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Old 03-09-2006, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Whoopysnorp
In my band, we like to do really stupid stuff. We'll improvise ridiculous-sounding stuff with silly vocals, and our keyboard player will play the samples that he made from 'Tom Goes To The Mayor', and then we'll all laugh really hard and be ready to actually play music (the regular music we play is pretty ridiculous anyway).

that is pretty funny, keeping things light and friendly certainly eases tensions better than "that's not the note i wrote for you!" the ever-popular "can't you do anything right?" or my favorite "don't tell me how to do my job, alright! you are just the bass player!" i used to play the theme to national geographic to amuse myself.
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