The random musical thread
Mar 8, 2018 18:01:55 GMT
Horacewimp, queenofthehours, and 10 more like this
Post by Helmut83 on Mar 8, 2018 18:01:55 GMT
I'm posting on BSJ 's recommendation (so blame her, not me 
).
A couple of weeks ago I played with my rockabilly & country band at a restaurant right on the shores of the Rio de la Plata. The attendance was really meager, there were just 11 or 12 people, and together with the restaurant manager and two waitresses that made 14 or 15. That was all of our audience.
However, the show came out pretty well, other than for a few mistakes by the singer during the first songs. Our little audience was extatic, they all got up and danced to the big rockabilly hits, clapped, sang and cheered like mad, and they kept asking us for more and more songs to the point that we ran out of encores and had to improvise with songs we had never rehearsed before (of course at that point a few mistakes and lack of coordination was allowed).
The only guy who didn't stand up and dance was a man in his 60s who had difficulties walking. In spite of this he seemed to enjoy the show a lot. When we finally finished he ordered a few bottles of champagne for him, his friends and us, and raised a toast to the band. He congratulated us all one by one and said he hadn't enjoyed so much a live show since a long time ago. Wow! Then it came out he was a big executive from BBVA.
Here's a few videos that a lady in the "audience" filmed and then sent to me (I'm on the right, playing harmonica):
"Achy Breaky Heart"
"Be-bop-a-lula"
A rowdy cover in Spanish of "Get your kicks on route 66" (one of the songs not on the setlist)
When I joined the band I was hoping for dozens of attractive young ladies jumping on me as soon as I finished playing (or even when I was playing). A fat bald man in his 60s isn't exactly the kind of groupie I was hoping for, but hey, at least we have a groupie!
).A couple of weeks ago I played with my rockabilly & country band at a restaurant right on the shores of the Rio de la Plata. The attendance was really meager, there were just 11 or 12 people, and together with the restaurant manager and two waitresses that made 14 or 15. That was all of our audience.
However, the show came out pretty well, other than for a few mistakes by the singer during the first songs. Our little audience was extatic, they all got up and danced to the big rockabilly hits, clapped, sang and cheered like mad, and they kept asking us for more and more songs to the point that we ran out of encores and had to improvise with songs we had never rehearsed before (of course at that point a few mistakes and lack of coordination was allowed).
The only guy who didn't stand up and dance was a man in his 60s who had difficulties walking. In spite of this he seemed to enjoy the show a lot. When we finally finished he ordered a few bottles of champagne for him, his friends and us, and raised a toast to the band. He congratulated us all one by one and said he hadn't enjoyed so much a live show since a long time ago. Wow! Then it came out he was a big executive from BBVA.
Here's a few videos that a lady in the "audience" filmed and then sent to me (I'm on the right, playing harmonica):
"Achy Breaky Heart"
"Be-bop-a-lula"
A rowdy cover in Spanish of "Get your kicks on route 66" (one of the songs not on the setlist)
When I joined the band I was hoping for dozens of attractive young ladies jumping on me as soon as I finished playing (or even when I was playing). A fat bald man in his 60s isn't exactly the kind of groupie I was hoping for, but hey, at least we have a groupie!
You rock!! 
Yeah, I've been playing harmonica since my teenage years. Ask 
, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?