One of my two bands is am540-an all-original rock band with latin, jazz and funk flavors. I'm the singer, harmonica player and percussionist. Last night we played a one-hour show at a place we've never been in before. The opener was a lone gal with an acoustic guitar and a beautiful voice. She sang mostly French folk songs-in French. I remembered the Addams Family shows from the 60's, when Morticia would mutter something in French, and Gomez would gasp,'She spoke French!' and kiss up her arm...
Then we came on, and the volume bumped up about 100%-we're a six piece band with drums, guitar, bass, sax, harmonica, keys and vox. Even with controlled stage volumes(at my insistence), we're still loud. We play our set of jammy goodness, finish, and the French song gal comes up again to do two more tunes, while the next guy sets up. He's got some Solid-state twin amp, and plugs straight in with a Rickenbacker. He tears right into some Indie-pop/Counting Crows-inspired original stuff, for about five songs. No band-just him, a guitar and an amp.
French tune chick comes back up for one song, while next act of similar guitarist/singer, accompanied with a sax(still no rhythm section)takes the stage. I left during this since I had to work today, but a Klezmer band was setting up on the side...
What are the strangest style pairings any of you gigging types have experienced?
mr hot shot guitarist wanted to sit in and play some odd time stuff and we "accommodated" him. LOL the lesson here is be careful if you ask to sit in an tell the band you can play ANYTHING while being a dick about it.
http://www.harmonicapros.com/chris_music/michalek-strone/footprints121805.mp3 ---------- "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
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I especially like Footprints. I'm not a fan of the POG sound-very reminiscent of steel drums, and just sort of hokey to me, but there was a repetitive run you were playing using it on To The Nine that was very cool, after about 4:00. ---------- Todd L Greene. V.P.
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here's another one I forgot about it. It's very ethnically oriented but in a hidden way.
The melody is in 17/16 and is a Lebanese style melody. The bass line is tumbao bassline meaning there is no accent on the one. The drummer is playing an afro-cubano rhythm.
This tune can really fuck with your head if you were to sit in.
---------- "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell
Weirdest thing I ever did was when I was a kid. I spent my summers working at Boy Scout Camps, Dilly's Mills in W.Va. and Roland in Va. A few of us kids could play instruments, so we had a band and we played at campfires. I remember very well playing Clapton's "wonderful tonight" with me on harmonica, other boys were playing a guitar and a trumpet. It was the first time I'd ever played with a band in front of a crowd, which was a couple hundred campers.
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