Members Dogoth Posted October 11, 2014 Members Share Posted October 11, 2014 Just when you think you've seen (or heard) it all. I have this gig mixing mediocre country bands 2 to 4 nights a week (Some are more mediocre than others :-). A lot of them are really R&R bands that have picked up enough country to fulfill the requirements of their gig and they do some percentage of R&R in the mix. If everyone is dancing (and most importantly drinking), management doesn't really care. This latest band pulled "play that funky music" out of their cowboy hats but the bigger surprise was they put a banjo solo in it. Just when I thought it couldn't get any more bizarre - here's the banjo :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted October 11, 2014 Members Share Posted October 11, 2014 On the flip side, back in the late 70's we used to do a Ronnie Milsap tune in a funk band. It went over big in Idaho and Wyoming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pro Sound Guy Posted October 11, 2014 Members Share Posted October 11, 2014 What was Ronnie thinking?YIKES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted October 13, 2014 Members Share Posted October 13, 2014 Bluegrass bands often do Ace of Spades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 13, 2014 Members Share Posted October 13, 2014 Banjo is a bit like ketchup. You can put it on just about anything, and some people do. Not recommended by those with more refined palettes, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbMontana Posted October 13, 2014 Members Share Posted October 13, 2014 Banjo is a bit like ketchup. You can put it on just about anything' date=' and some people do. Not recommended by those with more refined palettes, however.[/quote'] But then again Bela and Chic Corea and even more so Bela and Edgar Meyer are a bit too "refined" for the claw hammer crowd. Yes? ..dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 13, 2014 Members Share Posted October 13, 2014 But then again Bela and Chic Corea and even more so Bela and Edgar Meyer are a bit too "refined" for the claw hammer crowd. Yes? ..dave Just because Wolfgang Puck can probably create some amazing dishes using ketchup doesn't mean every dish at the county fair needs to be slathered with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lonotes Posted October 13, 2014 Members Share Posted October 13, 2014 Just because Wolfgang Puck can probably create some amazing dishes using ketchup doesn't mean every dish at the county fair needs to be slathered with it. Of course not. That's what butter is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted October 14, 2014 Members Share Posted October 14, 2014 Speaking if butter, I got a baked potatoe at our State Fair this year and I had to take about a quarter pound of butter off. Wow, that would be a week's worth of saturated fat in one meal... yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dogoth Posted October 14, 2014 Author Members Share Posted October 14, 2014 But then again Bela and Chic Corea and even more so Bela and Edgar Meyer are a bit too "refined" for the claw hammer crowd. Yes? ..dave Ya I worked Bella Fleck about a year ago. What that man does with a banjo is so unlike it's traditional use that I don't even thing of it as banjo music (more like stringed electric fusion). Between He and Victor Wooten the show was an absolute jaw dropper. I guess anything can work if it's implemented just right. There's a Country hit with bad pipes (Oops I DID mean BAG pipes :-) throughout. The proof is it actually does work for the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 14, 2014 Members Share Posted October 14, 2014 Speaking if butter' date=' I got a baked potatoe at our State Fair this year and I had to take about a quarter pound of butter off. Wow, that would be a week's worth of saturated fat in one meal... yikes![/quote'] Was it deep fried first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 14, 2014 Members Share Posted October 14, 2014 I like the banjo just fine and I'm a big fan of mixing genres and having fun with music that way. At the same time, the put banjo and fiddle on a song, play the drum beat in two-step and call it "bluegrass" thing has been done to death. Unless the band is doing it REALLY well, the gimmick itself has pretty much been played out. Done poorly and I just find it to be annoying. At least for me anyway. Obviously it's still working for some. It's all good. Party on, Garth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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