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Thread #122391 Message #2686303
Posted By: Fidjit
23-Jul-09 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: Can someone explain bar (tavern) music to me?
Subject: RE: Can someone explain bar (tavern) music to me?
Same the world over. What do other people expect?
As I'd lived in Norway (34 years) I was asked very recently (As recent as last Friday) to assist a lady at a Norwegian sing along. I went along for the try out, last Sunday. Found out there was no real arrangement. We were expected to know it all. After all I HAD lived in Norway!
Well turned out we, I and the lady that was to sing, only knew four songs that I could accompany her with. These I'd heard, but I had never played before.
For a two hour sing a long. This was never going to happen. And it didn't.
By the way, gave up singing to drunks in the seventies.