Author Topic: The Burkha King in Action (Read 448 times)

ajdover · « **Reply #15 on:** April 12, 2006, 11:47:20 PM »

Adam,

I think I can sum up the state of music and the general public's appreciation of it in this simple sentence:

Outkast wins a Grammy for Hey Ya.

'Nuff Said,

Alan

ox_junior · « **Reply #16 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:13:24 AM »

Alan,

Hey man, it's a cover band. You're in friggin IRAQ, for goodness sakes. I'm sure you and everyone else in the band has a list a mile long of what YOU wanna play, but as you said, you have to tailor your setlist to what your audience wants to hear, or you don't get work. Simple as that. You know the drill.

That said, I recommend Pinball Wizard. It's a song everyone knows, relatively easy to play, and your audience will easily endure the 3 minutes it takes to play it. Doesn't show off a lot of your bass chops, but it does sneak a Who tune into the set.

By the way, Real Me works just fine without horns or keyboards of any sort. We do it all the time that way and it works as a balls-out rocker. Up the tempo a little bit. Turn the distortion up. Yeah...it works.

And I like Hey Ya. Cool bass sound. Doesn't deserve a Grammy, though.

MB

jack · « **Reply #17 on:** April 13, 2006, 11:55:53 AM »

Sheik Yerbooty!

It's just so cool you're playing over there (talk about being on tour), and that people can jump around to some live music as relief from what no doubt can be a stressful job. It must be a nice taste of home for a lot of 'em. And you get to play an Alembic. I bought my Epic when I was fresh out of boot camp. Keep safe, keep rockin.

-Jack

2400wattman · « **Reply #18 on:** April 13, 2006, 04:33:46 PM »

Alan, I forgot in my selfish rant to say Thank you for what you guys are doing over there. Take great care, our prayers are with you all. Oh yes, Dinah Moe Hum is grrrreeeat!

ajdover · « **Reply #19 on:** April 14, 2006, 04:53:42 AM »

Adam/Jack/Mike,

All good points. But I've got to disagree on the Outkast thing, Mike. Hey Ya? Give me a break!

Mike - Our singer has suggested The Acid Queen, Pinball Wizard, and Who Are You as tunes to do. Needless to say, on a scale of 0-10, I gave them an 11 as to whether we should play them or not.

Jack - Your comment reminds me of one of my favorite Zappa albums - Sheikh Yerbouti.

Adam - Dinah Moe Humm, Dinah Moe Humm, where's this Dinah Moe comin' from, I done spent three hours and I ain't got a crumb from the Dinah Moe, Dinah Moe, Dinah Moe Humm.

As Zappa once said, you are what you is,

Alan

richbass939 · « **Reply #20 on:** April 15, 2006, 06:13:50 AM »

Is crumb what he was saying? All these years I thought it was something else. LOL
Rich