My all time favorite - A bride who demanded that I play and sing "Tits & Ass" from A Chorus Line" When I said that it was inappropriate for a wedding she said that she would ask her father not to pay the band. Needless to say, I didn't play it, and we still got paid. By the way, we didn't even have a female singer in the band at the time. Who was supposed to sing it???
I love all of these comments. Every professional musician has one of these stories--I have several. It's making me laugh out loud to read them in between teaching classes at Berklee. I should make all my students see this video to give them a taste of reality. I think I'll ask the drunk guest where he or she works next time so I can go and scream at them to do something they don't know how to do!
My band was playing a show one night when a very intoxicated woman in a leopard suit jumped on stage and screamed for us to play "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Poison. Instead of explain to her that we don't play that song and that is not even the correct artist, we started playing Godsmack until she fell off the stage.
Been doing this for 30+ years. Every single thing you said has been said to us! Thank you for making me be able to go to my next gig without wanting to jump off the roof.
So true! Another classic is this one, always shouted from the dance floor by a drunken lady, "play something we know!" after doing all the classics, summer 69, simply the best, mustang Sally, disco inferno etc.
One singer actually replied with "oh, I thought we'd carry on playing all this obscure Jazz fusion shit in odd time signatures, but ok, popular music it is! Jeez!!!"
Gone are the good old days of "The Macarena" and "The Electric Slide." I eventually confessed to my pastor that I knew these songs. He revoked my salvation.
When someone asks if we can play a Taylor Swift tune, I tell them "No. Taylor Swift doesn't do any of OUR songs, either." Works equally well for tunes by bad 80s rock bands and rappers.
My all-time favourite was a mortgage broker at her company Christmas party who climbed onstage and SCREAMED her "request" into the mic... as we were singing another song. I vowed to show up at her office Monday morning and scream for a 2% fixed-term mortgage while she was talking to other clients. To this day I flinch if someone says "Shania" within a hundred yards of me.
I have done the same thing. I always ask, Where do you work? Their reply, "Why?"
My reply, so I can show up Monday and scream at you to do something that you can't, and then tell you that you are a piece of crap for not being able to do it.
When the great unwashed come up to me on the bandstand (while we're actually playing), I actually turn my back on them until they leave. On breaks, when some sped comes up to me with a request, these days I just say, "yeah, sure, we can play that", then promptly forget the request forever and neglect to tell the rest of the band.
keep these videos coming. Send them to people like the woman portrayed in the video. Make the unaware rank and file AWARE. Send them to people who watch Glee.
The girl in this video represents every mainstream music fan under the age of 30, the young morons who are brianwashed by American Idol and Top 40 radio to understand anything about REAL TALENT.
Can somebody please tie Simon Cowell to a chair and play this video over and over for 24 hours until his eyes and ears start to bleed.....
@BloozeDaddy76 why take the risk that he will escape in those 24 hours, there must be a much more immediate way to get the point across to Simon Cowell?
OMG- "expand your horizons beyond American Idol!" How many times have I suffered this scenario? Now all i'll be thinking about is this video when this happens again, which it will, and not be able to fake concern.Great.
You have to be in the business to know how true to life this scenario is! It's brilliant! (although I think most bandleaders want to throw the annoying people off a roof rather than themselves :-)
I loved your first one, then found this- I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear some of it, so I had to watch again! Hysterical! And it goes for non-wedding gigs, too...sad, but true!!! Love your stuff!
I LOVE your cartoons!! They are so funny, and all ring true also.
czerashni 1 year ago
My all time favorite - A bride who demanded that I play and sing "Tits & Ass" from A Chorus Line" When I said that it was inappropriate for a wedding she said that she would ask her father not to pay the band. Needless to say, I didn't play it, and we still got paid. By the way, we didn't even have a female singer in the band at the time. Who was supposed to sing it???
19nitrams 1 year ago
Classic...!
jbt68 1 year ago
Amen!! Shooot the B-I-A-T-C-H!!
Dither199 1 year ago
This is hilarious.
seangerrymusic 1 year ago
I love all of these comments. Every professional musician has one of these stories--I have several. It's making me laugh out loud to read them in between teaching classes at Berklee. I should make all my students see this video to give them a taste of reality. I think I'll ask the drunk guest where he or she works next time so I can go and scream at them to do something they don't know how to do!
suzjazz 1 year ago
My band was playing a show one night when a very intoxicated woman in a leopard suit jumped on stage and screamed for us to play "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Poison. Instead of explain to her that we don't play that song and that is not even the correct artist, we started playing Godsmack until she fell off the stage.
macbassplayer 1 year ago
@macbassplayer great story, LMAO!
suzjazz 1 year ago
@macbassplayer Hahahahahahaaa1 God SMACKED her down!
Pickinbuddy 1 year ago
One night back in the 90's I was forced to play "Achey Breaky Heart" at a gig. I've never been quite the same since then.
davesblueguitar 1 year ago
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davesblueguitar 1 year ago
Been doing this for 30+ years. Every single thing you said has been said to us! Thank you for making me be able to go to my next gig without wanting to jump off the roof.
MrRyanStorm 1 year ago
How many times have I had a drunk guest say the SAME crap to me...with worse requests. My least favorite part of my biz.
SoundDecisionDJ 1 year ago
Brilliant.......
lastkmbazoh 1 year ago
I love it. Last month the owner of the resturant who hired our blues/classic rock band asked us to play faster songs so more customers would dance.
RBEband 1 year ago
So true! Another classic is this one, always shouted from the dance floor by a drunken lady, "play something we know!" after doing all the classics, summer 69, simply the best, mustang Sally, disco inferno etc.
One singer actually replied with "oh, I thought we'd carry on playing all this obscure Jazz fusion shit in odd time signatures, but ok, popular music it is! Jeez!!!"
steevidrums 1 year ago
He's wearing a Fishbone T-shirt .lol
MrDiscordinated 1 year ago
Great love it, very creative, funny and true to life. Thanks for making me laugh.
deaugustine123 1 year ago
Verry funny and very true!
silkee59 1 year ago
Gone are the good old days of "The Macarena" and "The Electric Slide." I eventually confessed to my pastor that I knew these songs. He revoked my salvation.
willssonline 1 year ago
awsome.... this is every night for me... "go and see one of their shows right now" love it
its not just weddings its every venue every night
mammers96 1 year ago
"do you know anything good?" i hate wedding guests
"I know alot of bands that are better than yours"....."is there any chance you could go to them right now?"....love that
jmbizle 1 year ago
"do you know anything good?" i hate wedding guests
jmbizle 1 year ago
Hilarious, and largely (allowing for the removal of the veneer of civility) right on. Welcome to MY world.
tuxguys 1 year ago
Another triumph...thanks so much for posting these. We as musicians can definitely relate to these situations.
JZ63 1 year ago
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was at every wedding I ever played!
dylad 1 year ago
i always love a good double-murder suicide joke.
Lifesucksdie123 1 year ago
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Lifesucksdie123 1 year ago
"Are you deaf?"
hardmanmusic 1 year ago
When someone asks if we can play a Taylor Swift tune, I tell them "No. Taylor Swift doesn't do any of OUR songs, either." Works equally well for tunes by bad 80s rock bands and rappers.
excelsiorcornetband 1 year ago
i love when he says - have you ever thought of being a wedding coordinator. I'm laughing so hard it hurts.
SwankInTheCity 1 year ago
"Have you thought about being a wedding coordinator?"
misteredwino 1 year ago
TOO FUNNY!
picbyron 1 year ago
Another great wedding band video! HA!
clintonday2001 1 year ago
My all-time favourite was a mortgage broker at her company Christmas party who climbed onstage and SCREAMED her "request" into the mic... as we were singing another song. I vowed to show up at her office Monday morning and scream for a 2% fixed-term mortgage while she was talking to other clients. To this day I flinch if someone says "Shania" within a hundred yards of me.
billallman 1 year ago 16
@billallman
I have done the same thing. I always ask, Where do you work? Their reply, "Why?"
My reply, so I can show up Monday and scream at you to do something that you can't, and then tell you that you are a piece of crap for not being able to do it.
tjrox 1 year ago
When the great unwashed come up to me on the bandstand (while we're actually playing), I actually turn my back on them until they leave. On breaks, when some sped comes up to me with a request, these days I just say, "yeah, sure, we can play that", then promptly forget the request forever and neglect to tell the rest of the band.
rdangelo 1 year ago
keep these videos coming. Send them to people like the woman portrayed in the video. Make the unaware rank and file AWARE. Send them to people who watch Glee.
GuitarGare 1 year ago
Hilarious..watched all your wedding band videos..nice work on a lot of levels!
manzanitarocks 1 year ago
That was Priceless!!!!!!! Bravo
bplayer47 1 year ago
I will have to remember to bring my machine gun that shoots 64 times in 15 seconds to my next gig...LOL!
ProDJKen 1 year ago
"If I give you the cyanide, will you play Tailor Swift?" LMAO
ssurfcity 1 year ago
The girl in this video represents every mainstream music fan under the age of 30, the young morons who are brianwashed by American Idol and Top 40 radio to understand anything about REAL TALENT.
Can somebody please tie Simon Cowell to a chair and play this video over and over for 24 hours until his eyes and ears start to bleed.....
BloozeDaddy76 1 year ago 15
@BloozeDaddy76 why take the risk that he will escape in those 24 hours, there must be a much more immediate way to get the point across to Simon Cowell?
KrakkersBB 1 year ago
This one's even funnier than Part I -- so true. I wish I could remain calm and sarcastic the way this guy does.
JimmyDeLocke 1 year ago
I do love this!
hopscotch4006 1 year ago
too too too funny
i'm a singer so..... i know!!
alex569276000 1 year ago
how about one that pours beer on your horn and thinks its funny? I'm going to my car to get my machine gun.
Girolata 1 year ago
Remember in the 70s, when EVERY private gig had the drunk guest coming up who HAD to sing "My Way"????
Pickinbuddy 1 year ago
@Pickinbuddy or Funicule Funicula. Or Volare...
rdangelo 1 year ago
@Pickinbuddy or Feelings
MrJLev 1 year ago
@Pickinbuddy ..no.."Green, green, grass of Home"
frankludwig314 1 year ago
@Pickinbuddy It still happens! Well, not every gig, thank God, but if a guest doesn't sing it, then they make me play it.
suzjazz 1 year ago
OMG- "expand your horizons beyond American Idol!" How many times have I suffered this scenario? Now all i'll be thinking about is this video when this happens again, which it will, and not be able to fake concern.Great.
megafunk88 1 year ago
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megafunk88 1 year ago
Too bad there's no way to include the guest coming up to request the song you just got finished playing.
CrandMackerel 1 year ago
@CrandMackerel
Ughh, sooo true.
megafunk88 1 year ago
Fantastic!!!!!!!! Been there - excellent.
RaysTrack 1 year ago
Today at a wedding I played, the bride requested "Sexy Back."
theRealIonian 1 year ago
Professional musicians the world over can bond over this video....
lohan2b 1 year ago
If this wasn't true it would be funny
dubberdo 1 year ago
You have to be in the business to know how true to life this scenario is! It's brilliant! (although I think most bandleaders want to throw the annoying people off a roof rather than themselves :-)
1bugface 1 year ago
Yes, yes!! Yes!! Oh My God this is so spot on!!!
scout4prayer 1 year ago
Yes, yes!! Yes!!
scout4prayer 1 year ago
I loved your first one, then found this- I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear some of it, so I had to watch again! Hysterical! And it goes for non-wedding gigs, too...sad, but true!!! Love your stuff!
paperfiddler 1 year ago 2
Part 2
thebidmiester 1 year ago