Can I get some feedback on a proposed class offering?

Man, I would rather play an entire set of Alanis Morisett songs over being a professional dirt swimmer any day... Playing music is fun, even if the song sucks. Crawling under houses is never fun... However, unless you "make" it in music, being an electrician pays better...
 
paulskirocks said:
Man, I would rather play an entire set of Alanis Morisett songs over being a professional dirt swimmer any day... Playing music is fun, even if the song sucks. Crawling under houses is never fun... However, unless you "make" it in music, being an electrician pays better...
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very true :embarrassed:
 
paulskirocks said:
Man, I would rather play an entire set of Alanis Morisett songs over being a professional dirt swimmer any day... Playing music is fun, even if the song sucks. Crawling under houses is never fun... However, unless you "make" it in music, being an electrician pays better...
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I only like one song on that entire list. ... playing one or two songs that you don't dig is one thing, but if I have to fake enjoyment for 90+ minutes, I'm basically an under-paid Sasha Grey. :embarrassed:
 
Kerouac said:
I only like one song on that entire list. ... playing one or two songs that you don't dig is one thing, but if I have to fake enjoyment for 90+ minutes, I'm basically an under-paid Sasha Grey. :embarrassed:
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Ah, but teaching music to snot nosed kids is loads of fun and highly lucrative?
 
As a student that's been your performance classes for the last two years this sounds like a really good idea. I've seen 3 classmates go on to play in gigging bands. Though I started in the blues class and that being my first love, I find playing in a band so much fun that I'd like to someday play out and play anything that gets me out there.
 
Mark Wein said:
Off the top of my head:

Sweet Home Alabama
Brown Eyed Girl
Summer of 69
Hard to Handle
What I Got
Mustang Sally

The usual stuff..some songs have worked for 10 years or so and some of it is regional, I'm sure....
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Throw Marguritaville in that list and it's the songs I am sick of bar bands playing and never want to hear again :wink:


I could definitely see that class being very popular with beginning middle aged students, the same ones that flock to the dance floor when those songs are performed.
 
I think we can all agree that the average 'ideal' bar band set list for the people here (and musicians in general) is far from the ideal set list for the average bar goer. And also we should all know by now that it would take us years to come to a consensus on a Top 20 bar band set list because if we all made our lists there's a very high chance that most people would only have 2-3 songs that are found on anybody else's list. :embarrassed:

I think Mark should stick to the shitty songs. :grin:

I don't know how big the classes are, but maybe add the option of 1 song of your choice agreed upon by the class. If it's small enough that could work.
 
eloydrummerboy said:
I think we can all agree that the average 'ideal' bar band set list for the people here (and musicians in general) is far from the ideal set list for the average bar goer. And also we should all know by now that it would take us years to come to a consensus on a Top 20 bar band set list because if we all made our lists there's a very high chance that most people would only have 2-3 songs that are found on anybody else's list. :embarrassed:

I think Mark should stick to the shitty songs. :grin:

I don't know how big the classes are, but maybe add the option of 1 song of your choice agreed upon by the class. If it's small enough that could work.
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Well, thats what this is all about. Musicians who are new to playing covers in bars where they get paid to provide a service tend to pick music that THEY want to play or hear. The reality is that you are a vendor providing a service for the venue towards the goal of the bar selling more food and drink. You do that by making the AUDIENCE happy. After 15 years of playing these kinds of gigs I have your songlist for you :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
Well, thats what this is all about. Musicians who are new to playing covers in bars where they get paid to provide a service tend to pick music that THEY want to play or hear. The reality is that you are a vendor providing a service for the venue towards the goal of the bar selling more food and drink. You do that by making the AUDIENCE happy. After 15 years of playing these kinds of gigs I have your songlist for you :embarrassed:
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We need this dinosaur audience to bite the comet, fast. :embarrassed:
 
Mark Wein said:
The reality is that you are a vendor providing a service for the venue towards the goal of the bar selling more food and drink. You do that by making the AUDIENCE happy. After 15 years of playing these kinds of gigs I have your songlist for you :embarrassed:
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Totally...you're there to bring feet through the door and money flowing into the till...it's not about "the integrity of the music" or any crap like that.
 
k4df4l said:
Those songs will just be replaced with contemporary equals...no different.
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I dream of a world where grandparents bounce their walkers into each other for Smells Like Teen Spirit and Mustang Sally is the music of hipsters. :embarrassed:
 
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