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Topic: Sometimes The Best Gigs are the Ones You Do For Free.... |
Jeremy Steele
From:
Princeton, NJ USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2007 7:15 am |
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| Had one of those "perfect" gigs last night. My friend Bill Flemer (with whom I play in a Bluegrass band) has a daughter named Emma who is a wonderful singer and fiddler. She lives in Rhode Island and whenever she visits Jersey Bill tries to put together a band for a jam session, and I usually wind up playing steel. Wanting to share the music, we played on a public plaza in the middle of town. The weather was beautiful, the sound was good, the audience appreciative, and everyone played and sang well. The icing on the cake was an unassuming guy in a baseball cap who came up to Emma and I after the gig to say how much he enjoyed the music...it was Bruce Springsteen. I'm still smiling. |
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Henry Nagle
From:
Santa Rosa, California
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Posted 5 Aug 2007 7:24 am
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| Right on! Sounds like a good one. |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2007 7:53 am
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That sounds great - and I agree. It seems like outdoor freebie gigs - benefits, civic functions, whatever - "click" in a way others don't. Maybe it's lack of trying to be "worht the money" - I don't know.
But some of he best on I've ever done have been similar - out of thousands of gigs, there are maybe 3 or 4 where I specifically recall everything being almost in slow-motion, where I could play anything I wanted perfectly, including entire solos improvised out of things I'd NEVER played in my life; the sound was flawless, etc....and all but one were for no pay.
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 5 Aug 2007 8:28 am
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Jeremy,You got me the Boss..How cool!
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Carol Johnson
From:
Califonia, USA
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Posted 5 Aug 2007 9:52 pm
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Jeremy, that is waaay 2 kool...  |
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Don Sulesky
From:
Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 6 Aug 2007 5:17 am
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Some of the best times I've had are the free ones. Seems as though there is no pressure on me since I'm not getting paid and the folks are out to have a good time also.
Don |
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Mark Treepaz
From:
Hamburg, New York USA
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Posted 6 Aug 2007 12:20 pm
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Wow. That IS cool!
Yep. I have to agree as well. Sometime the freebie's are just plain fun to do. Probably because everyone there that's involved is there because they WANT to be, and not because they HAVE to be.
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Aug 2007 1:53 pm
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| Like our SETexas Steel Guitar Club Meetings. Jody. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 6 Aug 2007 2:45 pm
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| Give a listen sometime to "Real good for Free" by Joni Mitchell. One of my all time favorites. |
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