You know how some songs of the similar genre sound the same as others in the same genre? Well at band practice last night we played a song, decided we had it sorted, then discussed the intro to the next song on the list, and proceeded to play it. The chord progression was similar, except the first song was in D and this next one was in C. We noticed that the singer got to the end of the first verse before we'd finished playing the first verse ... it was then that he realised he'd been singing the words of the song in D, to the tune of the song in C. Huge merriment all round, especially as two of us are ISIHAC fans.
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First up was Come Together, but by the end I could mix in Seven Nation Army, Feel Good Inc., Another One Bites The Dust and, most memorably, Word Up - the singer heard me doing it and, much to my surprise and amusement, spontaneously started singing the song (along with the backing singers) before we dropped back to No Diggety.
On a similar note, a few years ago we used to do some numbers for which I'd use an acoustic guitar. This required a couple of minutes for me to make the change from electric between songs.
Unfortunately, I found that the rest of the band would charge on regardless, while I struggled to change guitars, and end up starting the songs without me. So, to remind the rest of them which ones were 'acoustic', thus requiring a change of guitar, I did a set list, and printed those tracks in red (actually, I used to use very large black print due to the eyesight of the band members, but that's another story).
This was all well and good, but the first outing of this new procedure, it turned out the drummer had a red stage light shining on the list, and so each time we finished a song, he started playing the next track on the set list that he could see.
We've not been back to that venue since.
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