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Subject: BS: Dumb requests From: olddude Date: 29 Oct 14 - 12:12 PM I tend to play just my own music with the exception ofssome beautiful songs by Bruce Murdock (with credit) or something traditional I LIke. Always like on waynes world some one says seriously can you play stairway to heaven. Grrr how do you answer. I just say no. I want to say go away stupid Lol |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: GUEST Date: 29 Oct 14 - 12:15 PM Just play Melancholy Baby... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: olddude Date: 29 Oct 14 - 12:35 PM Yes Lol now who goes to a coffee shop to hear stairway to heaven |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: wysiwyg Date: 29 Oct 14 - 01:30 PM I have a dumb request-- who the hell are etta and awe? ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Bill D Date: 29 Oct 14 - 01:52 PM *grin* remember some of the old Mudcat server names? I think these are new ones... I see 'awe' on top sometimes. It is probably just an identifier for Max when he needs to kick something. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Don Firth Date: 29 Oct 14 - 01:58 PM Sometimes the request is okay, but the follow-up is a bit goofy. So it's 1959 or so and I'm singing regularly three evenings a week in one of Seattle's nicer coffeehouses. This guy asks me to sing "The Sloop John B." So I sing it. He looks unhappy and mutters, "That's not how the Kingston Trio does it!" I learned the song early on, probably before the guys in the Kingston Trio even met—and I learned it from Carl Sandberg's "The American Songbag," published 1937. Can't please everybody, I guess…. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Rapparee Date: 29 Oct 14 - 02:08 PM Someone always says, "I'd like to hear 'The Sound of Silence.'" So I shut up and get tremendous applause. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Musket Date: 29 Oct 14 - 02:24 PM Last time I had a request, if I had taken the knobs off the end of the guitar first I may have stood a sporting chance... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: MGM·Lion Date: 29 Oct 14 - 02:34 PM The phenomenon was well summarised in Red Ingle's fine old "Cigareets and Whuskey", with the drunk who wants to hear 'Temptation' rather than evangelical denunciations of 'alcohole & terbakky and the tim-tay-shuns of Eve'. ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: gnu Date: 29 Oct 14 - 03:28 PM Worse is when you say, "I can't do that one." and they say, "Sure you can. Come on." Makes ya just wanna smack em! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: JHW Date: 29 Oct 14 - 04:23 PM In a pub or a bar someone might well ask 'Can you play something we know?' In a Folk Club the audience are hoping to hear something they don't know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Oct 14 - 04:33 PM Did somebody request Etta? Our new server is named after her. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Phil Cooper Date: 29 Oct 14 - 04:47 PM If it's something I know, I'll probably play it. I don't that many well known songs. I was playing a rare bar gig in my younger days. A bachelor party type outing occurred right in front near the stage. About a dozen guys were drinking a lot and passing out "novelty" gifts to the future groom. The future groom asked me if I knew any Simon & Garfunkle. I said, sorry I didn't know any. About every twenty minutes thereafter, he would say, is he gonna play any Simon & Garfunkle or what? After about the fifth repeat of that comment, I said I don't know any f---ing Simon & Garfunkle, if I did I would have played it long ago. That's why I probably didn't do too many solo bar gigs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link Date: 29 Oct 14 - 04:57 PM I got asked to do some red hot chili peppers last week. I don't think I even know any of their songs. but at least they did appear to be listening to my songs, so that was ok. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Tangledwood Date: 29 Oct 14 - 06:11 PM St Patrick's Day pub session a few years ago - early evening and we'd been playing since soon after lunch. A drunk came up to me and asked "Can you play any of that Irish jam stuff?". I replied "we've been playing it for the last six hours." "Oh. Well can you play any of that American jam stuff?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Oct 14 - 06:25 PM Someone once went up to Christy Moore on stage and asked if he did requests. "Sure, what would you like me to do?" sez Christy. "Ah, now," sez your man, "anything you like!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Oct 14 - 06:26 PM And we've very often been asked to play over the hills and far away... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: olddude Date: 29 Oct 14 - 06:36 PM My biggest wish is someone would ask Led Zeppelin ... Hey can you do one of Dan's songs LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Steve Shaw Date: 29 Oct 14 - 06:57 PM Eighteen posts and no-one's mentioned Wild Rover? Bwahahahaha! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Rapparee Date: 29 Oct 14 - 08:38 PM Here.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Oct 14 - 11:00 PM And I never will play when I'm sober no more? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Oct 14 - 11:38 PM Also, this is a very musical thread, not bs at all. I always want to make requests and then don't because I figure you performers know what you want to play and what you like to play and what you think you'd play well... The exception is if I'm traveling, for some reason, somewhere where I might not get to come back to, then I will ask. In Ireland as we were going from Galway to Dublin we asked for the Rocky Road to Dublin, which the Ragamuffins sang in Dublin itself, but mostly what we wanted was stuff too old-fashioned for them, which is why I don't usually make requests also. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: MGM·Lion Date: 30 Oct 14 - 04:51 AM LoL to song linked by Rapparee 3 above! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Dumb requests From: gnu Date: 30 Oct 14 - 05:12 AM Good one, Rap. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Musket Date: 30 Oct 14 - 05:38 AM Billy Connolly tells of when Mario Lanza was playing The Glasgow Empire, and a drunken heckler kept shouting "Sing "Softly Softly" it's my Mum's favourite." After lots of "I don't know that one" and getting impatient with the heckler, he apologised to the audience and said "I DO NOT KNOW SUCH A SONG. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" The bloke shouted "Well show us your cock then." |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Mo the caller Date: 30 Oct 14 - 06:28 AM So there we are in a pub amusing ourselves by playing Playford tunes from the seventeenth century and someone asks us for a modern song that we may or may not have heard and certainly can't play. Then they sing it to us as if that would suddenly transfer it to our fingers. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 30 Oct 14 - 08:31 AM Consider offering the International Standard Excuse: My insurance company doesn't allow me to do that. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Dáithí Date: 30 Oct 14 - 08:44 AM I understand that Bing Crosby used to tell of a guy who came up to him while he was doing a cabaret spot and asked bing to sing "The One We used to Know". Crosby said he didn't know such a song, but the guy persisted and eventually he asked him how it went. The guy said " You must know it - it goes,,,I'm dreaming of a white christmas, just like the One We Used To Know" |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: PHJim Date: 30 Oct 14 - 11:18 AM "We don't do that one, but here's one you might like that has a lot of the same notes." |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: The Sandman Date: 30 Oct 14 - 01:15 PM Can we have an internet Seance, and contact HarpoMarx |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Mark Ross Date: 30 Oct 14 - 02:28 PM I was playing a bar gig in Eureka Montana. There were a bunch of Canadians who had snuck across the border to drink. And they kept coming up to the bandstand and asking for THE RODEO SONG. When I told each and every one of them that I didn't know it, they would start chanting "I get in my truck and I don't give a fuck "cause I'm off to the rodeo.", as if I was a telepath who could immediately respond with the rest of the song. After umpteen requests I started singing THE CASTRATION OF THE STRAWBERRY ROAN. I did not hear a peep out of them for the rest of the evening. Mark Ross |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,DTM Date: 30 Oct 14 - 02:54 PM Or the old story of the Glasgow drunk who asked Stevie Wonder at a concert to play a jazz chord. after several futile attempts by Stevie, the heckler is invited on the stage to try and do it himself. He gets on the stage and starts singing "A jazz chord to say I love you...." |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 30 Oct 14 - 06:54 PM Sorry I can't remember the name of the Irish singer who told this story. He was asked to sing "the one about the girl with the hairy tongue". Of course, he had no idea what the man was talking about. Turned out, it was Black Velvet Band: "And her hairy tongue over her shoulder/Tied up in a black velvet band." |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Tangledwood Date: 31 Oct 14 - 12:02 AM Colum Sands |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Johnmc Date: 31 Oct 14 - 03:50 AM In Scotland, a particular and common request has been adopted as a satirical putdown of a certain type of audience, and even perhaps a certain type of musician: "Hey, Jimmy.......... gie us 'Ten Guitars' ! " |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 31 Oct 14 - 05:53 AM Thanks, Tanglewood --- Colum Sands it was. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Leadfingers Date: 31 Oct 14 - 06:04 AM Back In The Day when the late Bill Eddy ran the session in The Newt at Sidmouth a lass requested 'That Scottish Waltz' . None of us had any idea what she meant , so we carried on playing La little latter , we were 'doing' a set of 4/4 tunes when she shouted "That's the one !" when we launched into the third March tune of the set . A VERY Odd Waltz ! |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Irene M Date: 31 Oct 14 - 02:10 PM At about 1am, in Mid Argyll, I used to get "gies Floor O Scoatland" |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Leadfingers Date: 01 Nov 14 - 06:33 AM Realised I SHOULD have named the tune - It was Dashing White Sergeants |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 01 Nov 14 - 09:31 AM Which reminds me of a Mudcat thread "Songs in 3/4 time". Inevitably, the famous Australian waltz "Ingma Tilda" was mentioned ... |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Grishka Date: 01 Nov 14 - 09:36 AM This is the thread. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Tattie Bogle Date: 01 Nov 14 - 08:00 PM "E, c'n you do that Pogues song, Dirty Old Town?" (drunks in bar in Eyemouth). Roll over Ewan McColl! |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 02 Nov 14 - 12:16 PM As a solo musician I have, on more than one occasion, been asked for duelling banjos - usually when I have my mandolin with me. R |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: alex s Date: 02 Nov 14 - 03:11 PM We did a ceilidh and were asked back the following year. As we were setting up a young bloke said to me- " Do that great dance you did last year - Whipping the Sparrow"! |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: PHJim Date: 02 Nov 14 - 11:47 PM Of course GUEST,Grishka, as you no doubt realise, Ingma Tilda is not a waltz at all, but is 4/4 time. |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: MGM·Lion Date: 03 Nov 14 - 12:46 AM Wasn't that Grishka's point, Jim?; in a sequence of posts about confusion between marches & waltzes. ≈M≈ |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: GUEST,Don Wise Date: 03 Nov 14 - 03:33 AM Not long after the Berlin wall came tumbling down I did a gig in Leipzig. It was a bit like "Auf wiedersehen,pet" with gangs of Irish brickies all over the place. One of these Paddies, pissed out of his head, swayed up to me and said,"Shing the Wild Rover!" I'd actually just sung it, but a Sussex version rather then THAT one. If only to get his dreadfully alcoholic breath out of my face I sang it, not only that, I sang it straight!(I have been known to do THAT version of it as "The Wild Rover Rap" with tambourine backing!) |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Genie Date: 03 Nov 14 - 12:53 PM Sometimes when I play in nursing homes or assisted living facilities—one voice, one acoustic guitar—I get requests for things like "The Blue Danube Waltz" or other such that is written for an orchestra, or something else that's more an ensemble instrumental piece than a "song." Never quite sure what those folks want me to do by way of "playing" such pieces. But it's the guess-what-song-I'm-thinking-of type requests that really make me sigh. E.g., someone will ask for "a Kenny Rogers song" and I'll oblige by doing "The Gambler," after which the requester will say, "No, that's not it." |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: Tattie Bogle Date: 03 Nov 14 - 01:59 PM Yesterday, I sang Spencer the Rover (as it's nearly 5th November): introduced it as such, clearest of diction, etc. Afterwards, someone said "that's the same tune as Spencer the Rover" - doh! |
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Subject: RE: Dumb requests From: FreddyHeadey Date: 03 Nov 14 - 02:02 PM Genie, have a stab at it anyway ! someone did some tabs !! ;) -btw No, I don't play anything so I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about. I imagine this is pretty darned tough. Jason Waldron arrangement |
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