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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:14 am
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I'm with everyone else. Do it. I get a lot of satisfaction from playing in cover bands. Not always my favorite songs, but even lames songs are more enjoyable when there is a check at the end of it all. But most of all, it's better than sitting at home playing to the same jam trax over and over.


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I sent off an email this morning so I'll wait for the reply. Thanks for all of your advice. I'll let you know what happens next.

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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:51 pm
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I always said the most I learned about playing live, I learned from my lowest gig. I backed up a lounge singer that played very good rtythum guitar on as Gibson jazz box. He had the worlds most horrible set list. If you tried to make a joke list of songs you would refuse to play, you would come close. He had an excellent voice and like I said, played well, so he was popular in the bars. Anyway, he asked me to sit in and it went over. He started paying me to show up. We did not rehearse, and he would not tell me the name of the song or the key. I figured everything out on my own without being able to see his hand and see the chords.

It taught me loads. By the time he got to the lead break, I could do a solo and not hit a clinker on the first take. I kept it simple. After I got used to his songs, I went a little farther afield.

Take the gig. :wink:


I agree on the "take it" as well. The gig I learned a lot from was a guy who sang Elvis (half the setlist) and country (the other half). He was a terrifc singer, at least when it came to Elvis and the audiences generally went along with the set list and style.

I was used to a much younger and different audience (when I played rock) and a bit more upscale audience from my jazz trio. My only other experience was classical (in high school orchestra). So this was a whole new audience with unfamiliar expectations.

Up to that point, I'd been "paid" (so to speak) to play some fairly complicated music and to be able to improvise. Now, the idea was to stay in the background, play exactly what "they" remembered the tunes to sound like and not stand out. It required quite a bit of discipline, coming from the word of early 70s free-form rock.

That discpline paid off well, not to mention that I added some credible country to my bag of tricks. So any gig is worthwhile because all gigs, especially those outside your comfrort zone, expand your skills.


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Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:09 pm
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playing live also makes you think of other phrasings and licks, sort of in a hendrix fashion


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yodacaster, yes!

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Post subject: Re: Should I Join This Band?
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:04 pm
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Jam with this band for a while. When you feel uncomfortable left the band.


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Funny thing.....It looks like Im joining a band. I could be exactly the same band this OP was fearful of....wedding....parties.....lots of "plain vanilla". Boring Boring Boring.

I jammed with them once and they formally invited me to join. They said they thought I'd add some intensity, that they know they've gone stale. So, we played all the stuff I really like....Cream, SRV, Hendrix, Who, Stones, Guy, etc. etc.

The singer is a 50-ish female hippy. When she heard me play, she asked if I knew White Rabbit. I started playing it and she came unglued. The band caught up. We strung that guitar intro out to about 8 minutes before she started singing. It was loud and intense and awsome.

I was thinking about this thread as I left. I thought I was getting sucked into a church choir, but it turned out to be 1960's San Francisco psychedelic blues and rock!!

You just never can tell and you wont find out until you try.



BigJay, you could change the name of the band to White Rabid!! 8) :wink: JK!!! I'm glad for you my friend! I know..it's corny! :)


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Seriously, I'm glad for you and it sounds like you're just what the band needs. New blood to liven them up!! :wink:


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I played a bunch of wedding gigs with one band ( i was the bass player,) and they were surprisingly fun. You get to play a pretty wide variety of songs, from a bunch of different eras.
We did a bit of everything, from contemporary radio songs, to 50's rock, a bit of country, all the way to polkas and waltzes, to some more rock stuff for nearer the end of the night.

It really helped my playing a lot. (And all the single girls at wedding parties doesn't hurt either.)

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BigJay wrote:
Funny thing.....It looks like Im joining a band. I could be exactly the same band this OP was fearful of....wedding....parties.....lots of "plain vanilla". Boring Boring Boring.

I jammed with them once and they formally invited me to join. They said they thought I'd add some intensity, that they know they've gone stale. So, we played all the stuff I really like....Cream, SRV, Hendrix, Who, Stones, Guy, etc. etc.

The singer is a 50-ish female hippy. When she heard me play, she asked if I knew White Rabbit. I started playing it and she came unglued. The band caught up. We strung that guitar intro out to about 8 minutes before she started singing. It was loud and intense and awsome.

I was thinking about this thread as I left. I thought I was getting sucked into a church choir, but it turned out to be 1960's San Francisco psychedelic blues and rock!!

You just never can tell and you wont find out until you try.


BigJay, I'll bet you have a blast!! I loved the White Rabbit story. :lol:
I am very happy you found a band.


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Shortly after replying to the band in question, I found myself with an opportunity to try out for a band with a little more edge. They want to play hard rock and its a little closer to what I would like to do. I am supposed to jam this weekend. I have also been in contact with another singer/guitarist who has a bass player friend. We have been sending each other set lists and trying to figure out what we should play when we get together.
I guess I have a few options now!

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Congrats to Yoda and Big Jay...enjoy I'm looking forward to some clips... and $1500.00 a pop is not bad walkin around money Jay ( as long as it's not a 10 piece band... 8) )

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