From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018081013015931402-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Now that I seem past worrying about loud drummers and in ear monitors ...   
   > life is opening new possibilities.   
      
   'Kind of' refreshing, isn't it? ;)   
      
   > Actually, what's changing is the age of our audiences and the kind of   
   > music they like. As we move more into the winery thing, I see a lot of   
   > songs from my childhood are now " the thing to play ".   Songs that we   
   > never did as children / musicians because we played for adult audiences   
   > who preferred either the old 40's big band, or the 50's country stuff.   
      
   Although I can listen to the 40s and 50s stuff for a while at least, I'd   
   Never care to play it - too Boring.   
      
   > No one, who had any money to pay us, wanted to hear Beatle songs.   
      
   Why would they? They could listen to the Beatles' Originals, and as a   
   result, had become accustomed to looking forward to Original material, and   
   they demanded it, which is why there were so many great Original tunes back   
   in the day, and also why I'm out to bring back that tradition!!!   
      
   > Now that's all flipped on its head. Hell, I'm actually likely to do   
   > Yesterday at Sundays band gig.  And for sure Hot Legs will make the list.   
      
   STALE and BORING!!!   
      
   ORIGINALS are the ONLY way to go!!!   
      
   > I can " just " sing Yesterday in McCartney's  key of F.  Not gonna tho,   
   > what's the point. It's a lot more comfortable in E.  Our " other guy "   
   > does in in C in his solo act.  F or C, easy to play on guitar.  E, not so   
   > much. Don't care, I'm putting it where I can sing it comfortably, not   
   > where it's easy for lazy guitarists.   
      
   Many if not most performers, including McCartney, are known to transpose   
   their songs when performed live into some key other than the original   
   recording...and they don't have to be 'old' to do it - Adele transposes her   
   songs...I think it's disgusting but she does it nonetheless ;) But I'll   
   still cover them in her original keys ;)   
      
   > Hot Legs, looks like D for me.  Did Stewart do it in A or G ?  I don't   
   > recall.  For ME to get that just ever so raspy sound, D works, so that's   
   > it for now.   
      
   I Hate that song! Rod Stewart has so many so much better tunes than that   
   one!   
      
   > Yes, we change songs from their original keys when WE sound better singing   
   > them somewhere else.   
      
   With my new band, I just had to transpose 10 out of 22 songs...and I'm sure   
   at church band rehearsal tomorrow (after the new band rehearsal), I'll be   
   transposing songs there too.   
      
   > Also worked on Dock of the Bay this week.   
      
   YUUUUUUK!!! I've done that one just tooooooooooooooo many times...and it's   
   Depressing to boot!!!   
      
   > Thinking of legs, I'd like to add ZZ Top's " She's got Legs ", but that   
   > would take another actual rehearsal with the loud drummer, and I'll pass   
   > on that just now.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   ZZ Top has better tunes than that one too ;)   
      
   But as for the title of this posting,  so many songs, so little time, that   
   *almost* describes my very situation with the new band as well, except so   
   far, it seems to me to be more like, so many songs, NOT ENOUGH TIME!!!   
      
   Hopefully, we'll be CRAMMING tomorrow at rehearsal like never before - it's   
   the least we Must do!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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