doncolga wrote:I'm almost afraid to ask...being a keyboard player/pianist myself, where do we fit in?...I haven't seen any keyboard jokes here...yet....
That's like going fishing and the fish leaps into the boat before you get your line out!
Here's one;
Why are pianists fingers like lightning? They rarely strike the same place twice
The best fight I ever had was with a second keys player in a church band who insisted on playing all the deep low stuff with her left hand as well as doing the second keys function ( brass, and strings fills ). I warned her not to do it. After our break she came back to find a piece of masking tape in line with the C below middle C - or thereabouts _ She asked "Hey what's that there for" I replied"that's your mark, if your left hand goes to the left of that, I cut your sound out of FOH"
Of course she could not resist going past to test my resolve in the first song. First time I yelled into her ear "I warned you not to do that" - second time I put my left foot on the phone jack inputs to the DI and kicked the DI with my right to disconnect her.
Yes I got into trouble after the service, but she learned her lesson and whenever she was on the team with me, her left hand behaved itself.
Edits - fixed typos and grammar
Stay our of my frequency bed or I'll play somewhere else. (After I break your arm.)
Semi-retired: Former Australia and New Zealand Authorised BFM cab builder.
