Gary Chapin Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 What's yours? A few days ago I got this: "If that's what they play in France, I'm glad I live here!" http://accordeonaire.blogspot.com/2013/09/best-gig-comment-ever.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) How about; " It sounds as if you have been playing the same tune all evening but perhaps you are extemporising ?" Or; "Is that a difficult tune you just played ?... only it makes for very difficult listening!." Edited September 15, 2013 by Geoff Wooff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrP Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 How about "Where do you plug it in?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Chapin Posted September 16, 2013 Author Share Posted September 16, 2013 How about, "So that must be a concertina!" I play melodeon. But really the best is, "How could you help but be happy." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 A few days ago I got this: "If that's what they play in France, I'm glad I live here!" Does "body language" count? I don't know that it qualifies as a gig, but one time on a train platform I started playing (whistle, actually, not my concertina) in an attempt to distract and quiet a squalling baby. Not only did it work, but the kid was watching me closely, smiling and cooing (singing along?). And when my train came and I had to leave, he reached out toward me and cried a little (but didn't scream). Truly made my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle's cook Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Rhetorical question posed by a heckler: 'What do you call a concertina at the bottom of the the River Mersey? ...A promising start!' (Liked Jim's post - a welcome smile - thank you!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Taylor Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 MC at concert after we'd finished our slot: "Isn't it amazing, the music you can get out of one of those double cheeseburgers." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcoover Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 While playing for a group of severely handicapped children, many of whom were strapped into special wheelchairs, a young girl who was able to walk came up to me with the wildest look in her eyes, staring right at me, veins bulging on her forehead, and screaming loudly and uncontrollably. Yikes!!! Like an idiot I kept playing, and after what seemed like an eternity one of her parents sensed my alarm and came up and assured me that everything was fine, and that this was the only way she could show that she really enjoyed the music! Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrence Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 This wasn't actually said to me at a gig but it was heard over the loudspeaker and it still makes me laugh. "Would all the musicians and the drummer come to the front of the stage, please." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofty Posted September 18, 2013 Share Posted September 18, 2013 A comment made to a friend, not me (honest!): "Are you going to stop playing soon? Some of us are trying to eat." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted September 19, 2013 Share Posted September 19, 2013 Well, not exactly a gig, and it didn't involve me in my capacity as a musician, but it was cute ... My daughter sings in a top-notch church choir whose performances involve a whole day's rehearsal with the orchestra the day before. When our granddaughter was about 2 years old, my wife and I had the task of looking after her while Mum rehearsed. We went into the church to listen in on the reherasal - it was Bach, and either an oratorio or the B minor mass, with baroque instruments. I sat entranced in a front pew with an entranced little girl on my lap, listening to Bach played to perfection. After a while, she turned and looked earnestly at me and lisped, "Das ist Musik!" ("That is music!") Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ... Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Timson Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 "See, I wasn't making it up, it was a square concertina!" In memorium Harold Herrington. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdms Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Family story: my in-laws were at NEFFA (the New England Folk Festival, then in Natick, MA), in 1978 or thereabouts. They were sitting in the bleachers (it was held at the high school) watching dance performances when a bagpiper came out and began playing. My sister-in-law (then 3 or so) stood, pointed and demanded "STOP MAN!" at the top of her lungs. History does not record the piper's reaction (or whether he even heard her). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Reeves Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 "Do you play any Johnny Cash?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Chapin Posted September 22, 2013 Author Share Posted September 22, 2013 I wish we had a "like" button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankeeclipper Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 It was a bright day, and I was wearing dark sunglasses - an item seldom needed or even seen in cloudy South Uist in the Outer Hebrides. We had settled in to a friend's caravan, with the help of a couple of local lads. After a welcoming bottle was passed, I brought out my EC and played a few tunes. One of our helpers turned to the other and said something in Scots Gaelic. I asked my Gaelic-speaking hostess what he had said. She smiled sweetly. "He said, you play very well - for a blind man." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatstoner Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 Rhine House, Ithaca New York, 2013 "Even people we didn't know clapped." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglo-Irishman Posted September 22, 2013 Share Posted September 22, 2013 "Do you play any Johnny Cash?" Our Irish Folk (playing in Germany) occasionally got asked, "Could you play something by U2?" At least they got the nationality right ... Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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