Lightningdan Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 This napkin was handed to the stage by a very drunk chick at a gig. Any of you have goofy song requests at your gigs? http://i4.tinypic.com/zyin3k.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/sixtoedkitty/Miaroxsig.gif I've got my ship, and all her flags are flying. She's all the I've got left, and MUSIC is her name!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warthog Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 That's hilarious. I've always admired Zeppeling as well as Pat Bentguitar. I had someone request Roger Whittaker once...presumably a joke, but we did "Kumbaya" anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Did she want you to do ALL that? She wasn't asking for much, was she? Did you do any of them? Were you playing in a string quartet at the time? When I used to play sax, I'd get at least one request for the Pink Panther whenever I took the sax out of its case. That really sucked. And then, you always get drunk ppl asking you "Can you play that song, that song that goes 'naaaaa naaaa naaaa naaaa naaaa na na na naaaaaa naaaaaaaaaaaa'? I can't remember what it's called but it's really good." Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warthog Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Originally posted by Kramer Ferrington III.: Did she want you to do ALL that? She wasn't asking for much, was she? Did you do any of them? Were you playing in a string quartet at the time? When I used to play sax, I'd get at least one request for the Pink Panther whenever I took the sax out of its case. That really sucked. And then, you always get drunk ppl asking you "Can you play that song, that song that goes 'naaaaa naaaa naaaa naaaa naaaa na na na naaaaaa naaaaaaaaaaaa'? I can't remember what it's called but it's really good." "Pink Panther" must be the sax equivalent to the piano's "Peanuts Theme"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningdan Posted May 18, 2006 Author Share Posted May 18, 2006 We didn't have a chick singer, so no pat bent guitar. We did an ACAC though. \ I notice Ferrington that you are in Milan. My father was in the military and he was stationed in AFSOUTH Nato base in Naples for my high school years. I went all over Italy with my high school cross country team, and competed against the american schools in Milan, Brindisi, Sigonella, etc. It is beautiful there and I miss it alot. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/sixtoedkitty/Miaroxsig.gif I've got my ship, and all her flags are flying. She's all the I've got left, and MUSIC is her name!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Geoff Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 We were once asked to play: 'Walk Three Times On the Ceiling' obviously by a drunken spiderman. G. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the World will know Peace": Jimi Hendrix http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=738517&content=music The Geoff - blame Caevan!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Originally posted by Lightningdan: It is beautiful there and I miss it alot. Yeah, I really like it too. I'm moving to New Zealand in about eight weeks and that's going to be a shock to the system. Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big G Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Are you sure she was drunk or just illiterate, but great names some of my favs Zeppling and AC/AC oh yes its all flodding back to me now, the drunken drug haze is clearing Love life, some twists and turns are more painful than others, but love life..... http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=592101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Strangest request we had was probably the one we got from a biker bar. We were asked to play the theme from "Inspector Gadget". After we obliged, the guy came up to the stage with a tear in his eye saying, "That was beautiful man....beautiful!" Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo. Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 So A String, you actually played the theme upon request? Does that mean you had to have it down beforehand...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvar Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 We've had SOBER bar owners ask us if we played any ABCD or Julius Priest! After playing Clapton's 'I can't stand it', some drunk came up to us and said; "You guys are great! I've never heard anyone play a Steely Dan song in a bar!" "Who's gonna teach the children about Chuck Berry?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPCustom Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 When you play in small bars you get _lots_ of odd requests. We had one drunk chick that kept asking us to play "Children of the Corn" by Bobby Thorn. (it's "Children of the Sun" by Billy Thorpe... Some drunk chick said she just loved "Stynx's" singer, "Roger Dabney". When asked if she meant Roger Daltrey, she said "Yeah, that's him!". When told that Roger Daltrey was the singer for The Who she said, "No he sings for Stynx. He sings that song Mr. Robot". When told that the singer for Styx is Dennis Deyoung she says most emphatically, "No, it's Roger Dabney". We gave up. We had more than one person request songs by "Stynx". Someone also requested any song by the "Electric Love Orchestra". I was amazed at how many people get the band wrong when requesting songs. Rock and Roll by Aerosmith? Unchained by Aerosmith? Paranoid by Led Zeppelin? Rock Candy by Van Halen? (_long_ before Sammy joined up) In some people's minds Boston and Toto seemed to be the same band. I don't know how many times we were requested to do "Rock N' Roll Band" or "More Than A Feeling" by "Toto". We did get a few requests for songs by ABCD. I had one really pretty girl ask me if we played "Hold The Line" by Boston. Um, no, sorry, we don't play that one. We didn't play the one by Toto, either. We had a few people request the theme song from "The Banana Splits". But we brought that on ourselves. We would play that sometimes as a "shocker" to start a set when the house was really noisy. It's mercifully short. Born on the Bayou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Iverson Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Luckily I've never played in a situation where we were expected to do tunes we'd never practiced before, or even HEARD before. Or ever dealt with drunks to any great degree! I imagine learning to fake songs on demand is good ear training; and dealing with drunks builds character... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Not me, but I seem to recall Tedster saying something about a request from two girls for "The Chicken Song". Where are ya, Ted? Refresh my memory, please. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Originally posted by Lightningdan: ...I notice Ferrington that you are in Milan. My father was in the military and he was stationed in AFSOUTH Nato base in Naples for my high school years. I went all over Italy with my high school cross country team, and competed against the american schools in Milan, Brindisi, Sigonella, etc. It is beautiful there and I miss it alot. Did you compete against schools in other countries? When I was 13 I was considered highschool at the Frankfurt Int'l School in Germany. (My dad worked for Abbott Labs and we lived there 14 months.) My coach organized the first International School Cross-Country Championship that year. (1980.) We hosted teams from Belgium, France and Egypt among others. I don't remember if any schools from Italy were represented. I loved running cross-country there, in the mountains. I gave it up sophmore year back north of Chicago because it was boring running "cross-country" strictly in athletic fields, etc. rather than in relatively wild forests. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 A time or two I've requested a song by Harold Smith. "Harold Smith?" "Yeah, that guy that did Walk This Way and Dream On." "A cheerful heart is good medicine." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimash Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I remember a certain bar in Hudson County. We were plaing all nite and ummmm... there was a group of motorcycle afficianados who were in attendance to take revenge on some poor sot. While they were kicking the piss out if him under the pinball machine , one of their girlfriends came up with a shouted request " Play some fuckin' Elvis man..." 20 minutes of Blue suede shoes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Ellwood Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Not a request really but I remember one time a guy comming up to the stage yelling " Your hurtin' ma womans ears man, but I love it" http://www.thestringnetwork.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 It's a horrid polka thing called "The Chicken Dance". We were playing this bar...and these relatively young hotties were shakin' their stuff on the dance floor, so we were thinking "What kinda hip dance stuff can we play?". We did some sure fire crowd pleasers, and the dance floor cleared. Then one of the hotties comes up and requests........ THE CHICKEN DANCE. (Smacks forehead and winces). I KNOW you know that one, Ellwood...you're living in the heart of polka country. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreibel Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Originally posted by fantasticsound: Not me, but I seem to recall Tedster saying something about a request from two girls for "The Chicken Song". if only you had known the song of the same name that was a big hit for the Spitting Image crew in the UK! It's the time of year, now that spring is in the air When those two wet gits, with their girly curly hair Make another song, for marronic holidays that nausiate-ate-ates in a million different ways From the shores of Spain, to the coast of southern France No matter where you hide, you just can't escape this dance Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck-chair up your nose Buy a Jumbo-Jet, and then bury all your clothes Paint your left knee green, then extract your wisdom teeth Form a string quartet, and pretend your name is Keith. Skin yourself alive, learn to speak araphahoe Climb inside a dog, and behead an Eskimo Eat a Renault 4, wear salami in your ears Cassarole your gran, dis-embowel yourself with spears The disco is migrating, the sound is loud and grating It's truly nausiating - let's do the dance again.. Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck-chair up your nose Buy a Jumbo-Jet, and then bury all your clothes Yes you'll hear this song, in the holiday discos And there's no escape, in the clubs or in the bars You would hear this song, if you holidayed in Mars Skin yourself alive, learn to speak araphahoe Climb inside a dog, and behead an Eskimo Now you've heard it once, your brain will spring a leak And though you hate this song you'll be humming it for weeks Hold a chicken in the air, stick a deck-chair up your nose Buy a Jumbo-Jet, and then bury all your clothes la la la la la la la.... "I used to be "with it", but then they changed what "it" was! Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what is "it" is weird and scary to me. IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!" - Grampa Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Iverson Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Are you guys implying that chickens don't have a right to dance? Throw corn in front of them and watch! Or maybe you're implying that you don't feel obligated to provide a polka soundtrack.. I'm personally more concerned about the human beings who are too "chicken" to dance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Robert Rennix Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 When I played bass in a modern rock cover band two years ago, we had a very large, very drunk Native American man insist that we play "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone. No one in the band had ever heard of Redbone, but we sure as hell couldn't explain that to him. He even sneaked behind the mic in between sets to try to voice the injustice of a bar band that didn't know any Redbone. Major pain in the a$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Iverson Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Yes, drunk customers can be a royal pain, and often are! One time it did work out positively, was when Nat King Cole was playing piano in a bar... and he was a very fine jazz pianist!... and some drunk insisted he sing some song for him, and would not take no for an answer, and so it was discovered that Nat had a beautiful singing voice as well.. at least, that's how the story goes! I wish all such encounters had such benefits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay See Double You Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 Originally posted by Kramer Ferrington III.: Originally posted by Lightningdan: It is beautiful there and I miss it alot. Yeah, I really like it too. I'm moving to New Zealand in about eight weeks and that's going to be a shock to the system. Where are you from originally? Milan? Or somewhere else? John 14:6 Psalms 139:13-16 Gear: 07 MIM Fender Active Jazz 5 06 MIM Fender Active P/J Combo 01 MIM Fender Fretless J 07 Epi Dot Archtop (ES 335) 00 MIM Fender Strat And a few others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay See Double You Posted May 19, 2006 Share Posted May 19, 2006 you know, I had a thought: if these drunks are so messed up that they can't remember songs or artists or any of that stuff. Chances are, they wont remember exactly how the song goes, either. Now the fun and games begin! You could make up a song and swear that's how it goes, or be largely faithful to it, and then add a verse about something weird like a robot ninja that wielded sausages like nunchaku, or deliever a subtle message in the song...I don't know: "I drank myself to death at the bar. If only I had had a li-i-ife. The bar band's about to murder me cause I can't get my song titles ri-i-ight...and I probably should be pulling up my pants. Cha Cha Cha!" All you have to do, is convince them that's how Stairway to Heaven really goes. So, some drunk requests an unlearned song, say "No problem." John 14:6 Psalms 139:13-16 Gear: 07 MIM Fender Active Jazz 5 06 MIM Fender Active P/J Combo 01 MIM Fender Fretless J 07 Epi Dot Archtop (ES 335) 00 MIM Fender Strat And a few others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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