Magenta
Platinum Member
A month ago I was looking for another band because we couldn't seem to manage to get together to rehearse, which was immensely frustrating. Now that we have a gig coming up, everybody is making the effort, and we're having more fun than I could ever have imagined.
As well as a beautiful voice, our singer has a quirky side to her and comes up with Ideas on a regular basis. She mentioned a certain Abba song, that she wanted to do with mandolins. Strangely, nobody had anticipated this so our mandolin-playing bassist hadn't brought one, and my initial reaction was "I can't play Abba on drums!" I'd hoped that it would die a death, but when our guitarist started noodling, he gave it a strong tango flavour, and then I had an Idea too ... So now we are having Abba avec castanets, haga! We could hardly play for laffing, because it is rediculous but it seemed to work. No mere cover-band, we!
There are a couple of original songs, one by our singer and the other by our guitarist, that they want to do, too, so I'm really looking forward to laying down my parts for those, although they won't be ready for the gig.
We're having a dress rehearsal in front of family and friends in a couple of weeks, so we'll see then how audiences may react. I suspect we'll be Marmite, but who wants to be all things to all people, eh?
As well as a beautiful voice, our singer has a quirky side to her and comes up with Ideas on a regular basis. She mentioned a certain Abba song, that she wanted to do with mandolins. Strangely, nobody had anticipated this so our mandolin-playing bassist hadn't brought one, and my initial reaction was "I can't play Abba on drums!" I'd hoped that it would die a death, but when our guitarist started noodling, he gave it a strong tango flavour, and then I had an Idea too ... So now we are having Abba avec castanets, haga! We could hardly play for laffing, because it is rediculous but it seemed to work. No mere cover-band, we!
There are a couple of original songs, one by our singer and the other by our guitarist, that they want to do, too, so I'm really looking forward to laying down my parts for those, although they won't be ready for the gig.
We're having a dress rehearsal in front of family and friends in a couple of weeks, so we'll see then how audiences may react. I suspect we'll be Marmite, but who wants to be all things to all people, eh?