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Originally Posted by Charlatan
You in a band? Do tell! I play trombone in a couple of jazz bands, so a couple of nights a week and assorted weekends I'm out playing music.
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We call ourselves Marie 'n Me, and there's just two of us. I play guitar ad harmonica, Marie the bass. We do a lot of early Beatles songs, when the harmonies were a focus, and some Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel, '60's, etc. We like to do different takes on songs sometimes. For example, we do "Sunshine of Your Love" with an acoustic guitar and bass, with harmonica for the lead break. It's different, but fun for us.
We both have kids who play together, and they have friends who play, so if there's a shindig coming, we plug in, set up the drums, and Marie switches to keyboard and we rock on. The kids have a wonderful music vocabulary that stretches back to the '50's. They've even taught me new stuff by bands I've never heard. However, my musical taste is like my baseball preference - old school.
We don't play out much anymore, just the odd open mic. There used to be be quite a few coffee houses, but they've mostly gone away, and we're not really loud enough, or inclined to play in bars. There has been a real growth in small wine orchards hereabouts in recent years, so we start playing out again. We still practice twice a week.