Veggie Dave
Sax Worker
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But thankfully not for me - I only did around an hour.
I was asked last week if I fancied joining in with BreakforCover! at their gig at a beer festival this weekend. When I asked what songs they were doing I was sent a list of 94 tracks. I eventually narrowed it down to around 25, and after writing sax parts for those songs that didn't have any in the original I finally got it down to around an hour's worth of music.
And then I kept being told that they'd changed the key or were doing a different version and I'd have to start learning the song all over again.
There was no practise before the gig - just turn up, play and 'make it sound like you've been playing with us for years.' I think I came pretty close, too. The band, though, played from 3pm to 11pm and nailed every song - including requests not on the list and jams when a muso from the audience joined it with another request not on the list. It was something of a tour de force.
I had a ball. I would say the audience seemed to like it as well.
Yep, the place was bouncing and people really were dancing on the tables!
I was asked last week if I fancied joining in with BreakforCover! at their gig at a beer festival this weekend. When I asked what songs they were doing I was sent a list of 94 tracks. I eventually narrowed it down to around 25, and after writing sax parts for those songs that didn't have any in the original I finally got it down to around an hour's worth of music.
And then I kept being told that they'd changed the key or were doing a different version and I'd have to start learning the song all over again.
There was no practise before the gig - just turn up, play and 'make it sound like you've been playing with us for years.' I think I came pretty close, too. The band, though, played from 3pm to 11pm and nailed every song - including requests not on the list and jams when a muso from the audience joined it with another request not on the list. It was something of a tour de force.
I had a ball. I would say the audience seemed to like it as well.
Yep, the place was bouncing and people really were dancing on the tables!