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I'm Kevin, I'm just checking out this site and I dig what I see so far. I'm very social so hit me up with a message or something and we can shoot the sh*t.

I had a gig this weekend in one of those awful towns (it's a medium sized city but no shortage of trash if you know what I'm saying). My band operates in a way where we try to play original gigs in and out of town at show venues and play cover gigs to pay the bills. We play a really rowdy blues/rock/alt sort of deal.

So we're playing this gig that's gonna last 3 hours. After we finish playing our second song of the first set (SECOND SONG) some bird comes up to the stage and asks us to play a Cher song....

We've gotten requests before that weren't too out of the ballpark as far as what we normally play. But if they had been listening for about thirty seconds they would have known that we don't play anything like CHER. We also don't play Seether, Metallica, Nirvana, or Slayer.

What's the WORST request any of you have ever gotten asked to play?

Can't make this stuff up. That's funny.
How about GYPSYS,TRAMPS,and THIEVES, OR... I GOT YOU BABE.

Good answers from JimmyD. "We'll try to do one later" is a good response. I bet that Jimmy's band does a kickass I Got You Babe!

Bakc in the mid-80s my classic rock band was playing a New Years Eve show at the French-American Club in a small town north of Boston. We had added a bunch of slow songs to our set list because we knew that there woudl be a lot of people wnating to dance to them. We had also added one song in waltz 3/4 time (there aren't many rock songs in 3/4) - Mr Bojangles.
We had just finished playing it (second set) when a guy comes up to the stage and asks me if we can do a waltz! I told him 'we'd do one later', and we did repeat Mr B later, too!

Worst request? "Red Roses For a Blue Lady" It topped off a crappy gig at a dreadful joint in one of the shitholes of the universe - Upper Darby PA.

Second worst (and best comeback) was a gig at a college in North VA. Clown hollered, 'Do you guys play any Hendrix?'

Singer replied, "No - does he do any of our material?"

Talbot

Hey, Todd Rundgren came from Upper Darby - and couldnt' wait to get out of there, from what I gather!

The years pass and Upper Darby has improved...No wait...it has become a outlaw biker / meth center.

Todd was wise to skedaddle.

Talbot