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[quote name='TimR' post='695268' date='Dec 28 2009, 11:28 PM']Which one is the proper one then?[/quote]
When I was young, my uncle turned up at the door and said, 'Heard you play bass - jump in!' Linwood Bowling Club and 2 hours of gigging later I got a tenner! Stil don't have a clue what I played!

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[quote name='merello' post='695425' date='Dec 29 2009, 10:26 AM']When I was young, my uncle turned up at the door and said, 'Heard you play bass - jump in!' Linwood Bowling Club and 2 hours of gigging later I got a tenner! Stil don't have a clue what I played![/quote]

A similar thing happened to me about 7 years ago. A bass playing friend reccomended me to dep for him without telling me. I got a call from the band leader telling me when the gig was. I asked what tunes they played and was told all the standards. I asked if we would have a practice beofrehand, he said no I would be fine. We played for 3 hours, I spent all night playing tunes I'd never heard before! Never got called back. :)

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[quote name='TimR' post='696354' date='Dec 30 2009, 02:33 PM']A similar thing happened to me about 7 years ago. A bass playing friend reccomended me to dep for him without telling me. I got a call from the band leader telling me when the gig was. I asked what tunes they played and was told all the standards. I asked if we would have a practice beofrehand, he said no I would be fine. We played for 3 hours, I spent all night playing tunes I'd never heard before! Never got called back. :)[/quote]

I've probably told this story before but I did an audition under similar circumstances. I now dread the words, "don't worry, they're all standards". In fact that's guaranteed to make me refuse the audition/gig. It transpires that one person's "standards" are another's deeply obscure, mysterious, complicated songs.

I spent that audition with the guys incredulous that I'd never even heard of *any* of their songs followed them "trying to help" by doing some mysterious tic-tac hand-signals that (I'm told) are supposed to show the chords. Sigh!

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[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='696367' date='Dec 30 2009, 02:50 PM']"don't worry, they're all standards"[/quote]
I've heard that and then you arrive at the audition/rehearsal/gig and find they are 'standards' but with half the chords changed because they are not playing it in a 'standard' manner:

Me: 'Shouldn't that chord be a Bm?'
Guitarist: 'I've never played Bm, I always play E7'
Me: 'That'll be why you've changed the melody line too.'
Guitarist: 'That's just the way we play it.'
Me: 'OK, E7.'

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[quote name='jezzaboy' post='696436' date='Dec 30 2009, 04:19 PM']Blobdude!

Was that the ad in gumtree? If it was, is it the guy who plays guitar in the Rory Gallacher tribute band and does the singer`s name begin with E?

Jez :rolleyes:[/quote]

Yes, don't know, yes.....

However, for the avoidance of confusion, I spoke to two people who had posted ads in GumTree and one is a female E.... and the other was a male E.... The one I went to was the female one. So what do you know that I don't??? :)

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Actually, I keep hearing about these Rory Gallacher tributes for some reason and TBH, I haven't got a clue who the guy is or was.

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[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='696481' date='Dec 30 2009, 05:07 PM']Actually, I keep hearing about these Rory Gallacher tributes for some reason and TBH, I haven't got a clue who the guy is or was.[/quote]
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Gallagher"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Gallagher[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/results?aq=f&search_query=rory+gallagher&gl=GB&hl=en-GB"]http://www.youtube.com/results?aq=f&se...GB&hl=en-GB[/url]

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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='696493' date='Dec 30 2009, 05:22 PM'][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Gallagher"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Gallagher[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/results?aq=f&search_query=rory+gallagher&gl=GB&hl=en-GB"]http://www.youtube.com/results?aq=f&se...GB&hl=en-GB[/url][/quote]

I could have done that but I was too lazy :)

Oh, I see.... not my cup of tea. Bit shouty :rolleyes:

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You dont know who Rory is???????? Shame on you. There is a saying in Dublin, "First there was Jesus, then there was Rory"

The reason I was asking about the band was a couple of months ago I was looking for something to keep me busy and I e mailed a girl called Emily and there seemed to be a guitarsit on board who played with a Rory tribute band. I think his name was/is Phil.
It never went any further than e mails but they seemed like decent people. I wish you all the best and mind and give me a shout when you are gigging and I will come down and give you pelters, I mean support.

Jez :)

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[quote name='jezzaboy' post='696549' date='Dec 30 2009, 06:06 PM']You dont know who Rory is???????? Shame on you. There is a saying in Dublin, "First there was Jesus, then there was Rory"

The reason I was asking about the band was a couple of months ago I was looking for something to keep me busy and I e mailed a girl called Emily and there seemed to be a guitarsit on board who played with a Rory tribute band. I think his name was/is Phil.
It never went any further than e mails but they seemed like decent people. I wish you all the best and mind and give me a shout when you are gigging and I will come down and give you pelters, I mean support.

Jez :)[/quote]

Bingo.... the very same!! I haven't met the famous Phil yet, actually.

You must excuse me.... I'm originally from Yorkshire. So, even though I've lived in Scotland for 25 years, I'm not Scottish and by extension I don't wish I was Irish. Let the abuse begin :rolleyes:

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