| If anyone has ever played on ships, you will apprecatie this...
New singer flies on board, who has never sung on a ship before. We have the rehearsal that afternoon, and she informs us her contract allows for her to have one hour of reheaseal and no more, becuase she doesn't get paid after that first hour.
She hand the music to us, and it's for a full scale big band. The bands on the ships are usually 2 trumpets, one trombone, 3 saxs and rhythm. So after the first tune she starts yelling at us that she isn't hearing all these different parts -- we explain to her what's up. She wants to hear certian things, and she tries to sing the different parts, so we dig through all the parts trying to find what she wants, and pencil it in to the 1st and 2nd trumpet parts.
This takes time, and the hour is up and we hadn't gotten through all of her set. She starts to leave, and we ask her about the rest of the charts, and she goes off about how she said she only got paid for an hour yadda.
So the band goes through the rest of the stuff without her, praying that they will be straight foward.
All goes well until the last tune -- Hmm was that Celine tune from titanic. Anyway, she starts at letter C on the tune. Only, we didn't know she was starting at letter C. The band starts at the top.
I notice somthing isn't lining up right, but am not sure quite what the deal is. Didn't sound bad until...... She changed keys up a step and the band didn't heh. Best part is, there where 2 places where the key's changed, and so we had to guess which one she was on. We guess wrong -- heh.
In the end, only the drummer and the bass player where playing, kinda... Never was so embrassed in all my life playing. Needless to say the singer through a tantrum backstage, and finally figured out that she hadn't started at the start of the tune.
Wasn't really the band's fault, but was embrassing as hell -- Was ok, we used the bad times as an exuse to get drunk that evening after the show -- :) |