| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Is anybody home??? | | Date: | Thursday, December 7, 2006 05:27:58 (EST) | | From: | KCSteelPlayer <KCSteelPlayer @...com>
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In a message dated 12/5/2006 9:55:22 AM Central Standard Time,
footet@evergreen.edu writes:
> actually, falling off the stage is a good idea... I told my
> band the entire
> 10 years I played with them that being good pickers wasn't
> enough.. you
> have to entertain the audience.. and, hey, falling off the
> stage is a hard
> act to follow...
I've discovered one other way to entertain them: Find an incredible musician
who's young, cute and female. We lost our fiddle player a month ago (he
resigned to open an espresso bar), and found a 19 year old gal named Josephine
Michener who came to us knowing NO country other than the songs our leader
emailed
to us (she'd been playing bluegrass for years). Her first night was pretty
good; the consensus now is that, although everyone else onstage has been
playing for longer than she's been alive, she's the best one on the stage, and
her
harmony vocals can give us chills (I get to sing tenor and she jumps in with a
high baritone part: "Heartaches by the Number" sounds awesome that way). I
can see why people get into teaching; it's really cool watching someone progress
(admittedly at a fantastic pace) from pretty good to damn good. And if
you're playing in bars, having a cute woman onstage never hurts (and she's smart
enough to not dress sexy, she didn't want to do that so that no one could say
she got the gig by being nothing more than eye candy - as if her fiddling didn't
prove she belongs there) from the audience point of view.
reso content: They're now urging me to put a pickup on the dobro for some
tunes. I may do that with the proceeds from New Year's Eve.
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