My band's been pretty lucky, but all the same after a couple odd wedding experiences, we instituted a "band member invite" rule. What that meant was that we'd only play a wedding if at least one band member was going to be invited and attending anyway. That way, we could still do some work. Otherwise we'd have the weekend off while the invited member attended the wedding. It's worked pretty good because it means at least one member is actually friends with the bride or groom and that connection goes a long way. Our most annoying deal is "Man of Constant Sorrow" requests, which isn't so bad. We just say we've never learned it and we don't wanna fake it. We also will play the cocktail hour or the reception dance, but we don't do both. We've also almost always been given an open tab at the bar, which is its own mixed blessing, I'll admit...
erik On Oct 29, 8:59 am, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know Dip, but I was in Passaic, NJ (griz's childhood home) the > other night. Had a dandy time, saw a punk rock cover band play an hour > and half long Operation Ivy cover set. Was tremendous. Great, fun > people were around and all live in the area. All I have ever heard DG > say about Passaic is he is glad he doesn't have to go back! It is > sort of a run down ghetto now that all the Italians moved out, but a > fun one nonetheless where a lot of people our age can afford to live > and work in the Big City. Dude totally abandoned Jersey for > California where the weather and women are beautiful! Ha, to each his > own, just my Jersey pride coming out. > > This reminds me I really gotta learn that Tarantella! > > Mike Buttacahoffi > > On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:44 AM, diptanshu roy wrote: > > > > > any idea as to who were the lucky couples?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
