It seems as if a lot of Tater folk have a band going - why don't we share songs & videos and so on? I'd be interested to hear what everyone's doing - seems like there are a lot of creative people here, and that people are applying their mandolin to some different styles.
How about it? Robin On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Val Mindel <[email protected]> wrote: > > The sheet flat on the stage for prompting purposes is a good tip for > songs that have lyrics that are easy to screw up, but it seems like > learning the words is a fairly early and necessary step along the way > to getting on top of a song, getting it performance ready. I too have > failing-memory issues at times, but going over problem words > immediately before a gig seems to work, and I'm much happier not > having to try to read something while on stage...particularly since > the advent of trifocals, which do really disturbing things to lines of > type, especially at critical moments. I do better with my aging > memory. > On Jul 2, 1:42 pm, Pat Murphree <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our band chose the name "The Foggy Memory Boys" so we can get away with > things like forgotten lyrics and other screw-ups. It also excuses the use of > stands. > > > > Murph > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "The Holstein Kid" <[email protected]> > > To: "Taterbugmando" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:58:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > > Subject: To stand, or not?? > > > > Thought I might throw this out there. The new group I’m in is having a > > little trouble remembering lyrics to our tunes at this stage, and > > we’ve got a performance on Sat night. Because we’re only doing up to > > six tunes, I suggested we shouldn’t have a music stand in sight. I > > think it looks more professional not to have a stand and you should > > know your music. Right or not so? > > > > Perhaps if we were doing several sets it might be a different story. I > > noticed a photo of EC and Co. on his recent tour with music stands on > > stage. It’s obviously acceptable to do this and I wonder if that was > > for a full show which is what it looked like. > > > > Any opinion or rule of thumb you guys go by? > > > > HK > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
