Hated songs.

[Pt]

What songs do you hate?

Pt

[Les Cargill]

Pt wrote:
> What songs do you hate?
>
> Pt
>

I hate no song.

So present band, singer wants to do "Too Close" by Alex Clore.
Sez I, "We can't do it the way we are instrumented."

Turns out, I'm wrong.

--
Les Cargill

[*e#c]

On May 3, 9:28 pm, Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What songs do you hate?
>
> Pt

1. Play That Funky Music

2. ANY Disco

3. ANYTHING that I cant discern WHAT the Singer is saying.

4. Repeat

[Derek Tearne]

*e#c <slamm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 3, 9:28 pm, Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What songs do you hate?
> >
> > Pt
>
> 1. Play That Funky Music

Horrible tune to listen to. But playing it to a bar full of people who
absolutely love it to death. Which is, I dunno, any bar full of people.
It's a wonderous thing.

> 2. ANY Disco

Well, I would have agreed with you a few years ago until circumstances
caused me to learn to play some of that.

Some of the very best basslines, in terms of challenge, and in terms of
groove, came out of that disco era.

My position now, after a long period of consideration, is that a bass
player who discounts Disco out of hand is doing themselves a huge
disservice as a bass player.

> 3. ANYTHING that I cant discern WHAT the Singer is saying.

My absolute favourite songs are all in languages I cannot understand.
My mother once commented on something I was listening to "I can't
understand a word these people are saying". My response was "Of course
not. They are singing in Spanish".

Absolute favourite piece of music with lyrics - we have Latin, Several
african languages, something that is probably hebrew and Love Shack, The
Letter, The Riverboat Song and Free Hand and Spanish - or maybe Romany -
I never actually checked.

--- Derek


--
Derek Tearne - de...@url.co.nz
Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealand http://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/
d'Groove: 12 piece party/covers band http://www.dGroove.co.nz/

[Pt]

On May 3, 8:28 pm, Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What songs do you hate?
>
> Pt

A lot of newer songs where the bass plays one note in 1/8 notes
throughout the song.

Pt

[Tim]

On May 3, 8:28 pm, Pt <pea...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> What songs do you hate?
>
> Pt

too many, but one is Cherokee nation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ojRQ15My7s

The Master Carol Kaye recorded on that and she said in her memoirs
that it was the most boring cut she'd ever done... I agree.

[Tim]

Like hammering on the "A" string the whole time aka Nikki Sixx?

[Jay S]

"Pt" wrote in message
news:1eef0fc5-883d-4372...@z8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...

What songs do you hate?

Pt

>>>>>>>>>>

to have to play or just in general?
If you mean songs in general, the list is way too long.

If you mean songs I hate to play,
I don't often play cover songs anymore, but Some Kind of Wonderful and Brown
eyed girl are at the very top of my list.

and ANY Polka.


Jay S

[*e#c]

On May 4, 6:13 am, de...@url.co.nz (Derek Tearne) wrote:

> Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealandhttp://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/

> d'Groove: 12 piece party/covers bandhttp://www.dGroove.co.nz/

Well, I sing in 6 languages phonetically, and I dont even know what
the Singer is saying !!

[Pt]

> the Singer is saying !!-

Sounds like when I was in Vietnam.
Best Beatle band I heard but they had no idea what they were singing.
Sure sounded convincing.

Pt

[klaw]

playin funky music white boy once ever .. how to say .. takes all the piss right out of it
it's like makin a drummer play wipe out 6 times a night
it's like sayin please throw tomatoes at me
please make jokes about my mother, pecker, income, religion, politics
and I just don't care
bozos on the bus
it's a stupid fuckin song and when people you're playing for request it and you play it you are a turd in a toilet bumping into other turds - not just yours.
so rise above it - turd.

[klaw]

On Friday, May 3, 2013 9:28:14 PM UTC-4, Pt wrote:
> What songs do you hate?
>
>
>
> Pt

lots

[BW]

> it's a stupid fuckin song ["Play that Funky Music White Boy"] and when people you're playing for request it and you play it you are a turd


I get satisfaction out of playing almost anything well, and this song/
groove/bass line is far from the bottom of the barrel.

I'm not sure, but I don't think that makes me a turd.

[OscartheGrouch]

On 5/3/2013 6:28 PM, Pt wrote:
> What songs do you hate?
>
> Pt
>

Takin' Care Of Business. Because......most really mediocre garage bands
full of guys my age do this song. Song has been around forever, they
have been around forever, the guys in the garage band. Wouldn't they
have it down tight by now? No! It sounds like they just learned it or
learned it from memory without a listen and don't care. After seeing
this over and over I now cringe at the thought of this song. And it
wasn't that good anyway.

[*e#c]

Who gives a solid fuck what you think. You are too scared to even post
a vid of one of your " famous " performances, that no one sees.....

Fuck off, assgasket.

[*e#c]

I agree.

Same with Back In Black.......

[Derek Tearne]

Nope. The fact is, although we probably all discounted it as trivial
pop when it came out, the song grooves and people love it.

It was unashamadly written as self-parody - but if you listen to the
words...

It's about a guy stuck in a musical rut, who decides to check out some
other music. Music which, particularly at the time, was considered an
anathema to rock and rollers. He discovers that this other music turns
out to be really a lot of fun. And, although it's not easy to suddenly
become funky when you're all pasty and square, it not only can be done,
but it is very rewarding.

As musicians this song should be our mantra or something.

--- Derek



--
Derek Tearne - de...@url.co.nz

Vitamin S: improvisation from New Zealand http://www.vitamin-s.co.nz/

[Jay S]

"OscartheGrouch" wrote in message news:km6i7n$c6u$1...@dont-email.me...

I played that song onstage with Randy Bachman on national tv. Although I
could appreciate playing the song with the guy who wrote it, I still didn't
enjoy it.

Jay S

[Derek Tearne]

klaw <mcou...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> [...] when people you're playing for request it and you play it you

> are a turd in a toilet bumping into other turds - not just yours.
> so rise above it - turd.

When people you are playing for request a song. If you can play, and
you don't, because you think it is beneath you, *then* you are a turd.

It doesn't matter what the song is.

If you know how to play it, or have a reasonable expectation that you
can muddle through, and play, it then you are a proper musician playing
a gig.

[*e#c]

On May 5, 6:25 pm, "Jay S" <bass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "OscartheGrouch"  wrote in messagenews:km6i7n$c6u$1...@dont-email.me...

Sure you did....LMAO

[Sam Wilson]

In article <1l2fzrr.z5dhyfio2e4qN%de...@url.co.nz>,

de...@url.co.nz (Derek Tearne) wrote:

> BW <barryb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > it's a stupid fuckin song ["Play that Funky Music White Boy"]
> > > and when people you're playing for request it and you play
> > > it you are a turd
> >
> >
> > I get satisfaction out of playing almost anything well, and this song/
> > groove/bass line is far from the bottom of the barrel.
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I don't think that makes me a turd.
>
> Nope. The fact is, although we probably all discounted it as trivial
> pop when it came out, the song grooves and people love it.

I was surprised and then amused when I saw a video of Wild Cherry doing
this - white guys with bubble perms playing Les Pauls wasn't my idea of
funk. (You can't get funky with a Les Paul, right?) But then I
remembered the Average White Band and thought again.

> It was unashamadly written as self-parody - but if you listen to the
> words...
>
> It's about a guy stuck in a musical rut, who decides to check out some
> other music. Music which, particularly at the time, was considered an
> anathema to rock and rollers. He discovers that this other music turns
> out to be really a lot of fun. And, although it's not easy to suddenly
> become funky when you're all pasty and square, it not only can be done,
> but it is very rewarding.
>
> As musicians this song should be our mantra or something.

+1

Sam

--
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

[klaw]

I've played it many times. not lately. I hate to hear that song more than I hate to play it. it's a stupid POS.

[klaw]

On Sunday, May 5, 2013 5:43:58 PM UTC-4, Derek Tearne wrote:
> BW <barryb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > it's a stupid fuckin song ["Play that Funky Music White Boy"]
>
> > > and when people you're playing for request it and you play
>
> > > it you are a turd
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > I get satisfaction out of playing almost anything well, and this song/
>
> > groove/bass line is far from the bottom of the barrel.
>
> >
>
> > I'm not sure, but I don't think that makes me a turd.
>
>
>
> Nope. The fact is, although we probably all discounted it as trivial
>
> pop when it came out, the song grooves and people love it.
>
>
>
> It was unashamadly written as self-parody - but if you listen to the
>
> words...
>
>
>
> It's about a guy stuck in a musical rut, who decides to check out some
>
> other music. Music which, particularly at the time, was considered an
>
> anathema to rock and rollers. He discovers that this other music turns
>
> out to be really a lot of fun. And, although it's not easy to suddenly
>
> become funky when you're all pasty and square, it not only can be done,
>
> but it is very rewarding.
>
>
>
> As musicians this song should be our mantra or something.
>
>
>

I've got more funk in my toe-jam than that song has.

[ZeeTso]

"klaw" <mcou...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:e1551e07-a030-48c2...@googlegroups.com...

time to prove that with some recording of yours... ;)

[klaw]

take your pick. no super funky pickin posted yet tho.

http://www.reverbnation.com/blazablazamayhem

[Rudolf Ziegaus]

Am Sun, 05 May 2013 18:55:17 -0400 schrieb JimmyM:

> It doesn't...it just means that it's spring vacation for schools and
> more children are out.
>
> Anyway, I won't bother naming off all the songs we do I hate, but the
> audience will never for a second know it. It's called "being a
> professional." Always remember...there is good money in playing music
> that musicians hate.

Yeah, that's compensation for immaterial damage;-)

Rudi

[*e#c]

On May 6, 7:24 am, klaw <mcour...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 5, 2013 5:43:58 PM UTC-4, Derek Tearne wrote:

And by the FIVE fans you have on Reverbnation....you're really " blaza-
ing " along.

If you want to play Indie in your Garage...that's where you ALWAYS be.

Nice Mullet, BTW.......

[klaw]

thanks for being a fan. I don't do mail outs or anything tho.

[*e#c]

IF...I would have " fanned " you, you'd have SIX....but alas......you
only have FIVE.

[klaw]

that's five more than i knew i had