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Post subject: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:50 pm
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Wedding gig :lol:


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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:03 pm
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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:31 pm
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SHEER POETRY!

I know some slackers around the corner who'd love to escape their garage rehearsal hall and finally hit the "big time".

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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 7:44 am
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That's just too funny. My band did one wedding as a favor to our singer (who was trying to date the bride's sister). It wasn't free, but we undercharged as our gift to the Happy Couple. And it all went downhill from there. First, the bride's maid-of-honor was supposed to sing a couple songs with us, another favor we were reluctant to grant but did anyway.

She showed up to one rehearsal ... with her drugged out boyfriend and a couple other male thugs. Let anyone in the band even look at her, and her hoodlum boyfriend and his thug bros would start making menacing moves. Thankfully, she never showed again ... but that was a problem too in that she was supposed to sing two songs and we hadn't really even found her key yet. Ugh ... but God does smile on the faithful sometimes ... thankfully, at the reception she was so drunk that she nearly fell off the stage before finishing even the first verse of the first tune.

Now comes the "Dollar Dance." We had no clue what that was so the bride's dad explained "just keep playing until I say stop." Okay but to say the dad (and/or bride) were a bit greedy is to understate. By the time he finally gave the signal, we'd ended up just about doing one set with nothing but a long Dollar Dance Jam. Some good out of it -- yep -- I honed that down into a 4 minute or so instrumental called the "Dollar Dance Jam."

Time to eat and the dad's running over yelling "WHAT ARE YOU BOYS DOING!!!! You don't eat ... go into the parking lot and wait until we're done." "But sir ... your daughter said ...". Anyway, we never argued with a client, so off into the parking lot we went. We're out there for quite a while and people are beginning to leave. WTF -- we were supposed to play one more set and now we realize that we've been out there for well over an hour.

Back in, we find the dad who tells us that the reception is over. Can we please pack up and leave NOW. The Legion hall people want to clean up and if we're not out of there by 4:30, he will be charged an extra hour's rent. Fine ... just give us our $500 (our normal rate was $650 and our contract made it clear that we were giving the bride and groom a $150 price reduction as our gift).

What money says the dad. "We didn't get anywhere near enough on dollar dance. We don't owe you anything." Sir -- we have a contract, you signed it -- we did what we said we would. "I don't have my checkbook and I think you should just give it as a gift. No one liked that rock noise you played anyway except the kids."

He also accused us of not motivating the guests sufficiently and that's why the Dollar Dance failed. That and that we didn't play a particular type of music people of his national background liked. Hey ... nothing in the contract about a Dollar Dance to begin with or that it had to be a Polka. "Well you should have known older people don't like that rock garbage!"

"Well sorry sir, but your daughter found out about us in part because we were playing at a bar where the average age was 40s to 60s. No kids there and they were all diggin' our rock-n-roll. In any event, she, her fiancee, your wife and several others were all well aware of exactly what we played. In fact, you were given a set list that was open for discussion and changes up to a couple weeks before the wedding."

He managed to find his wife's checkbook and pay us. And you can be sure we were at the bank first thing Monday morning to cash it before he could stop it. (Long before the Internet and on line banking.) And we then made a firm agreement: NO MORE WEDDINGS. EVER. PERIOD.


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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:31 am
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I will only play a bride's second wedding...

The first wedding holds inconceivably high expectations that she's been building up since the age of three, and if anything goes wrong, you have now devastated her life forever.

if she finds herself in the position of a second wedding, however, she's seen enough of life (and marriage) to know that little problems (that usually aren't problems in reality) won't make.or break her life, and she'll cut loose and have some fun.

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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:15 pm
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Divorce band, that's where the money's at.


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Post subject: Re: Wedding band wanted
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:38 pm
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atolleter wrote:
Divorce band, that's where the money's at.


Great idea! Everyone was happy -- unforced -- at the couple divorce parties I've ever attended. You could kick off the set with Steely Dan's "Haitian Divorce" or if you're old school Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E".


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