I'm so stoked, joining a new band!!

Went out and sat in with them Saturday night and they hired me on the spot :bounce:

took a couple days to sink in how cool it is, some of the hottest players in town want me join their group.

The song list we'll be doing includes The Weight, Up on Cripple Creek and Ophelia from The Band, Into The Mystic by Van Morrison, Whipping Post, One Way Out and Crazy Love from the Allman Brothers...and so on and so forth :headbang:

They asked me what I wanted to bring in to do, so far I have Fat Man in The Bathtub from Little Feat and "She" by Gram Parsons.....still thinking what else to throw in there...

I can't wait for the next gig, I'm just so pumped to be playing with these guys....:bounce:

Hard to find a good fit sometimes... glad to hear you found a good group of people to work with. :)

yeah, you're right, it is hard to find the right fit. I have a good fit with my current band, but hell, they only play about once a month, if that. I need to play more, and I had been wanting to get in with this new group for quite a while. Turns out one of the guys was leaving the band and it was, right time right place for me :)

:hi:

Train Train is one I think I'll put on my list, thanks! :hi:

but thats just me. Any band would be better if they played more Rush.
:)

that's some tough stuff to cover well :wow:

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What part of the country are you in? You should let DUers come and either heckle or swoon. ;)

Oklahoma :hi:

I'd love to see some DUers in the crowd :)

My twin sister lives there (trust me, she's an evangelical republican and looks NOTHING like me)

But, next time I visit, I'll let you know so I can find out where y'all are playing.

:hi:

:)

sure would love to see you out here :hi:

Went to see some friends play, who were so good I never even thought about trying to sit in. This one night they asked me to get my stuff out of the car; played the rest of the night with em. They slipped me some $ and hired me that night. Enjoy your gig; fun playing with good musicians isn't it? BTW, I'm in New Mexico but have been in touch with an agent in Tulsa about a non -musical thing, but his agency handles musicians too. Will PM you sometime this week with info; you may know of his agency--I have no idea if they're very big locally, but I know he handles a friend of a friend who gigs ( an entertainer but not a musician) nationally. I also had a couple of N.M. musician friends with Tulsa roots who've passed away in the last few years. Don't know how old you are, so you might be too young to have heard of, or known, these guys but one was Dave Tomer, an excellent left handed slide guitarist, and the other was Sam Franklin, one of my dearest friends in the world, who played sax for many years with the great Albert Collins. Sam often spoke of an old Tulsa buddy of his named Flash Terry. Best wishes on your new gig.

Sam was a good friend of mine, sad to see him go. I worked several years with Flash Terry, mostly as a sound man and played guitar with him toward the end. They were both the best guys in the world, they don't make 'em like that any more.

Sam really was a sweetheart of a guy, not to mention being one hell of a sax player. I consider myself blessed to have had the opportunity to have played with him more times than I can even remember till he got sick and spent much of his last year on this earth in VA hospitals; mainly Shreveport. I consider myself blessed even more to have been his friend ... I kept in touch by phone as much as I could in his last year, and as Sam said in a gospel tune he wrote and recorded: We're just "passin through".

I was on the road off and on and didn't find about Sam's passing until I got back to Tulsa. It was a shock to say the least. The last time I saw him, I re-mastered a live tape of a band he was with of a show they did on a riverboat casino for CD release. I remember he was completely thrilled and amazed at how it came out sounding on CD as compared to the tape he gave me. He was truly a treasure.

My husband decided that he was done with bands for awhile. He now does YouTube videos of cover tunes on bass.

I hope that you and your new band rock out and that you play many rowdy gigs! :headbang:

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and we will play it :evilgrin:

"We will honor any request written on a $100 bill"

we used to say "drink up folks, because the drunker you get, the better we sound" :)

"so buy the band a beer!"

"righ this way folks, come in in and be cheated...I mean seated" :rofl:

for about a week, until the club owner made them change it.
They operated on the idea that if they could just get people to come out and see them, they would make it.

Other band names that didnt last long:
Two for One Special
All Nude
the Pole Dancers


"All Nude" actually lasted a couple weeks. The club owner kind of enjoyed arguing with the police that he didnt need a special "adult entertainment" permit if that was only the name of the band, and the attention in the local paper brought out lots of customers.

everybody has tried the old "free beer" gag at least once :D

I do like the All Nude and Pole Dancers, that's pretty creative :thumbsup:

and a hot chick for each band member :D