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KEYBOARD PLAYER WANTED; Long Island, N.Y.

Desert Highway Band; A Tribute To The Eagles, is seeking a
Keyboard player beginning Jan. 1, 2019. Requirements for the
Chair include:
Availability for approx. 50 plus dates per year, including some regional travel

Ownership of proper gear and programming knowledge for proper keyboard instrumentation

Vocal ability for backing vocals

Willingness to be involved in some managerial aspects in the group

Full knowledge of entire Eagles catalogue and / or willingness to learn all necessary material

All interested applicants are asked to submit MP3 or MP4 recordings of 3 Eagles songs (or Eagles artist's solo material aka Henley, Walsh, etc) of your choice with proper programming examples and vocals (pick a vocal line within your comfort range as an example) to
HYPERLINK "mailto:Deserthighwayband@gmail.com" Deserthighwayband@gmail.com
Please include your name, a brief bio about yourself and a contact number. If chosen, we will get in touch with an additional audition date at that point. Thank you for your interest.

#IDemandToBePaidForHearingTheEagles

schmedidiah wrote:#IDemandToBePaidForHearingTheEagles

Don't come to one of my cover gigs. Schemd, I know you don't gig, but one thing you find out when you do gig is that until you reach a certain "known" level, is you have to do songs the audience wants to hear. And most audience people (above the age of 40 anyway) like the Eagles' songs.

It's too bad hashtags don't work on this ancient site but load that sucker into Facebook. It's the funniest damn thing you ever read. And fine, play Eagles songs. I'm glad someone is enjoying them. I'll just stay home instead.

schmedidiah wrote:I I'll just stay home instead.

But that's what you do anyway, isn't it?

GuitarMikeB wrote:

schmedidiah wrote:I I'll just stay home instead.

But that's what you do anyway, isn't it?

hell yeah!

I've seen ads for Assembly Language programmers that required less of the applicant. I dig that they know exactly what they want but I wonder, is that the new standard for keyb players?

Talbot

I don't think one needs to be much of a keyboard player to pull off songs by the Eagles. Just sayin'. Now if it were an Emerson Lake and Palmer tribute, I can see that.

Eagles tribute? easy. just get 5 guitarists!

sigungq wrote:I don't think one needs to be much of a keyboard player to pull off songs by the Eagles. Just sayin'. Now if it were an Emerson Lake and Palmer tribute, I can see that.

I would tend to agree with you. Looking at their website, though, I see they do a bunch of Don Henley solo stuff which requires more piano work, and they've got quite a few songs from the Long Road Out of Eden (last studio album), they also have some other band's songs listed - Allman Brothers, for example.
They're booked for a couple of show at Daryl's House (Daryl Hall) in March, they only book pro/semi-pro acts there.
Oh - they do have 3 guitars, too!