Author Topic: The Burkha King in Action (Read 446 times)

ajdover · « **on:** March 10, 2006, 05:16:48 AM »

Folks, Pics of me playing a gig with the Burkha Gig here in Baghdad at one of the compounds here. Enjoy.

(Message edited by davehouck on March 10, 2006)

David Houck · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2006, 05:24:49 AM »

Cool!!

kmh364 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2006, 05:53:50 AM »

Glad to see you're having some fun, Alan. Stay safe and rock on!

Cheers,

Kevin

P.S., are those the Baghdaddies!

ajdover · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2006, 05:58:45 AM »

Kevin,

Yes, I am playing with the Baghdaddy's in the pictures.

Alan

zn_bassman · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2006, 09:28:52 AM »

Alan, what was the setlist?

keavin · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2006, 10:31:50 AM »

Do a badass bass solo with that alembic & watch ben-laden come out dancin!....

ajdover · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2006, 11:58:14 AM »

Zvi,

Set list included:

Hot Blooded - Foreigner
Wild Thing - The Troggs
I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
TNT - AC/DC
Some Aretha Franklin Tune I Can't Remember the Name of
Straight On - Heart
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison (yes, we had to do that one)
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (yeah, that one too)
Eight Days A Week - Beatles (I sang this one - talk about high adventure)
Come Together - Beatles (thankfully I only did backing vocals on this one)
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
Sweet Child 'O Mine - Guns and Roses
Rock n Roll - Led Zeppelin
Twist and Shout - Beatles (made all the more amusing by some girl who kept dancing in front of me and at one point touching my chest - I guess she thought it was funny or something ... hey, look, I touched the bass player everybody!)
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Hard to Handle - Black Crowes
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett (I should get a medal for as many times as I've played this one!)
Anyway You Want It - Journey (yet another scary moment with me doing backing vocals)

And a host of other things.

I'm going to try to get some more challenging things bass-wise into our repertoire. Definitely some Who if we can make it happen. I'd love to do Yes, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, etc., but I just don't think the people who come to hear us would want that. We have a female singer so we tend to do a lot of things she can sing, which is cool - she has a lovely voice. We also have a male singer, but he is currently on R&R in the States - we did this gig without him.

Keavin,

I figure if we can get Bin Laden out dancin', it will be that much easier to snake a 2000 pound JDAM up his, ahem, fourth point of contact, if you know what I mean. ;-)

Alan

zn_bassman · « **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2006, 12:32:14 AM »

Nice setlist (despite the burned-out standards). There are actually a few songs there that we're going to use in our upcoming project (more on that when it's official).

As for more challenging material, you can always tack jams from specific songs onto the end of standards, do some alternative or deep cut medleys, or wedge a couple of them between popular standards. Worst comes to worse, you'll get some puzzled looks sandwiched between familiar fare.

And send Osama my way for some initial preparation. I promise to send him back to you in usable condition. ;-)

ajdover · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2006, 01:17:18 AM »

Zvi,

Yeah, I know, burned out standards. We get a fairly diverse audience - from folks in their fifties down to 18 year old kids, so we tend to do a lot of different kinds of things. We're already looking at jams and the other things you discussed. I just want to do some more challenging things - most of the stuff I listed I've done in previous projects. They're not bad tunes, but I'd like to do some different stuff if possible.

Somehow, I don't think Osama would be useful for much of anything in the event he ever came your way .....

Alan

zn_bassman · « **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2006, 02:14:27 AM »

By the way, that cherry red finish looks fantastic onstage!

bsee · « **Reply #10 on:** March 13, 2006, 07:59:36 AM »

The tunes many musicians would call burned out standards are the tunes that always get the audience jumping around on the dance floor. Nothing wrong with that!

ox_junior · « **Reply #11 on:** April 12, 2006, 04:33:45 PM »

Alan -

No Who tunes? You couldn't get them to learn at least Pinball Wizard? I know you're dying to do one or twenty or so. At least The Who covered Twist and Shout - with JE singing.

If you're gonna do TNT...I mean....come on....

Mike

lbpesq · « **Reply #12 on:** April 12, 2006, 05:27:54 PM »

If you're gonna do a Who tune, I nominate Naked Eye

Bill, tgo

ajdover · « **Reply #13 on:** April 12, 2006, 11:05:00 PM »

Guys,

What can I say? We try to appeal to everyone, so our set list reflects that.

This being said, I have told the rest of the band I want to do some Who tunes. I'm thinking:

Summertime Blues (from the DVD; yeah, I know it's not originally a Who tune, but their version is awesome)
The Real Me (might be hard without the horns)
Won't Get Fooled Again
Happy Jack
A Quick One

And many others.

I'd also like to do some Primus, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Stanley Clarke (fat chance of that one ever happening), Emerson Lake and Palmer, early Genesis (Watcher of the Skies, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, etc.), but unfortunately, most of that stuff the average person just can't dance to. And you know how it is ... they all want to dance for some odd reason. Why can't they just all sit and listen? ;-)

If anything changes, I'll post the tunes here.

Best Regards,

Alan

2400wattman · « **Reply #14 on:** April 12, 2006, 11:38:30 PM »

Alan, getting people to sit and listen is so '60's and '70's. Not that I'm not into doing that. The current climate for entertainment does not exactly suggest to people that if you ACTUALLY OPEN YOUR MIND & LISTEN YOU MIGHT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. But then again I also believe that since learning music at an early age is not encouraged like it used to be, that is why people just don't care. I play in a Zeppelin tribute and we have to play song's like D'yer M'aker because it makes the f*****g girls happy. Not Thank You or The Rain Song which are some of the most beautiful love songs written but they would not know because they really can't comprehend with great musical art, or art for that matter. It's always the guys at our shows that freak when we play those songs than the girls. So tell me who's really in touch with their emotions? Oh crap, I better go I'm fixing to get Freudian--ahahahahahaha!!!!