Thanks Everyone, terrific feedback. I hope my guitarist comes through tomorrow night, I'll keep y'all informed. There is a tune where I kept confusing the verses, and in Take Your Shoes Off Moses the Fiddle asked what the word Smite meant. After several comments, laughter, discussion etc, I then always remembered that word to be in the 2nd verse and it stuck like glue. I also used to be a bit lazy with I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby (Louvin) and after deciding to learn it properly, I began rehearsing without paper and then started singing in the shower and in the car, which did the trick. I started to imagine the plot to the story and Bingo. But my poor family :-)
Chef, that RS link sums it all up . . . . now what was I sayin' . . . . HK On Jul 3, 10:03 pm, ljt <lj...@intas.net.au> wrote: > The Foggy Memory Boys....great name, great concept...sure would love > to see one of your ...efforts, sounds like lots of fun for all. > > On Jul 3, 5:24 pm, Robin Gravina <robin.grav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 <vmin...@gmail.com> 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 <phreem...@comcast.net> 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" <st...@senatorgroup.com.au> > > > > To: "Taterbugmando" <taterbugmando@googlegroups.com> > > > > 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- 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 taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
