Of course you would rather play your original songs or some obscure bullshit by some band most people have never heard of. Well here is a clue for you, people want to hear the songs that they like and who the hell are you to post judgement on the musical taste of someone else. If you insist on playing want you only want to play then enjoy the consequences of your decisions and stop your bitching. Don't try to force your music down someones throat, because you like it doesn't mean I do
Most of us musicians do know how to play those songs. But we really don't want to. Wouldn't you rather hear a well rehearsed song that we enjoy? One that will be played with pleasure? Or the same old bullshit sing that every body else plays and perform it like paid puppets with no emotion?
Haha, sounds like your cover band just sux deluxe. hahaha
Wonder why you're not doing very good at this? Why does playing gigs seem like such an uphill battle? It's because you ARE NOT VERY GOOD. Get off stage!!
hahahaha wow how true is this video - I'd like a dollar for everytime I've had a stupid person like this force themselves on you at a gig - who ever made this video is a genius haha
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awesome Shawn! dead on! you could have half your shit in the truck and someone will stagger to the stage, hold their sloppy beer over their head spilling half of it on themselves and yell "PLAY ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!" and then proceed to the nearest chair to pass out.
@kev36663 Great idea in theory, but there's often a lack of interest in original music on the local level, depending on where you live. I'd much rather play the originals that I've poured my blood, sweat and tears into, but a lot of venues won't book anything but a cover band. ("Play something we can DANCE to!") So you end up being forced into playing covers just to get a gig. But it's a good way to keep up your chops and earn money for studio time. Plus, it expands your musical vocabulary.
Tried rehearsing "different" numbers that hadnt been played to death by other cover bands but we didnt get called back because the crowd didnt know the numbers
I have no problem playing sweet home alamama etc for the average bar crowd
if thats what they want give it to 'em.
Im there to entertain them not give them a cultural re-education
Shit. Were not even a cover band and this is exactly they way it went down. Even the same songs. The only topper was after they stopped screaming about it they wanted to take us home. And uuuuugggglly
Years ago, I used to play in cover bands and this is so true. Drunk "fans" get very belligerent. Either that, or they hit on you while you are trying to pack up your equipment and go home at 3AM.
hysterical! omg! love this! just saw a great cover band and i can imagine this happening! they are pretty cool. ck them out here they are covering neil young's cinnamon girl. search cinnamon doll jazz
Been there so many times its sickening. Something I have done for years is, whenever somebody yells out "Freebird" over the mic I count out 1, 2, 3, then the whole band gives them the middle finger ("the bird"). I then say.."There is your Free-bird, the next one will cost ya"!! Cracks the whole audience up and usually embaresses the sh*t out of the idiot.
This is a great video! Reminds you of all the people out there that should be wearing the tee shirt that says ASS HOLE just add alchohol! I had one of those last night so I had to come back and find this video to send to my band!
This is so funny. Most of the people ask for "Midnight Train" not "Small town Girl" for us. I agree with musodata that the "Bride Set List" is just one worse. :)
I honestly don't think I could come up with one that's better than this. The only part you missed was having her fall on her face or show her boob. awesome!
One time I had a group of folks from Ireland happen upon a gig I was playing (they were in the States for a wedding). Their request? Sweet Home Alabama.
ok i just pee d my self alittle.... wow this is My f n life fucking kill my aready ive been playing the same shit hearing the same shit since the beginning of time!!! but ,i guiess its better then being the asshole still jacking off in his basement wining about he ll only play what wants to play ....... yea in his basement : )
"do you play jessie's girl?"... "no"... "what, don't you know it?"... "of course i know the song, but our band doesn't play it"... "just play it! it's my friend's birthday"... "we've never played it before, we really can't"... "what about summer of 69?"... "once again, we don't play that song"... "why can't you play it??"... .... my god how many times must i have this stupid conversation????
ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING !!!! I HAVE A BELLY CRAMP LITERALLY THAT IS TOO MUCH OMG I NEEDED THAT AFTER THIS WEEK **** CAUTION BAD LANGUAGE **** DONT WATCH IN FRONT OF KIDS BUT WATCH FOR SURE !!!
I can totally identify wih this conversation. I play in a cover band in bars around Los Angeles. We have to announce Last Call at the end of our night so I wrote a song to do just that. It's a humorous song about drunks at Last Call. Go to aband dot com and there is a link to the Youtube clip on the fron page there. I hopeit makes you laugh.
I love it .... absolutely love it. I play in a classic rock cover in bars around Los Angeles and can totally identify with this. Because we have to announce Last Call at the end of our gigs I wrote a song to do just that. It's all about extreme drunks at Last Call. Go to aband.com and there is a link there to the Youtube clip on the front page there.
I seem to rem a New Year's Eve show that we played where they wanted some country song we didn't know so we made one up...after hours, hours and hours it was all a blur of lights, music, bad halter tops, and a great buffet with free drinks for the band....we had a blast.....
OMG!!! That made me howl....as with others, I have had this conversation as well....it always makes me laugh as much as irritates me b/c the drunks are pretty funny....they don't like it when you laugh AT them though....
people are always asking me if they can get up and sing. I always tell them that if I let them then I have to let everybody...and theres no "buts"the first word that comes out of their mouths is? "But".... I always hate it when some loud drunk thinks my ear is a microphone and has to sing real loud and out of tune along with me. But, hey...Im gettin paid to make an ass of myself....the patrons are doin it for free.
The way she asks for "Small Town Girl" at the end really hits home. We've had girls come up and ask for "Tie Me to the Bedpost," and we were like "Uhhh . . . do you mean 'Inside Out' ?"
The only thing missing is the girl asking for the band to play a song they played 10min before. Come on play it again. Sorry next time come to the show before 1:30 We are not playing a song twice, because you only showed up 20 min before closing time. My band drinks but not while we are playing and its amazing how irritating drunk fuckers can be!!!!
wow. i have lived that conversation -- minus the really harsh ending -- many times. usually, the bands i play with can cobble together something that sounds like one of the tunes they want to hear...but i've never gone back onstage a half-hour after the show was scheduled to be over. That's just lame.
Whoa! Deja vu! This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!). It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
Whoa! Deja vu. This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!) It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
Whoa! Deja vu! This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!). It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
Whoa! Deja vu! This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!). It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
Whoa! Deja vu! This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!). It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
For my musician friends, this is an honest example of gigs we've played. For my Christian friends, it gets kind of rude near the end, but it's digital, so you can imagine the actual words were not really said.
I bet this actually happened. It's the musician's version of a comic's "heckling." I can't tell you how many assholes we get who ask us to play their favorite crap!
I think cover bands should make a worldwide pact that whenever someone requests "Brown Eyed Girl", they agree to play it but substitute "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead instead. This also applies to Mustang Sally, American Girl, Play That Funky Music, Born to be Wild, and countless other songs that are exceeding the USDA recommended life allowance.
After asking rudely all night for my metal band to play some Lynard Skynard (and me rudely denying her!), a drunken, old biker chick finally resorted to breaking a wine bottle over my shoulder and then cutting a couple of people trying to restrain her with the broken bottle. She really wanted to hear some Skynard!
been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very painful. I don't think i could even go through that now. lol. I'd just know now these things doesn't matter, tough crap. :)
brilliant!...I love this video!..People(especially hammered ones)tend to think that bar bands, that do covers are just jukeboxes.If you want to hear a certain song that badly go bribe the DJ's that play in between sets!
What cracks me about about ALL cover bands is that the same guys who give bands shit about playing Brown eyed girl and Sweet home are the same ones who will play Pour some sugar on me and You shook me all night long!! What a joke. Unless you are an original band you should shut your mouth about what other cover bands play. My band plays Sweet Home Alabama and then our next song will be Infected by Bad Religion. Unless you are an originalband you should shut your face!
When people ask my band to play songs we don't know and they keep giving me shit about it I always tell them that we aren't a fuckin IPOD! Get an IPOD if you want every song ever written.
What the hell, You don't know Brown eyed Girl??HaHa!! I'm in a blues band, so we don't get to deal with too much of that shit. Although, my guitar player and I made an apperance at his buddy's back porch after much beggin and bithchin' ,and you know the first thing they wanted us to play?! That's right "FREEBIRD"!! The Guit player swore he was never gonna play it again,but we did. The solo at the end is actually pretty fun to play on Harp.
Let's not forget the boneheads that will come up IMMEDIATELY as you finish your set and start asking 20 questions about the gear you're using and then telling you what equipment THEY have, and that their son is in a band (that you never heard of). The whole time you don't care what they are saying and you take the first opportunity to duck out so you can take a piss, sit down, drink a beer, and chill on your 20 minute break before all your time gets wasted and you have to start the next set.
I usually either disappear for 10 minutes or IMMEDIATELY start packing up gear for that reason. I will often say "The bar owner is going to get pissed because we already played 5 minutes over and the cops will get called on us. Sorry, come see us next time" (and don't stroll in halfway thru the last set). Even worse than this is the uninvited bitch/asshole that thinks it's cool to take the liberty to just come right up and start singing into the mic (drunk and out of key of course).
Hahahaha that is classic! So true! Favorite lines: "I'm glad I caught you between sets" (at the end of the night), "What do you mean you don't know Brown Eyed Girl? Just play it!!!"... and "You'll have to fucking wait... she just went out for a smoke... Wait like 10 minutes then go on" gotta love that. My band gets asked to play those songs all the time, in addition to "American Girl" by Tom Petty and anything by Bon Jovi or Bruce since we are in NJ.
Shawn, Having been a working musician for 41 years....and being in cover bands for a good portion of that.....and still doing it....this is absolute genius....and no one who hasn't done it could possibly know our pain! The cover band that I have continually played with for 38 years....while also carrying on original music projects and sideman work, has just RE learned Sweet Home Alabama....oh the horror of it all...and people worry about the afterlife....
Shawn; as a working musician for the last 50 years, I have to hand it to you for this, man! I laughed MAO and sent a link to every musician I know. I hate to admit it, but every song she wanted is on my main groups' set list, but we are shameless money seekers!
Funny and true - - was performing one night (trio - 2 guitars) and a fan requested "Stairway To Heaven." I said we didn't know it. Fan could not believe we didn't know it. I said we knew of the song, we just didn't perform it. Fan then said, "Okay, play "Purple Haze." I said we're a trio with two guitars and nice harmonies and don't really do acid rock numbers. The two guitar players began playing the intro to "Purple Haze" much to the amusement of the crowd.
This is just like a Bourbon Street Cover band!! OMG and all the bands there play Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Home Alabama! Grrr I always walk down the road when any band plays those songs.. lol you get SICK of hearing the same things over and over and over!! They do work hard for da money.. it's just like a job, poor babes. Up all Night Sleep all Day.. Yeah Right!! lol Killer Video
Bourbon St seems so sad to me. NOLA has such a great musical heritage, but the bands on BS sound like the cover bands almost anywhere else. Fortunately, there are plenty of other venues in the CCity!
Re: "small town girl" that was also great insight to get that type of detail. I once had a request for "this gun's for hire..." it took a while to decipher, but the answer was no- Bruce "Dancing in the Dark."
Of course you would rather play your original songs or some obscure bullshit by some band most people have never heard of. Well here is a clue for you, people want to hear the songs that they like and who the hell are you to post judgement on the musical taste of someone else. If you insist on playing want you only want to play then enjoy the consequences of your decisions and stop your bitching. Don't try to force your music down someones throat, because you like it doesn't mean I do
jskaldskal 6 days ago
Most of us musicians do know how to play those songs. But we really don't want to. Wouldn't you rather hear a well rehearsed song that we enjoy? One that will be played with pleasure? Or the same old bullshit sing that every body else plays and perform it like paid puppets with no emotion?
simykl79 3 weeks ago
Haha, sounds like your cover band just sux deluxe. hahaha
Wonder why you're not doing very good at this? Why does playing gigs seem like such an uphill battle? It's because you ARE NOT VERY GOOD. Get off stage!!
TheSuese 4 weeks ago
Its exactly like that.
FRESNOSKY 2 months ago
It really is just like that, some nights. Bullseye!
1Maxhome 3 months ago in playlist sidirom's favorites
This was a good laugh. Sometimes you just can't win. I love it when they ask you to play a song you did a set ago. "Well, we just got here." Classic.
1Splat 5 months ago
hahahaha wow how true is this video - I'd like a dollar for everytime I've had a stupid person like this force themselves on you at a gig - who ever made this video is a genius haha
eckathewrecka 6 months ago
Wasn't this a skit from"Kids in the Hall?"
Seriously, this was funny. I'm surprised the guy character didn't tell the arrogant bitch to take a hike much sooner!
lavasmokechile 6 months ago
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shimidank 6 months ago
So true - but a cover band that doesn't know Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Home Alabama? - maybe she's got a point ! LOL!!!
brixtbass 7 months ago
awesome Shawn! dead on! you could have half your shit in the truck and someone will stagger to the stage, hold their sloppy beer over their head spilling half of it on themselves and yell "PLAY ANOTHER ONE!!!!!!" and then proceed to the nearest chair to pass out.
myk4bz 8 months ago
Needs more Creed and 'that song with kid rock and sheryl crow' requests.
sloanstewart 9 months ago
write your own songs and stop leaching off the talent/success of others ;-)
kev36663 9 months ago
@kev36663 Great idea in theory, but there's often a lack of interest in original music on the local level, depending on where you live. I'd much rather play the originals that I've poured my blood, sweat and tears into, but a lot of venues won't book anything but a cover band. ("Play something we can DANCE to!") So you end up being forced into playing covers just to get a gig. But it's a good way to keep up your chops and earn money for studio time. Plus, it expands your musical vocabulary.
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Tried rehearsing "different" numbers that hadnt been played to death by other cover bands but we didnt get called back because the crowd didnt know the numbers
I have no problem playing sweet home alamama etc for the average bar crowd
if thats what they want give it to 'em.
Im there to entertain them not give them a cultural re-education
zealberg 10 months ago 2
Shit. Were not even a cover band and this is exactly they way it went down. Even the same songs. The only topper was after they stopped screaming about it they wanted to take us home. And uuuuugggglly
BigPaulBlack 11 months ago 2
Years ago, I used to play in cover bands and this is so true. Drunk "fans" get very belligerent. Either that, or they hit on you while you are trying to pack up your equipment and go home at 3AM.
Mandotwang 11 months ago
hahahaha this is soooo true and shows how many cunts there are out there - who just want to be entertained with bollocks!! haha.
fabiii7 11 months ago
hahahaha this is soooo true and shows how many cunts there are out there - who just want to be entertained with bollocks!! haha.
fabiii7 11 months ago
LMAO
AdotAllen 11 months ago
LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
DAPDave 11 months ago
hysterical! omg! love this! just saw a great cover band and i can imagine this happening! they are pretty cool. ck them out here they are covering neil young's cinnamon girl. search cinnamon doll jazz
still have a smile on my face fromt this vid.
tubesoxabc 11 months ago
Hilarious!
pensacolian 1 year ago
I've never heard ANYONE request Stuck in the Middle with You. Where are you from?
openroad88 1 year ago
One more you left out....Stuck In The Middle With You. But this is so damn funny!!!!!!
buckskinbuccaneer 1 year ago
lmao 4hr set....
MisterWhat666 1 year ago
i know your pain,,some drunkin bitch kept yelling T Rex Bang a gong at my last gig
gpop57 1 year ago
Good job!! So true. You left out Mustang Sally.
irishdrmr64 1 year ago
Been there so many times its sickening. Something I have done for years is, whenever somebody yells out "Freebird" over the mic I count out 1, 2, 3, then the whole band gives them the middle finger ("the bird"). I then say.."There is your Free-bird, the next one will cost ya"!! Cracks the whole audience up and usually embaresses the sh*t out of the idiot.
1167Madman 1 year ago
This is a great video! Reminds you of all the people out there that should be wearing the tee shirt that says ASS HOLE just add alchohol! I had one of those last night so I had to come back and find this video to send to my band!
sinistercharm5 1 year ago
LMAO!!!!! That was great Brady! And WOW! Over 100K views in 6 months! That's awesome! Hope to see you soon somewhere in U2 world! ;-)
Allegra16 1 year ago
I am a DJ and lead singer of a band and I totally Feel your pain. Check out my vids and I am sure you will see what I mean :) .. barnone11967
barnone11967 1 year ago
This is so funny. Most of the people ask for "Midnight Train" not "Small town Girl" for us. I agree with musodata that the "Bride Set List" is just one worse. :)
fillmorebf 1 year ago
"How about some Rage Against the Machine?" LMFAO!!
mayormccheese2k 1 year ago
I honestly don't think I could come up with one that's better than this. The only part you missed was having her fall on her face or show her boob. awesome!
firebushrocks 1 year ago
"Who the fuck are the clash"
qwertyuiop78945612 1 year ago
@qwertyuiop78945612 oh shit!!! what?
TonyBeazley 1 year ago
Well done Brady! This is why I sing in an original music band :)
nugsterful 1 year ago
hahaha
muzicfantasytrapp 1 year ago
One time I had a group of folks from Ireland happen upon a gig I was playing (they were in the States for a wedding). Their request? Sweet Home Alabama.
averyellis 1 year ago
ok i just pee d my self alittle.... wow this is My f n life fucking kill my aready ive been playing the same shit hearing the same shit since the beginning of time!!! but ,i guiess its better then being the asshole still jacking off in his basement wining about he ll only play what wants to play ....... yea in his basement : )
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ROCKSTARSAL1 1 year ago
only one thing worse than this scenario.
The Brides repertoire list for the reception.
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secularmike 1 year ago
This video is Freakin amazing! I can`t believe how accurate it is... I am still rolling on the floor laughing!
bucwheatns 1 year ago
Let's see... Brown Eyed Girl, Gimmie 3 Steps, Sweet Home Alabama... OMG! LOL
MrSonnyblu 1 year ago
SECURITY!!! LOL
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What makes this so funny is how painfully true it really is!
jhnmcafee 1 year ago
Waht makes this so funny is how painfully true it really is!
jhnmcafee 1 year ago
love this! punters can be fuckin morons!
supernudist 1 year ago
ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING !!!! I HAVE A BELLY CRAMP LITERALLY THAT IS TOO MUCH OMG I NEEDED THAT AFTER THIS WEEK **** CAUTION BAD LANGUAGE **** DONT WATCH IN FRONT OF KIDS BUT WATCH FOR SURE !!!
DrivinRainBand 1 year ago
Margaritaville ...I played it so much I grew to like it ...
TheDennisod 1 year ago
@TheDennisod Thanks man! I loved this video and you're a very nice friend!
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I can totally identify wih this conversation. I play in a cover band in bars around Los Angeles. We have to announce Last Call at the end of our night so I wrote a song to do just that. It's a humorous song about drunks at Last Call. Go to aband dot com and there is a link to the Youtube clip on the fron page there. I hopeit makes you laugh.
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nigelgspencer 1 year ago
I love it .... absolutely love it. I play in a classic rock cover in bars around Los Angeles and can totally identify with this. Because we have to announce Last Call at the end of our gigs I wrote a song to do just that. It's all about extreme drunks at Last Call. Go to aband.com and there is a link there to the Youtube clip on the front page there.
nigelgspencer 1 year ago
Yes, I actually HAVE had this conversation, and we DID play "Brown Eyed Girl" for the drunks! (Don't think it was 2:30AM though...)
clintonday2001 1 year ago
We have y'all
one night in San Diego we saw 2 guys in wheelchairs get into a fight while we played "The dark side....haha we just kept on playin
WALKERGUITAR 1 year ago
We had a drunk guy pee on some equipment last week. Another hoped on stage during break and tried to pick up a $3000 guitar. Some people....
wmh1982 1 year ago
Still LMAO at this one!
SlashyJ 1 year ago
double nailed it!
freestylze 1 year ago
I seem to rem a New Year's Eve show that we played where they wanted some country song we didn't know so we made one up...after hours, hours and hours it was all a blur of lights, music, bad halter tops, and a great buffet with free drinks for the band....we had a blast.....
TheDavedt 1 year ago
OMG!!! That made me howl....as with others, I have had this conversation as well....it always makes me laugh as much as irritates me b/c the drunks are pretty funny....they don't like it when you laugh AT them though....
willmatthewsmusic 1 year ago
Nailed it!
burkebromley 1 year ago
Fuck, this is bang on!
protorobsmos 1 year ago
people are always asking me if they can get up and sing. I always tell them that if I let them then I have to let everybody...and theres no "buts"the first word that comes out of their mouths is? "But".... I always hate it when some loud drunk thinks my ear is a microphone and has to sing real loud and out of tune along with me. But, hey...Im gettin paid to make an ass of myself....the patrons are doin it for free.
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so awesome, so true!
joppymusic 1 year ago
so awesome, so true!
joppymusic 1 year ago
How true !!! My band was once paid $100 to let the bar owner sing "Some Kind Of Wonderful". To hell with artistic integrity. Cha-ching.
SuburbanDon 1 year ago
Brilliant....fucking brilliant. Small town girl....LMFAO.
ladrums1000 1 year ago
Typical fucking bar whore.......
jfrockon 1 year ago
Of course don't forget when they ask you for that "song about love"...you know, "it's got a girl's name in it!!"
GenoTee1949 1 year ago
This is why I quit. I did this conversation for 12 fucking years. People say it's all about the fans. Fuck them.
wjmr81 1 year ago
Hahahaha this is great!!
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That is so FUNNY and kinda sad at the same time since this really happens !!
LMFAO!!!!!
sylvanawhite 1 year ago
That is so FUNNY and kinda sad at the same time since this really happens !!
LMFAO!!!!!
sylvanawhite 1 year ago
last weekend some dumbass woman requested Brown Eyed Girl, 2 songs later we played it, and she didn't even show up to dance!
TurnerBurnerSRQ 1 year ago
lol been there done that!!
What is funny is when they can request a song you don't know and start humming it,so you can figure it out and go play it.
ThatsThe70sGuy 1 year ago
ROFLMAO!!! This is SO on the mark! Nice job and kudos to the poster!
playbassken 1 year ago
The way she asks for "Small Town Girl" at the end really hits home. We've had girls come up and ask for "Tie Me to the Bedpost," and we were like "Uhhh . . . do you mean 'Inside Out' ?"
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The only thing missing is the girl asking for the band to play a song they played 10min before. Come on play it again. Sorry next time come to the show before 1:30 We are not playing a song twice, because you only showed up 20 min before closing time. My band drinks but not while we are playing and its amazing how irritating drunk fuckers can be!!!!
slangsinger 1 year ago
fucking perfect! i love it so so sos ososososososososososososososo much! so fucking true! what the fuck is ratm
JOHNNYSMOKESU 1 year ago
Oh man, anyone who has been playing music for more than a week has lived this.
olddog843 1 year ago
wow. i have lived that conversation -- minus the really harsh ending -- many times. usually, the bands i play with can cobble together something that sounds like one of the tunes they want to hear...but i've never gone back onstage a half-hour after the show was scheduled to be over. That's just lame.
Deggans 1 year ago
I think our bass player, John must've written this script.
virginiabeachgirl 1 year ago
HAHAHA! You nailed a lot of common points there!
Keep on rockin'!
Hammerdead 1 year ago
This all sounds VERY familiar. :-)
analogaddict 1 year ago
Hilarious .....I'm in a cover band and can totally relate. Great Job
mboogiemanusa 1 year ago
Whoa! Deja vu!
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Whoa! Deja vu! This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!). It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
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Whoa! Deja vu. This had to have been made by a musician who has played the smaller clubs. Exact words you hear from time to time (even the song titles!) It's good to know we're not the only band that goes through this.
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RockNRollMedia 1 year ago
very funny!!
thebalance 1 year ago
Shoulda been here last night...
deeann912 1 year ago
Love this!
digitalretro 1 year ago
That is hilarious!!!!
vinxbass 1 year ago
best video I've ever seen-watch it over & over
DJshittyloadin 1 year ago
Ah yes....this sounds awful familiar!!
eldonjo 1 year ago
For my musician friends, this is an honest example of gigs we've played. For my Christian friends, it gets kind of rude near the end, but it's digital, so you can imagine the actual words were not really said.
sandynoden 1 year ago
I bet this actually happened. It's the musician's version of a comic's "heckling." I can't tell you how many assholes we get who ask us to play their favorite crap!
pookerella 1 year ago
Hahahaha, damn, we played Don't Stop Believin' THREE TIMES one night and people still wanted to hear it again.
SlashyJ 1 year ago
Oh God....this should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Only line missed is,
"Well, what DO you know?"
ROCKSTARCRANE 1 year ago
I can't tell you how many Times I had that same exact conversation verbatim. Holy Sh!!!!!# WOW ......WOW Unbelievable
NewLifeCrisis 1 year ago 14
@NewLifeCrisis
as the chick part or the dude part?
zernker 1 year ago
OMeffin'G... So many times... LMAO!!
jamestsquid 1 year ago 2
I love this ! It is so true ! I love the voices on these puppets. I am in a cover band and can relate to this .
mredkernbassguy 1 year ago
How bout the classic " play something that I'm gonna like" or just the random drunken primal rendering of "Seger".
leoneproductions 1 year ago
OMG this is spot on. It's like someone has lived my life and made a video about it.
jarvis440 1 year ago
funny... try "Don't Make Me Get UP" tag word palms
PASUsongs 1 year ago
Oh, wow! Deja vu! How many times have we faced something like that. You hit the nail on the head ... well done!
Nothing more heartwarming than having a drunk dictate what it is you and the band are to do.
Garvoon 1 year ago
I think cover bands should make a worldwide pact that whenever someone requests "Brown Eyed Girl", they agree to play it but substitute "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead instead. This also applies to Mustang Sally, American Girl, Play That Funky Music, Born to be Wild, and countless other songs that are exceeding the USDA recommended life allowance.
saltysearay 1 year ago 3
@saltysearay Haha yep! My coverband plays a lot of those songs mentioned. What a ZZZZzzz.
Retro255 1 year ago
I have had this conversation almost word for word! Damn drunks are nasty!!
Glasslide76 1 year ago
Bitches like that every night......usually just as nasty , drunk and smelly :-)
MrBb4848 1 year ago
That is so fucking true it ain't funny.
keysluke 1 year ago
This is still one of the best cartoons on Youtube. Especially considering I'm in cover band hell right now with too many moments like this...
meisterjagr 1 year ago
After asking rudely all night for my metal band to play some Lynard Skynard (and me rudely denying her!), a drunken, old biker chick finally resorted to breaking a wine bottle over my shoulder and then cutting a couple of people trying to restrain her with the broken bottle. She really wanted to hear some Skynard!
johnnyvajra 1 year ago
@johnnyvajra WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONT KNOW FREE BIRD
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johnnyvajra 1 year ago
been there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very painful. I don't think i could even go through that now. lol. I'd just know now these things doesn't matter, tough crap. :)
lupton991 1 year ago
Sooooo true! I hate Brown Eyed ******Girl!
stratman323 1 year ago 2
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Durxxxgold 1 year ago
Oh man...that is hilarious!!!! can totally relate!
furiousdean 1 year ago
awesome. Thanks!
tremelo68 1 year ago
LMFAO... I hear this all the time! She forgot Free Bird, My Girl, Sittin on The Dock of The Bay, and Stevie Ray.
texasjohnnyboy 1 year ago 3
@texasjohnnyboy & the forgot Bobby McGee
MySweetSelf 1 year ago
Awesome just perfect !!!!! Weaa
The bitch forgot " mustang Sally " lmaof
indydrt 1 year ago
Love this! Have to share this with my own cover band boys. Classic.
shouk 1 year ago
Yelling at the cops, now shes gone too far
She just blew her lunch, in my new car...
~the Beat Farmers
cathode1 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cathode1 1 year ago
brilliant!...I love this video!..People(especially hammered ones)tend to think that bar bands, that do covers are just jukeboxes.If you want to hear a certain song that badly go bribe the DJ's that play in between sets!
cavepiggy 1 year ago
This is not even funny....... It's exactly as it happens in real life. Shmucks!!!!!!
pridestore1 1 year ago
hahahahahahahahahaha
Jamesharrisguitar 1 year ago
Fabulous!
jonkicblue 1 year ago
Brilliant!
ShakeyHeadLute 1 year ago
What cracks me about about ALL cover bands is that the same guys who give bands shit about playing Brown eyed girl and Sweet home are the same ones who will play Pour some sugar on me and You shook me all night long!! What a joke. Unless you are an original band you should shut your mouth about what other cover bands play. My band plays Sweet Home Alabama and then our next song will be Infected by Bad Religion. Unless you are an originalband you should shut your face!
Ghostman5150 1 year ago 2
When people ask my band to play songs we don't know and they keep giving me shit about it I always tell them that we aren't a fuckin IPOD! Get an IPOD if you want every song ever written.
Ghostman5150 1 year ago
What the hell, You don't know Brown eyed Girl??HaHa!! I'm in a blues band, so we don't get to deal with too much of that shit. Although, my guitar player and I made an apperance at his buddy's back porch after much beggin and bithchin' ,and you know the first thing they wanted us to play?! That's right "FREEBIRD"!! The Guit player swore he was never gonna play it again,but we did. The solo at the end is actually pretty fun to play on Harp.
southbound60able 1 year ago
Perfect!
MrMarkalynch 1 year ago
35 years working in cover and original acts and I have yet to go one night without seeing this person.
bluesbasscat 1 year ago
So it's NOT just me!!!!
I loved the part where the musician said that they PREFER NOT to play songs that every SINGLE bar band has played since the beginning of time!!!!!
AMEN!!!!
katbatty 1 year ago
OMG!!
So it's NOT just me??????
I loved the part where the musician said that, "they PREFER NOT to play songs that every SINGLE bar band has played since the beginning of time!!!!!
AMEN!!!!
katbatty 1 year ago
Let's not forget the boneheads that will come up IMMEDIATELY as you finish your set and start asking 20 questions about the gear you're using and then telling you what equipment THEY have, and that their son is in a band (that you never heard of). The whole time you don't care what they are saying and you take the first opportunity to duck out so you can take a piss, sit down, drink a beer, and chill on your 20 minute break before all your time gets wasted and you have to start the next set.
AWHNJ 1 year ago
I usually either disappear for 10 minutes or IMMEDIATELY start packing up gear for that reason. I will often say "The bar owner is going to get pissed because we already played 5 minutes over and the cops will get called on us. Sorry, come see us next time" (and don't stroll in halfway thru the last set). Even worse than this is the uninvited bitch/asshole that thinks it's cool to take the liberty to just come right up and start singing into the mic (drunk and out of key of course).
AWHNJ 1 year ago
Hahahaha that is classic! So true! Favorite lines: "I'm glad I caught you between sets" (at the end of the night), "What do you mean you don't know Brown Eyed Girl? Just play it!!!"... and "You'll have to fucking wait... she just went out for a smoke... Wait like 10 minutes then go on" gotta love that. My band gets asked to play those songs all the time, in addition to "American Girl" by Tom Petty and anything by Bon Jovi or Bruce since we are in NJ.
AWHNJ 1 year ago
That is freakin awesome
jaystormproject 1 year ago
This is great - thanx for posting!
museth 1 year ago
Holy shit...this is soooooooo true!
Priscillahooker 1 year ago
You're welcome Sean!
Awesome! Many laughs!
Shared this with many Fresno cover band musicians!
Peace!
Michael Nagy
bluesmanzzz 1 year ago
Been doing this for fun for three years, and in even my short experience, I can see the truth in this... so accurate haha
YAS62ftw 1 year ago
I get to what the musicianfinally said at the end of the clip before the bitch finishes her first f'n sentence. MATT AVERY
mattpig69 1 year ago
The only thing that would make this truer would be the location (who has dressing rooms?).
Usually this conversation takes place as I'm wrapping cords and the drummer's half loaded out.
averyellis 1 year ago
Shawn, Having been a working musician for 41 years....and being in cover bands for a good portion of that.....and still doing it....this is absolute genius....and no one who hasn't done it could possibly know our pain! The cover band that I have continually played with for 38 years....while also carrying on original music projects and sideman work, has just RE learned Sweet Home Alabama....oh the horror of it all...and people worry about the afterlife....
620NA 1 year ago
It's funny because it's true
mdmassimino 1 year ago
Shawn; as a working musician for the last 50 years, I have to hand it to you for this, man! I laughed MAO and sent a link to every musician I know. I hate to admit it, but every song she wanted is on my main groups' set list, but we are shameless money seekers!
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redstockings2002 1 year ago
Funny and true - - was performing one night (trio - 2 guitars) and a fan requested "Stairway To Heaven." I said we didn't know it. Fan could not believe we didn't know it. I said we knew of the song, we just didn't perform it. Fan then said, "Okay, play "Purple Haze." I said we're a trio with two guitars and nice harmonies and don't really do acid rock numbers. The two guitar players began playing the intro to "Purple Haze" much to the amusement of the crowd.
redstockings2002 1 year ago
Sadly, every pro muso knows that this happens all the time - that people think they have the right to treat you this way. Why ?!?
gnjmusic 1 year ago
This is perfect!
thunderdogsgrace 1 year ago
very funny
boesendorferbaby 1 year ago
This is genius. I've lived this.
kevchod 1 year ago
Very cool and very typical of an unappreciative audience. I would have told her to screw herself a long time ago.
muzeeshun 1 year ago
This is just like a Bourbon Street Cover band!! OMG and all the bands there play Brown Eyed Girl and Sweet Home Alabama! Grrr I always walk down the road when any band plays those songs.. lol you get SICK of hearing the same things over and over and over!! They do work hard for da money.. it's just like a job, poor babes. Up all Night Sleep all Day.. Yeah Right!! lol Killer Video
iwalkbesideyou2010 1 year ago
@iwalkbesideyou2010
Bourbon St seems so sad to me. NOLA has such a great musical heritage, but the bands on BS sound like the cover bands almost anywhere else. Fortunately, there are plenty of other venues in the CCity!
jmeintn 1 year ago
:)))
Jimbo1952 1 year ago
Re: "small town girl" that was also great insight to get that type of detail. I once had a request for "this gun's for hire..." it took a while to decipher, but the answer was no- Bruce "Dancing in the Dark."
zyband 1 year ago
Perfect, though Mustang Sally could have been the second song after Brown Eye.
zyband 1 year ago
Love this.
How F*&%$ing true.