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| TarTar |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 09:59:04
For the last 5 or 6 months, two of my friends and I have been open mic regulars at this somewhat frat/sorority popular dumbass jock sports bar in town. It's definitely not the type of place I'd pick to hang out or play music, but one of the guys I play music with works there so that was the connection (though he hasn't been playing with us much the last few months, ever since he got a girlfriend).
We definitely don't get much recognition when we play there. We play a good amount of originals and the most well-known song we cover is Here Comes Your Man, which a few people here and there have acknowledged and sang along to. We also do Where Is My Mind? sometimes, though I don't really like to play that one for some reason. Maybe it's because it seems like the song that bands always play if they cover the Pixies. We also cover a number of Ween songs, and sometimes there will be Ween fans around who will get into it. One time a really drunk guy requested Wave of Mutilation after we did Here Comes Your Man so I played it. It's rare that we get any attention so we try to be nice whenever we do.
So we've been playing down there a lot this summer and it's been alright. It's nice when we can get friends to come down so that we are guaranteed to have some applause at the end of each song.
Now all the students are back in town. We went down there to play last night and it was fucking packed. Just noisy and uncomfortable. So we got to playing and it was obvious from the beginning that nobody was going to pay attention to us, so we said fuck it and just played whatever we wanted. We cover Ween's The Mollusk and segue into their song The Blarney Stone, which is full of profanity. I made it a point to sing like a badass and emphasize everything offensive in it just to get the attention of all these morons. My musical partner said he could see people giving us the evil eye on several occasions. Hell yeah. I love to alienate those fuckers.
So at one point I was sitting there having a smoke break while my friend sang a song from the Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Avenue thing... the one that goes "Ain't nobody that can sing like me." This girl walks up and says, "Can I sing along?" I assumed that since she asked this she knew the song, obscure as it may be. So I say, "Okay." She gets the mic and asks "What song are we on?" And I say, "A Billy Bragg song." She asks, "What are the words?" I suddenly notice she's a bit drunk. I realize this is kinda strange. I tell her the refrain "Ain't nobody that can sing like me" and tell her when it's coming. She sings it. Fucking horrible voice. Not even horrible in a charming way. Just drunk and annoying sounding.
She just kept hollering into the mic, butchering my friends song. And unfortunately, this is the first point where people were listening. Not that big a deal though. Whatever. Fun for a moment. But the girl wouldn't give up. She wanted to sing more. Earlier, my friends' sister who was there was trying to get me to learn Build Me Up Buttercup so she could sing it and I had figured it out so I started strumming that. So his sister came running up and we got a singalong going, complete with the annoying drunk girl. She kept swaying about and knocking the microphone that I was using for my acoustic against the fretboard, making a jarring sound. Her crowd of friends who were with her looked more embarassed than they did entertained, but some were singing along so it was a semi-fun moment, albeit awkward. But after that was over you'd think the drunk girl would know her time in the spotlight was up. Nope. She wanted to sing more. "Play 'My Girl'". I say, "I don't know it." And she says, "C'mon, let's go, right now, play it." It was at that point that the guy who hosts the open mic came up to her and said, "Are you with them?" and she tried to say "yes" but he knew she wasn't and he said, "Okay, they're trying to play so you need to step away from the mic." So she did, but then when we started playing our next song, she came running up and yelled into the mic. The guy hosting the open mic touched her shoulder to get her attention and get her out of there and this guy who was hanging out with drunk girl said to him, "Don't push her!" even though he hadn't (though the guy did later apologize to open mic host about being like that). A short while later, the large crowd that drunk girl was with was leaving and we were still playing. Drunk girl walked by friend who was singing at the moment (thank God he had a free hand) and tried to put her cigarette out in his brand new full glass of beer. Thankfully, he stopped her. He said into the mic, "That hottie douche tried to put her cigarette out in my beer." And I said, "We let her sing with us and this is what we get." It was the fucking worst crowd ever. I'm never playing that stupid ass place again.
Haha. I just remembered this time a girl came up and asked if we played any Pink Floyd. We happened to have Fearless from Meddle lined up for that night. So we said yes. And she asked, "Oh, do you do the Goldfish song?" What the hell? Goldfish song? After talking with her a bit more it became clear that she meant "Wish You Were Here." (Two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl year after year.) So many fucking idiots at that place. It's really frustrating when we play well and get no respect and then someone gets up and done a half-assed cover of Sublime's What I Got and everyone starts singing along and clap a ton at the end. That's gotta be the number one open mic song. If we were to ever play it, we'd be sure to shuffle back and forth between the lyrics to What I Got and Lady Madonna since they're the same melody.
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| cvanepps |
Posted - 09/06/2004 : 07:11:01
TT, I can empathize with you. You never really expect a female will act like a jackass to that extent, but in all the frat parties I've been to over the years, it's usually some random chick that takes home the Partypooper of the Evening award.
Past winners include...
Aileen "I Hitchhiked With That Guy" Wuornos,
Silvia "We Should've Bought Her a Microwave Oven" Plath,
Courtney "Bring Your Own Stomach Pump" Love
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| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 09/04/2004 : 13:22:10
I have a pal going to Washington and Lee.
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She really liked G'n'R. Hmm..
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| n/a |
Posted - 09/03/2004 : 04:39:23
how on earth does that work! Gee you americans are funny
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the room smelled like cupids gym
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 09/03/2004 : 01:19:32
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Originally posted by Tre
Frat rhymes with Twat and Jock rhymes with Cock.. a coincidence???
the room smelled like cupids gym
Tre, squat rhymes with twat. At least in the states
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| TheCroutonFuton |
Posted - 09/02/2004 : 21:25:00
Frat rhymes with twat? Well all be..
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| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 09/02/2004 : 21:06:35
I used to Host and Open Mic night at an old friend's former Bar,(lord knows where the fuck he is now, he went 80,00$ in debt, into the bottom of bottle), so I have had plenty of experience with this Topic.
This is small college town, with the #2 party school in the US, which is FULL of 97% Greak (frat/soc) kids, 75% of their parent's make more than 100,000$ a year, and of that 50% make at least 250,000$ a year, so you can imaigine their fuck face attitudes.
The open mic never really caught on, it was usually dead except my friends and we would just jam and have fun.
But, I remember this one time, I was playing some solo stuff, and this dude's drunk as junkie wife decided she was a musician, I assume from her myriad of Karoke experience.
At the time this event occurred, I was playing Herion is so Passe, and she came up to the stage and grabbed my sm57 and started doing some sort of anti-ryhthmical "oh yeahs, oh, oh, oh," number. it was so fucking annoying and distracting I wanted to spit in her face. Instead I finsished the song and put down my Tele and went and smoked some shit.
Fucking Idiots rule man.
One night about 50 W&L (washington and lee, the rich bigot school), kids rolled in out of the Blue. A couple of the dudes wanted to play so I lent them my shit. In fact, all the shit was mine, from PA to Pick. The first guy grabs one of my electric acoustics and lifts it up to put the strap over his shoulder and he nailed the rather low ceiling with neck.
I let them play a few songs, I remember them playing Guns and Roses' Patience and some other things. So while they were all there, Ithought I would give them a peice of my mind, they weren't going to be able not to listen, so I ripped through a very heated version of U-Mass, Debaser and Gouge Away. They kept trying to get me to stop. Fuck that, this is my shit and you all are disgusting, spoiled, clueless bigots, I am an Artist, a Professional, respect? Anyone?
The thing with open mic nights in general, they're for the masses, just like the radio and MTV and everything else that sucks about the mainstream music industry. I mean really, few good bands ever make it mainstream, for example, it only took the PIXIES 20 years to get HUGE.
So take it all with a grain of salt, and make fun of the stupid biches. And if the gig isn't cool, don't go. Put on your own show at home or at a cool party.
Damn, that was quite a lengthy responce. So I should crack a joke...
Floop can't fucking cook NOR grow beard for shit =)
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| VoVat |
Posted - 09/02/2004 : 18:23:01
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Ashley Simpson is the most untalented, average-looking, dullest teen of her generation or mine.
It's ASHLEE Simpson! How could you misspell the name of such a musical genius? How would you like it if I started talking about "Franc Blak"?
Seriously, I think she's only famous because her sister is. Why her sister is famous is a mystery to which we shall never know the answer. Stupid untalented morons, both of them!
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| darwin |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 12:11:26
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Originally posted by TarTar
I used to think Dave Chappelle was funny about 5 years ago, but he's really lost the spark that he once had.
I have to respectfully disagree. The Chappelle Show is consistently hilarous with a sharp social commentary/message. Some many classic sketches (I would describe some but that would dreadfully unentertaining). I'm so happy it got reupped for 2 more years.
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| n/a |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 11:49:40
Frat rhymes with Twat and Jock rhymes with Cock.. a coincidence???
the room smelled like cupids gym
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| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 11:40:50
A co-worker of mine quotes Chappelle a lot.
He's black. Somehow that makes it less annoying.
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 11:18:49
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Originally posted by TarTar
Haha. A while back we were having a particularly dull night where no one was paying attention and at the end of one of the songs my friend said into the mic, "I'm Rick James, bitch!" (from the Dave Chappelle show, though I've never seen that skit) and suddenly we had their attention and applause. Ooooh, so clever and talented. Quoting a skit that's probably not that funny. I used to think Dave Chappelle was funny about 5 years ago, but he's really lost the spark that he once had. Too much fucking reefer for that guy.
I didn't have a problem with my friend quoting that. It's just sad that something like that is what stimulates people these days.
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My 23 year old buddy repeats that shit constantly. He was over last night saying "I'm Charlie Murphy!.. I'm Rick james bitch!" I commented that I didn't realize that the Mary Jane tune from Half Baked was a Rick James tune. He starts trying to school me on it. " What?? You didn't know that was Rick James? I knew that was Rick James." Finally I told him "Dude, until the Chappelle show you don't even know who the fuck Rick James was so shut the fuck up! Now get me another beer in case I get thirsty while I'm kicking your ass in Foosball!"
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| TarTar |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 11:01:56
Haha. A while back we were having a particularly dull night where no one was paying attention and at the end of one of the songs my friend said into the mic, "I'm Rick James, bitch!" (from the Dave Chappelle show, though I've never seen that skit) and suddenly we had their attention and applause. Ooooh, so clever and talented. Quoting a skit that's probably not that funny. I used to think Dave Chappelle was funny about 5 years ago, but he's really lost the spark that he once had. Too much fucking reefer for that guy.
I didn't have a problem with my friend quoting that. It's just sad that something like that is what stimulates people these days.
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| KimStanleyRobinson |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 11:00:09
Tartar i know exaclty the crowd you speak of.
Why Sublime? I fucking hate that band. Why does every tattooed, pierced, vans-wearing, fat, chain-jingling retard think they have to play songs by this band?
Mating.
They're like fucking ROACHES these people.
Thats funny about Lady Madonna. Only reaction you'd get would probably be "Dude, you're fucking it up...those ain't the words, man..."
Get the hell OUT of there, man.
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| pfeffa |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 10:57:40
I feel bad for you, TarTar. Avoid fratties like the plague. Tell them the roof IS on fire and they'll raise their little paws like you're the cult leader.
KOK, Ashley Simpson is the most untalented, average-looking, dullest teen of her generation or mine. She even makes Avril Lavigne look punk.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 10:54:08
Our open mic nights are generally acoustic sets (one girl did a Shins cover that was really great, I'll see if I can find an MP3) punctuated by Nickleback wannabe bands and general alt-rock mediocrity. Sometimes really good stuff (I first heard a really cool piano-rock band called The Pinch at an Open Mic - www.thepinch.org) and sometimes awful.
I don't have any horror stories like that, but we only played two nights and all original stuff. Our first time, we opened with a heavier number of ours, A-Line, and got some dirty looks and some people really into it. The girl who'd been on right before us, picked up her guitar from the stage and left before we'd even finished it. Now, I find it mostly amusing (we even have the video of it on our site), but at the same time, couldn't you stay for one other band? Seems like the thing to do is support each other a bit. But, to be fair, quite a few people seemed into it, one guy was enraptured even, others came up after the show.
It's nice when the friends or family are there to support you, especially since at an open mic people don't really listen all that well. In retrospect, we should've thrown a cover in for those sets at least. We've played Cactus live before, but that's about it. I don't think anyone would've noticed anyway. Even at a supposedly cool Broadway ("the" place in Saskatoon) club, people can be idiots.
I guess you have to expect that on Open Mic night...
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 09/01/2004 : 10:37:59
What is with people? Theses are the people that are going to grow up and live next door to us. These are the people we are supposed to act like if we want to fit in with society. Thank the dear lord most of these numb nuts think I'm a bit off. "He listens to weird music". Yeah, it's weird if it isn't played on MTV eighty nine times a day.
What is with this Ashley Simpson chick? I haven't heard a single one of her tunes, but are they really trying to tell me her album is worthy of number one status? Is the music really that good? Or is everyone that dumb? They all bought into that ridiculous reality show of hers and at the end they buy her crappiness.
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