"Can you play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?" asked a delightful little girl in a lunchtime needlework class yesterday as I was warming up in the same room with some Bach.
So I played it next, and the entire needlework class sang along. Does this count as a gig?
I was already phased by the fact that little girls still do needlework classes, I thought the health and safety Nazis had shut down all that kind of stuff; but the simple pleasure of everybody singing along was something else. It restores your faith.
"Can you play Cavatina?" asked their teacher. I'd better get practising
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If i'm just jamming whilst out, with friends or something, and someone comes and asks us if we can play someting. We usually do, or something very close to it. One of the guys i play with regularly has the gift of beaing able to sing and then just know the chords. And i can play pretty well just watching and following him.
Last request we did, "I'm Yours" Jason Mraz, but that was an easy one.
We have been sat with acoustic guitars before, and some comes over and says,CAN YOU GUYS DO DRAGONFORCE!
Seriously, on acoustic, no thanks!
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Oh, Oh, Oh, I just wanna say.....................No, bite yer tongue, count to 10 and don't get involved..................
I started with nothing - and I've still got most of it left.
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I generally refuse to "get off the stage!" or play anything by Journey or Survivor, but all that aside ...
*watch Rocky III for that, pls.
-=tension & release=-
At the Riverside Jam one year, a young lady came up to the stage and asked if she and her two friends could sing a song. We were a little unsure, but the bartender is waving and nodding his head "Yes!" So we asked her what she wanted to sing, and she said "Oh let's keep it simple - how about Mustang Sally." And off we went. Well it turns out that these 3 women had just returned from their paying gig singing classic/opera(?) at nearby Tanglewood Park (very famous in New England), and they loved to sing the blues after hours. And sing they could do quite well - they blew the doors off!
Excellent story, Alan.
(Yours too, Laz)
I can only dream of someone asking me to play something on the guitar.
First, I'd have to be able to and . . .
second, I think my fingers would turn to butter as soon as I tried.
Now, I'm going to work on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star . . . just in case . . . . some day . . .
It's the rock that gives the stream its music . . . and the stream that gives the rock its roll.
Only if they ask!
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