Members KeysBear Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 Last night I sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" so the band could get a $50 tip. I got the crowd to join in and it was fun. Of course the guys now call me the official tip whore of the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 Next time, don't share it with them.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MusicalSchizo Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 Next time, don't share it with them.... +1 If they give you {censored} about playing something they hate and then don't participate, they don't earn that money. It's yours and yours alone. I got a $50 tip one time in my old band in Jacksonville for singing something for someone and he gave it directly to me and said since the rest of the band didn't join in, it's not for them. He made that very clear. I still paid for food after the show with it, though...my guys didn't give me crap about it. Brian V. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KeysBear Posted July 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 since I'm not the lead singer I don't think it's a good idea to start assigning tips to the one who sang the song. It's a group effort, I just have no shame and I wear the tip whore label proudly, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackbird 13 Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 I routinely have my laptop set up at acoustic gigs.. and when people bring money with a tip, I'll generally look it up on Ultimate Guitar and wing it (if I've heard it enough that I'm comfortable with it). I've done "Tik Tok", "Amarillo By Morning", and "Waiting on the World to Change" all on the fly.. making great money in tips on all of em... $200 on the latter. We actually made a $100 tip playing "Hey There Delilah" about a month ago.... It's all good with me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thy God Posted July 4, 2011 Members Share Posted July 4, 2011 Not Somewhere Over the Rainbow, that's for damn sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kgilb Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Not Somewhere Over the Rainbow, that's for damn sure. I bet you could make it work, if you tried. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Not Somewhere Over the Rainbow, that's for damn sure. Well maybe you could pull out this version [video=youtube;ytvzMr1N1m8] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMKEYS Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/the-unicorn-song/98973ee913707907ed0498973ee913707907ed04-1041688495184?cpkey=ad6e7c5e0c5c5af9d1cfad6e7c5e0c 5c5af9d1cf-911007876328%7Cthe%20unicorn%20song%20youtube%7C%7 C%7C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pickinatit Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Jeff Beck hasn't done bad with it either!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SeniorBlues Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 [video=youtube;ccCnL8hArW8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccCnL8hArW8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kgilb Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I love Eva! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MikeyParent Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 [video=youtube;Ymx8bHBigek] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SeniorBlues Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 I love Eva! She transcended genre. There are a lot of icons who covered this song, yet I've run into guys who refuse to play ballads in any style!? Maybe that's what we're dealing with here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flanc Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Eva Cassidy is pure velvet....taken far too soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SeniorBlues Posted July 5, 2011 Members Share Posted July 5, 2011 Eva Cassidy is pure velvet....taken far too soon. Interesting to consider her career in light of the discussion on commerce/art in another thread. My understanding is that she wasn't interested to going down the commercial path, even though guys like Chuck Brown and others were in a position to make her more visible when she was still with us. Good to see so many youtube views on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators BATCAT Posted July 5, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 5, 2011 Hey, my friend used to do that song as part of his set, no tip required. We used to play as a duo... Here's me and him doing it. Actually, it's him doing it and me sitting there; I didn't play on that one. [video=youtube;hK-d8DVyzCc] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FitchFY Posted July 6, 2011 Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 What would I do for a $50 tip? You mean besides stab my singer with a drum stick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KeysBear Posted July 6, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 What would I do for a $50 tip? You mean besides stab my singer with a drum stick? Finally some humor, like my lead singer who said he'd dance with a monkey for $50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMKEYS Posted July 6, 2011 Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 Finally some humor, like my lead singer who said he'd dance with a monkey for $50. [video=youtube;p2WCbbyChJ4] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KeysBear Posted July 6, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 Laughing my ass off here at work, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIMKEYS Posted July 6, 2011 Members Share Posted July 6, 2011 Laughing my ass off here at work, thanks. we do this song from time to time along with alot of other crazy {censored}. Its bar and food joint house gig. A sturdy concert model music stand will stop a long neck thown by a 230 pound crossdressers too. Sometimes we offend people lol. Its amazing that the more you pick on them the more they come back to the shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cjsm Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 I was at a bar once and this guy was playing solo and mainly doing blues, but he started playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and these guys in the crowd started shouting 'No more queer music'. But its actually a pretty good song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thy God Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 Nah, it's not a matter of it being not-metal. Trust me, that's no obstacle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goosefartfan Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 wait a table that's gonna have a $333.00 tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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