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Fun Question Of The Month--Sept.
What's the oddest (or most interesting) thing that ever happened to you on one of your gypsy jazz gigs? Please limit your answer to one story, I'll get it started:
I was playing a wedding gig a few years back. On the set break, I did my usual "take advantage of the break to pee" thing. When I opened the door to the bathroom (it was one of those unisex bathrooms with a capacity of one patron), there was the bride putting her flowing white dress back on after finishing up business of her own. Evidently the latch wasn't working that day. Anyway, she apologized & I apologized and we shared a laugh about it. I left & returned after she was done. Needless to say, when I got home & my wife asked how the gig went, I had an awkward story to tell!
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@MikeK Way to crush all possible responses to this question. No one's topping that. 😂
I was just remembering the other day how we were playing "Que reste-t-il de nos amours" at a local cidery (noisy, warehouse environment with high ceilings and lots of noisy conversation). After we were done, a middle-aged woman came up to us and asked what the name of the last song was. I explained it was an old French song by Charles Trenet, gave the title, but then said she might possibly know it by the name "I Wish You Love", which is the English lyrics version.
She immediately beamed and turned to her friends. "That's Uncle Albert's song!" Then she explained how, when she was a young girl growing up in Florida, they had a family "friend" who was referred to as Uncle Albert (no relation to Admiral Halsey 😁) who wrote the lyrics to that song. How it was a big deal to them that he had minor fame for writing that song. She was so excited to hear it being played by us and it was neat for me to have someone appreciate one of these great songs.
"That's Uncle Albert's song!"
Must be Albert Beach, who wrote the English lyrics in the 1950s to Trenet's 1942 composition.
Its an interesting example of a song where the English lyrics suggest a quite different context to the original ones (possible future fun question of the month?)
I had a gig in a rockabilly band. Not a type of music with audience jamming along. And in the audience was a position at the back of the bar. By himself. Playing along with his harmonica. Not in the same key. All set long.
Not super odd per se...but played an outdoor patio gig a couple years ago and midway through first set, a projector across the courtyard suddenly turned on and started playing an anime on the wall behind us (thankfully, the audio was off) while a bubble machine overhead started doing it's thing at the same time. One of the bartenders got it turned off pretty quickly but there was still a good 2-3 minutes of bubbles cascading down onto us lol.
@MikeK I hope you played Moppin' the Bride after that!
We played a concert in a retirement home last year, which was odd but paid well. The folks were seated and listening silently during the music, and I wasn't sure if they were bored half to death, but several of them came up to express how much they'd enjoyed the music afterwards.
An elderly gentleman tipped us four cheerios (one for each band member)
A group I was in was playing at a djangofest, in part backing up a well-known singer. We had been working on "Dance Me to the End of Time," in Am. The song begins almost every line on Dm, but at the same time the melody begins each line on a G note. Well, the singer had forgotten how to begin each line, and he never once found the G! I tried playing a G note many times to give him a clue, but he didn't pick up on it.