Chris Bauer
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 3 Apr 2010 7:57 am |
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I'm playing a couple of writers shows this week and have run into a funny experience with one of them. This writer's lyrics, melodies, and voice are, on the whole, nothing special. If asked to critique any of the three, I'd say they're 'solidly so-so' and no more. However, when you put them all together, it's somehow riveting to me. I love listening this person perform.
At first I thought it was simply a case of great charisma but then realized that I have the same experience with this person's CDs where charisma's not likely to account for much.
This is a new one for me. I've been trying to think of other examples of this 'three-wrongs-making-a-right' thing and can't think of any.
This ever happen to any of the rest of you? |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 3 Apr 2010 11:28 am
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OK....
BR549 fans...( I am one)
I am NOT talking about or referring to BR549, only Gary Bennett, the one time prime member.
In the 80s and early 90s he was the head of a band called "Chinook".
He was a passable bass player with no solid rythm center, which fit right in with the drummer that had no discernable rhythm sense. Add to that a keyboard player that had no sense of timing, phrasing, or tone, and a guitar player that I totally forget. I think he played "Rhythm Lead"...
They played "covers" and some of Gary's homespun originals, which in fact were and are realy good. My fave was "Reeces Old Store"..
Well I strangely enjoyed watching them. It was like watching a drunk waiter try to juggle a plate of spaghetti that was piled too high on a plate.
I called them "Tantalizingly Tasteless", and "hauntingly horrible".
WHen Gary B called me to record behind the originals and "promo" that he was taking to Nashville, I really wanted to tell him not to go as someone as nice and honest as Gary would be chewed up and spit out..
I didn't. I figgered we all learn our lessons..
He wandered into Roberts Corner, jammed around a little and...
BR549.
Well, It just goes to show you.
Me, well I LOVE laying pedal steel guitar with a minimum of pressure, rules, and success.
I decided it was best done in mediocre bands, in 50-100 a night clubs.
I've done thousands of those gigs, and ecxept for a VERY few, I've loved every one, just like last night, tonite, next weekend behind Stonewall Jackson with the Zac Grooms Band (Good BAnd!) in Kennewick WA god willing, and a few weekends after that lined up.
I told a bandleader that was letting me go in favor of a keyboard ( a good one, Alex Shakiri).. "You know Monty, I don't think I'll ever run out of sh!tty bands to play with.".
So far my luck has held.
God willing of course.
EJL |
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