a bit about music. He asks if I want to jam a bit across the street on the benches by the beach. I say sure, I got some time, since I really don't have to be at the boat until they throw off the lines and leave the dock at midnight. So, we get comfortable and start goofing around. He keeps playing the old standard opening blues "Hoochie Coochie" riff that a million guys in a million bar bands have done for decades. I kept giving him shit and getting all sarcastic about his guitar playing. He takes it well and give me some grief back. Somewhere along the line we told each other our first names.
At some point, I asked him if he'd been playing very long, since he kept returning to the same tired old cliche'd riffs over and over. He said that he'd been playing a "little while". So, I start expounding and pontificating on how a musician goes about interacting with other musicians in a cooperative music setting of give and take, how you need to listen to the other guy, etc. Blah blah blah. What an idiot I am.
After a while, he asks me what I do for a living and I tell him that I'm a commercial diver. That gets us rapping again about life and careers that require a lot of traveling and life on the road, away from home and family. I ask what he does for a living. He grins a bit and tells me that he has to admit that he's a musician.
All of a sudden I realize that I've just spent the last hour sitting on the beach and jamming with Joe Walsh......and, telling him how to play with other people. Once that epiphany was over and I stammered out a rambling apology, he got a great laugh out of the whole thing and we parted ways. The one good thing is that we send each other Christmas cards every year as some kind of weird joke that just keeps going.
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kingrobot
16 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:52 PM
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I was jamming with this one guy once. He asked me my name. I hesitated a minute and spit out "Joe Walsh".
My name is actually Glenn Frey.
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kingrobot
17 posts
Apr 21, 2010
12:54 PM
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Seriously Buzadero, awesome story.
It had everything:
California...classic rides...classic rock.
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Kyzer Sosa
420 posts
Apr 21, 2010
2:08 PM
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alright doc, fess up!
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Hobostubs Ashlock
664 posts
Apr 21, 2010
6:09 PM
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thats a cool story Buzadero,Well my most embarassing momets in blues is every time i try to add something that i think i know on here,and then later relize that there old school pros that come here.oops:-)
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nacoran
1740 posts
Apr 21, 2010
7:06 PM
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I was young, only in third of fourth grade. I'd done the cowboy thing. I'd done the Indian thing. I'd dressed up as a football player, but that year I wanted, more than anything, to be a smurf for Halloween. My mom helped me out by painting my face with blue eyeliner.
By the end of the night I realized I was allergic to blue eyeliner.
:) Boy was I blue!
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jules
7 posts
Apr 22, 2010
8:38 AM
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Hm... Sneezing violently, and unexpectedly, while playing a solo- a really loud sneeze through a slap back echo and cranked up amp- great floor shaking sound but... embarassing, solo disrupting and.... er... quite messy for my green bullet....
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7LimitJI
95 posts
Apr 22, 2010
12:40 PM
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A friend of a friend was playing a bluegrass/country gig and I was asked did I want to play.
I said sure and they even gave me a "band" shirt to wear so we'd all look the same.
So I merrily played rhythm and the odd solo throughout the gig.
I did notice the band leader giving me an occasional, strange look, but the rest of the band were well into my playing.
After the gig I found out I was only supposed to be up for one number !!
Feck it I thought, no-one told me :o)
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waltertore
457 posts
Apr 22, 2010
12:45 PM
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the funniest one I witnessed was when I was backing up Frankie Lee. He is a powerful singer who likes to walk the crowd without a mic on a slow one. He was all into it, eyes closed, letting it howl, and a dog came in, lifted his leg and peed on his leg. Frankie always wore sharp suits. the whole club stopped. He busted up laughing and started singing the dog peed on my leg blues.
Another was when Evan Johns and the H Bombs alternated sets with my band at the black cat lounge in austin. Evan would puke often from drinking so much beer. The owner got tired of it and put a bucket and mop next to him onstage. He would puke in it and keep playing. That was sadly embarassing. Evan is a good friend. Alcohol is a terrible thing when abused. Walter
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LW00D
4 posts
Apr 22, 2010
10:21 PM
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Since English is not my native language i sometimes make mistakes in understanding lyrics in Songs.
Anyhow i like to sing along with radio, cd-player wathsoever (who does not?).
The other day i realized that Rory Gallagher sings
in his song "Too Much Alcohol" "a common cold can kill ya".
I was always singing "a cup of coke can kill ya." :-)
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Honkin On Bobo
274 posts
Apr 23, 2010
10:57 AM
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I was going to post one and then I realized I can't top Buzadero's story.....so I think I'll pass.
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Rick Davis
315 posts
Apr 23, 2010
11:52 AM
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When I was a beginner with only a year or so of harp playing I'd sometimes talk my way onto stages I had NO BUSINESS on. I had a lot more entusiasm than talent. Let's just leave the story at that. Too embarassing to go into detail.
But I never insulted Joe Walsh!
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