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Topic: I get to play for an all female audience. |
Mike Perlowin
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 8:13 am |
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I sm currently rehearsing with a trio, the other 2 members of which are ladies, and our next performance will be before a private, all-female music club.
I will be the only man in a room full of 50 or so women. 
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Please visit my web site and Soundcloud page and listen to the music posted there.
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Stephen Gregory
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:01 am
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| Could it be a room full of "over 50" women? |
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John Floyd
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:09 am Omg !!!
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What Did Those Poor Ladies Do to Deserve This Kind of inhumane Treatment.
Is This A Captive Audience and There's the Music Too. 
Has to be in a Womans Prison.  |
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Walter Killam
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Nebraska, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:30 am
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Hi Mike,
sounds like a lot of fun, but please -- LEAVE YOUR G STRING AT HOME!! 
sorry, couldn't help myself, I'll go stand in my corner now. |
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:37 am
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Obviously this won't be a speaking engagement on your part. 
Good luck with it.
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:39 am
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| Back when I was a sophomore in high school, my band played at a Catholic school for wayward girls, in Independence, Ohio. I had fun, and learned some stuff I hadn't known about before! |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 9:58 am
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private, all-female music club.
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The music room at the convent? 
I can still remember Gregorian Chant....
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Carl Heatley
From:
Morehead City,NC
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 10:18 am
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| The law of averages dont allways work in your favor!!! |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 10:45 am
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If it's like the all female clubs I've been in, you will be the most ignored person in the room. Don't take offense. You're just not their type, any of them.  |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 11:51 am
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Some of the posts above have alluded to "captive audience" and "womens prison". Been there, done that. One of the best audiences ever, even hooted and hollered for our "my evil woman done me wrong"
songs. They were allowed to dress in their civilian clothes for the concert and they really got dolled up. A few on the front row even flashed us.
One of the most memorable gigs ever!
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 12:09 pm
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Clyde,
We got the same treatment at OSP here in 87. Men's prison..
EJL |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 12:11 pm
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| I would consider going in drag. |
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Tommy Young
From:
Ethelsville Alabama
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 5:02 pm
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RULES FOR MIKE::::: don't let them intimidate you to bad my friend, as women can and will do unto you severely, please keep your clothes on hahaha especially with that many """LOOKIN"""" at you at once, they will point and giggle,, hahaha.....lmao,,,, HAVE FUN no matter what ""DO NOT"""" allow wives and girlfriends to go with you at no cost...
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MAX-TONE MODIFICATIONS
BMI dealer,Classic VIBE 100 amp... SIT strings.. |
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 6:23 pm
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The mind boggles at the possibilities. 
I don't know whether to be excited or scared stiff.
Seriously, What's exciting about this is not that the audience is all women, but that they are all classical musicians, most, if not all of whom have never seen a steel before.
I've always said that my goal is not to expose the steel guitar community to classical music, but to to expose the classical music community to the steel guitar. The 2 women I'm working with are both symphonic musicians, and they are bringing me and the steel into their world.
I might also add that working with these women is the most challenging thing I've ever done. Like everybody else here, I play a lot by instinct, and I can't do that in this situation. There's no room for improvisation, Everything has to be absolutely precise, with no wiggle room, and 99.9% accuracy is not good enough.
The 2 ladies are absolute masters (mistresses?) at this sort of thing, and I feel very very small compared to them.
It is incredibly exciting, and exhilerating and humbling and terrifying all at the same time.
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Please visit my web site and Soundcloud page and listen to the music posted there.
http://www.mikeperlowin.com http://soundcloud.com/mike-perlowin |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 6:49 pm
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Been there, sort of. My best friend is melodic, shred metal master, Neil Zaza. His background is classical guitar. I've played on two of his cds. He likes that I can play string trio parts, violin, viola, and cello, all at once, with a different sort of sound. Slides, and pedal bending of notes in harmony. Playing on his cds was quite an interesting challenge!
http://www.neilzaza.com/ |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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John Cadeau
From:
Surrey,B.C. Canada
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Posted 18 Nov 2008 11:08 pm I Get To play For An All Female Audience
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I got to do that once up here in Canada. It was at a woman's federal prison. We were a four piece all male band. As we were setting up in a small courtyard at the prison, an inmate looked out through a barred door, then turned around and yelled, hey all you crazy bi--hes there's four big hunks of meat down there getting ready to entertain us. You talk about nervous.
John |
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 3:07 am
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Mike,
I wouldn't want to be the meat in that sandwich either! LMAO!
Relax Dude, it should be a good time for you!
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 3:09 am
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr
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John Drury
From:
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 3:10 am
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
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Bob Simons
From:
Kansas City, Mo, USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 9:43 am
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I played a Battered Woman's Shelter once...never gave out so many business cards in my life! (I'm also a divorce lawyer!)
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Mike Perlowin
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 10:10 am
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Wow. Battered women's shelters and prisons. That's heavy. I hope the unfortunate ladies appreciated the entertainment.
My upcoming performance (which will take place in February) is different. The women in the club are all classical musicians, many of whom play in symphony orchestras, and each month, different members perform for the others.
As I previously mentioned, most, if not all of them have never seen or heard a steel before.
This will be the second time the trio has performed before such an audience. The first time everybody was very captivated by the steel. When the concert was over I hung around for a little while and let people come up and sit at my steel and fool around with it. As part of my self-appointed role as the steel guitar ambassador to the classical music community, I intend to do this as often as possible.
I wouldn't do that if I were playing at a prison.
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Please visit my web site and Soundcloud page and listen to the music posted there.
http://www.mikeperlowin.com http://soundcloud.com/mike-perlowin |
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Charley Adair
From:
Maxwell, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 11:49 am
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| That's a lot of estrogen to have to deal with! |
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Don Drummer
From:
West Virginia, USA
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 6:17 pm al l women
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| Wow Mike what agreat oppoptunity to introduce and expose one of the most feminine of all musical instruments to a group of musicians who in my opinion are the most open and curious about the Pedal Steel. I've encountered several women who confessed to having a strong like for the instrument. Most of them didn't like country music, just the sound of thr PSG. Very strange. I bet the classical Harpists will dig the pedals. Don D. |
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William Steward
From:
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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Posted 19 Nov 2008 7:24 pm
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| Mike - sounds like the gig of a lifetime...a group of people with advanced music appreciation (probably) unaware of anything that you doing to make the music....so (probably) also won't be analysing it to death, as they would another classical orchestra player. You can bet that at least a few members of the audience get totally hooked on the instrument. Are you going to play some of your Stravinsky repertoire? That was [way] cool. |
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