From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V5 #282 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, December 25 2001 Volume 05 : Number 282 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Requests [Anthony Marbuke ] Requests ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: Turning down Requests [PBCoustic@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Anthony Marbuke Subject: Requests Performers who won't perform their own songs when requested politely are really selfish and insecure. What does it cost them to sing their own song and make a fan's night? Who is paying whom at a concert anyway? Ever hear of the old expression "He who pays the piper gets to call the tune?" I've been to many concerts large and small where performers are willing to play requests and I admire the spontaneous nature of these performances and how they click with audiences. Singers, especially solo performers with no band and other logistical demands like lighting and sound effects behind them, should welcome requests and give audiences what they really want and not the same dull set list they think we want. The artist is not the boss of the concert. The paying fan is and we should get what we want within reason. Two or three requests out of a 20 song show is not unreasonable. All the reasons I've heard for not playing requests from artistic considerations to personal tastes of the artists to set list demands don't outweigh for one second the desires of a fan to hear their favorite song performed live for them just once. Imagine going to a restaurant where the chef dictates what you are going to eat and how you are going to eat it? Many musicians treat their fans as nothing but walking pocketbooks that should be happy to get whatever they feel like dishing out that evening. A really bad attitude. As long as the request is polite and for a song the artist has previously performed or written, what's the problem? Why not make someone who may have driven hundreds of miles to the concert and paid good money for a ticket happy? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:30:12 -0800 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Requests I hereby request that all Believers and Non-Believers have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with much live and recorded music. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:49:15 EST From: PBCoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: Turning down Requests As a burgeoning performer myself, one reason to turn down a request is obvious -- that you haven't practiced it for a while (or quite a while) and don't want to screw it up because you don't quite remember it... PB HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V5 #282 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message