StudioRat
04-13-2007, 07:02 AM
Alright, I’m not trying to start a religious thread here, just a funny story that happened last Sunday.
One of the groups I play with is the band at Church. It’s a great 9 piece of talented musicians from all different styles who come together each Sunday and basically sight read 5 or 6 charts. It’s also the band where the MD wants nothing more than for me (the electric player) to rip a big solo over every song.
Last Sunday was Easter, and you have a lot of people who come to Church once a year. So we want to keep it light and entertaining. We start out with a slow blues in C – basically The Allman Brothers “Stormy Monday” without lyrics. I’m up there doing my best Duane/Dicky imitation and we all take a chorus, and then we pull it WAY back and the MD reads Luke 24. As soon as he gets done the drummer gives a four count and we go right into a great Gospel tune “Jesus Is Alive” with some super cool changes, (I, V, bVII, VI sus etc) and it’s all up tempo and those Presbyterians are actually clapping on 2 and 4. And I’m sure it’s lost on 90% of the congregation but what we were trying to do is a New Orleans style funeral where we’re headed out to the grave site all kind a slow and somber and then BAM “He’s Alive”.
So anyway, we play 4 or 5 other songs, and I take my seat next to my fifteen year old daughter who leans over and says, “nice job Dad, but what was the first song you played? Was that the Levitra commercial?” I laughed so hard I cried, because yeah she was right. It WAS the Levitra commercial we just played in Church.
One of the groups I play with is the band at Church. It’s a great 9 piece of talented musicians from all different styles who come together each Sunday and basically sight read 5 or 6 charts. It’s also the band where the MD wants nothing more than for me (the electric player) to rip a big solo over every song.
Last Sunday was Easter, and you have a lot of people who come to Church once a year. So we want to keep it light and entertaining. We start out with a slow blues in C – basically The Allman Brothers “Stormy Monday” without lyrics. I’m up there doing my best Duane/Dicky imitation and we all take a chorus, and then we pull it WAY back and the MD reads Luke 24. As soon as he gets done the drummer gives a four count and we go right into a great Gospel tune “Jesus Is Alive” with some super cool changes, (I, V, bVII, VI sus etc) and it’s all up tempo and those Presbyterians are actually clapping on 2 and 4. And I’m sure it’s lost on 90% of the congregation but what we were trying to do is a New Orleans style funeral where we’re headed out to the grave site all kind a slow and somber and then BAM “He’s Alive”.
So anyway, we play 4 or 5 other songs, and I take my seat next to my fifteen year old daughter who leans over and says, “nice job Dad, but what was the first song you played? Was that the Levitra commercial?” I laughed so hard I cried, because yeah she was right. It WAS the Levitra commercial we just played in Church.