Re: Band introductions/talking to the croud?

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:08:17 -0700
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz
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In article <email-address-deleted>, Max Leggett
<email-address-deleted> wrote:
> >I was at a Cajun restaurant the other day that had
> >a blues duo, and the guitarist was singing the menu:
> >"We got red beans and rice, wo-oh yeah...we got
> >blackened catfish and gumbo, un-hunhhh..."
>
> Yeah, but a gig in a Punjabi restaurant might not sing so sweetly.
> "Oh yeah, we got they funky papadams, and the vindaloo got the
> chutney, oh yeah ..."
I went to a really good Indian restaurant a few years back and noticed
on a Saturday night that there was a guy tuning the sitar ever so
carefully. Then he began playing. When he played I realized the guy
really didn't know much about Indian music. He sounded like a guitar
player. But he's got the general tone and ambiance of the thing.
The owner, who is very friendly and talkative, comes over to the table
and we chat. I mentioned the sitar player in a non-critical way, "Hey,
I see you have music now on the weekends." He turns and looks at the
sitar player for a moment and turns back and says, "God, he's really
terrible isn't he? I don't think he's ever heard any Indian music."
That was the only time I've heard live Indian music in an Indian
restaurant.
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