Your fav audience dumb question/remark

Subject: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: GUEST,Len Wallace
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 01:55 PM

Hi again Mudcattenaners,

It happened to me again last night, performing in an Irish pub in Windsor.

I was performing with my trio, The Diggers. Sat down for our first break. A member of another band joined us for a brew. Onstage walks a young woman who says, "You gotta play 'Piano Man'! It's my favourite Irish song!"

Need I say more?

Would like to hear your stories.

Len Wallace

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Maurice Mann
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 03:37 PM

My favourite was at a session with Yorkshire Garland (a great Irish band) at Whitby Festival some years ago.

Audience question: "What's the best way to play a bodhran"
Band reply: "With a penknife"

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 03:47 PM

Asked in the pisser, by a guy who I'd been talking with from the stage...

"So, do you play here?"

*?*

heh

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 09:10 PM

I was playing with a pick-up band at Mallory Square in Key West at sunset one evening.

Tennessee Williams had an apartment/house there at the time. He was still alive then, I believe. Some dude walks up to us during a break and says 'Play something by Tennessee Williams.' I KID YOU NOT! We said 'Sure, just put something in the offering cup first.' This chump of a dude does as instructed. We put our heads together--whisper, whisper. We finally nodded our heads and, right there on the spot, ripped into a song whose sole lyric was 'Stella!' We played in blues style!

There's one born every moment. This one just happened our way with $100.00 to blow.

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 09:41 PM

At a supposedly Irish session at McCrorys bar in Bradford, ' do you know any Atomic Kitten ? '
Well it is close to the university.
eric

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 29 Feb 04 - 09:51 PM

C.H. LOL!

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 03:19 AM

I once had a giant Canuk with muklucks and a coon skin cap ask me if I could play "The Maple Leaf Forever"

"Nah," I said, "I get jacked off with it after twenty minutes."

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 06:16 AM

my mate Jim, who plays 5 string banjo is frequently asked to do 'Duelling Banjos'- as a solo?

punters often call it 'Gillian's or Julian's Banjos' too!

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: GUEST,Mappa Mundi
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 06:53 AM

I was sitting in a pub playing guitar and singing. The plurk sitting opposite me, leaned over and said; "Have you got a light mate"? - I was only halfway through the song!!!!!

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 07:36 AM

Clinton, the answer of course is: "No, I work here."

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Splott Man
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 07:43 AM

Yesterday teatime, in a pub in Swansea, having just finished nearly 2 hours of classic Americana (Hank Williams, Woody etc etc), we were in the final stages of packing away the PA when this fellow asked us to back him on Great balls of Fire.

I can almost see his logic

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Midchuck
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 07:48 AM

Mr. Happy, I do have a very old vinyl of a very young Jose Feliciano playing "Dueling Banjos" as a solo, on one guitar, no multitrack tricks.

Of course, I'm not Jose Feliciano, and I doubt your friend is either, but it has been done.

I think he plays "Flight of the Bumblebee" as a guitar solo on the same album.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 07:52 AM

Accoustic session and singaround in a pub in the Yorkshire Dales, mid February. In walk the local superbrains...

"Give us Bohemian Rhapsody"

Honest!

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 08:12 AM

Martin Pearson, master purveyor of wit, amusing anecdotes and very funny songs, tells of the drunk who called out:

"Dju do requests?"

Martin: "No."

Drunk: "Good. Dju do Tchooubular Bells?"

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Morticia
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 08:13 AM

We were playing a gig in a local pub once when the young lad-about-town asks if his girlfriend can come and do a number with us because she has, allegedly and I quote, " A well good voice".So we obligingly invite her up, only to witness her utter chagrin and shock that we don't have, and once again I quote " the words on a little screen". She thought my music stand contained some sort of karaoke device.....bless.

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Davetnova
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 08:40 AM

Well some of these would be serious requests to some catters. At the recent North Yorkshire gather Geoff the Duck gave us Duelling Banjos as a solo piece an Muppitz gave us Bohemian Rhapsody (Curry Rhadsody anyway).Both went down extremely well

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 08:42 AM

I've always liked the Clancys concert where they asked, "Can you hear us?" Voices from the audience replied, "Noooo!" Response: "Those who couldn't hear us -- how did you know what we were saying?"

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Ross
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 09:44 AM

I went to see '2001 - a space odyssey' at the cinema with a friend

At the point where the computer (AI) HAL goes mad and turns the life support off, to three sleeping astronauts

Ten foot computer high letters on computer terminals blink 'LIFE TERMINATED'

My friend shouted in a tense hushed packed cinema

ARE THEY DEAD THEN?

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Art Thieme
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 05:50 PM

I always felt rather kindly toward folks who did this. They knew very little about a particular topic and wanted to know more but didn't know enough about it to frame a good beginning question. You just need to get very basic with your answer---and then build a bit from there. But it's always tempting to use what seems like a dumb question as a way to bond with your cohorts and guffaw out loud at the hapless soul. After I'd been playing about ten years on a Mississippi River steamboat, a passenger asked me a question that took me aback. Keep in mind that most of the folks who rode these boats came a long way to do it---often from other continents. Big plans had to be made and there were usually big reasons why they wanted to spend days out on the fabled Mississippi. A fellow who seemed like a rather nice guy asked one morning:

"What is this body of water named?"

As far as he knew we were on Lake Michigan or the Gulf Of Mexico or the Bay Of Fundy. It did become the perfect sad question for the crew to snicker at and shake their heads over that year.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: The Dane
Date: 01 Mar 04 - 09:23 PM

Mine gotta be from a friend of mine who was playihng an Irish Pub in Germany one night. A woman came up to the stage and asked him to play "Happy Birthday". He goes: "OK, who's the birthday boy?", to which she replies: "Nobody, I just like the song!"

Subject: RE: Your fav audience dumb question/remark
From: Mr Happy
Date: 02 Mar 04 - 03:01 PM

Midchuck,

I'm able to play 'Duelling Banjos' on my melodeon, as a solo,by alternating with trebles & basses- but I'm never requested to do it-sob!