Dumb requests

Subject: RE: Dumb requests
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Nov 14 - 02:05 PM

You can't walk into any musical event in Scotland carrying a saxophone without somebody asking for the intro to whatever Gerry Rafferty song started with a sax solo. I usually reply along the lines that I'd be delighted to oblige but then somebody might start singing the goddam song afterwards.

Doesn't anybody make "Gerry Rafferty Was Shite" t-shirts?

Subject: RE: Dumb requests
From: olddude
Date: 03 Nov 14 - 02:06 PM

I really like also the guy that says I don't know the song but it is about a guy who loves a girl but she died and he is sad
. They go on and on. I say yea I know it but I forgot it

Subject: RE: Dumb requests
From: GUEST,John Foxen
Date: 03 Nov 14 - 02:08 PM

Old Dude needs to raise his game a bit a learn to play Stairway to Heaven like Steve Hicks does. In this video he even outpaces the relentless clappers.
Stairway to Mozart

Subject: RE: Dumb requests
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 03 Nov 14 - 09:54 PM

The fellow who played that sax solo, Raphael Ravenscroft, died a couple of weeks ago (19 October 2014). I heard that it was intended for another instrument, but the guy who played the other instrument wasn't there at the time, so Ravenscroft did it on the sax, and they kept it in. Maybe so, maybe an urban legend.

Subject: RE: Dumb requests
From: GUEST,Lin
Date: 04 Nov 14 - 12:05 AM

I am not a singer/musician but when I do go to concerts, I sometime cringe when I hear people shouting out requests.

It reminds me of a song that the late Ricky Nelson wrote called
"Garden Party"
There's lines in the song that says,
"But it's alright now. I learned my lesson well. You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."

So when musicians get all these people shouting out requests that you don't know or don't want to play even if you do know the song - just think of the words that Ricky Nelson wrote years ago.