I love unannounced visitors

PeteM

My bass player, Dennis Bronner, and I were asked to play a guest set at Spider Murch and Graeme Boyle's gig at Cocos at Umhlanga Sands last Thursday night. A guy who was staying at the place came into the room and I could see he was enjoying the music. During the break he quietly approached me and said he had a dobro in his room and would I mind if he played a couple of numbers with us because he loved what we were doing. I had no idea who he was and I thought, what the heck, if he's travelling with a 1936 dobro he must be okay. So yep, he went and got his dobro, plugged in and I quietly asked him his name so that I could introduce him. After introducing “Wayne”, we played two simple 12 bar blues numbers.... what a great sensitive player he turned out to be and we had a jol.

After I had finished the set I went to join him at the bar to thank him. Well, he turned out to be non-other than Wayne Coughlan who was in Durbs to do a gig with Brian Finch. We exchanged numbers and promised to do it again sometime either in Durbs or Gauteng... even suggesting that we might ask to play at TJ's sometime.

The moral... never turn down a request to jam... you never know who might be visiting. Of course your gut feel knows who's a chancer and who's not.

Squonk

A great player Pete, I saw him at TJ's with Mike Rowe plays a mean Fender Strat as well

PeteM

Joe Moore wrote: I met him 2 weeks ago and we chatted about slide guitar and resonators etc...He offered to give me a short intro lesson on slide and relevant tunings etc....hence my recently posted " Resonator wanted " ad in the classifieds :-[ .

I too thought of getting a resonator after playing with him but decided to leave the instrument to him... he's so damned skilled on the thing and I've got too few years on this planet to try to catch up. ?

UncleGoatLips

Yea, I usually send my old valve amps and guitars to Wayne Coughlan to get fixed, last time I was at his place he had 3 original dobro's hanging on the walls.

Keira-WitherKay

Good one pete , yeah i agree never turn down a jam you might be suprised how much talent is out there and if it turns out to be rubbish just remember it only takes seconds to flip the off switch on his amp or mute his channel ?

AlanRatcliffe

Joe Moore wrote: hence my recently posted " Resonator wanted " ad in the classifieds :-[ .

Here's a Fender F50 for R3,500:
http://capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za/c-Stuff-for-Sale-musical-instruments-Fender-F50-Resonator-W0QQAdIdZ339308618

eric-vaxxine

Mid song, 2nd set, playing Callaghans Bar, Marble Arch, central London
when an unassuming, petit girl, asked us (over the din)
if she could come up onstage with us.

We never discourage audience participation and duly signalled
her to join us onstage as we played 'Honky Tonk Woman'.

To our amazement, she then delivered a choreographed strip-tease
down to her Bra and Panties which made two dozen fellas come down to
dance wildly at the front of the stage. Of course !!!

After about 2 minutes of 'show' she then just disappeared off stage
without any warning, leaving us all bemused and smiling.

DonovanB

eric vaxxine wrote: Mid song, 2nd set, playing Callaghans Bar, Marble Arch, central London
when an unassuming, petit girl, asked us (over the din)
if she could come up onstage with us.

We never discourage audience participation and duly signalled
her to join us onstage as we played 'Honky Tonk Woman'.

To our amazement, she then delivered a choreographed strip-tease
down to her Bra and Panties which made two dozen fellas come down to
dance wildly at the front of the stage. Of course !!!

After about 2 minutes of 'show' she then just disappeared off stage
without any warning, leaving us all bemused and smiling.

Thanks for not posting that in this thread... ?

eric-vaxxine

Donovan Banks wrote:
eric vaxxine wrote: Mid song, 2nd set, playing Callaghans Bar, Marble Arch, central London
when an unassuming, petit girl, asked us (over the din)
if she could come up onstage with us.

We never discourage audience participation and duly signalled
her to join us onstage as we played 'Honky Tonk Woman'.

To our amazement, she then delivered a choreographed strip-tease
down to her Bra and Panties which made two dozen fellas come down to
dance wildly at the front of the stage. Of course !!!

After about 2 minutes of 'show' she then just disappeared off stage
without any warning, leaving us all bemused and smiling.

Thanks for not posting that in this thread... ?

ha haaa
Of course, because it was not a worst moment.....