On 2 May 2013 22:47, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/02/2013 03:21 AM, Bearcat M. Şándor wrote:I was guitarist/arranger/composer/whatever in a backing band for a project a record company dude had back in 78-'79 or something, and I was on the most terrible gig I have experienced ever. The keyboardist, which happens to be my brother, and the drummer was so drunk (nerve medicine) that they could not stand properly and the gig ended when the drummer was falling forward over the drums, and he took the toms and a cymbal or two with him on the way to the public. He did not manage to raise properly and ran and fall straight to the first row from the scene. But this was not the only scandal that evening. Some shit happened earlier in the gig.
http://youtu.be/OWoQpzdB5gs
Has any of you had experiences like this in the studio? I realize this
is exaggerated but i fear it may not be as exaggerated as i hope.
The record company dude insisted that his wife should sing this evening, and she was supposed to sing a song in the middle of the gig. It was a very easy song (the Credence song, Hello Mary Lou which was renamed Hello Jerry Lou for the gig) and we had rehearsed it without her, so this was the first time we heard her. When she started, it was no less than terrible. She was so off pitch that a human ever can be, so I gave our sound engineer a signal and he understood at once that he should just fade her down to minimum and let me take over. The record dude was so angry at me that he and his wife just disappeared from the gig when we tried to save the rest of the song. He also refused to pay us for the gig and i did not see him or hear from him before he divorced from his wife a few years later.
Anyway, you already know how the gig ended. I never played with my brother and the drummer again in public and I have a strict rule that I never drink before a session.
Jostein
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Nice stories ! Thanks for sharing !
Do you know Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944)? Hers is a weird career: the main reason for her success - and for her making it into posterity - was that she sang so badly with such a great confidence. Hear for example her rendition of the Queen of the Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ubiUIxbWE
Someone pointed it to me while I was researching on musical humor. It certainly makes many people laugh.
It is unclear however whether F. Jenkins realised at all her lack of talent. This could make things less funny, and even pathetic if her misjudgement was caused by some psychological trouble (however, nothing else stands for this hypothesis - she seems to have had a perfectly normal life otherwise). Some people also hold her as a model of perseverance. Perseverance characterizes unrecognized geniuses, but it could be even more heroic when you're no genious at all! Others still say that she had built up a deliberately parodic character, which she liked to take offstage, into her social life, etc.
Anyway, if she had sung in the modern studio depicted in Bearcat's video, things would probably have turned out differently.
Victor
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